What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a
post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is
identity now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and
competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free
markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define rights,
self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of
scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs
of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?Introducing Ethics
confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral
thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and
brings us up to date with postmodern critics.