Highlights
Doing Ethics stresses critical thinking more than any other text.
Throughout the text, Doing Ethics challenges students to apply critical-thinking tools to difficult moral dilemmas, including more than twenty “Critical Thought” boxes that prompt students to examine their assumptions about an ethical quandary. Part 2: Moral Reasoning provides a thorough introduction to the basic principles of critical thinking; students are taught the rudiments of plain-language critical reasoning, including how to gauge the strength and soundness of moral arguments, how to test the moral premises of an argument, and how to spot (and avoid) bad arguments. The chapters in Part 4: Ethical Issues conclude with “Cases for Analysis,” real-world examples—“ripped from the headlines”—followed by questions designed to spur critical thinking.
Doing Ethics is clear and comprehensible.
Vaughn’s prose is clear and accessible to introductory students. Summaries of major arguments and core concepts are thorough, balanced, and easy to understand. Pedagogical features throughout—including “Quick Review” boxes, end-of-chapter review questions, and key term reviews—ensure that students understand the core ideas as they’re reading.
Doing Ethics makes the study of ethics relevant to students.
Students will understand from page one that ethical reasoning is important, does not come naturally (and thus requires practice), and has far-reaching implications for their futures. Cases and examples scattered throughout the text are “ripped from the headlines”; they are relevant today, and are likely to be part of the public discourse students encounter in when they walk out of the classroom and into the wider world. In addition to traditional ethical dilemmas such as abortion, capital punishment, and warfare, Doing Ethics offers chapters on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, animal rights, and terrorism.
Doing Ethics is priced ethically,
at $20–$30 less than competing texts.
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