What's good on TV? : understanding ethics through television / / Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 303 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The pilot episode : ethics and popular culture. Is anything "good" on television? The nature of moral value. Truth and nihilism in ethics
- Normativity : social, legal, and moral
- God and ethics
- What's right and wrong? Ethical theory. Relativism
- Deontology
- Consequentialism
- Virtue ethics
- But what's right when? Practical ethics. Environmental ethics
- Animal welfare
- Abortion
- Homosexuality
- Punishment and capital punishment
- Assisted suicide
- The epilogue: does TV erode our values?.