Analyzing Moral Issues

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Summary: Climbing mountains
Review: Ms. Boss has written a textbook which analyzes moral issues that have no easy solutions. She helps the reader to understand how people reach moral conclusions...she disects the foundation of moral thought...she gives foundations of how ethical thought are contructed from family, religious, and cultural integrations. The remaining chapters describe case studies (drug legalization, euthanasia, abortion, hate speech, etc.) which has our society grappling for solutions, with opinions (pro and con) from different modern philosophers and university professors. There are critical thinking and discussion questions which guide the reader to understand contemporary moral dilimmas. There is also an appendix which helps the reader to write and debate moral issues. This textbook is relatively easy to understand, however the contributing authors ideas may be challenging to comphrend. This is a great textbook and reference guide to other ethical authors. In a nutshell, this textbook facilitates developing critical thinking skills. This is the first textbook I own which is battered and "dogeared". Ms. Boss has accomplished the feat of making moral contemporary issues an approachable mountain.