
Would You Eat Your Cat?
Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself
By: Jeremy Stangroom
Paperback | 19 November 2012
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Get ready to have your best ideas challenged and your ethical foundations shaken with this unique collection of classic and modern ethical dilemmas.
Are you an authoritarian or a libertarian?
Are we morally obliged to end the world?
And just what's wrong with eating your cat?
Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these, and many other questions. Brought to you by the author of Einstein's Riddle, this unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to challenge your preconceptions.
Stangroom creates contemporary version of famous dilemmas such as the morality of suicide and the ethics of retribution. He then explores the background of each conundrum in detail and helps you to discover what your responses reveal about yourself with a unique morality baromere.
Are you ready to have your best ideas challenged and your ethical foundations shaken? If so, then Would You Eat Your Cat? is up to the task.
About the Author
Jeremy Stangroom has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is currently the New Media editor of The Philosopher's Magazine, which he founded with Julian Baggini in 1997. He is the author/editor of numerous books, including The Little Book of Big Ideas: Philosophy and The Little Book of Big Ideas: Religion. He is also series editor, with James Garvey, of Continuum Books' major new series on Contemporary Social Issues. Stangroom is an elected fellow the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.
Are you an authoritarian or a libertarian?
Are we morally obliged to end the world?
And just what's wrong with eating your cat?
Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these, and many other questions. Brought to you by the author of Einstein's Riddle, this unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to challenge your preconceptions.
Stangroom creates contemporary version of famous dilemmas such as the morality of suicide and the ethics of retribution. He then explores the background of each conundrum in detail and helps you to discover what your responses reveal about yourself with a unique morality baromere.
Are you ready to have your best ideas challenged and your ethical foundations shaken? If so, then Would You Eat Your Cat? is up to the task.
About the Author
Jeremy Stangroom has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is currently the New Media editor of The Philosopher's Magazine, which he founded with Julian Baggini in 1997. He is the author/editor of numerous books, including The Little Book of Big Ideas: Philosophy and The Little Book of Big Ideas: Religion. He is also series editor, with James Garvey, of Continuum Books' major new series on Contemporary Social Issues. Stangroom is an elected fellow the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.
Industry Reviews
Stangroom has been one of the most entertaining and diligent of a new breed of interpreters of philosophy for a wider audience. . . . I would recommend [Would You Eat Your Cat?] to anyone who needs a primer in moral thought. --Simon Blackburn"
ISBN: 9780393339420
ISBN-10: 0393339424
Published: 19th November 2012
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 144
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 19.68 x 13.97 x 1.27
Weight (kg): 0.27
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