Introducing Ethics

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is &quote;identity&quote; now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define &quote;rights&quote;, 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?&quote;Introducing Ethics&quote; 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.