The Ethical Life Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems
ISBN: 9780199773527 | 0199773521
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/1/2011
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Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, Second Edition, is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring forty 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... MORE
| Preface | p. v |
| A Note on the Companion Volume | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Value Theory The Nature of the Good Life | |
| Letter to Menoeceus | p. 11 |
| Hedonism | p. 17 |
| Brave New World | p. 27 |
| The Experience Machine | p. 33 |
| The Meaning of Life | p. 37 |
| Necessities | p. 49 |
| Normative Ethics: Theories of Right C... MORE | |
| Euthyphro | p. 63 |
| Natural Goodness | p. 72 |
| The Ethics of Emergencies | p. 84 |
| Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | p. 92 |
| The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative | p. 102 |
| Leviathan | p. 115 |
| What Makes Right Acts Right? | p. 126 |
| Nicomachean Ethics | p. 138 |
| What Is Feminist Ethics? | p. 150 |
| Metaethics The Status of Morality | |
| Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason | p. 165 |
| A Critique of Ethics | p. 175 |
| The Subjectivity of Values | p. 188 |
| Cultural Relativism | p. 198 |
| Realism | p. 207 |
| Proof | p. 217 |
| Moral Problems | |
| The Singer Solution to World Poverty | p. 229 |
| Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality | p. 237 |
| The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn | p. 251 |
| Euthanasia and a Modest Proposal | |
| The Morality of Euthanasia | p. 266 |
| The Survival Lottery | p. 272 |
| Terrorism and Torture | |
| Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses | p. 282 |
| Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured? | p. 293 |
| The Treatment of Nonhumans: Animals and the Environment | |
| Puppies, Pigs and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases | p. 307 |
| The Ethics of Respect for Nature | p. 323 |
| Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments | p. 336 |
| Abortion | |
| A Defense of Abortion | p. 351 |
| Why Abortion Is Immoral | p. 364 |
| Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect | p. 375 |
| The Limits of the Law | |
| Justifying Legal Punishment | p. 388 |
| An Eye for an Eye? | p. 398 |
| Letter from Birmingham City Jail | p. 408 |
| America's Unjust Drug War | p. 421 |
| Children and Parents | |
| Licensing Parents | p. 436 |
| What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents? | p. 450 |
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Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Fundamentals of Ethics, Second Edition (OUP, 2011), which is designed to be used along with this reader.
