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Contemporary Moral Issues : Diversity and Consensus
ISBN: 9780130794352 | 013079435X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 1/1/1996
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Hinman provides a short, general introduction to ethical theory for students and also develops a self-test that allows them to determine their initial position on the specific moral issues to be discussed later in the book. Each chapter opens with one or more experiential accounts, which are selected in order to provide students with insight into the lived reality of the issue at hand. This is followed by Hinman's chapter introductions to the philosophical issues at stake in each moral issue. A number of philosophical articles follow, and these are intended to introduce students to the detailed philosophical argumentation that accompanies a well-thought-out position. Discussion questions follow each selection. Finally, each chapter concludes with an extensive bibliographical essay and a retest of the original self-test so that students can see the ways in which the readings have affected them. The book concludes with a guide to reading, analyzing, and constructing philosophical arguments, which contains numerous helpful suggestions for both reading articles and writing papers on contemporary moral problems. The author also provides updated material on these issues on the World Wide Web and at his site Ethics Updates.
| Preface | |
| Introduction: A Pluralistic Approach to Contemporary Moral Issues | |
| An Initial Self-Quiz | |
| Matters Of Life And Death | |
| Cloning and Reproductive Technologies | |
| An Introduction to the Moral Issues | |
| The Arguments | |
| Gregory Stock and Francis Fukuyama | |
| ldquo;The Clone Wars | |
| rdquo | |
| ldqu... MORE | |
| ldquo;Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Moral Defense | |
| rdquo Concluding Discussion Questions | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Videotape: Topic: To Preserve or Defend | |
| Does the Gift of Life Cost Life Itself ? | |
| Stem Cell Research | |
| Source: Nightline, June 20, 2001 | |
| Abortion | |
| Experiential Account | |
| ldquo;There Just Wasnrsquo;t Room in Our Lives Now for Another Baby.rdquo | |
| An Introduction to the Moral Issues | |
| The Arguments | |
| Abortion and the Concept of a Person | |
| rdquo | |
| Buddhism, Abortion, and the Middle Way | |
| rdquo | |
| Why Abortion Is Immoral | |
| rdquo Concluding Discussion Questions | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Videotape: Topic: Civil War (Roe v. Wade | |
| Source: Nightline, January 22, 2003 | |
| Euthanasia | |
| Anonymous | |
| ldquo;Itrsquo;s Over, Debbie | |
| rdquo | |
| ldquo;Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making | |
| rdquo An Introduction to the Moral Issues | |
| The Arguments | |
| ldquo;Is There a Duty to Die? | |
| rdquo | |
| ldquo;Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
| rdquo | |
| ldquo;Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life? | |
| rdquo Concluding Discussion Questions | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Videotape: Topic: A Good Death | |
| Source: Nightline, March 12, 2004 | |
| Punishment and the Death Penalty | |
| Narrat ive Account | |
| ldquo Crime Victims on the Anvil of Pain | |
| rdquo An Introduction to the Moral Issues | |
| The Arguments | |
| ldquo;What Do Murderers Deserve? The Death Penalty in Civilized Societies | |
| rdquo | |
| ldquo;Against the Death Penalty | |
| rdquo Concluding Discussion Questions | |
| For Further Reading | |
| War, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism | |
| An Introduction to the Moral Issues | |
| The Arguments | |
| ldquo;The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention | |
| rdquo | |
| ldquo;Ethical Issues in Counterterrorism Warfare | |
| ldquo | |
| ldquo;Terrorism, Global Journalism, and the Myth of the Nation-State | |
| rdquo | |
| ldquo;Is There a Tortuous Road to Justice? | |
| rdquo Concluding Discussion Questions | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
