As with the first edition, Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian viewpoints are all well represented here, and this second edition features updated sections throughout—including eighteen new readings—and an entirely new section on multiculturalism.

• Presents students with a unique focus on three main challenges to ethics: feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism
• Pedagogical focus on the 'big questions' motivates student interest
• Collects readings on all key traditional theoretical and practical questions in ethics

James P. Sterba is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has published 25 books, including Affirmative Action for the Future (2009), Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? – A Debate (2008, co-authored with Warren Farrell), The Triumph of Practice over Theory in Ethics (2005), Terrorism and International Justice (2003), Three Challenges to Ethics (2001), and Justice for Here and Now (1998). He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Concerned Philosophers for Peace, the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (American section). He has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa.