How Should We Live?: Everyday ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand [Paperback]

Life in Aotearoa New Zealand in the early twenty-first century presents us with many controversial ethical issues: abortion, poverty, online behaviour, commercial sex, pornography, internet downloading, recreational drug use, social inequality, animal rights, data protection, criminal justice. . . They confront us with the task of working out how we should live, as individuals and communities.

This book examines practical ethical issues that affect people in their everyday lives. Written from a New Zealand perspective, using real-life examples, it examines the ethics of how we should live.

A guide to navigating the twenty-first centurys ethical minefields

Stephen Chadwick received a British Academy scholarship in 1994 to undertake a PhD in social and political philosophy at Aberdeen University. He went on to complete an MA in social work at the University of Hull, and subsequently worked for many years with drug users, professional sex workers and people with physical disabilities. Stephen has been teaching applied ethics at Massey University since 2006. In addition, he has taught the ethics of war to officers of the New Zealand Defence Force and facilitated sessions for nurses on bereavement support. He is also one of New Zealands premier astronomical photographers and has written two books on the subject. Stephen is the current secretary of the New Zealand Association of Philosophers.