Readings in Moral Philosophy
- New York W.W.Norton & Co 2018
- 638p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part 1 Meta-Ethics .....2 Right and wrong .....10 Study questions .....16 Moral distinctions not derived from reason .......17 Study questions .....22 Patterns of culture .....22 Study questions ......26 Trying out one`s new sword .....26 Study questions .....31 Beyond good and evil .......32 Study questions .....39 A critique of ethics ......39 Study questions .....47 Inventing right and wrong ......47 Study questions .....55 Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility .....56 Study questions .....65 God and morality .....65 Study questions ......71 Evolution and morality .....71 Study questions .....83 Part 2 Normative ethics ........84 The natural law ......95 Study questions .....102 The ethics of emergencies ......102 Study questions ......108 What is the value of justice .....108 Study questions ......116 The state of nature .....117 Study questions ....125 The original position .....125 Study questions ......132 An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation ......132 Study questions .....140 Utilitarianism .....140 Study questions .....150 The experience machine .....150 Study questions .....152 The categorical imperative ....152 Study questions .....160 The need for more than justice .....160 Study questions .....172 Nicomachean ethics .....172 Study questions .....183 Analects .....183 Study questions .....188 The caring person ......188 Study questions .....198 Existentialism and humanism .....198 Study questions .....207 Part 3 Applied ethics .....208 Gender equality .....208 A Vindication of the rights of woman .....212 Study questions .....218 The second sex ....218 Study questions ....232 Age, race, class and sex .....232 Study questions ....241 Gender policing .....241 Study questions .....252 Compare and contrast questions .....252 Free speech and its limits .....252 On liberty of expression .....254 Study questions ....268 Pornography, civil rights, and speech .....268 Study questions .....278 The coddling of the american mind .....278 Study questions ....290 Compare and contrast questions .....290 Sexual morality .....291 Date rape: A feminist analysis ....293 Study questions .....308 Alcohol and rape ....306 Study questions ....316 Feminist ethics: Evaluating the hookup culture .....316 Study questions .....328 Compare and contrast questions .....328 Abortion ......328 A defense of abortion .....332 Study questions .....340 On the moral and legal status of abortion .....340 Study questions .....352 Why abortion is immoral .....352 Study questions .....361 Virtue theory and abortion .....361 Study questions .....370 Compare and contrast questions ......370 Euthanasia .....371 Active and passive euthanasia .....372 Study questions .....378 Euthanasia ....379 Study questions .....388 The death penalty .....388 Speech in defense of capital punishment .....390 Study questions ......397 How to argue about the death penalty .....397 Study questions ......406 Compare and contrast question .....406 The criminalization of drugs .....407 Four points about drug decriminalization .....408 Study questions .....420 On the decriminalization of drugs ......420 Study questions .....426 Compare and contrast question .....426 Duties towards animals .....428 Study questions ......429 All animals are equal .....429 Study questions .....435 Animal rights and wrongs .....436 Study questions .....443 Compare and contrast questions ......443 The environment .....443 The land ethic ....445 Study questions ......457 Justice and climate change ......457 Study questions ......467 Compare and contrast question .....467 War .....468 50 years after hiroshima .....469 Study questions .....476 War and massacre .....476 Study questions .....487 Terror and torture ......488 Resistance .....511 Racial justice ......541 Economic justice .....581 World hunger and foreign aid .....612