Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Key concepts 1 - Philosophical foundations -- Introduction : Key concepts 2 - Knowing a little theory : three approaches to ethics -- Part 1 : The Moral agent -- Part II : The Act -- Part III : Frame works and principles.

Human beings are in the midst of creating a new world through science and technology. But what kind of world we create will even more significantly on our view, implicit or explicit, about the nature of the good life - about good or bad, right and wrong, and our abilities to enact ideals in the face of limited knowledge and temptations to ease or arrogance.