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catalog contributor b1426248.
catalog created "c1980.".
catalog date "1980".
catalog date "c1980.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1980.".
catalog description "Appendix 1. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problems of the taking of human life -- Appendix 2. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problem of allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing -- Appendix 3. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problem of abortion -- Appendix 4. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problem of human sexuality -- Appendix 5. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problems in medicine (bioethics) -- Appendix 6. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problems in business (business ethics).".
catalog description "CHAPTER 1. What is morality -- Objectives -- Key terms -- Approaches to the study of morality -- Morality and its applications -- Where does morality come from? -- Morality, law, and religion -- Why should human beings be moral? -- CHAPTER 2. Consequentialist (teleological) theories of morality -- Objectives -- Psychological egoism -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- CHAPTER 3. Nonconsequentialist (deontological) theories of morality -- Objectives -- Act nonconsequentialist theories -- Rule -- Nonconsequentialist theories -- Chapter 4. Absolutism versus Relativism -- Objectives -- Cultural relativism and cultural absolutism -- The meanings of "absolute."".
catalog description "CHAPTER 11. Bioethics -- ethical issues in medicine -- Objectives -- Introduction and definition of terms -- Health care professionals and patients and their families -- rights and obligations -- Truth telling and informed consent -- Ethical issues in medicine -- Cases for study and discussion -- CHAPTER 12. Business ethics -- Objectives -- Introduction -- rights and obligations in business -- Two ways of approaching rights and obligations in business -- Justice, truth telling, and honesty in business -- Ethical issues in business -- Cases for study and discussion.".
catalog description "CHAPTER 5. Freedom versus determinism -- Objectives -- Types and theories of determination -- Fatalism and Hard and soft determinism -- Indeterminism -- Criticisms of hard determinism and arguments for freedom -- CHAPTER 6. Setting up a moral system: Basic assumptions and basic principles -- Objectives -- Basic assumptions -- Basic principles and individual freedom -- Justification of the basic principles -- CHAPTER 7. Priority and application of basic principles -- The taking of human life -- Objectives -- Priority of the basic principles -- The taking of human life -- Suicide -- Cases for study and discussion -- Defense of the innocent (self included) -- Cases for study and discussion -- War -- Cases for study and discussion -- Capital punishment -- Cases for study and discussion.".
catalog description "CHAPTER 8. Allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing -- Objectives -- Definition of terms -- Allowing someone to die -- Cases for study and discussion -- Mercy death -- Cases for study and discussion -- Mercy killing -- Cases for study and discussion -- CHAPTER 9. Abortion -- Objectives -- Introduction to the abortion issue -- When does human life begin? -- Arguments against abortion -- Arguments for abortion -- Cases for study and discussion -- CHAPTER 10. Morality and human sexuality -- Objectives -- Major aspects of human sexuality -- the meaning and purposes of human sexuality -- Premarital sex -- Sex in marriage-type (including nonlegal) relationships -- Masturbation -- Pornography -- Sexual perversion, or "unnatural" sexual activity -- Cases for study and discussion.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographies and index.".
catalog extent "viii, 392 p. ;".
catalog identifier "002470220X".
catalog issued "1980".
catalog issued "c1980.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Encino, Calif. : Glencoe Pub. Co. ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers,".
catalog subject "BJ1012 .T47 1980".
catalog subject "Ethical problems Textbooks.".
catalog subject "Ethics Textbooks.".
catalog subject "Ethics.".
catalog tableOfContents "Appendix 1. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problems of the taking of human life -- Appendix 2. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problem of allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing -- Appendix 3. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problem of abortion -- Appendix 4. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problem of human sexuality -- Appendix 5. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problems in medicine (bioethics) -- Appendix 6. Applying humanitarian ethics to the moral problems in business (business ethics).".
catalog tableOfContents "CHAPTER 1. What is morality -- Objectives -- Key terms -- Approaches to the study of morality -- Morality and its applications -- Where does morality come from? -- Morality, law, and religion -- Why should human beings be moral? -- CHAPTER 2. Consequentialist (teleological) theories of morality -- Objectives -- Psychological egoism -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- CHAPTER 3. Nonconsequentialist (deontological) theories of morality -- Objectives -- Act nonconsequentialist theories -- Rule -- Nonconsequentialist theories -- Chapter 4. Absolutism versus Relativism -- Objectives -- Cultural relativism and cultural absolutism -- The meanings of "absolute."".
catalog tableOfContents "CHAPTER 11. Bioethics -- ethical issues in medicine -- Objectives -- Introduction and definition of terms -- Health care professionals and patients and their families -- rights and obligations -- Truth telling and informed consent -- Ethical issues in medicine -- Cases for study and discussion -- CHAPTER 12. Business ethics -- Objectives -- Introduction -- rights and obligations in business -- Two ways of approaching rights and obligations in business -- Justice, truth telling, and honesty in business -- Ethical issues in business -- Cases for study and discussion.".
catalog tableOfContents "CHAPTER 5. Freedom versus determinism -- Objectives -- Types and theories of determination -- Fatalism and Hard and soft determinism -- Indeterminism -- Criticisms of hard determinism and arguments for freedom -- CHAPTER 6. Setting up a moral system: Basic assumptions and basic principles -- Objectives -- Basic assumptions -- Basic principles and individual freedom -- Justification of the basic principles -- CHAPTER 7. Priority and application of basic principles -- The taking of human life -- Objectives -- Priority of the basic principles -- The taking of human life -- Suicide -- Cases for study and discussion -- Defense of the innocent (self included) -- Cases for study and discussion -- War -- Cases for study and discussion -- Capital punishment -- Cases for study and discussion.".
catalog tableOfContents "CHAPTER 8. Allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing -- Objectives -- Definition of terms -- Allowing someone to die -- Cases for study and discussion -- Mercy death -- Cases for study and discussion -- Mercy killing -- Cases for study and discussion -- CHAPTER 9. Abortion -- Objectives -- Introduction to the abortion issue -- When does human life begin? -- Arguments against abortion -- Arguments for abortion -- Cases for study and discussion -- CHAPTER 10. Morality and human sexuality -- Objectives -- Major aspects of human sexuality -- the meaning and purposes of human sexuality -- Premarital sex -- Sex in marriage-type (including nonlegal) relationships -- Masturbation -- Pornography -- Sexual perversion, or "unnatural" sexual activity -- Cases for study and discussion.".
catalog title "Ethics : theory and practice / Jacques P. Thiroux.".
catalog type "Textbooks. fast".
catalog type "text".