文档介绍：Moral Questions ii iii Moral Questions An Introduction to Ethics Jon Nuttall Polity Press iv Copyright ?Jon Nuttall 1993 The right of Jon Nuttall to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 1993 by Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Editorial office: Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Marketing and production: Blackwell Publishers 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 238 Main Street Suite 501 Cambridge, MA 02142, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. ISBN 0 7456 1039 0 ISBN 0 7456 1040 4(pbk) British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Nuttall, Jon. Moral questions: an introduction to ethics/Jon Nuttall. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-7456-1039-0.—ISBN 0-7456-1040-4 (pbk.) 1. Ethics. I. Title. 1993 170––dc20 92-19117 CIP Typeset in 11 on 13 Baskerville by TecSet Ltd, Wallington, Surrey Printed and bound in Great Britain by Marston Lindsay Ross International Ltd, Oxfordshire v In memory of my father vi vii Contents Acknowledgements x Preface xi 1 Applying P