Morality In Practice
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Principles and Practice of Morality
This book has been made for a service which no one of its predecessors could be persuaded to render. It embodies the lectures its author has given to his classes in Ethics, and is, what it purports to be, distinctively a text-book. It touches existing controversies only so far as is necessary for the elucidation or defence of its own positions. The aim has been to condense rather than to expand its discussions, and to diminish rather than to multiply its pages. - Preface.
Morality in Practice
The most timely anthology available, MORALITY IN PRACTICE covers a number of critical contemporary issues, including war and terrorism, cloning, and the environment. Providing broad coverage of topics and opinions, Sterba draws from current journalism as well as philosophy to present opposing viewpoints on each issue. Each chapter covers a different area of moral concern with readings that provide alternative views as well as practical applications. Introductions to each section provide background for each issue as well as discussion of the ethical theory behind the readings.
Ethics in Practice
Dozens of times a day, in matters both grave and mundane, we make moral choices, Guided by our sense of what is right or wrong, fair or unfair, kind or cruel, we usually have no doubt about what to do. Sometimes, however, we find ourselves facing situations of moral complexity and uncertainty. Wayne, an orderly, finds Mrs. Smith slumped in her bathroom, her vital signs non-existent. Should he administer the life-saving drugs, even though he is not qualified to do so and will risk losing his job? Miss B, a tetraplegic paralysed from the neck down, remains indefinitely in an intensive care unit where she is dependent entirely upon a ventilator. She asks to have the ventilator switched off. Does she have the right to die? As two police officers approach a block of flats to arrest a known drug-dealer and pedophile, a parcel of heroin flies out the window. Subsequently, the senior officer makes a statement claiming that the heroin was found in the suspect's fat. Should the junior officer perjure himself when questioned in court, and put this dangerous felon behind bars once and for all? Focusing on a range of problematic issues likely to be confronted by human service professionals, Ethics in Practice uses numerous absorbing case studies to show how moral theory can guide us in the face of morally hard choices. Book jacket.