controversies, with special attention paid to racism, moral education, and abortion. It gives a practical method for thinking about moral issues, a method based largely on the golden rule. Key Features:• Serves as either the sole textbook for a lower-level introduction to ethics/moral philosophy course or a supplementary text for a more advanced undergraduate ethics course• Provides clear, direct writing throughout, making each chapter easily accessible for an engaged undergraduate• Offers a philosophically rigorous presentation of the golden rule• Includes helpful study aids, including: bolded technical terms, boxes for key ideas, chapter summaries, suggested readings, and a glossary/index Key additions to the Second Edition:• A new chapter on virtue ethics, which deals with Aristotle, Plato, and related controversies• A new chapter on natural law theory, which deals with Aquinas, double effect, sexual morality, and related controversies• A significantly revised chapter on the golden rule, which is now much clearer on certain key points• A significantly revised chapter on nonconsequentialism, which now has expanded coverage of human rights, libertarianism, and socialism, and uses the right to health care as a case example• An expanded bibliography• A new appendix that overviews key books students will want to pursue upon completing Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction, Second Edition• A rewritten instructional program, EthiCola, which is now much easier to download and use and has (for students) revised exercises for each chapter and (for instructors) a score-processing program, class slides, and instructor’s manual.  This can be found on the book’s companion website: http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/gensler.

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