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Author Watson, Jamie Carlin.

Title What's good on TV? [electronic resource] : understanding ethics through television / Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp.

Imprint Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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Description xiii, 303 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The pilot episode : ethics and popular culture. Is anything "good" on television? The nature of moral value. Truth and nihilism in ethics -- Normativity : social, legal, and moral -- God and ethics -- What's right and wrong? Ethical theory. Relativism -- Deontology -- Consequentialism -- Virtue ethics -- But what's right when? Practical ethics. Environmental ethics -- Animal welfare -- Abortion -- Homosexuality -- Punishment and capital punishment -- Assisted suicide -- The epilogue: does TV erode our values?.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Television broadcasting -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Arp, Robert.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781405194761 (hardcover alk. paper)
9781405194754 (pbk. alk. paper)
9781444343007 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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