Acclaimed author Mary Warnock explains her personal ethical stance in this indispensable guide to moral philosophy. She introduces a series of compelling moral issues in areas as wide-ranging as genetic engineering, euthanasia and education, along with her reasons for believing in ethics at all, in a concise and thought-provoking way. Warnock draws on remarkably lucid examples from both her public and her private life to illustrate difficult cases and to make her point succinctly and persuasively. An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics is a book for the general reader as well as the scholar of philosophy.