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The most important ethical principle is the so-called golden rule: ""treat others as you want to be treated."" It finds support among even the most diverse cultures and religions throughout the world, and yet philosophers tend to neglect it. This work gives the Golden Rule the attention it deserves, and shows that the basic principles of ethics are very similar to principles of logic and provide a firm basis for our ethical thinking. Throughout, the text uses logic not to blind the reader with science but to make things clear. Ideas are presented in a way that beginners can understand and will enjoy, but at the same time specialists in moral philosophy should find it useful reading.

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Harry J. Gensler has written an engaing book on the formal side of ethics.[He] writes with exceptional clarity; indeed, his style is a model of its kind, being both lucid and lively.. - International Philosophical Quarterly, March 1998 Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1 Issue No. 149 ... an interesting supplement to his logic text Symbolic Logic where he skillfully included deontic, alethic modal, and imperative logics...Here he provides some content and examples to the formal structure of his earlier text in a way that should benefit students provided with this background.. - Philosophy in Review, Vol. 17, No. 1-3, 1997

'A clear, direct and penetrating assessment of attempts to make pastoral sense of rules, principles and theories.' - Contact

Harry J. Gensler has written an engaing book on the formal side of ethics.[He] writes with exceptional clarity; indeed, his style is a model of its kind, being both lucid and lively.. <br>- International Philosophical Quarterly, March 1998 Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1 Issue No. 149 <br>... an interesting supplement to his logic text Symbolic Logic where he skillfully included deontic, alethic modal, and imperative logics...Here he provides some content and examples to the formal structure of his earlier text in a way that should benefit students provided with this background.. <br>- Philosophy in Review, Vol. 17, No. 1-3, 1997 <br>

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Harry J. Gensler, S.J.is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. He is the author of Göxdel’s Theorem Simplified, Logic: Analyzing and Appraising Arguments, and Symbolic Logic: Classical and Advanced Systems. He has also written LogiCola, a logic instructional program.

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