Consuming Choices

Ethics in a Global Consumer Age

David T. Schwartz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2017 | 2nd edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781442275461 (ISBN)

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Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices considers the ethical dimensions of consumer life by exploring several basic questions: Exactly what sorts of unethical practices are implicated in today's consumer products? Does moral culpability for these practices fall solely on the companies that perform them, or does it also fall upon consumers who purchase the products made with such practices? And most importantly, do consumers ever have moral obligations to avoid particular products? To answer, David T. Schwartz provides the most detailed philosophical exploration to date on consumer ethics. He utilizes historical and fictional examples to illustrate the types of wrongdoing currently implicated by consumer products in this age of globalization, offers a clear description of the relevant moral theories and important ethical concepts, and provides concrete suggestions on how to be a more ethical consumer.

David T. Schwartz is professor of philosophy at Randolph College.

Preface

Chapter 1: Ethical Consumerism
Chapter 2: Caveat Emptor?
Chapter 3: The Consumer as Causal Agent
Chapter 4: The Consumer as Complicit Participant
Chapter 5: Toward a Practical Consumer Ethic

Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	31.03.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 226 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-13	9781442275461 / 9781442275461
Zustand	Neuware