Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues 7th Edition by Steven M. Cahn , Peter Markie

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Author: Cahn Steven M.

Brand: Oxford University Press

Edition: 7

Package Dimensions: 31x231x1457

Number Of Pages: 976

Release Date: 01-10-2019

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Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Seventh Edition, features fifty-nine selections organized into three parts, providing instructors with great flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy. Spanning 2,500 years of ethical theory, the first part,

Historical Sources, ranges from Plato to Nietzsche. The second part,
Modern Ethical Theory, includes many of the most important essays of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The third part,
Contemporary Moral Problems, presents the current debates over such issues as abortion, social justice,
environmentalism, affirmative action, and sexual harassment. Nearly forty percent of the modern readings are authored by women. The book is enhanced by part introductions, selection introductions, and study questions. The seventh edition includes twelve new essays.

Review
”
Ethics is a fine collection, one that is organized so that it can be tailored on a daily basis to an instructor’s pedagogical goals. The introductions are models of clarity and accessibility for philosophy students, in particular for those who are new to philosophy.”–Paul Hughes,
University of

Michigan-Dearborn

“The book’s greatest strength is its excellent primary resources, which include a great variety of classical and contemporary authors. Students have access to the grand sweep of thinking in ethics and also pertinent information from prominent thinkers of today. The organization is helpful, and it
matches much of what I teach in my ethics course.”–L. Dean Allen,
Northwest Florida State College

“I have looked at many other anthologies and this really is the best one for the survey course I teach. All of Cahn’s anthologies, but especially this one, do an admirable job of abbreviating texts so that they are as accessible as possible, and so that they focus on the themes that carry over to
other readings in the collection.”–Gary Jaeger,
Vanderbilt University

About the Author

Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books. He is the editor of
Exploring Ethics, Fifth Edition (OUP, 2019) and
The World of Philosophy, Second Edition (OUP, 2018).

Peter Markie is Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of
Descartes’s Gambit (1988) and the coauthor of
Introducing Ethics (OUP, 2014).