Short Essays on Ethics

Navigate the broad landscape of ethical discourse with this collection of essays that reframe and renew crucial dialogues in ethical thought. This book delves into pressing issues consuming the attention of both academic ethicists and public moral discourse, making it an indispensable read for scholars and students as well as anyone with an invested interest in the field of ethics. Every essay represents a novel contribution to our understanding of a whole host of topics bridging religious, political, social, existentialist and quantified ethics as well as enduring topics in moral psychology. This book challenges you to reconsider your stances on widely discussed contemporary issues like racism and disability, and to reflect on practical concerns such as ethical workplace norms and racial preferences in dating. New movements in ethics like longtermism and effective altruism also come under critical analysis in this wide survey of some of the ethical problematics that mean the most to us. This collection isn’t just about contemporary issues, though. It revisits timeless philosophical enigmas like the relationship between God and the Good, what the ethical landscape looks like after the Death of God, whether it is possible to put a number on injury and death in quantifying ethics, and whether it is possible to have an egalitarian moral theory that doesn’t run into a repugnant conclusion.