An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics

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Mary Warnock debates today's most difficult moral issues, exploring the nature of ethics and the ways that we make moral decisions. She explains how to distinguish right from wrong in areas ranging from euthanasia and abortion, Down's Syndrome and education, to genetic engineering. Drawing on remarkably lucid examples from her personal and political life, Lady Warnock illustrates difficult cases to support her points, clarifying her standpoint in relation to the philosophers of ethics in a concise and thought-provoking way.

Mary Warnock is an eminent philosopher and author with a distinguished career. She has been fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford; headmistress of Oxford High School; and mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. She has a high public profile, appearing frequently on television and radio. She lives in Marlborough, in Wiltshire.

"'This book will serve as an excellent introduction to ethical study, and is also an impassioned and moving summary of Warnock's own lifelong dedication to ethical thinking' Alain de Botton, The Guardian 'This is a wise, earnest, moving book... No wonder the blurb calls it 'controversial'. It must certainly raise eyebrows among the enlightened' Robert Grant, The Times"