Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide

by Chris Garratt, Dave Robinson

Overview

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define "rights", self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"Introducing Ethics" confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848310087
Publisher:	Amberley Publishing
Publication date:	09/04/2008
Series:	Graphic Guides
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	4.60(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dave Robinson has taught philosophy for many years and is the author of numerous Introducing titles. Chris Garratt is the cartoonist behind the legendary Biff comic strip in the Guardian.