Publisher's Synopsis
A perennial bestseller, APPLYING ETHICS: A TEXT WITH READINGS introduces students to ethics via a well-proven formula of engaging commentary, seminal readings, and thought-provoking cases drawn from a wide range of contemporary social debates. Providing readers with a basic overview of the most important ethical theories in the first chapter, each subsequent chapter takes a contemporary ethical issue as its focus. Guided by the authors' extensive introductions-with readings exhibiting divergent positions and particularly timely cases-APPLYING ETHICS provides students with a model for considering critically many of the ethical dilemmas that abound in contemporary life.
