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Morality and Moral Controversies

ISBN: 9780132311434 | 0132311437
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 9/1/1995

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SummaryTable of Contents
This comprehensive anthology includes carefully edited selections of the classics of moral and political philosophy, as well as important recent works in legal, political, and moral theory.
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Preface to the Fourth Editionvii
Reading and Writing Philosophy1(6)
John Arthur
Opening Case Killing on a Lifeboat: The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens7(6)
Part I. Moral Theory13(114)
1. Individual Conscience and Religious Authority
13(17)
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
13(8)
Jonathan Bennett
Religion, Morality, and Conscience
21(9)
John Arthur
2. Classical Moral Theories
30(45)
Nichomachean Ethics
30(7)
Aristotle
Leviathan
37(7)
Thomas Hobbes
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
44(11)
David Hume
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
55(10)
Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism
65(10)
John Stuart Mill
3. Critical Perspectives
75(28)
The Genealogy of Morals: An Attack
75(8)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Feminist Ethics: Some Issues for the Nineties
83(9)
Alison M. Jaggar
Is Patriotism a Virtue?
92(7)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Flag Burning as Constitutionally Protected: Texas v. Johnson
99(4)
4. Relativism and Human Rights
103(24)
The African Context of Human Rights
103(5)
Claude Ake
What's Culture Got to Do with It? Excising the Harmful Tradition of Female Circumcision
108(8)
Harvard Law Review
Trying Out One's New Sword
116(4)
Mary Midgley
Taking Rights Seriously
120(7)
Ronald Dworkin
Part II. Issues of Life and Death127(120)
5. Animals and the Environment
127(34)
All Animals Are Equal
127(10)
Peter Singer
Speciesism and the Idea of Equality
137(6)
Bonnie Steinbock
People or Penguins
143(5)
William F. Baxter
The Land Ethic
148(13)
J. Baird Callicott
6. Euthanasia
161(22)
Removing Life-Support Systems: Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
161(6)
An Alternative to the Ethic of Euthanasia
167(4)
Arthur J. Dyck
Active and Passive Euthanasia
171(5)
James Rachels
Defective Newborns and the Morality of Termination
176(7)
Richard B. Brandt
7. Abortion
183(29)
Abortion as Constitutionally Protected: Roe v. Wade
183(5)
A Defense of Abortion
188(8)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Opposition to Abortion: A Human Rights Approach
196(8)
Baruch Brody
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
204(8)
Mary Anne Warren
8. War and Violence
212(35)
The Moral Equivalent of War
212(5)
William James
On the Morality of War: A Preliminary Inquiry
217(9)
Richard A. Wasserstrom
Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans: Korematsu v. United States
226(6)
The Morality of Pacifism
232(3)
Cheyney Ryan
Sports, Competition, and Violence
235(12)
Robert L. Simon
Part III. Political Relationships247(152)
9. Justice and Economic Distribution
247(29)
The Second Treatise of Government
247(6)
John Locke
The Entitlement Theory
253(6)
Robert Nozick
Rich and Poor
259(6)
Peter Singer
A Theory of Justice
265(11)
John Rawls
10. Welfare
276(38)
Security, Welfare, and the Communal Provision
276(18)
Michael Walzer
A Proposal for Public Welfare
294(6)
Charles Murray
What People Deserve
300(6)
James Rachels
Aging and the Ends of Medicine
306(8)
Daniel Callahan
11. Liberty and Its Limits
314(37)
On Liberty
314(9)
John Stuart Mill
Requiring Medical Treatment: JFK Memorial Hospital v. Heston
323(3)
The Ethics of Addiction: An Argument in Favor of Letting Americans Take Any Drug They Want
326(8)
Thomas Szasz
In Search of a Factual Foundation for the "Disease Concept of Alcoholism"
334(7)
Herbert Fingarette
The Ethics of Smoking
341(10)
Robert E. Goodin
12. Disobedience, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
351(48)
Crito
351(5)
Plato
Civil Disobedience and the Social Contract
356(9)
John Rawls
Civil Disobedience and the Law
365(7)
Ronald Dworkin
The Problem of the Grudge Informer
372(5)
Lon L. Fuller
The Death Penalty: Gregg v. Georgia
377(7)
Executions
384(6)
Jonathan Glover
Desert and Capital Punishment
390(9)
Martin Perlmutter
Part IV. Personal Relationships399(60)
13. Sex, Love, and Marriage
399(29)
Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis
399(8)
Lois Pineau
An Interview about Date Rape
407(4)
Camille Paglia
Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values
411(9)
Richard D. Mohr
Is Adultery Immoral?
420(8)
Richard A. Wasserstrom
14. Parents and Children
428(31)
Surrogate Motherhood as Prenatal Adoption
428(9)
Bonnie Steinbock
Selling Babies
437(5)
Richard A. Posner
Licensing Parents
442(8)
Hugh LaFollette
Who Controls a Child's Education?: Wisconsin v. Yoder
450(4)
What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?
454(5)
Jane English
Part V. Gender, Race, and Multiculturalism459
15. Sexual Equality and Discrimination
459(39)
The Subjection of Women
459(7)
John Stuart Mill
Harriet Taylor
Sexual Harassment: Ellison v. Brady
466(5)
Sexual Equality and Discrimination: Difference vs. Dominance
471(5)
Will Kymlicka
Freedom, Conditioning, and the Real Woman
476(10)
Janet Radcliffe Richards
The Female Mind: Feminists, Meet Mr. Darwin
486(12)
Robert Wright
16. Race, Identity, and Difference
498(30)
Separate but Equal: Plessy v. Ferguson
498(3)
The Great School Desegregation Case: Brown v. Board of Education
501(3)
Jewish Quotas at Harvard College
504(1)
Learned Hand
On Racism and Sexism: Realities and Ideals
505(11)
Richard A. Wasserstrom
Social Movements and the Politics of Difference
516(12)
Iris Marion Young
17. Affirmative Action
528(23)
Reverse Discrimination
528(3)
James Rachels
Affirmative Action in Universities: University of California v. Bakke
531(5)
The Rights of Alan Bakke
536(7)
Ronald Dworkin
Affirmative Racism
543(8)
Charles Murray
18. Political Correctness: Free Speech and the Multicultural Curriculum
551
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
551(3)
John Stuart Mill
Nazi Marches: Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party
554(4)
Prohibiting Racist Speech on Campus: A Debate
558(6)
Charles Lawrence
Gerald Gunther
Pornography and Respect for Women
564(7)
Ann Garry
Pornography: American Booksellers v. Hudnut
571(3)
Multiculturalism
574(6)
Amy Gutmann
Public Education and Religious Fundamentalism: Smith v. Board of Education of Mobile
580

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