We are told dilemmas happen when we try to decide right from wrong…but what if they can be the reason for deciding right from wrong? The philosophers used their challenges to make ethics. Modern challenges come in technology, data, money, and relationships and shape our part in the morality play called life. This book suggests that ethics is a story – sometimes, its heroes are tragic like Socrates. Others, like Confucius, are heroic just for trying to hold tradition in one hand and change in the other. Some like Augustine, find ethics are born out of love and loss; others like Budda, see the way through life’s hardships.

After a quick introduction to the essential ethical theories, the reader is given quick introductions to each philosopher and their dilemma/question. Each entry concludes by asking if the philosopher is advocating consequential ethics. The text also includes a mind Map example for a quick visual review of each philosopher, their contribution to ethics, and a few questions for study. Short entries on motives, terms, and how Western and Eastern ethics have contributed to moral philosophy, are also given.