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Living Well Introductory Readings in Ethics

by: Luper, Steven

Living Well Introductory Readings in Ethics

by: Luper, Steven

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Copyright: 04/02/1999
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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This text brings Eastern and Western ethics together to address the perennial questions of philosophy - Who am I? What makes life worthwhile? What are my obligations? LIVING WELL stresses the interplay between identity and ethics and the continuity between virtues and duties. Original introductory essays by specialists set the theoretical stage for classic selections from both Eastern and Western philosophy.

Preface

vii

Introduction: The Good, the Right, the Self

(16)

Part I THEORIES OF THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT

(101)

Introduction

(1)

Traditional Approaches

(100)

Aristotelianism

(18)

Aristotelianism

(11)

J. F. Heil

Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1

(7)

Aristotle

J. F. Heil

Utilitarianism

(18)

Utilitarianism

(5)

Judith Norman

Utilitarianism

(13)

J. S. Mill

Kantianism

(17)

Themes in Kant's Moral Philosophy

(12)

John Rawls

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

(5)

Immanuel Kant

Confucianism

(9)

Confucius and the Analects

(7)

Henry Rosemont, Jr.

Confucius, Analects

(2)

Roger T. Ames

Henry Rosemont, Jr.

Daoism

(11)

Daoism

(7)

P. J. Ivanhoe

Daodejing

(4)

Laotzi

P. J. Ivanhoe

Buddhism

(27)

Buddhist Moral Philosophy

(12)

David Kalupahana

The Discourse on Non-conflict and The Discourse on the Perfection of Wisdom, the Cutting with the Diamond

103

(15)

David Kalupahana

Part II WHAT IS GOOD?

118

(203)

The Self

119

(68)

Introduction

119

(11)

Individualism and the Self

130

(25)

Of Identity and Diversity

130

(6)

John Locke

A Matter of Identity

136

(5)

Oliver Sacks

Untimely Mediatations, and On the Genealogy and Morals

141

(10)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Existentialism and Humanism

151

(4)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Community and the Self

155

(10)

Master and Slave

155

(4)

G. W. F. Hegel

Judith Norman

The Focus-Field Self in Classical Confucianism

159

(6)

Roger T. Ames

Selflessness

165

(22)

Characteristics of No-Self

165

(1)

David Kalupahana

On the Self

166

(2)

David Hume

Later Selves and Moral Principles

168

(19)

Derek Parfit

Attributes

187

(60)

Introduction

187

(9)

Pleasure

196

(13)

Letter to Menoeceus

196

(3)

Epicurus

Hedonism

199

(5)

J. J. C. Smart

Brave New World

204

(5)

Aldous Huxley

Virtue

209

(22)

Nicomachean Ethics, Books 1 and 2

209

(6)

Aristotle

J. F. Heil

On Virtue and Natural Law, and On the Cardinal Virtues

215

(1)

Thomas Aquinas

After Virtue

216

(8)

Alasdair MacIntyre

Wickedness

224

(7)

Mary Midgley

(Eternal) Life

231

(16)

Pensees

231

(3)

Blaise Pascal

Confessions

234

(4)

Leo Tolstoy

Yamaka

238

(5)

David Kalupahana

Immortality, Selflessness

243

(4)

Herbert Fingarette

Relationships

247

(74)

Introduction

247

(8)

Friendship, Sex, and Love

255

(45)

Confucius, Analects

255

(1)

Roger T. Ames

Henry Rosemont, Jr.

The Symposium

256

(6)

Plato

Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8

262

(3)

Aristotle

J. F. Heil

Sex, Marriage, and Divorce

265

(1)

Paul

On Love and Friendship

266

(2)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Second Sex

268

(9)

Simone de Beauvoir

Plain Sex

277

(7)

Alan H. Goldman

Sexual Morality

284

(10)

Roger Scruton

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

294

(6)

Adrienne Rich

Marriage and Family

300

(21)

On Growing Old Gracefully

300

(4)

Lin Yutang

Monogamy

304

(5)

Francis Hutcheson

The Married Woman

309

(4)

Simone de Beauvoir

Androgyny as an Ideal for Human Development

313

(8)

Ann Ferguson

Part III WHAT IS RIGHT?

321

(252)

Fidelity

323

(51)

Introduction

323

(8)

Integrity and Self-Respect

331

(15)

Duties to Onself

331

(2)

Immanuel Kant

Self-Respect: Theory and Practice

333

(6)

Laurence Thomas

A Critique of Utilitarianism

339

(7)

Bernard Williams

Honesty

346

(19)

The Republic

346

(2)

Plato

How Princes Should Honor Their Word

348

(1)

Niccolo Machiavelli

On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives

349

(3)

Immanuel Kant

The Classification of Duties---Veracity

352

(1)

Henry Sidgwick

On Telling Patients the Truth

353

(4)

Roger Higgs

Bad Faith

357

(8)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Loyalty and Community

365

(9)

Cosmopolitanism

365

(2)

Immanuel Kant

Philosophy of Right

367

(1)

G. W. F. Hegel

The Meaning of Conservatism

368

(4)

Roger Scruton

The Unpatriotic Academy

372

(2)

Richard Rorty

Nonmaleficence

374

(69)

Introduction

374

(9)

(Negative) Rights and Not Harming People

383

(40)

Second Treatise of Government

383

(4)

John Locke

Moral Constraints and the State

387

(5)

Robert Nozick

A Defense of Abortion

392

(11)

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Can Having Children Be Immoral?

403

(6)

Laura M. Purdy

Somatic and Germline Gene Therapy

409

(10)

Sherman Elias

George J. Annas

U.S. Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade

419

(1)

U.S. Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey et al.

420

(1)

U.S. Supreme Court, Buck v. Bell

421

(2)

Nonmaleficence and the Nonhuman World

423

(20)

On the Environmental Ethics of the Tao and the Ch'i

423

(7)

Chung-ying Cheng

The Moral Status of Nonhuman Things

430

(6)

Bernard E. Rollin

Rights, Interests, Desires, and Beliefs

436

(7)

R. G. Frey

Beneficence

443

(60)

Introduction

443

(9)

Humanitarianism

452

(18)

Ethics and Caring

452

(7)

Nel Noddings

Rich and Poor

459

(11)

Peter Singer

Parentalism

470

(15)

On Liberty

470

(2)

J. S. Mill

Paternalism

472

(13)

Gerald Dworkin

Benevolent Killing

485

(18)

Death and Dying

485

(13)

Dan Brock

Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia

498

(2)

Carl B. Becker

U.S. Supreme Court, Cruzan v. Director Missouri Department of Health

500

(3)

Fairness

503

(70)

Introduction

503

(6)

Equality

509

(9)

A Theory of Justice

509

(4)

John Rawls

Harrison Bergeron

513

(5)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Nondiscrimination

518

(25)

Racism, Sexism, and Preferential Treatment: An Approach to the Topic

518

(16)

Richard A. Wasserstrom

Affirmative Action

534

(7)

Shelby Steele

U.S. Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education

541

(1)

U.S. Supreme Court, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

542

(1)

(Capital) Punishment

543

(30)

Is the Death Penalty What Murderers Deserve?

543

(10)

Stephen Nathanson

Against the Death Penalty

553

(9)

Jeffrey Reiman

A Response to Reiman and Nathanson

562

(4)

Ernest van den Haag

U.S. Supreme Court, Furman v. Georgia

566

(3)

U.S. Supreme Court, Gregg v. Georgia

569

(4)

Credits

573

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Living Well Introductory Readings in Ethics

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0155084593

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