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Ethics for Beginners
by Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt

What is ethics? Why do we consider ourselves ethical? Why do we think some acts are evil while others are not? What should you do when faces with an ethical dilemna?

This book doesn't set out to answer those and many other questions on ethics. Instead, this is a book that introduces ethics and the various ways that people throughout the world and in various eras have thought about ethics.

It starts off with a quick introduction to how people ethics came about; from religion to genetics and evolution. It gives a quick glance at moral relativism and ethical absolutism. Next, it gives a quick history on ethics, from the early Greek state thinkers like Aristotle, Socrates and Plato. It next looks at Christian morality, Hobbes's Social Contract, Socialbiology, Utilitarianism, Kant's Moral Law of Duty, Existentialism, Freud, etc. all the way to Postmodernist Skepticism.

In the end, the book doesn't attempt to provide an answer to any ethical questions raised over the ages. Instead, it looks at how people have looked at ethics and tried to find out why we are ethical at all. To those who have never studied ethics before or looked at it deeply, the amount of thought and the number of people who have devoted much of their time to finding the answer to ethics and ethical questions will be amazed. As its title says, this book is a nice, simple introduction that also points the way to finding out more about ethics.

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Ethics for Beginners by Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt

Ethics for Beginners
by Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt