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Exploring ethics : an introductory anthology /
Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology is a brief collection of readings in moral philosophy intended to provide a clear and definite understanding of ethics. Carefully chosen and edited by Steven Cahn for maximum accessibility, the forty selections that comprise the text are organized into thr...
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New York :
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip084/2007045023.html |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Exploring ethics : |b an introductory anthology / |c edited by Steven M. Cahn. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a vii, 408 p. : |b ill. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Morality and moral philosophy / William K. Frankena -- Crito / Plato -- Challenges to morality -- How not to answer moral questions / Tom Regan -- God and morality / Steven M. Cahn -- The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- Right and wrong / Thomas Nagel -- Egoism and moral scepticism / James Rachels -- Happiness and immorality / Steven M. Cahn and Jeffrie G. Murphy -- The nature of ethical disagreement / Charles L. Stevenson -- Moral theories -- The categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant -- A simplified account of Kant's ethics / Onora O'Neill -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Strengths and weaknesses of utilitarianism / Louis P. Pojman -- The nature of virtue / Aristotle -- Ethics and the moral life / Bernard Mayo -- Master morality and slave morality / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Moral saints / Susan Wolf -- The social contract / Thomas Hobbes -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- The idea of a female ethic / Jean Grimshaw -- Moral problems -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren -- Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Active and passive euthanasia : a reply to Rachels / Thomas D. Sullivan -- Famine, afluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- World hunger and moral obligation : the case against Singer / John Arthur -- Terrorism / Michael Walzer -- Is terrorism distinctively wrong? / Lionel K. McPherson -- Pornography, oppression, and freedom : a closer look / Helen E. Longino -- The feminist case against pornography / Joel Feinberg -- Two concepts of affrmative action / Steven M. Cahn -- What good am I? / Laurence Thomas -- The case for animal rights / Tom Regan -- The case for the use of animals in biomedical research / Carl Cohen -- We are what we eat / Tom Regan -- People or penguins : the case for optimal pollution / William F. Baxter -- In defense of the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag -- Capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| 520 | |a Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology is a brief collection of readings in moral philosophy intended to provide a clear and definite understanding of ethics. Carefully chosen and edited by Steven Cahn for maximum accessibility, the forty selections that comprise the text are organized into three parts: Challenges to Morality, Moral Theories, and Moral Problems. The first part, Challenges to Morality, addresses the sometimes simplistic ideas students may bring to the study of morality. The second part, Moral Theories, offers a look at some of the most important and influential ethical theories, showing how a variety of thinkers have tried to answer some of philosophys most enduring questions: What differentiates right from wrong? How do we define virtue? How should we act? Finally, the third part, Moral Problems, features opposing readings on nine controversial issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, terrorism, and capital punishment. Exploring Ethics includes selections from Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Friederich Nietzsche, James Rachels, John Rawls, and Tom Regan, among many others.All of the readings are preceded by introductions and followed by study questions prepared by the editor. With its broad and rich balance of selections, Exploring Ethics is perfect for courses in introduction to ethics and contemporary moral problems, as a stand alone text or as a companion to other books. An Instructors Manual and a Companion website accompany the text. | ||
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