Contemporary Moral Arguments : Readings in Ethical Issues
ISBN: 9780195381931 | 0195381939
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/18/2009
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Taking a unique approach that emphasizes critical thinking, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-eight key arguments that have provoked heated debates on current ethical issues. Contemporary Moral Arguments: Readings in Ethical Issues opens with a two-chapter introduction to moral theories and moral reasoning that provides students with the background necessary to analyze the arguments in the following chapters. Chapters 3-12 present seventy-six readings that are organized--in the conventional way--into ten topical areas: aborti... MORE
| Chapters 3-12 open with an Introduction, Key Terms, and Arguments and Readings | |
| Each chapter ends with Suggestions for Further Reading. | |
| Preface | |
| Moral Reasoning | |
| Ethics and the Moral Domain | |
| Norms: Moral and Nonmoral | |
| The Elements of Morality | |
| Emotion and Conscience | |
| Kinds of Ethical Inquiry | |
| Ethics, Law, an... MORE | |
| Moral Relativism | |
| Moral Arguments | |
| Argument Basics | |
| The Structure of Moral Arguments | |
| Evaluating Moral Premises | |
| Key Words | |
| Summary | |
| Plato: The Ring of Gyges | |
| The Case Against Moral Relativism | |
| Can Ethics Provide Answers? | |
| Moral Theories | |
| Why Moral Theories? | |
| Important Moral Theories | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| Kant's Theory | |
| Natural Law Theory | |
| Rawls's Contractarianism | |
| Virtue Ethics | |
| The Ethics of Care | |
| Feminist Ethics | |
| Judging Moral Theories | |
| The Moral Criteria of Adequacy | |
| Applying the Criteria: Utilitarianism | |
| Kant's Theory | |
| Key Words | |
| Summary | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals | |
| Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics | |
| A Theory of Justice | |
| The Need for More Than Justice | |
| Abortion | |
| Warren's Personhood Argument for Abortion | |
| On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | |
| The Being in the Womb Is a Person | |
| Abortion: A Defense of the Personhood Argument | |
| Why Abortion Is Immoral | |
| Noonan's Personhood-at-Conception Argument Against Abortion | |
| An Almost Absolute Value in History | |
| In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide | |
| The Scope of the Prohibition Against Killing | |
| Thomson's Self-Defense Argument for Abortion | |
| A Defense of Abortion | |
| Arguments from Bodily Rights: A Critical Analysis | |
| Sex And Marriage | |
| Goldman's Argument Against Conventional Sexual Morality | |
| Plain Sex | |
| Morality and Human Sexuality | |
| The Abnormality Argument Against Homosexuality | |
| Why Homosexuality Is Abnormal | |
| Homosexuality and Nature | |
| The Essentialist Argument Against Gay Marriage | |
| Gay Marriage--and Marriage | |
| For Better or Worse? | |
| Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide | |
| The Autonomy Argument for Euthanasia | |
| When Self-Determination Runs Amok | |
| When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok | |
| The Philosophers' Brief | |
| The Killing/Letting Die Argument | |
| Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
| Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die? | |
| The Slippery Slope Argument Against Euthanasia | |
| Why Doctors Must Not Kill | |
| Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
| Genetic Engineering And Cloning | |
| The Beneficence Argument for Genetic Enhancement | |
| Is Gene Therapy a Form of Eugenics? | |
| Genetic Enhancement | |
| The Open-Future Argument Against Cloning | |
| Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con | |
| A Life in the Shadow: One Reason Why We Should Not Clone Humans | |
| The Death Penalty | |
| Kant's Retributivism Argument for the Death Penalty | |
| Punishment and the Principle of Equality | |
| A Life for a Life | |
| An Eye for an Eye? | |
| Capital Attrition: Error Rates in Capital Cases | |
| The Discrimination Argument Against the Death Penalty | |
| Administrative Objections | |
| Capital Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Bias | |
| The Deterrence Argument for the Death Penalty | |
| On Deterrence and the Death Penalty | |
| Capital Punishment and Social Defense | |
| War, Terrorism, And Torture | |
| The Pacifist Argument Against War | |
| Pacifism | |
| Pacifism: A Philosophical Analysis | |
| The Self-Defense Argument for War | |
| Just and Unjust Wars | |
| When War Is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking | |
| The Just War Argument Against Terrorism | |
| Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses | |
| The Morality of Terrorism | |
| Can Terrorism Be Justified? | |
| The Ticking Bomb Argument for Torture | |
| The Case for Torturing the Ticking Bomb Terrorist | |
| Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb | |
| Pornography | |
| The Liberty Argument Against Censorship | |
| On Liberty | |
| Hate Speech and Pornography: Do We Have to Choose Between Freedom and Equality? | |
| Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom | |
| MacKinnon's Harm-to-Women Argument for Censorship | |
| Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech | |
| Women and Pornography | |
| Feminists Against the First Amendment | |
| Economic Justice: Health Care | |
| Daniels's Argument for a Right to Health Care | |
| Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass? | |
| The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care | |
| The Argument for Rationing by Moral Worthiness | |
| Fault and the Allocation of Spare Organs | |
| Alcoholics and Liver Transplantation | |
| Animal Rights And Environmental Duty | |
| Singer's ""All Animals Are Equal"" Argument | |
| All Animals Are Equal | |
| The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research | |
| Our Duties to Animals | |
| Regan's Argument for Animal Rights | |
| The Case for Animal Rights | |
| The Rights of the Nonhuman World | |
| The Moral Status of Animals | |
| The Suffering Argument for Vegetarianism | |
| The Moral Argument for Vegetarianism | |
| Moral Vegetarianism and the Argument from Pain and Suffering | |
| Taylor's Argument for the Moral Equality of All Life | |
| The Ethics of Respect for Nature | |
| Are All Species Equal? | |
| Reverence for Life | |
| Economic Justice And Global Obligations | |
| Hardin's Lifeboat Argument Against Aiding the Poor | |
| Living on a Lifeboat | |
| A Critique of Lifeboat Ethics | |
| Singer's Utilitarian Argument for Aiding the Poor | |
| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
| World Hunger and Population | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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