Moral Reasoning: A Text and Reader on Ethics and Contemporary Moral Issues

Offering students an accessible, in-depth, and highly practical introduction to ethics, Moral Reasoning: A Text and Reader on Ethics and Contemporary Moral Issues covers argumentation and moral reasoning, various types of moral arguments, and theoretical issues that commonly arise in introductory ethics courses, including skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, religion, and normative theories. The book combines primary sources in moral theory and applied ethics with explanatory material, case studies, and pedagogical features to help students think critically about moral issues. Visit www.oup.com/us/morrow for student and instructor resources.FEATURES* Readings include both standards of moral theory and classic and contemporary sources in applied ethics from an uncommonly diverse set of authors* Illustrates aspects of moral reasoning using actual arguments from the applied ethics literature* Explains the use of analogical reasoning, thought experiments, and counterexamples in ethics* Includes dozens of detailed case studies drawn from real events, fiction, and film* Incorporates Chinese and African ethics and the ethics of care* Provides "guiding questions" to help students understand primary sources, discussion questions for each chapter and reading, and a detailed appendix on writing an ethics paper