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The Moral Of The Story: An Introduction to Ethics

by: Rosenstand, Nina

The Moral Of The Story: An Introduction to Ethics

by: Rosenstand, Nina

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9780072963359
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0072963352
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/10/2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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The Moral of the Story, Fifth Edition offers a remarkably effective approach that helps students understand and evaluate moral issues. Through storytelling and story analysis, using examples from fiction and film, Rosenstand clearly shows how ethical theories are applied to real life. The fifth edition encapsulates and reflects the present social and political climate. As such, coverage of topics like courage, terrorism, and just war have been enhanced and updated throughout.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiv

PART 1 The Story as a Tool of Ethics

(102)

Thinking About Values

(32)

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times?

(3)

Good and Evil

(3)

Morals, Ethics, and Values

(4)

Why Be Moral?

(1)

Debating Moral Issues

(3)

Martha Nussbaum: Stories Have Value

(18)

Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge

(2)

Narrative: How to Be Good

(5)

Narrative: Smoke Signals

(3)

Narrative: Big Fish

(4)

Learning Moral Lessons from Stories

(68)

Didactic Stories

(2)

The New Interest in Stories

(3)

The Value of Stories

(1)

Stories Past and Present

(27)

Stories to Live and Die By

(9)

Seeing Your Life as a Story

(4)

Living in the Narrative Zone

(22)

Primary Reading: Plato, Republic

(4)

Primary Reading: Aristotle, Poetics

(2)

Primary Reading: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

(2)

Primary Reading: Tristine Rainer, Your Life as Story

(2)

Narrative: Medea

(4)

Narrative: The Sorrows of Young Werther

(1)

Narrative: Pulp Fiction

(4)

PART 2 What Should I Do? Theories of Conduct

103

(266)

Ethical Relativism

105

(51)

How to Deal with Moral Differences

107

(2)

The Lessons of Anthropology

109

(6)

Problems with Ethical Relativism

115

(8)

Refuting Ethical Relativism

123

(5)

Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism

128

(28)

Primary Reading: Ruth Benedict, ``Anthropology and the Abnormal''

134

(3)

Primary Reading: Dwight Furrow, ``Of Cave Dwellers and Spirits''

137

(2)

Primary Reading: Bhikhu Parekh, ``The Concept of Multicultural Education''

139

(3)

Narrative: The Poisonwood Bible

142

(6)

Narrative: Possessing the Secret of Joy

148

(3)

Narrative: Sideshow

151

(2)

Narrative: Do the Right Thing

153

(3)

Myself or Others?

156

(57)

Psychological Egoism

156

(16)

Ethical Egoism

172

(7)

Altruism: Ideal and Reciprocal

179

(34)

Primary Reading: Plato, Republic

187

(3)

Primary Reading: Erik Katz, ``The Rings of Tolkien and Plato''

190

(4)

Primary Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

194

(1)

Primary Reading: Ayn Rand, ``The Ethics of Emergencies''

195

(4)

Narrative: Friends

199

(2)

Narrative: Return to Paradise

201

(4)

Narrative: Madame Bovary

205

(2)

Narrative: Atlas Shrugged

207

(3)

Narrative: ``The Gift of the Magi''

210

(1)

Narrative: The Lord of the Rings

211

(2)

Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism

213

(50)

Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus

214

(13)

John Stuart Mill: Another Utilitarian Vision

227

(13)

Act and Rule Utilitarianism

240

(23)

Primary Reading: Jeremy Bentham, ``Of the Principle of Utility''

243

(2)

Primary Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

245

(3)

Narrative: ``The Blacksmith and the Baker''

248

(2)

Narrative: The Brothers Karamazov

250

(2)

Narrative: ``The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas''

252

(1)

Narrative: Saving Private Ryan

253

(3)

Narrative: Extreme Measures

256

(3)

Narrative: Runaway Jury

259

(4)

Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology

263

(36)

The Good Will

263

(3)

The Categorical Imperative

266

(10)

Rational Beings Are Ends in Themselves

276

(23)

Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

285

(2)

Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals

287

(2)

Narrative: High Noon

289

(3)

Narrative: Outland

292

(1)

Narrative: Cop Land

292

(2)

Narrative: Abandon Ship!

294

(2)

Narrative: The Insider

296

(3)

Personhood, Rights, and Justice

299

(70)

What Is a Human Being?

299

(1)

Persons and Rights

300

(15)

Questions of Rights

315

(11)

Distributive Justice

326

(8)

Criminal Justice

334

(35)

Primary Reading: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

342

(4)

Primary Reading: John Rawls, ``Justice as Fairness''

346

(2)

Primary Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr., ``A Letter from Birmingham Jail''

348

(2)

Primary Reading: Diane Whiteley, ``The Victim and the Justification of Punishment''

350

(3)

Narrative: Blade Runner

353

(3)

Narrative: Gattaca

356

(3)

Narrative: Mississippi Burning

359

(3)

Narrative: Outbreak

362

(3)

Narrative: Minority Report

365

(4)

PART 3 How Should I Be? Theories of Virtue

369

(324)

Socrates, Plato, and the Good Life

371

(45)

What Is Virtue?

371

(4)

The Good Teacher

375

(7)

The Good Life

382

(2)

The Virtuous Person

384

(3)

Plato's Theory of Forms

387

(29)

Primary Reading: Plato, Euthyphro

395

(3)

Primary Reading: Plato, Apology

398

(4)

Narrative: A Man for All Seasons

402

(3)

Narrative: ``The Myth of the Cave''

405

(3)

Narrative: The Truman Show

408

(3)

Narrative: ``The Store of the Worlds''

411

(2)

Narrative: Shrek

413

(3)

Aristotle's Virtue Theory

416

(39)

Aristotle the Scientist

417

(3)

Aristotle and Virtue

420

(13)

Aristotle's Influence on Aquinas

433

(2)

Some Objections to Greek Virtue Theory

435

(20)

Primary Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book II

437

(4)

Primary Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book III

441

(2)

Narrative: ``The Flight of Icarus''

443

(2)

Narrative: Njal's Saga

445

(2)

Narrative: Lord Jim

447

(2)

Narrative: ``A Piece of Advice''

449

(3)

Narrative: As Good As It Gets

452

(3)

Contemporary Perspectives

455

(45)

Ethics and the Morality of Virtue

455

(4)

Have Virtue, and Then Go Ahead: Mayo, Foot, and Sommers

459

(8)

The Quest for Authenticity: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas

467

(33)

Primary Reading: Soren Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus

489

(1)

Primary Reading: Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

490

(1)

Primary Reading: Emmanuel Levinas, ``The Paradox of Morality: An Interview with Emmanuel Levinas''

491

(2)

Narrative: Hannah and Her Sisters

493

(2)

Narrative: No Exist

495

(1)

Narrative: A Few Good Men

496

(4)

Case Studies in Virtue

500

(66)

Courage: What Is It? and Who Has It?

500

(7)

Compassion: Are We Born with It?

507

(7)

Gratitude: How Much and When?

514

(17)

Virtue and Conduct: A Combination?

531

(35)

Primary Reading: John McCain, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life

537

(3)

Primary Reading: Philip Hallie, Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm

540

(1)

Primary Reading: Lin Yutang, ``On Growing Old Gracefully''

541

(2)

Narrative: Band of Brothers

543

(2)

Narrative: The Life of Tom Horn

545

(4)

Narrative: ``The Parable of the Good Samaritan''

549

(2)

Narrative: ``King Yudisthira and the Dog''

551

(2)

Narrative: Schindler's List

553

(3)

Narrative: Eat Drink Man Woman

556

(3)

Narrative: Pay It Forward

559

(3)

Narrative: Grand Canyon

562

(4)

Different Gender, Different Ethics?

566

(60)

Feminism and Virtue Theory

566

(1)

What is Gender Equality?

567

(4)

Women's Historical Role in the Public Sphere

571

(4)

First-, Second-, and Third-Wave Feminism

575

(8)

Facets of Feminism Today

583

(43)

Primary Reading: Harriet Taylor Mill, ``Enfranchisement of Women''

598

(4)

Primary Reading: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

602

(3)

Primary Reading: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice

605

(2)

Primary Reading: Deborah Tannen, Talking from 9 to 5

607

(4)

Narrative: A Doll's House

611

(5)

Narrative: Like Water for Chocolate

616

(3)

Narrative: ``The Woman Destroyed''

619

(3)

Narrative: Mona Lisa Smile

622

(4)

Applied Ethics: A Sampler

626

(67)

Media Ethics

626

(6)

Theory of a Just War

632

(9)

Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

641

(6)

The Death Penalty

647

(8)

Stories and Issues: A Final Word

655

(38)

Primary Reading: Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick, ``Ethics as a Vehicle for Media Quality''

657

(2)

Primary Reading: John Rawls, The Law of Peoples

659

(3)

Primary Reading: Jan Narveson, ``Morality and Violence: War, Revolution, Terrorism''

662

(3)

Primary Reading: David Rodin, ``Terrorism Without Intention''

665

(4)

Primary Reading: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

669

(3)

Primary Reading: Stephen Nathanson, An Eye for an Eye? The Morality of Punishing by Death

672

(2)

Primary Reading: John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Journey into Darkness

674

(3)

Primary Reading: Tom Sorell, ``Two Ideals and the Death Penalty''

677

(3)

Primary Reading: Mark Fuhrman, Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine

680

(4)

Narrative: 15 Minutes

684

(3)

Narrative: ``The Jigsaw Man''

687

(1)

Narrative: The Life of David Gale

688

(5)

Bibliography

693

(7)

Credits

700

(2)

Glossary

702

(7)

Index

709

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