Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring thirty-nine readings divided into four parts--Value Theory, Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Problems--it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range of moral issues. The essays include selections from such historically influential philosophers as Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill alongside work by contemporary philosophers like Philippa Foot, Robert Nozick, Peter Singer, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Detailed section and reading introductions provide helpful contextual information. Designed as a companion reader to Russ Shafer-Landau's textbook, The Fundamentals of Ethics, The Ethical Life is also comprehensive enough to be used on its own. The book is enhanced by an Instructor's Manual and Testbank on CD and a Companion Website for students and instructors.
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"I predict that when Shafer-Landau's The Ethical Life is paired with his textbook, The Fundamentals of Ethics, they will become a standard for contemporary ethical issues courses. . . . The quality of the original-source texts is excellent." --Jason Zinser, University of North Florida
"This new ethics anthology by one of today's leading moral philosophers is a real standout among the many choices available. It combines carefully chosen, can't-do-without classics with some unknown gems. Add the editor's lucid, accurate introductions, and I can't think of a more ideal choice." --Chris Heathwood, University of Colorado at Boulder
"This is a very strong anthology, usefully and unusually combining classical and contemporary readings in value theory, normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics. I can now confidently say that this is a real and significant improvement over the Rachels anthology. It appears to me to promise the best anthology on the market." --Christopher F. Zurn, University of Kentucky
"Shafer-Landau has put together a terrific introductory anthology for all undergraduates studying ethics and moral philosophy. . . . I wouldn't use any other textbook." --Paul Bloomfield, University of Connecticut
"This new ethics anthology by one of today's leading moral philosophers is a real standout among the many choices available. It combines carefully chosen, can't-do-without classics with some unknown gems. Add the editor's lucid, accurate introductions, and I can't think of a more ideal choice." --Chris Heathwood, University of Colorado at Boulder
"This is a very strong anthology, usefully and unusually combining classical and contemporary readings in value theory, normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics. I can now confidently say that this is a real and significant improvement over the Rachels anthology. It appears to me to promise the best anthology on the market." --Christopher F. Zurn, University of Kentucky
"Shafer-Landau has put together a terrific introductory anthology for all undergraduates studying ethics and moral philosophy. . . . I wouldn't use any other textbook." --Paul Bloomfield, University of Connecticut
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Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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OUTSTANDING. If you liked The Fundamentals of Ethics or even if you didn't read it, you will most probably like this book,
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This review is from: The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems (Paperback)
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS:
This book is a compilation of readings on Ethics. It is supposed to be the companion of the book The Fundamentals of Ethics, an exceptionally good introduction to the study of ethics. Gilbert Harman, the famous contender against moral realism, Professor in Princeton, lists, in a program, a bunch of texts students should read while attending his course entitled PHI 202/CHV 202: Introduction to Moral Philosophy. Then he goes on to say that almost all of the texts he recommends can be found in Shafer-Landau's The Ethical Life: the book which I am reviewing right now! TABLE OF CONTENTS (NOT AVAILABLE IN AMAZON'S WEBPAGE): Unfortunately, the table of contents of this book is not explicit in Amazon's webpage. I give an overview from it below: This book encompasses a very comprehensive sample of texts on Ethics. It is divided in four parts. The first one concerns the good life, including texts from Epicurus, Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick, etc. The second regards the different types of normative ethics or theories of right conduct. Authors such as Hobbes, Kant, J.J.C. Smart, and others appear here. The third deals with Metaethics and the status of morality, containing classics like Hume, Mackie (Excerpt from Inventing Right and Wrong), Gilbert Harman, etc. Lastly, comes the fourth and best part, the one that really goes beyond the problems discussed in the counterpart of this book (The Fundamentals of Ethics). Part 4 adds very good texts on specific moral problems, such as Abortion, Euthanasia, Value of Human Life, Killing Animals, World Poverty, Manipulation of Genes and Clones, Terrorism, Admissibility of Torture, Adultery, Homosexuality. Authors include Ronald Dworkin, Peter Singer, James Rachels, Michael Walzer, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Corvino, Bonnie Steinbock, besides others. Part four is, surely, the best one of this book. CONCLUSION: It is very important to mention that most texts are very succinct, but never too short. As a matter of fact, they are all very straightforward. They present a problem, point their arguments and evidences and then conclude. This makes this book very useful and practical indeed. It must also be said that you don't have to read The Fundamentals of Ethics to understand this book. Absolutely not. But they do address mostly the same topics (Part 4 being the plainest exception).
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