What's good on TV? [electronic resource] : understanding ethics through television / Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Description: xiii, 303 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 170 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.6 .W395 2011eb
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Contents:
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?.
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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?.

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