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Social Ethics : Morality and Social Policy

ISBN: 9780070401433 | 0070401438
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
Pub. Date: 6/1/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
In its seventh edition, "Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy" continues to provide material that will encourage reflective and critical examination of key contemporary moral problems. With additional readings and a new organization that groups related chapters together under four categories, this edition enhances the teachability that was the most salient characteristic of previous editions. The text maintains its ability to bring the central issues into clear focus, while allowing supporting arguments for widely diverse positions to be presented by those who embrace them.
Prefacexi
CHAPTER 1 ABORTION
1(54)
Introduction
1(9)
... MORE
Mary Anne Warren
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
10(8)
Jane English
Abortion and the Concept of a Person
18(9)
Don Marquis
Why Abortion Is Immoral
27(6)
Justice Harry A. Blackmun
Majority Opinion in Roe v. Wade
33(6)
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor
Anthony M. Kennedy
David H. Souter
Opinion in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania
39(9)
Susan Sherwin
Abortion: A Feminist Perspective
48(5)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 1
53(2)
CHAPTER 2 EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
55(49)
Introduction
55(6)
James Rachels
Active and Passive Euthanasia
61(5)
Daniel Callahan
Killing and Allowing to Die
66(4)
Dan W. Brock
Voluntary Active Euthanasia
70(3)
Stephen G. Potts
Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia
73(4)
Margaret P. Battin
Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It
77(12)
David T. Watts
Timothy Howell
Assisted Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia
89(6)
Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.
Majority Opinion in Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington
95(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 2
103(1)
CHAPTER 3 THE DEATH PENALTY
104(46)
Introduction
104(6)
Justices Potter Stewart
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
John Paul Stevens
Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia
110(11)
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia
121(4)
Igor Primoratz
A Life for a Life
125(7)
Stephen Nathanson
An Eye for an Eye?
132(6)
Jonathan Glover
Deterrence and Murder
138(4)
Ernest van den Haag
Deterrence and Uncertainty
142(2)
Richard C. Dieter
The Practical Burdens of Capital Punishment
144(5)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 3
149(1)
CHAPTER 4 SEXUAL MORALITY
150(52)
Introduction
150(7)
Vincent C. Punzo
Morality and Human Sexuality
157(6)
Thomas A. Mappes
Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person
163(14)
Robin West
The Harms of Consensual Sex
177(5)
Mike W. Martin
Homosexuality and Homophobia
182(7)
Justice Byron R. White
Majority Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick
189(3)
John Arthur
Privacy, Homosexuality, and the Constitution
192(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 4
200(2)
CHAPTER 5 PORNOGRAPHY, HATE SPEECH, AND CENSORSHIP
202(52)
Introduction
202(6)
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
208(4)
The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
The Question of Harm
212(7)
Helen E. Longino
Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look
219(9)
Mark R. Wicclair
Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship
228(6)
Illinois Supreme Court
Opinion in Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America
234(5)
Charles R. Lawrence III
Racist Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words
239(3)
Andrew Altman
Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination
242(10)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 5
252(2)
CHAPTER 6 SEXISM, RACISM, AND OPPRESSION
254(44)
Introduction
254(3)
Marilyn Frye
Sexism
257(8)
Gloria Yamato
Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name
265(4)
Marilyn Frye
Oppression
269(4)
Iris M. Young
Five Faces of Oppression
273(14)
Kenneth Clatterbaugh
The Oppression Debate in Sexual Politics
287(10)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 6
297(1)
CHAPTER 7 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
298(46)
Introduction
298(6)
Edwin C. Hettinger
What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination?
304(11)
Shelby Steele
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference
315(8)
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Opinion in Adarand Constructors v. Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation
323(6)
Justice John Paul Stevens
Dissenting Opinion in Adarand Constructors v. Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation
329(4)
Justice Clarence Thomas
Concurring Opinion in Adarand Constructors v. Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation
333(1)
Cornel West
Nihilism in Black America
334(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 7
342(2)
CHAPTER 8 ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND WELFARE
344(47)
Introduction
344(5)
John Hospers
What Libertarianism Is
349(7)
Kai Nielsen
A Moral Case for Socialism
356(9)
Charles Murray
A Proposal for Public Welfare
365(5)
Nancy Fraser
Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation
370(7)
Trudy Govier
The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work
377(12)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 8
389(2)
CHAPTER 9 WORLD HUNGER AND GLOBAL JUSTICE
391(41)
Introduction
391(5)
The Presidential Commission on World Hunger
Why Should the United States Be Concerned?
396(2)
Peter Singer
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
398(8)
Garrett Hardin
Living on a Lifeboat
406(7)
Kai Nielsen
Global Justice, Capitalism and the Third World
413(9)
Richard T. De George
Property and Global Justice
422(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 9
430(2)
CHAPTER 10 ANIMALS
432(44)
Introduction
432(4)
Peter Singer
All Animals Are Equal
436(10)
Tom Regan
The Case for Animal Rights
446(5)
R. G. Frey
Moral Vegetarianism and the Argument from Pain and Suffering
451(7)
Carl Cohen
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
458(9)
Mary Anne Warren
Human and Animal Rights Compared
467(7)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 10
474(2)
CHAPTER 11 THE ENVIRONMENT
476
Introduction
476(5)
William F. Baxter
People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution
481(5)
Aldo Leopold
The Land Ethic
486(6)
Bernard E. Rollin
Environmental Ethics
492(7)
Bill Devall
George Sessions
Deep Ecology
499(8)
Ramachandra Guha
Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
507(8)
Karen J. Warren
The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
515(9)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 11
524

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