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About This Book

This versatile guide to the study of ethics provides the reader with a history of ethical theory, an anal- ysis of the great systems of ethical thought, critical commentary on the con- tributions of influential philosophers, and back- ground information for a discussion of ethical problems. The book is so organized that the chap- ters may be explored and studied individually or in a variety of sequences.