The Ethical Process: An Approach to Disagreements and Controversial Issues - Brossura

Brown, Marvin T.

 
9780130988898: The Ethical Process: An Approach to Disagreements and Controversial Issues

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This hands-on workbook helps learners develop conceptual tools and argumentative strategies to move beyond merely having opinions to discovering and evaluating the information, values, and assumptions that underlie different positions on controversial issues and cases. It shows readers how to move from contentious debates to productive dialogues, and how to increase a group's resources so they can make better decisions. KEY TOPICS: Chapter topics cover an introduction to the ethical process, the resources for the ethical process, understanding alternative points of view, evaluating arguments from different ethical approaches, and the ethical process as an argumentative dialogue. MARKET: For individuals who want to 1) understand and master the skills needed to engage in ethical reflection and analysis, and 2)experience ethics as a practice to be used when faced with disagreements.

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This new edition of The Ethical Process serves as an excellent supplement for courses in applied ethics and controversial issues. Employing a "workbook" presentation, the text provides students with a method of understanding the ethical dimension of issues and for making ethical decisions. The text's method helps students identify and sort out competing values and assumptions and critically examine their normative significance.

New to the Third Edition
  • New material on the 'ethic of care'
  • Additional material on interpretation
  • New material on the nature of disagreement
  • Enhanced use of the dialogical approach in previous editions

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