Dr. Noel Preston: Understanding Ethics, 3rd edition: The Federated Press, Leichhardt, New South Wales, 2007, 233 pages, ISBN 978 186287 662 0

Journal of Academic Ethics 12 (2):161-163 (2014)
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IntroductionThis paperback text is an intermediate text and is simply written. As the author himself states, “the book aims to speak to that growing number of interested persons who want to understand more about the study of ethics, ethical issues and the ways ethicists approach them” . The author intends for this book to be an introduction to ethics and uses the first few chapters to swiftly and succinctly provide an introduction to the basics of ethics and the main ethical theories. He then uses later chapters to carry these theories into current ethical realms, such as business, bioethics, environmental, and political and allows the reader to attach the rudimentary ethical theories examined in the earlier chapters to real life issues in order to emphasize the main points. The final section discusses how to internalize ethics and incorporate them into the reader’s daily lives.SummaryFollowing the acknowledgement, he provides a valuable preface piece aptly titled “How t ..

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