Ethics : Theory and Contemporary Issues (with InfoTrac)
ISBN: 9780534564322 | 0534564321
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 5/19/2003
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Through a combination of the illuminating overviews composed by the editor and readings drawn from important traditional and contemporary sources, MacKinnon's ETHICS provides students with an introduction to both ethical theory and the moral debates surrounding a variety of contemporary issues. Edited with the intention of providing reader friendly, but not superficial, access to many complex concepts, ETHICS is a comprehensive and clear-sighted introduction to both the general and specific guises ethical deliberation is obliged to take.
| Part I: ETHICAL THEORY | |
| 1. Ethics and Ethical Reasoning | |
| Plato: Republic, Book II, The Myth of Gyges | |
| Plato, Euthyphro | |
| 2. Relativism | |
| Mary Midgley: Trying Out One's New Sword | |
| 3. Egoism | |
| Hobbes: Leviathan | |
| Ayn ... MORE | |
| 4. Utilitarianism | |
| John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism | |
| 5. Kant's Moral Theory | |
| Immanuel Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
| 6. Natural Law and Natural Rights | |
| Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics | |
| John Locke: Two Treatises of Civil Government | |
| 7. Virtue Ethics | |
| Philipa Foot: Virtues and Vices | |
| Annette Baier: The Need for More than Justice | |
| Part II: ETHICAL ISSUES | |
| 8. Euthanasia | |
| J | |
| Gay-Williams: The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia | |
| Richard Brandt: A Moral Principle about Killing | |
| 9. Abortion | |
| Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion | |
| Don Marquis: Why Abortion is Immoral | |
| 10. Sexual Morality | |
| Thomas Nagel: Sexual Perversion | |
| Richard D | |
| Mohr: Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values | |
| 11. Pornography | |
| Ann Gary: Pornography and Respect for Women | |
| John Stuart Mill: On Liberty | |
| 12. Equality and Discrimination | |
| Richard Wasserstrom: On Racism and Sexism, Realities and Ideals | |
| Lisa Newton: Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified | |
| 13. Economic Justice | |
| John Rawls: A Theory of Justice | |
| Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia | |
| 14. Legal Punishment and the Death Penalty | |
| Hugo Adam Bedau: A World without Punishment | |
| Ernest Van Den Haag: The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense | |
| 15. Environmental Ethics | |
| William F | |
| Baxter: People or Penguins | |
| Holmes Rolston III: Values in the Natural World | |
| Arne Naess: A Defense of the Deep Ecology Movement | |
| 16. Animal Rights | |
| Peter Singer: All Animals are Equal | |
| Bonnie Steinbock: Speciesism and the Idea of Equality | |
| 17. Genetics and Human Cloning | |
| Leon Kass: The Wisdom of Repugnance | |
| Ronald M | |
| Green: Much Ado about Mutton | |
| 18. Terrorism, Violence, and War | |
| R | |
| Frey and Christopher W | |
| Morris: Violence, Terrorism, and Justice | |
| Elizabeth Anscombe: War and Murder | |
| 19. Global Issues and Globalization | |
| Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
| Herman E | |
| Daly: Globalization and its Discontents | |
| Polly Toynbee: Who's Afraid of Global Culture? Appendix: How to Write an Ethics Paper |
