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Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong, 2nd edition Steve Wilkens. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011. ISBN 978-0830839360; 230 PAGES, PAPER, $20.00.
As a university professor teaching bioethics, I have been using Steve Wilkens' insightful treatment of ethical theory for many years, but it was getting out of date (the first edition was published in 1995). So, it was with great enthusiasm that I greeted the arrival of the second edition last year.
The rationale for Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics is a simple fact of life: the study of ethics can be dauntingly complex and sometimes a bit boring. Arcane terms such as meta-ethics,...