Introduction to Applied Ethics

Introduction to Applied Ethics is written in a clear and rigorous style, presenting and discussing the basic arguments in an exemplary way. * Ethical Perspectives *Written with exemplary clarity and astonishing erudition, this textbook will become a standard against which other texts in applied ethics must be measured for decades to come. – Predrag Cicovacki, Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, USAThis is an excellent introduction to applied ethics: it is concise, rigorous and interestingly written. – James Connelly, Professor of Political Theory, University of Hull

Robert L. Holmes is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, USA. His main research is in philosophy of war, the ethics of nonviolence, and contemporary moral problems. He is the author of Pacifism (2016) Basic Moral Philosophy (2006) and On War and Morality (1989), co-author of Philosophical Inquiry (1968), and co-editor of Nonviolence in Theory and Practice (1990).