Moral Choices: Audio Lectures: An Introduction to Ethics, 4th ed. (audio)

by Scott B. Rae

Publisher:

Zondervan Academic

, 2018

Overview

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook’s direct narration of a book’s text, Moral Choices: Audio Lectures&includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources. &. Moral Choices: Audio Lectures features 16 lessons and is designed to help listeners develop a sound and current basis for making ethical decisions in today’s complex postmodern culture. The lectures outline the distinctive elements of Christian ethics while avoiding undue dogmatism. They also introduce other ethical systems and their key historical proponents, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Immanuel Kant. &. After describing a seven-step procedure for tackling ethical dilemmas, ethicist and professor Scott Rae uses case studies to address some of today’s most pressing social issues. He guides listeners in thinking critically and biblically about abortion, reproductive technologies, genetic technologies and human cloning, euthanasia, capital punishment, sexual ethics, war, and economics. All new sessions on violence and gun control; race, gender, and diversity; and immigration, refugees, and border control help listeners wrestle with today’s most difficult ethical issues. &. Designed with the learner in mind, each lecture is approximately 20 minutes.&Moral Choices: Audio Lectures&is useful for formal students and laypeople alike, providing an accessible introduction to Christian ethics and equipping them to form a basis for practical, ethical decision-making in contemporary culture. Moral Choices: Audio Lectures---a companion to the bestselling ethics textbook Moral Choices by Scott Rae---features 16 lessons, each corresponding to a chapter in the textbook. The lectures provide students with an introduction to Christian ethics and equips them to form a basis for practical, ethical decision-making in contemporary culture.

Product Details

• Title: Moral Choices: Audio Lectures: An Introduction to Ethics (audio)
• Author: Scott B. Rae
• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Audio
• Subjects: Religion › Christian Theology--Ethics; Religion › Ethics; Religion › Christian Living--Social Issues
• ISBNs: 9780310097457, 0310097452, 025986097455
• Resource ID: LLS:9780310097457
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T21:13:57Z

About Scott B. Rae

Scott Rae's primary interests are medical ethics and business ethics, dealing with the application of Christian ethics to medicine and the marketplace. He has authored 10 books in ethics including The Ethics of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood; Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics; Brave New Families: Biblical Ethics and Reproductive Technologies; Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics; and Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. His work has appeared in The Linacre Quarterly, Religion and Liberty, Journal of Markets and Morality, Southern California Journal of Law and Women's Studies, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and Ethics and Medicine. He is a consultant for ethics for four Southern California hospitals. He is a fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and a fellow of the Wilberforce Forum.