In The Fundamentals of Ethics , Fifth Edition, author Russ Shafer-landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy.
Shafer-landau carefully reconstructs and analyzes dozens of arguments in depth, at a level that is understandable to students with no prior philosophical background..
Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics, and metaEthics than any other text of its kind, this book also addresses issues that are often omitted from other texts, such as the doctrine of doing and allowing, the doctrine of double effect, ethical particularism, the desire-satisfaction theory of well-being, moral error theory, and Ross\'s theory of prima facie duties.
In The Fundamentals of Ethics , Fifth Edition, author Russ Shafer-landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy
