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Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

ISBN: 9780155067967 | 0155067966
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 7/20/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
This best-selling anthology offers students an engaging, intellectually challenging selection of readings that address fundamental ethical issues. Students will become acquainted with central ethical theories and learn methods for reasoning about moral issues. Furthermore, the text encourages students to consider their own moral history and character. Possible course titles applicable to this reader include Introduction to Ethics, Ethics for Everyday Life, and Personal Values.
Prefacev
Introductionxi
Good and Evil
1(78)
From Cruelty to Goodness
5... MORE
Philip Hallie
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
21(15)
Jonathan Bennett
The Evil That Men Think---And Do
36(2)
Philip Hallie
Martin Gansberg
38(9)
Who Saw Murder Didn't Call Police
47(4)
The Moral Insight
51(4)
Josiah Royce
Billy Budd
55(12)
Herman Melville
Beyond Good and Evil
67(12)
Friendrich Nietzsche
Moral Doctrines and Moral Theories
79(127)
The Judeo-Christian Tradition
82(17)
Morality Is Based on God's Commands
99(5)
Robert C. Mortimer
Why Morality Does Not Depend on Religion
104(11)
John Arthur
Of Benevolence
115(5)
David Hume
Utilitarianism
120(7)
John Stuart Mill
A Critique of Utilitarianism
127(9)
Bernard Williams
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
136(7)
Ursula Le Guin
Why Not Murder?
143(24)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative
167(14)
Immanuel Kant
Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant
181(18)
Rae Langton
The Holocaust and Moral Philosophy
199(7)
Fred Sommers
Is it all Relative?
206(70)
Morality as Custom
208(2)
Herodotus
A Defense of Moral Relativism
210(9)
Ruth Benedict
A Defense of Cultural Relativism
219(7)
William Graham Sumner
Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights
226(6)
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Uganda's Women: Children, Drudgery, and Pain
232(5)
Jane Perlez
Who's to Judge?
237(14)
Louis Pojman
The Objective Basis of Morality
251(6)
Thomas Nagel
The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule
257(6)
R. M. MacIver
I Have a Dream
263(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United Nations Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
268(8)
Virtue
276(95)
Happiness and the Virtues
279(17)
Aristotle
Of the Morals of the Catholic Church
296(5)
Saint Augustine
Virtue or Duty?
301(6)
Bernard Mayo
Tradition and the Virtues
307(12)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Virtues and Vices
319(16)
Philippa Foot
The Ethics of Virtue
335(20)
James Rachels
Of Justice and Beneficence
355(12)
Adam Smith
The Origin of the Moral Sense
367(4)
Charles Darwin
Vice
371(63)
Vice
375(4)
Plutarch
The Depths of Vice
379(5)
Saint Augustine
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
384(4)
Jonathan Edwards
The Hypocrites
388(5)
Dante Alighieri
Self-Deception
393(4)
Samuel Johnson
Upon Self-Deceit
397(7)
Bishop Butler
Jealousy, Envy, and Spite
404(9)
Immanuel Kant
Sexual Revenge
413(10)
Susan Jacoby
On Rage
423(11)
Daniel Goleman
Morality and Self-Interest
434(74)
The Ring of Gyges
436(6)
Plato
Of the State of Men without Civil Society
442(8)
Thomas Hobbes
Of Self-Love
450(7)
David Hume
The Unselfishness Trap
457(18)
Harry Browne
Egoism and Moral Skepticism
475(2)
James Rachels
The Virtue of Selfishness
477(4)
Ayn Rand
Egoism, Self-Interest, and Altruism
481(6)
Louis Pojman
Why Not Be a Bad Person?
487(13)
Colin McGinn
Why Act Morally?
500(8)
Peter Singer
Character, Dignity, and Self-Respect
508(59)
The Art of Living
512(6)
Epictetus
The World of Epictetus
518(15)
Vice Admiral James Stockdale
Dignity and Self-Respect
533(10)
Immanuel Kant
On Self-Respect
543(6)
Joan Didion
A Crisis in My Mental Life
549(7)
John Stuart Mill
Character and Culture
556(11)
Anthony Quinton
Moral Education
567(115)
Habit and Virtue
570(9)
Aristotle
The Child as a Moral Philosopher
579(24)
Laurence Kohlberg
Moral Education and Indoctrination
603(16)
George Sher
William J. Bennett
In a Different Voice
619(15)
Carol Gilligan
Other Voices, Other Rooms? Women's Psychology and Moral Theory
634(16)
George Sher
The Values Clarification Approach
650(8)
Sidney B. Simon
Leland W. Howe
Howard Kirschenbaum
The ``Values'' Wasteland
658(12)
Charles Sykes
Teaching the Virtues
670(12)
Christina Hoff Sommers
Morality and the Family
682(74)
On Growing Old Gracefully
684(7)
Lin Yutang
What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?
691(7)
Jane English
Traditional Jewish Family Values
698(12)
Norman Lamm
Divorce
710(6)
Rebecca West
Filial Morality
716(12)
Christina Hoff Sommers
The Good Divorce
728(5)
Constance Ahrons
Is Divorce Immoral?
733(11)
Laurence Houlgate
Marital Faithfulness
744(12)
Susan Mendus
Morality and Social Policy
756(124)
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
759(10)
Peter Singer
World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case Against Singer
769(8)
John Arthur
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
777(13)
Garrett Hardin
Population and Food: Metaphors and the Reality
790(11)
William W. Murdoch
Allan Oaten
Unfree, Hence Poor
801(7)
Gerald O'Driscoll
Kim Holmes
Melanie Kirkpatrick
The Sex / Gender System
808(11)
Virginia Held
The War Against Women
819(5)
Marilyn French
Feminist Justice
824(7)
James Sterba
The Feminist revelation
831(25)
Christina Hoff Sommers
A Moral Defense of Vegetarianism
856(9)
James Rachels
The Land Ethic
865(10)
Aldo Leopold
Is God in Trees?
875(5)
Dennis Prager
The Case Against Nature
880
Gregg Easterbrook

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