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Social Ethics : Morality and Social Policy with Free PowerWeb
ISBN: 9780072504378 | 0072504374
Format: PaperbackPublisher: MCG (Manual)
Pub. Date: 6/25/2001
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Perfect for introductory ethics courses, this popular anthology encourages a critical examination of contemporary moral problems by presenting differing viewpoints on issues like the death penalty; euthanasia; hate speech and censorship; world hunger and global justice; and the environment. The readings, of which over 40% are new to this Sixth Edition, include relevant legal opinions, as well as selections from the work of some of the most respected contemporary writers and thinkers.
| Indicates a new reading | |
| Abortion | |
| Introduction | |
| The Unspeakable Crime of Abortion | |
| On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | |
| Why Abortion is Immoral Judith | |
| A Defense of Abortion | |
| Majority Opinion in Roe v. Wade Justices Sandra Day O'Connor | |
| Opinion in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern | |
| Governor of Pennsyl... MORE | |
| Abortion: A Feminist Perspective | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 1 | |
| Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
| Introduction | |
| Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
| Killing and Allowing to Die | |
| Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
| Objections to the Institutionalization of Euthanasia | |
| Assisted Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia Chief Justice | |
| Opinion of the Court in Washington v. Glucksberg | |
| Concurring Opinion in Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill | |
| Voluntary Death: A Comparison of Terminal Dehydration and Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 2 | |
| The Death Penalty | |
| Introduction | |
| Justices Potter Stewart | |
| Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia Justice | |
| Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia | |
| A Life for a Life | |
| An Eye for an Eye? | |
| Deterrence and the Death Penalty | |
| Common Sense, the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty, and the Best Bet Argument | |
| Studies Find Death Penalty Tied to Race of the Victims Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 3 | |
| Sexual Morality | |
| Introduction | |
| Morality and Human Sexuality | |
| Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person | |
| The Harms of Consensual Sex | |
| Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality | |
| Majority Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick | |
| Dissenting Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 4 | |
| Pornography, Hate Speech, and Censorship | |
| Introduction | |
| On Liberty The Attorney's General's Commission on Pornography, The Question of Harm | |
| Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look | |
| Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship | |
| Majority Opinion in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union | |
| Illinois Supreme Court | |
| Opinion in Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America | |
| Racist Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words | |
| Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 5 | |
| Drug Control and Addiction | |
| Introduction | |
| Opinion in Commonwealth v. Joseph | |
| The Ethics of Addiction | |
| The Ethics of Smoking | |
| The Case for Legalization | |
| Against the Legalization of Drugs | |
| Addiction and Drug Policy | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 6 | |
| Social and Economic Justice | |
| Introduction | |
| What Libertarianism Is | |
| A Moral Case for Socialism | |
| Five Faces of Oppression | |
| The African-American Underclass and the Question of Values | |
| Paternalism and Welfare | |
| The End of Welfare | |
| Liberal Equality and Inherited Wealth | |
| Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 7 | |
| World Hunger and Poverty | |
| Introduction | |
| The Presidential Commission on World Hunger | |
| Why Should the United States Be Concerned | |
| Living on a Lifeboat | |
| Some Facts About Famine | |
| Property and Hunger | |
| Closing the Gender Gap in Development | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 8 | |
| Animals | |
| Introduction | |
| All Animals Are Equal | |
| The Case for Animal Rights | |
| Moral Vegetarianism and the Argument from Pain and Suffering | |
| The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research | |
| Human and Animal Rights Compared | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 9 | |
| The Environment | |
| Introduction | |
| People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution | |
| For Free Market Environmentalism | |
| Against Free Market Environmentalism | |
| Just Garbage | |
| The Land Ethic | |
| Environmental Ethics | |
| Deep Ecology | |
| Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness | |
| Preservation: A Third World Critique | |
| Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 10 | |
| About the Contributors | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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