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Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ideas have consequences. And sometimes those ideas can be squeezed in to slogans, slapped on bumper stickers and tweeted into cyberspace. These compact messages coming at us from all directions often compress in a few words entire ethical systems. It turns out that there's a lot more to the ideas behind these slogans--ideas that need to be sorted out before we make important moral decisions as...

to get out of it. In history, biology, physical education and speech I had a pretty good idea of what was coming. Some classes aim to give us information that moves us beyond our present knowledge; others help us develop a set of skills. But how does ethics fit in? Certainly we need information to make good decisions, but if information is all we need, we can get it elsewhere. I really did not want a class where someone told me all the “right” answers to ethical dilemmas. A skills class in which
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