The Elements of Moral Philosophy

The Elements of Moral Philosophy
	Cover of the first edition
Author	James Rachels
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Ethics
Published	1986 (McGraw-Hill, 1st edition); 1993 (2nd edition); 1999 (3rd edition); 2003 (4th edition); 2007 (5th edition); 2009 (6th edition); 2011 (7th edition); 2014 (8th edition); 2018 (9th edition);
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN	0-07-282574-X
OCLC	173081152

The Elements of Moral Philosophy is a 1986 ethics textbook by the philosophers James Rachels and Stuart Rachels. It explains a number of moral theories and topics, including cultural relativism, subjectivism, divine command theory, ethical egoism, social contract theory, utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, and deontology. The book uses real-life examples in explaining the theories.

Editions

James Rachels wrote the first edition in 1986. He revised the book three times, adding a chapter on "The Ethics of Virtue" in 1993 and a chapter on "Feminism and the Ethics of Care" in 1999. The fourth edition appeared in 2003, the year Rachels died. Since then, his son Stuart has written the fifth edition and the sixth edition, which was released in April 2009. An 8th edition was released in October 2014. The book has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Persian and Albanian. It is known for its accessibility to a wide readership.

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External links

http://www.jamesrachels.org/stuart/EMP.htm Stuart Rachels' discussion of the sixth edition of the book
http://www.jamesrachels.org/ James Rachels' website

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