Introduction: Welcome to the end of the world -- Coping with chaos through Relativism -- How to find moral value in the apocalypse -- Creating an escape from the state of zombies -- Understanding your rights and duties during the pandemic -- Do the infected have a right to suicide from altruistic motives -- When to sacrifice survivors to hungry hoardes -- How to maximize pleasure ina world of flesh-consuming anguish -- Are all zombies equal? -- The responsibilities of strongholds to the unprotected living -- What are your obligations to undead loved ones? -- How to cultivate virtue among the vicious -- Conclusion: A guide for flourishing in an undead world.
Summary:
When your base camp is overrun by zombies, whom do you save if you cannot save everyone? Is it permissible to sacrifice one survivor to an undead horde in order to save a greater number of the living? Do you have obligations to loved ones who have turned? These are some of the troubling ethical questions you might face in a zombie apocalypse. Bryan Hall uses situations like these to creatively introduce the foundational theories of moral philosophy. Covering major thinkers such as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, this is an introduction to Ethics like no other: a practical guidebook for surviving a zombie outbreak with your humanity intact. It shows you why moral reasoning matters as long as you still walk among the living.
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