The Good Life: Options in Ethics - Tapa dura

Praise for the previous edition: A handy overview of moral theory. It is one of the strengths of the book that many different resources are drawn upon. Given the amount of material he tries to cover within a relatively modest compass, he sets himself thegoal of achieving brevity without sacrificing clarity, and in this he is successful.... * Practical Philosophy * Praise for the previous edition: A handy overview of moral theory. It is one of the strengths of the book that many different resources are drawn upon. Given the amount of material he tries to cover within a relatively modest compass, he sets himself the goal of achieving brevity without sacrificing clarity, and in this he is successful. * Practical Philosophy *

A primer in ethics, The Good Life explores the ultimate aims in living as proposed throughout philosophic history. Burton Porter examines the relation between ethics and science, religion, and psychology, as well as the challenges of relativism and determinism. Through the theories of hedonism, self-realization, naturalism, evolutionism, the ethic of duty, religious systems, virtue ethics, and existentialism, this book introduces the foundations of ethical thought.