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Nothing is more difficult today than deciding what to do about abortion, gay marriage, economic injustice, war, torture, global warming, euthanasia, capital punishment, and a host of other controversies, particularly in a world in which people of varying religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds commonly live side by side. Can we draw on the wisdom of the past to address these contemporary ethical dilemmas? Can we see more clearly how we should consider what is right and wrong, and good and bad, and then work through these divisive problems toward decisions that make sense to us?While challenging moral relativism, Doing Ethics in a Diverse World uses a pluralist approach that draws on religious as well as secular positions and on Eastern as well as Western traditions. The book's approach reasons by analogy from the rule of law, including international human rights law, as a means to constructing ethical presumptions about duty, character, relationships, and rights. These presumptions are weighed against the predicted consequences of acting on them, which either confirm the presumptions or support alternative actions. Employing a "Worksheet for Doing Ethics" as a guiding framework, this approach is then applied to issues of public morality, health care, economic justice, sex, the war on terrorism, and living ecologically.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Doing Ethics in a Diverse World
• Author: Robert Traer, Harlan Stelmach
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9780813343662
• ISBN: 0813343666
• ID: 04725261
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Weight: 524 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 155 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 2007

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