Publisher's Synopsis
The aim of A Twenty-First Century Ethical Toolbox is to enable its users to make a constructive difference, in both word and deed, in problematic moral situations and real-life moral controversies. It's an ethics textbook with a difference. Ethics in this book is not a purely academic or historical or theoretical subject - though some of those themes are here as well - but primarily a practical subject that requires a wide range of practical skills: from paying attention to values to judging like cases alike; from learning how to "break out of the box" to learning how to move beyond rhetoric to real dialogue. Similarly, in approaching the moral issues of the day, this book offers you the tools to work out constrcutive, creative, and mutually-agreeable next steps - to actually make progressr on the issue - not just a tour of the controversy as it stands. Primarily authored by Anthony Weston, the Toolbox also includes gripping and provocative short selections from essayists, activists, and even a few philosophers.
