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Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life: Introductory Readings In Ethics

ISBN: 9780495130062 | 0495130060
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/27/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
VICE AND VIRTUE IN EVERYDAY LIFE has been a bestseller in college ethics for more than two decades because it is well-liked by both instructors and students. Instructors appreciate it for its philosophical breadth and seriousness. Students welcome the engaging topics and irresistible readings. VICE AND VIRTUE IN EVERYDAY LIFE provides students with a lively selection of classical and contemporary readings on pressing matters of personal and social morality. The text includes an overview of seminal ethical theories, as well as a unique set of st... MORE
Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Introductionxv
Good and Evil
1(59)
From Cruel... MORE
4(12)
Philip Hallie
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
16(11)
Jonathan Bennett
The Evil That Men Think---And Do
27(9)
Philip Hallie
Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call Police
36(3)
Martin Gansberg
The Moral Insight
39(3)
Jostah Royce
Billy Budd
42(9)
Herman Melville
Beyond Good and Evil
51(9)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Moral Doctrines and Moral Theories
60(74)
The Experience Machine
63(3)
Robert Nozick
The Judeo-Christian Tradition
66(13)
Morality Is Based on God's Commands
79(4)
Robert C. Mortimer
Why Morality Does Not Depend on Religion
83(8)
John Arthur
Of Benevolence
91(4)
David Hume
Utilitarianism
95(5)
John Stuart Mill
A Critique of Utilitarianism
100(7)
Bernard Williams
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
107(6)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative
113(10)
Immanuel Kant
The Holocaust and Moral Philosophy
123(5)
Fred Sommers
A Critique of Kantianism
128(6)
Richard Taylor
Is It All Relative?
134(59)
Morality As Custom
136(1)
Herodotus
A Defense of Moral Relativism
137(7)
Ruth Benedict
A Defense of Cultural Relativism
144(5)
William Graham Sumner
Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights
149(5)
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Uganda's Women: Children, Drudgery, and Pain
154(4)
Jane Perlez
An Alternative to Moral Relativism
158(6)
Lawrence Adam Lengbeyer
Who's to Judge?
164(10)
Louis Pojman
The Objective Basis of Morality
174(5)
Thomas Nagel
The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule
179(4)
R. M. Maclver
I Have a Dream
183(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United Nations Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
187(6)
Virtue
193(85)
Happiness and the Virtues
196(12)
Aristotle
The Art of Living
208(4)
Epictetus
Of the Morals of the Catholic Church
212(4)
Saint Augustine
The World of Epictetus
216(12)
James Stockdale
Virtue or Duty?
228(4)
Bernard Mayo
Tradition and the Virtues
232(10)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Filial Morality
242(9)
Christina Hoff Sommers
The Ethics of Virtue
251(15)
James Rachels
Of Justice and Beneficence
266(7)
Adam Smith
The Origin of the Moral Sense
273(5)
Charles Darwin
Vice
278(32)
Vice
281(3)
Plutarch
The Depths of Vice
284(4)
Saint Augustine
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
288(3)
Jonathan Edwards
The Hypocrites
291(4)
Dante Alighieri
Self-Deception
295(3)
Samuel Johnson
Upon Self-Deceit
298(5)
Joseph Butler
Jealousy, Envy, and Spite
303(7)
Immanuel Kant
Morality and Self-Interest
310(55)
The Ring of Gyges
312(4)
Plato
Of the State of Men without Civil Society
316(6)
Thomas Hobbes
Of Self-Love
322(5)
David Hume
The Unselfishness Trap
327(5)
Harry Browne
Egoism and Moral Skepticism
332(10)
James Rachels
The Virtue of Selfishness
342(3)
Ayn Rand
Egoism, Self-Interest, and Altruism
345(4)
Louis Pojman
Why Not Be a Bad Person?
349(10)
Colin McGinn
Why Act Morally?
359(6)
Peter Singer
Morality and Social Policy
365(98)
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
367(8)
Peter Singer
World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case against Singer
375(6)
John Arthur
``For Heaven's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!''
381(5)
James Shikwati
An Almost Absolute Value in History
386(6)
John T. Noonan, Jr.
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
392(8)
Mary Anne Warren
A Defense of Abortion
400(15)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Why Abortion Is Immoral
415(6)
Don Marquis
The Wisdom of Repugnance: The Case against Human Cloning
421(14)
Leon Kass
Human Reproductive Cloning: A Look at the Arguments against It and a Rejection of Most of Them
435(18)
Raanan Gillon
The Constitution and the Clone
453(10)
Cass R. Sunstein
Duties to Animals and to Nature
463(67)
On Duties to Animals
465(2)
Immanuel Kant
A Moral Defense of Vegetarianism
467(7)
James Rachels
Down on the Factory Farm
474(9)
Peter Singer
An Animal's Place
483(13)
Michael Pollan
The Moral Status of Animals
496(5)
Roger Scruton
The Land Ethic
501(8)
Aldo Leopold
Deep Ecology
509(8)
Bill Devall
George Sessions
Is God in Trees?
517(4)
Dennis Prager
The Case against Nature
521(9)
Gregg Easterbrook
The Meaning of Life
530(57)
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit
533(3)
T'ao Ch'ien
The Bhagavad Gita
536(6)
The Four Noble Truths
542(4)
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
My Confession
546(9)
Leo Tolstoy
A Free Man's Worship
555(7)
Bertrand Russell
The Myth of Sisyphus
562(4)
Albert Camus
The Meaning of Life
566(4)
Thomas Nagel
Existentialism and Freedom
570(7)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Absurd Self-Fulfillment
577(4)
Joel Feinberg
The Human Search for Meaning
581(6)
Victor Frankl
The Book of Job
587

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