What Should I Do?: Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling

What Should I Do? Is A Collection Of Some Of The Most Interesting Questions About Ethics To Have Appeared On The Website During Its First Five Years. The Questions Addressed Here Come From Young And Old, From The Educated To The Barely Schooled. The Philosophers Offer Down-to-earth, Often Personal Responses--indeed, Stimulating, Engaging, And Candid Conversations--that Point Readers In A Helpful Direction And Refine Further Reflection. The Book Explores Questions About How To Behave Toward One's Friends, Members Of One's Family, Those We Love, And Even Toward Oneself. It Looks At The Moral Dilemmas Faced In Professional Relationships, In Our Treatment Of Animals, In Our Use Of The Environment, And Even In Our Relation To God. Broadening Still Further, We Find Questions About The Morality Of A Nation's Actions, Such As Its Right To Punish Its Citizens Or To Wage War Against Other Nations. Finally, The Book Considers Some Of The Many Questions People Have About The Nature Of Morality Itself. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Personal -- Children -- Love And Sex -- Abortion -- Emotion -- Sincerity -- Death -- Suicide -- 2. Public -- Medicine -- Business -- Sports And Games -- Interacting With Others -- Environment -- Animals -- Religion -- 3. Political -- Justice -- Rights -- Government -- Law -- Punishment -- War -- 4. Nature Of Morality -- Moral Truth -- Moral Knowledge -- Moral Theories -- Putting Morality Into Practice. Edited By Alexander George ; With Elisa Mai. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207-208) And Index.