Moral Issues and Movies is authoritative:
- Dr. Joseph Forte's expertise on the content of the book derives from:
- His scholarship on ancient virtue ethics, as well as
- His expertise teaching ethical theories and issues at the university level since 2008
- Additionally, subject-matter experts reviewed and/or contributed to every chapter.
Moral Issues and Movies is designed to foster undergraduate student engagement and understanding by:
- Using recent mainstream films to illuminate philosophical concepts and texts
- Employing annotations and commentary to explain possibly confusing aspects of excerpts from classical philosophy texts, curated for each chapter
- Including links to vetted internet sources to provide context and avenues for further learning
- Providing a glossary of terminology in each chapter
- Breaking up chapters into small sections interspersed with carefully-selected images, including famous works of art
- Including questions for consideration and discussion throughout each chapter
- Providing further contextual background for the topics, thinkers, time periods, and texts of each chapter with an appendix, which includes not only text, but videos co-created by the author and curated from the web.
- Including an Instructor's Supplement to serve as pedagogical resource, with extensive suggestions about how to use the textbook effectively
Moral Issues and Movies could serve as a standalone textbook or supplement for courses including but not limited to:
- Introduction to Ethics
- Contemporary Moral Issues
- Bioethics
- Philosophy of Death and Dying
- Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy Through Film
- Theories of Ethics
- Politics and Ethics
- Ancient Philosophy
- Contemporary Ethics
