New PDF release: Ethics: The Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics)

By Gordon Marino

In Ethics: the basic Writings, thinker Gordon Marino skillfully provides an available, provocative anthology of either historical and sleek classics on concerns ethical. The philosophers characterize 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer—and conceal a extensive variety of issues, from the undying questions of justice, morality, and religion to the hot-button issues of this present day, corresponding to animal rights, our tasks to the surroundings, and gender concerns. that includes an illuminating preamble, concise introductory essays at the giants of moral idea, and incisive bankruptcy headnotes to the fashionable choices, this contemporary Library variation is an ideal single-volume reference for college kids, academics, and a person wanting to interact in mirrored image on moral questions, together with “What is the root for our moral perspectives and judgments?”

Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf university in Northfield, Minnesota. A recipient of the Richard J. Davis Ethics Award for excellence in writing on ethics and the legislation, he's the writer of Kierkegaard within the current Age, co-editor of The Cambridge significant other to Kierkegaard, and editor of the Modern Library’s easy Writings of Existentialism. His essays have seemed in The big apple Times.

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