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Ethics For Life A Text with Readings

by: Boss, Judith

Ethics For Life A Text with Readings

by: Boss, Judith

ISBN 13:
9780078038334
ISBN 10:
0078038332
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/22/2013
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Both scholarly and practical, this text with readings provides a clear, well-organized overview of theoretical ethics. With a contemporary tone and framework, it aims to significantly improve students' ability to make real-life moral decisions. Multicultural coverage and attention to college students' moral development help readers relate the material to their own experience and their own moral growth.

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Ethics For Life A Text with Readings

Ethics For Life A Text with Readings

9780078038334

0078038332

Summary

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Ethics: An Overview

What Is Ethics?

Normative and Theoretical Ethics

Philosophy and the Search for Wisdom

Metaphysics and the Study of Human Nature

Moral Knowledge: Can Moral Beliefs Be True?

Summary

CHAPTER 2 Moral Reasoning

The Three Levels of Thinking

Moral Analysis and Praxis

Overcoming Resistance

The Role of Is and Ought Statements in Ethics

Recognizing and Constructing Moral Arguments

Avoiding Informal Fallacies

Resolving Moral Dilemmas

A Final Word

Summary

CHAPTER 3 Conscience and Moral Development

Ethics and Human Development

Conscience: Culturally Relative or Universal?

The Affective and Cognitive Sides of the Conscience

Lawrence Kohlberg: The Stage Theory of Moral Development

Carol Gilligan: The Care Perspective

The Four Components of Moral Behavior

Moral Maturity: Moving Beyond Ethical Relativism

Summary

Section II Ethical Relativism

CHAPTER 4 Ethical Subjectivism: Morality Is Just a

Matter of Personal Feeling

What Is Ethical Subjectivism?

What Ethical Subjectivism Is Not

The Roots of Ethical Subjectivism in Romantic

Sentimentalism

The Kitty Genovese Syndrome

Critique of Ethical Subjectivism

Summary

“Subjectivism” by James Rachels

“Student Relativism” by Stephen A. Satris

CHAPTER 5 Divine Command Theory and Civil Religion

Religion and Morality

The Divine Command Theory

Critique of Divine Command Theory

Civil Religion, Society, and National Morality

Religion and the Moral Community

Does Morality Need Religion?

Summary

Euthyphro by Plato

“Civil Religion in America” by Robert Bellah

CHAPTER 6 Cultural Relativism: Is Morality Dependent

on Culture?

What Is Cultural Relativism?

What Cultural Relativism Is Not

Distinguishing between Cultural and Sociological Relativism

Social Darwinian Ethics: The Concept of Moral Progress

Ruth Benedict: Cultural Relativism as a Protest

against Social Darwinism

Cultural Relativism and the Moral Community

Cultural Relativism, Cross-Cultural Criticism, and Moral Progress

The Holocaust and Disillusionment with Cultural

Relativism

Critique of Cultural Relativism

Summary

“Anthropology and the Abnormal” by Ruth Benedict

"Trying Out One's New Sword" by Mary Midgley

Section III Morality as Universal

CHAPTER 7 Ethical Egoism: Morality Is Acting in Our

Best Self-Interest

What Is Ethical Egoism?

Thomas Hobbes: Psychological Egoism

Ayn Rand: Objectivist Ethics and Rational Ethical

Egoism

Ethical Egoism and Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Ethical Egoism and the Moral Community