Ethical Choices 4th Edition

Ideal for students with little or no background in philosophy, Ethical Choices: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with Cases provides a concise, balanced, and highly accessible introduction to ethics. Featuring an especially lucid and engaging writing style, the text surveys a wide range of ethical theories and perspectives, including consequentialist ethics, deontological ethics, natural and virtue ethics, the ethics of care, and ethics and religion.

Each chapter of Ethical Choices also includes compelling case studies that are carefully matched with the theoretical material. Many of these cases address issues that students can relate directly to their own lives: student debt, healthcare costs, COVID-19 and vaccinations, grade inflation, generative AI, and video games. Other cases explore current topics like living wills, obesity, child marriage, factory farms, gambling addiction, and robot policing. The cases provide students with practice in addressing real-life moral choices, as well as opportunities to evaluate the usefulness and applicability of each ethical theory. Every case study concludes with a set of Thought Questions to guide students as they reflect upon the issues raised by that case.

Richard Burnor is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Institutional Review Board at Felician College. Dr. Burnor has published articles in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and teaching philosophy.

Yvonne Raley was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Felician College.