Preface

James Rachels, "A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy"

James Rachels, "Some Basic Points about Arguments"

Part I: THEORIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF MORALITY

1: William Grahm Sumner, "Cultural Relativism"

2: Aristotle, "The Virtues"

3: Saint Thomas Aquinas, "Ethics and Natural Law"

4: Thomas Hobbes, "The Social Contract"

5: David Hume, "Morality as Based on Sentiment"

6: John Stuart Mill, "Utilitarianism"

7: Immanuel Kant, "The Categorical Imperative"

8: Jean Grimshaw, "The Idea of a Female Ethic"

Part II: ESSAYS ABOUT MORAL ISSUES

9: Mary Anne Warren, "The Moral and Legal Status of Abortion"

10: Don Marquis, "Why Abortion Is Immoral"

11: *Gregory E. Pence, "Will Cloning Harm People?"

12: Richard D. Mohr, "Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values"

13: Burton M. Leiser, "Is Homosexuality Unnatural?"

14: *Peter Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"

15: Jan Narveson, "Feeding the Hungry"

16: James Rachels, "The Morality of Euthanasia"

17: Richard Doerflinger, "Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life?"

18: Immanuel Kant, "Why We Have No Obligations to Animals"

19: Peter Singer, "All Animals Are Equal"

20: Thomas E. Hill, Jr., "Preserving the Environment"

21: Douglas P. Lackey, "The Ethics of War and Peace"

22: *Hugo A. Bedau, "The Case Against the Death Penalty"

23: *Ernst van den Haag, "In Defense of the Death Penalty"

24: *Milton Friedman and William J. Bennett, "Should Drugs be Legalized?"

25: Marilyn Frye, "Sexism"

26: Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Racisms"

27: Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham City Jail"

28: John Rawls, "The Justification of Civil Disobedience"