The Fundamentals of Ethics

The fifth edition of The Fundamentals of Ethics by Russ Shafer-Landau provides a comprehensive introduction to moral philosophy, covering key areas such as the good life, normative ethics, and metaethics. The book also explores often overlooked topics like the doctrine of doing and allowing, the doctrine of double effect, and various theories of well-being and moral error. Written in an engaging style, it reconstructs and analyzes numerous arguments in a way accessible to students without any prior philosophy experience.