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.
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Television broadcasting--Moral and ethical aspects.
Television broadcasting--Social aspects.


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