What's good on TV?
Watson, Jamie Carlin.
What's good on TV? understanding ethics through television / [electronic resource] : Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp. - Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. - xiii, 303 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Television broadcasting--Moral and ethical aspects.
Television broadcasting--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
PN1992.6 / .W395 2011eb
170
What's good on TV? understanding ethics through television / [electronic resource] : Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp. - Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. - xiii, 303 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Television broadcasting--Moral and ethical aspects.
Television broadcasting--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
PN1992.6 / .W395 2011eb
170