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Richtig oder falsch? Moralisch oder unmoralisch? Das ist hier die Frage Wo ziehen wir die Linie zwischen richtig und falsch? Wo die zwischen gutem und schlechtem Handeln? Und wie positionierten sich Denker wie Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill und Thomas Hobbes zu diesem Thema? Christopher Panza und Adam Potthast nehmen Sie mit auf eine Erkundungsreise zu diesen scheinbar einfachen Fragen und den dazugehörigen, oftmals überraschend komplexen, Antworten. Sie verdeutlichen das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Religion zur Ethik, entfalten die Bedeutung der Goldenen Regel und vieles mehr. Dieses Buch ist daher Ihr idealer Begleiter, wenn Sie sich systematisch den vielschichtigen Aspekten der Ethik und den daraus resultierenden Fragen nähern möchten. Sie erfahren Welche Sicht die Tugendethik, die Prinzipien- und Vertrags-ethik, die utilitaristische und die feministische Ethik vertretenWelche Auswirkungen sie auf unser moralisches Verständnis habenWelch tiefgründigen Fragestellungen die Medizin-, Umwelt- und Sexualethik beschäftigen.