Reflections upon Morality - This book is intended to be a useful ethics textbook for undergraduate students majoring in science, engineering, and business. It raises questions about moral issues and answers them from philosophical and scientific perspectives. The topics in this book are carefully selected to suit students’ interests. Among the topics that I discussed in my ethics courses at the University of Maryland and UNIST, exciting ones made it to this book while boring ones did not. Demonstration is the best way to foster students’ thinking power. In this spirit, I criticize eminent philosophers’ views on moral issues and sometimes defend alternatives to their views in this book. I do not expect that the readers of this book will be philosophy majors. For this reason, I made an effort to keep philosophical jargons to a minimum. When I had to use one, I defined it and offered an example to illustrate it. There are study questions at the end of each chapter. They are intended to stimulate students to think for themselves about morality and to go beyond what I said in the book.

저자 : Seungbae Park (박승배) Seungbae Park is a philosophy professor at UNIST in the Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001. He taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland, and POSTECH. He published about 80 papers in SCI-level international journals. He also published two books, Embracing Scientific Realism and Induction, Science, and Morality, in Springer in 2022 and 2025, respectively. He served as an anonymous referee for SCI-level international journals, such as Journal of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. https://philpeople.org/profiles/seungbae-park

Preface 1. Basic Concepts 2. Divine Command Theory 3. Cultural Relativism 4. Utilitarianism 5. Kantianism 6. Rawlsianism 7. Libertarianism 8. Ethics and Psychology 9. Ethics and Biology 10. Homosexuality 11. Abortion 12. Punishment and Justice 13. The Death Penalty 14. Euthanasia 15. Vegetarianism 16. The Legalization of Drugs 17. Affirmative Action 18. Business Ethics 19. Torture 20. Media Ethics 21. War Ethics 22. International Ethics 23. The Unification of the Two Koreas 24. Engineering Ethics 1 25. Engineering Ethics 2 26. Engineering Ethics 3 27. Gene Editing 28. Why Live Morally Good Lives?