Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues

by Lewis Vaughn

The most accessible introduction to ethical theory, moral reasoning, and contemporary ethical issues—now shorter and more focused, and still the best value.

Doing Ethics emphasizes that moral decision making is an active process—something one does. The Fourth Edition provides students with the theoretical and logical tools that a morally mature person must bring to that process, and offers a wealth of readings and case studies for them to consider and discuss. Streamlined prose, real-world relevance, and practical pedagogy—all at an affordable price—make Doing Ethics the leading applied ethics text.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Education, Essays, School

720 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 19, 2007

Reviews

[John (JP)]

Class text for philosophy class on you guessed it morals and ethics. Vaughn is good writer. The text covers the major issues facing people today. It has good index and bibliography and covers news events into 2017.

[Zack Fishman]

A solid introduction to the primary schools of ethical thought, with pretty clear writing. I didn’t read the subject-matter analyses that make up a large portion of the book, although some of the subjects chosen reflect the publication date in an interesting way — homosexuality, terrorism, warfare, etc.

[CORSAK FAN ♤♡◇♧]

Read part of this for Hirsch's Ethics and Society class, had some great pieces of writing but you've probably already decided where you stand on a lot of the things covered in here. But even if you haven't, it still introduces some intriguing thinkers and viewpoints.

[Juma Gul]

It is an excellent book. I strongly recommend for the ones who want to get a brief introduction of philosophy.

[BVC]

Una _overview_ abbastanza superficiale. Carina la presenza di esercizi per la discussione/il ragionamento morale.

[carlene ☼]

*3.5

Honestly one of the best textbooks I’ve had on a subject that I didn’t have a desire to learn about at the beginning of the class.

[Tenney Clark]

Read for school gives a lot to think about

[Donna]

Except for the fact that the book only covers the most talked about ethical issues in which you have probably already decided where you stand, I don't think it helps much in real life. Although it is probably ok for those just out of high school, I am an older non-traditional student and the book just drove me crazy having to rehash issues I have already "hashed out". Issues that need critical thinking skills are the ones we have not come up against yet. This book does not really prepare one for that. I was disappointed my class chose this book. I think it was written specifically to address required course content and nothing more. Did not really make one think but did give me a headache from all the overly repeated points constantly throughout the book. Plain boring also. Ethics should never be boring. Luckily my class required more from me than just reading this book. Print was extremely small I would need glasses by the time I was through if I didn't already have them.

[Jeff Beebe]

I think I'm in love

[kayla]

Philosophy contemporary moral issues textbook.

[Jennah]

Even though I do not agree with anything that is in this book, it was a required book that I had to purchase for a college class. This book was used for discussion posts, papers and exams.