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Mai Elisa - What Should I Do? Philosophers On The Good The Bad And The Puzzling - Paperback
Mai Elisa - What Should I Do? Philosophers On The Good The Bad And The Puzzling - Paperback
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Description: Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games or to cheat on one's tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts or is morality relative? Life throws ethical questions at us every day. Some are momentous and difficult while others are relatively trivial and easily worked out; still others lodge themselves in our heads and bother us for years. We regularly encounter controversial issues (such as prostitution abortion or racial profiling) tricky conundrums (Would I be wrong to take advantage of my teacher's forgetfulness? When should I allow my teenage daughter to have a boyfriend? Are we responsible for our emotions?) and classic problems (What is the relation between religion and morality? Is suicide wrong? Why should we be moral?) Philosophers have engaged with these questions for as long as there have been philosophers but most people have had no exposure to the wide variety of arguments and positions that they have offered. The website Ask Philosophers. org has sought to fill this void bringing together a panel of distinguished philosophers who use their knowledge of the history of philosophy as well as their own skills and ingenuity to respond to questions sent in from all over the world. What Should I Do? is a collection of some of the most interesting questions about ethics to have appeared on the website during its first five years. It is a delightfully fresh book that will encourage readers to think a bit more deeply about the moral questions they frequently encounter and will provide them with the tools to do so.
Title: What Should I Do? Philosophers On The Good The Bad And The Puzzling
Author(s): Mai Elisa, George, Alexander (Amherst College, Ma)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199586127
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 12/30/2010
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games or to cheat on one's tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts or is morality relative? Life throws ethical questions at us every day. Some are momentous and difficult while others are relatively trivial and easily worked out; still others lodge themselves in our heads and bother us for years. We regularly encounter controversial issues (such as prostitution abortion or racial profiling) tricky conundrums (Would I be wrong to take advantage of my teacher's forgetfulness? When should I allow my teenage daughter to have a boyfriend? Are we responsible for our emotions?) and classic problems (What is the relation between religion and morality? Is suicide wrong? Why should we be moral?) Philosophers have engaged with these questions for as long as there have been philosophers but most people have had no exposure to the wide variety of arguments and positions that they have offered. The website Ask Philosophers. org has sought to fill this void bringing together a panel of distinguished philosophers who use their knowledge of the history of philosophy as well as their own skills and ingenuity to respond to questions sent in from all over the world. What Should I Do? is a collection of some of the most interesting questions about ethics to have appeared on the website during its first five years. It is a delightfully fresh book that will encourage readers to think a bit more deeply about the moral questions they frequently encounter and will provide them with the tools to do so.
Title: What Should I Do? Philosophers On The Good The Bad And The Puzzling
Author(s): Mai Elisa, George, Alexander (Amherst College, Ma)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199586127
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 12/30/2010
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
