Applied Ethics


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Applied Ethics focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems, including abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment, and war.

Author: Oderberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 03/13/2000
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.05w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780631219057
ISBN10: 0631219056
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy

About the Author
David S. Oderberg is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. A graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford, he is author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time (1993); co-editor, with Jacqueline A. Laing, of Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (1997), and editor of Form and Matter: Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1999).