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Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy

مقدمة في علم الأخلاق

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إن المواقف التي تُواجهنا تتَّسم غالبًا بالتعقيد وعدم الوضوح، وتتطلَّب تحليلًا لحقائق الظرف، ومِن ثَمَّ إنزال الحكم الأخلاقي المُلائم عليها. والأمر أصعَبُ وأعقَدُ على صُنَّاع القرار، الذين تواجههم قرارات تمسُّ الكثيرَ مِن مواطنيهم، عند سَنِّ القوانين والتنظيمات، إذ سيكون البُعد الأخلاقي عاملًا في تحديد بعض السياسات. وهي مسائلُ من التعقيد الذي يستدعي الاستعانة بعلم الأخلاق ونظرياته ومدوناته الكبرى عبر التاريخ. وهذا الكتاب يُمثِّل مدخلًا إلى مختلف المذاهب الأخلاقية، وبحثًا في مناهجها وتطبيقاتها، يُلائم من يريد أن يأخذ صورةً عموميةً عن علم الأخلاق، كما يُناسب من يبتغي التعمُّق فيه والقراءة المُفصَّلة في الأعمال التي صنعت المذاهب الأخلاقية، سواءٌ أكانت شرقيةً أم غربيةً، قديمة أو حديثة؛ ومن ثَمَّ فهو بداية المُجتهد ونهاية المُقتصد في علم الأخلاق.

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January 26, 2023
I've worked my way carefully through this book. It is a superb presentation of the basics of normative ethics. Deigh very clearly and systematically situates all the major ethical theories (along with their development by their main proponents) in a truly elegant and illuminating explanatory framework.

Deigh presents all the relevant definitions, distinctions, supporting and opposing arguments in blessedly straightforward prose. No slang, short cuts, or tedious idioms that other (inferior) writers habitually employ to pander to what they suppose is the laziness and shallowness of their easily-distracted readers.

The author has done heroic work in making this introduction to ethics comprehensible. Nevertheless I really can't imagine anyone truly appreciating and benefitting from this effort who isn't a professional philosopher in training. The concepts and their articulation into arguments and eventual synthesis into theories are too intellectually demanding - as, indeed, is any effort to explain or understand genuine philosophy.
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March 23, 2020
Great introduction that approaches ethics from a somewhat different angle than other authors. Almost worth 5 stars, but I think it's held back by cumbersome writing and narrower coverage than I would want in an introductory textbook. Lacks the clarity and scope of a text like that of Pojman/Fieser, but also better at constructing and deconstructing arguments.
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August 28, 2012
Excellent, however dense. Encapsulates the essence of ethical thought.
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