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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Библиографические подробности
Другие авторы: Cahn, Steven M.
Формат: Printed Book
Язык:English
Опубликовано: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Предметы:
Ethics.
Online-ссылка:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip084/2007045023.html
Оглавление:
  • 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.

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