Ethics For Life
ISBN: 9780073407531 | 0073407534
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 3/15/2010
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This clear, well-organized overview of theoretical ethics employs a contemporary tone and framework. Multicultural coverage and attention to college students' moral development help readers relate the material to their own experience and their own moral growth. Both scholarly and practical, this text aims to significantly improve students' ability to make real-life moral decisions.
Both scholarly and practical, this text with readings provides a clear, well-organized overview of theoretical ethics. With a contempor... MORE
Both scholarly and practical, this text with readings provides a clear, well-organized overview of theoretical ethics. With a contempor... MORE
| The Study of Ethics | |
| Ethics: An Overview | |
| What is Ethics? | |
| Normative and Theoretical Ethics | |
| Philosophy and the Search for Wisdom | |
| Reading: Plato, "Allegory of the Cave" | |
| Metaphysics and the Study of Human Nature | |
| Moral Knowledge: Can Moral Beliefs Be True? | |
| Reading: A.J. Ayer, "Emotivism" | |
| Moral Reasoning | ... MORE|
| The Three Levels of Thinking | |
| Moral Analysis, Praxis, and Paradigm Shifts | |
| Overcoming Resistance | |
| Reading: 1984 by George Orwell | |
| Recognizing and Constructing Moral Arguments | |
| Avoiding Logical Fallacies | |
| Resolving Moral Dilemmas | |
| Reading: Mary Midgley, Can't We Make Moral Judgments? | |
| A Final Word | |
| Ethical Relativism | |
| Chapter 3 | |
| What is Ethical Subjectivism? | |
| What Ethical Subjectivism Is Not | |
| Reading: Stephen A. Satris, "Student Relativism" | |
| The Roots of Ethical Subjectivism in Romantic Sentimentalism | |
| Reading: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile | |
| The Kitty Genovese Syndrome | |
| Critique of Ethical Subjectivism | |
| Cultural Relativism: Is Morality Dependent on Culture? | |
| What is Cultural Relativism? | |
| Distinguishing Between Cultural and Sociological Relativism | |
| Social Darwinian Ethics: The Concept of Moral Progress | |
| Ruth Benedict: Cultural Relativism as a Protest Against Social Darwinism | |
| Reading: Ruth Benedict, "Anthropology and the Abnormal" | |
| Cultural Relativism and the Moral Community | |
| Reading: "We Are All Related" by Eagle Man | |
| Cultural Relativism, Cross-Cultural Criticism, and Moral Progress | |
| The Holocaust and Disillusionment with Cultural Relativism | |
| Critique of Cultural Relativism | |
| Beyond Ethical Relativism | |
| Is Morality Grounded in Religion? | |
| Religion and Morality | |
| The Divine Command Theory | |
| Reading: "Euthyphro" by Plato | |
| Natural Law Theory | |
| Reading: Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica | |
| Critique of Divine Command Theory | |
| Critique of Natural Law Theory | |
| Religion, Natural Law Theory, and Civil Disobedience | |
| Civil Religion and Cultural Relativism | |
| Religion and the Moral Community | |
| God and the Problem of Evil | |
| Does Morality Need Religion? | |
| Conscience and Moral Development | |
| Ethics and the Study of Human Development | |
| Conscience: Culturally Relative or Universal? | |
| The Affective and Cognitive Sides of the Conscience | |
| Lawrence Kohlberg: The Stage Theory of Moral Development | |
| Reading: Lawrence Kohlberg, The Philosophy of Moral Development | |
| Carol Gilligan: The Care Perspective | |
| Reading: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice | |
| James Rest: The Four Components of Moral Behavior | |
| Moral Maturity: Moving Beyond Ethical Relativism | |
| Morality as Universal | |
| Ethical Egoism: Morality Is Acting in Our Best Self-Interest | |
| What is Ethical Egoism? | |
| Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | |
| Psychological Egoism | |
| Ayn Rand: Objectivist Ethics and Rational Egoism | |
| Reading: Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead | |
| Ethical Egoism and Laissez-Faire Capitalism | |
| Ethical Egoism and the Moral Community | |
| Self-Interest and Happiness | |
| Critique of Ethical Egoism | |
| Utilitarianism: The Greatest Happiness Principle | |
| Utilitarianism and the Principle of Utility | |
| Mo Tzu: Utilitarianism as Universal Love | |
| Jeremy Bentham: Utilitarianism and Social Reform | |
| Reading: Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | |
| John Stuart Mill: Reformulation of Utilitarianism | |
| Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism | |
| Utilitarianism and the Moral Community | |
| Euthanasia and the Principle of Utility: Is Death Always Harm? | |
| Critique of Utilitarianism | |
| Deontology: The Ethics of Duty | |
| Deontology and Duty | |
| Confucius: Duty and the Community | |
| Reading: Arthur Waley, trans., The Analects of Confucius | |
| Immanuel Kant: The Categorical Imperative | |
| READING: Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics | |
| The Good Will and Proper Self-Esteem | |
| Sissela Bok: Is the Duty Not to Lie Absolute? | |
| W.D. Ross: Prima Facie Deontology | |
| The Duty of Justice | |
| Critique of Deontology | |
| Rights Ethics: The Other Side of Deontology | |
| The Emergence of Rights Ethics in Modern Society | |
| Reading: United Nations, "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" | |
| Natural Rights Ethics | |
| Reading: John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government | |
| The Marxist Critique of Natural Rights Ethics | |
| Rights and Duties | |
| Liberty (Negative) Rights and Welfare (Positive) Rights | |
| Rights and the Moral Community | |
| Critique of Rights Ethics | |
| Virtue Ethics and the Good Life | |
| Virtue Ethics and Character | |
| Aristotle: Reason and Virtue | |
| Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics | |
| Confucius and Aristotle: The Doctrine of the Mean | |
| David Hume: Sentiment and Virtue | |
| Nel Noddings: Feminist Care Ethics | |
| Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education | |
| Is Virtue Relative to Culture, Social Status, and Gender? | |
| The Unity of Virtue | |
| Virtue and Moral Education | |
| Critique of Virtue Ethics | |
| Afterward | |
| Glossary | |
| Notes | |
| Photo and Illustration Credits | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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