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    Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong

    By Steve Wilkens

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    About this ebook

    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 individuals or as societies. In this revised and expanded edition of Steve Wilkens's widely-used text, the author has updated his introductions to basic ethical systems:

    • cultural relativism
    • ethical egoism
    • utilitarianism
    • behaviorism
    • situation ethics
    • Kantian ethics
    • virtue ethics
    • natural law ethics
    • divine command theory

    He has also added two new chapters:

    • evolutionary ethics
    • narrative ethics

    With clarity and wit Wilkens unpacks the complicated ideas behind the slogans and offers Christian evaluations of each.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP Academic
    Release dateAug 2, 2011
    ISBN9780830869077
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    Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong
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    Steve Wilkens

    Steve Wilkens (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is professor of philosophy and ethics at Azusa Pacific University. His books include Hidden Worldviews, Faith and Reason: Three Views, Christianity Western Thought (volumes 2 and 3) and Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Mount San Antonio College, Glendale Community College, Fuller Theological Seminary and Azusa Pacific University's C. P. Haggard Graduate School of Theology.

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      I used the first edition of this book for a basic ethics class for many years. I'm not sure how many times I can claim to have read it. Several, no doubt. This year I adopted the 2nd edition, and so I have read it once again. It remains a decent introduction for a class in Christian ethics. The second edition adds welcome chapters on evolutionary ethics and narrative ethics and makes some other improvements.