Ethics / Marc Oliver D. Pasco, V. Fullente Suárez, and Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez.

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The academic ethical traditions -- Virtue ethics: Aristotle -- The national las: St. Thomas Aquinas -- Deontological ethics: Immanuel Kant -- Utilitarianism: John Staurt Mill -- Asian ethical traditions -- Discourse ethics -- Special topics in ethics -- Environmental ethics -- Business ethics -- The question of women and their Emancipation -- Biomedical ethics.

"Ethics offers a comprehensive overview of the concepts, moraltheories, and practical issues that influence our personal ethics along withthose of others. It examines the basis for our ethical beliefs and offersstrategies for answering ethical questions.
The first section focuses on the various academic traditions oftheories of the greatest philosophers-how to define what is good and howto assess the rationality and ethical viability of certain activities. The secondsection explores specific areas of ethical thought that have emerged in therecent century. Feminism, ecology, business, and medical ethics areamong them.
This book will serve as a helpful guide for students as they consider the complex topic of what it means to be good and how to live as good people. As a result, this book included some examples of how people have attempted to create a student's guide to living a good, human life." -- Back cover