Applied Ethics - by Oderberg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Applied Ethics</i> focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems, including abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment, and war.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Recent years have seen the revival of the application of moral philosophy to contemporary practical problems, and a corresponding explosion of books on the subject. Most of these books, however, defend approaches that are consequentialist or specifically utilitarian in nature. <p><i>Applied Ethics</i>, and its companion volume <i>Moral Theory, </i> provide a viable alternative to consequentialist orthodoxy. <i>Applied Ethics</i> focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems, including abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment, and war.</p> <p><i>Applied Ethics</i> and <i>Moral Theory, </i> make an important contribution to contemporary ethical debates, which will be useful both to undergraduates and professional philosophers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The best accessible guide to "just war" theory, and the whole Aquinas approach to philosophy, is <i>Applied Ethics</i> by David S. Oderberg, published by Blackwell. <i>Michael Gove, The Times, September 26, 2001</i> <br /> <p><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>It is a robust and uncompromising defence of traditional values. Stuart Reid, <i>The Spectator, 25th November 2000</i><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>Not the least merit of Oderberg's treatment of [the themes in <i>Applied Ethics</i>] is attention to the detail of realistic cases. This is casuistry in the true sense, designed to reveal and develop the lineaments of our actual moral thinking... <i>Anthony O'Hear, Salisbury Review</i><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>Oderberg's discussion of [the] issues is rich and thought provoking. [The] work is, even for non-believers, an important and engaging statement of non-consequentialist moral theory <i>Kaspar Lippert-Rasmussen, The Philosophical Quarterly</i>, <i>vol. 51, no. 204, July 2001</i><br /> </p> <p>...very carefully written work that contributes to the diversification of literature available for bioethical formation and which intervenes critically in the ongoing bioethical debate in western societies. <i>Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 6, 2003</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David S. Oderberg</b> is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. A graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford, he is author of <i>The Metaphysics of Identity over Time</i> (1993); co-editor, with Jacqueline A. Laing, of <i>Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics</i> (1997), and editor of <i>Form and Matter: Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics</i> (Blackwell, 1999).
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