Ethics 

This book opens with the immortal lines from the great Socrates,
"the unexamined life is not worth living." The greatness of this statement
lies in its being able to mesmerize anyone who comes across it and to
provoke and challenge him/her to reflect on its meaning. It is not the
authors' intended meaning that matters, but how it affects the reader. As
every one tries to ask what the authors meant, the author, by then, would
have succeeded in putting their message across.

Socrates may have actually wanted to say: "Do as I have done. All
my life, I have been asking questions about my own living,. about others,
living, how life ought to be lived. At the end I realize that what I have
been doing, pursuing and seeking the answers to my question, what life
is worth living, is exactly what I have been doing, which is continuously
asking questions."

In other words, examining life and finding answers lead to
meaningfulness. This is the realization of man's being a "homo logos", a
speaking animal. This is at the same time the realization of man's ethical
being, human life as it ought to be.

Having enrolled in the course, with or without their liking, students
are therefore urged to respond to the implicit message of Socrates, to
search for the life worth living, man's life as it ought to be, a meaningful
life, both a process and an end.

Somewhere along the way, the searching student comes face
to face with himself/herself struggles with himself/herself and ask
the Shakespearean existential question, "To be or not to be." He/She
could be struck with St. Paul's lightning of truth, beauty and goodness.
He/She may brought down to his/her knees and made to choose the
fundamental option, to live an ethical life.
 

Contents:
Chapter I: Understanding morality and moral standards
Chapter II: The moral agent
Chapter III: The human act
Chapter IV: Frameworks and principles behind our moral frameworks
Chapter V: Globalization and its critical challenges 

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.