The Ethical Life; Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems
ISBN: 9780195377699 | 0195377699
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/28/2009
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Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring thirty-nine readings divided into four parts--Value Theory, Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Problems--it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range of moral issues. The essays include selections from such historically influential philosophers as Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill alongside work by contemporary philosophers like Philip... MORE
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Note on the Companion Volume | |
| Help for Students and Instructors | |
| Introduction | |
| Value Theory: The Nature Of The Good Life | |
| Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus | |
| Hedonism | |
| Brave New World | |
| The Experience Machine | |
| The Meaning of Life | |
| Necessities | |
| Nor... MORE | |
| Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | |
| The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative | |
| Leviathan | |
| Natural Goodness | |
| Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle | |
| What Makes Right Acts Right? | |
| What Is Feminist Ethics? | |
| Metaethics: The Status Of Morality | |
| Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason | |
| The Subjectivity of Values | |
| Ethics and Observation | |
| Trying Out One's New Sword | |
| Realism | |
| Renford Bambrough, Proof | |
| Moral Problems | |
| The Singer Solution to World Poverty | |
| Paid Surrogacy: Arguments and Responses | |
| Playing God: Genes, Clones, and Luck | |
| The Morality of Euthanasia | |
| The Survival Lottery | |
| Unsanctifying Human Life | |
| People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution | |
| A Defense of Abortion | |
| Why Abortion Is Immoral | |
| The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn | |
| Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses | |
| Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb | |
| Letter from Birmingham City Jail | |
| Justifying Legal Punishment | |
| An Eye for an Eye? | |
| America's Unjust Drug War | |
| Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality | |
| Adultery | |
| Licensing Parents | |
| What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents? | |
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