Doing ethics in a diverse world /

Doing ethics in a diverse world /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Traer, Robert, author.
Imprint:	Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2008] ©2008
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethics, Modern -- 21st century. Ethics, Modern. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11230648

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Other authors / contributors:	Stelmach, Harlan Douglas Anthony, 1945- author.
ISBN:	9780786733194 0786733195 9780813343662 0813343666
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-312) and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Traer, Robert. Doing ethics in a diverse world 9780813343662

Table of Contents:

Learning from experience
Our challenge : doing ethics in a pluralistic society
Reasoning together : making sense of our experience
Rule of law : the ethics of justice
Creating an ethical presumption
Duty : doing what is right
Character : being a good person
Relationships : caring and letting go
Human rights : autonomy and human dignity
Overcoming an ethical presumption
Possible consequences : utilitarian and cost-benefit arguments
Making decisions : HIV/AIDS
Applying the approach
Public morality : seeking the common good
Health care : life and death
Sex : consent plus what?
War against terrorism : justice and freedom
Economic justice : fair and caring?
Our natural world : living ecologically.