Do Morals Matter?: A Textbook Guide to Contemporary Religious Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781119143512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Ian S. Markham

Spis treści

Acknowledgements ix

Preface x

1 Thinking about Ethics 1

Part I Philosophical Ethics 7

2 Why Not Do Wrong? 9

3 Is the Ethical a Human Construct or a Factual Realm? 19

4 Do You Just Do What Is Right or Do You Try to Predict the Outcomes? 33

5 Natural Law and Virtue Ethics 48

6 Ethics and the Bible 58

7 Learning from the Wisdom of the World 75

8 Humanism: Do We Need God to Realize That People Just Matter? 90

Part II Ethical Dilemmas 101

9 Dilemmas in Bed 103

10 Dilemmas in Business 120

11 Dilemmas in Medicine 136

12 Dilemmas Involving Violence and Power 160

13 Dilemmas in Government and Leadership 173

14 Dilemmas and the Future: The Environment, Animals, and Plants 186

15 Dilemmas in the Cyber World 201

Part III Making a Decision 211

16 Becoming a Morally Serious Person 213

17 Taking an Ethical Position 229

Index

O autorze

IAN S. MARKHAM, PhD, was appointed as Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary in August 2007. Before being called to VTS, Dean Markham served as Dean and Professor of Theology and Ethics at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut as well as Visiting Professor of Globalization, Ethics, and Islam at Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. He also served on the faculty of Liverpool Hope University and University of Exeter.