Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach

by May, Larry; Collins-Chobanian, Shari; Wong, Kai

• ISBN13: 9780131898028
• ISBN10: 0131898027
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This text addresses various topics in applied ethics from Western and non-Western perspectives. Multicultural perspectives are fully integrated throughout the text.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(4)
Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community: Three Educational Values for a Multicultural Society
Lawrence A. Blum	5	(10)
Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation
Martha Nussbaum	15	(12)
I Theoretical Perspectives	27	(50)
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill	36	(9)
A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics
Onora O'Neill	45	(6)
On Virtue Ethics
Rosalind Hursthouse	51	(8)
Hindu Values
Debabrata Sen Sharma	59	(7)
Images of Relationship
Carol Gilligan	66	(11)
II Human Rights and Justice	77	(84)
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights	80	(5)
The Liberal Principles Underlying Human Rights
Carlos Santiago Nino	85	(7)
Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights
Charlotte Bunch	92	(9)
Islam, Islamic Law, and the Dilemma of Cultural Legitimacy for Universal Human Rights
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im	101	(10)
The African Context of Human Rights
Claude Ake	111	(6)
A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China
Joseph Chan	117	(16)
A Buddhist Response to the Nature of Human Rights
Kenneth K Inada	133	(10)
Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights
Charles Taylor	143	(18)
III Environmental Ethics	161	(66)
The Land Ethic
Aldo Leopold	165	(11)
Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic
Dale Jamieson	176	(10)
A "Good" Environment: Just One of the Set of Human Objectives
William Baxter	186	(5)
Look to the Mountain: Reflections on Indigenous Ecology
Gregory Cajete	191	(9)
On the Environmental Ethics of the Tao and the Ch'i
Chung-ying Cheng	200	(8)
Environmental Racism, American Indians, and Monitored Retrievable Storage Sites for Radioactive Waste
Shari Collins-Chobanian	208	(9)
Development, Ecology, and Women
Vandana Shiva	217	(10)
IV Hunger and Poverty	227	(68)
Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept
Garrett Hardin	232	(8)
Sex & Consequences: World Population Growth vs. Reproductive Rights
Margaret P. Battin	240	(14)
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer	254	(9)
Feeding the Hungry
Jan Narveson	263	(8)
On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities
Carlo Filice	271	(11)
Perils Amid Promises of Genetically Modified Foods
Mae Wan-Ho	282	(13)
V War and Violence	295	(70)
Just War Theory
Douglas P. Lackey	298	(9)
Was the [First] Gulf War a Just War?
Gregory S. Kavka	307	(11)
Is This [Kosovo] War Good? An Ethical Commentary
Georg Meggle	318	(10)
Terrorism and Morality
Haig Khatchadourian	328	(9)
Can Terrorism Be Justified?
Burleigh Wilkins	337	(8)
A Women's Politics of Resistance
Sara Ruddick	345	(8)
Letter from the Birmingham City Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.	353	(12)
VI Gender Roles and Morality	365	(68)
Domestic Violence Against Women and Autonomy
Marilyn Friedman	368	(12)
The Unnecessary Father
David Blankenhorn	380	(9)
Is Equality Tearing Families Apart?
Joel Anderson	389	(10)
Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage
Angela Bolte	399	(14)
Is it Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?
Jeff Jordan	413	(10)
A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women
Lila Abu-Lughod	423	(10)
VII Racial and Ethnic Discrimination	433	(138)
Philosophical and Social Implications of Race
Naomi Zack	439	(10)
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies
Peggy McIntosh	449	(9)
The Color-Blind Principle
Bernard Boxill	458	(8)
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference
Shelby Steele	466	(7)
Stories of Access and "Luck": Chicana/os, Higher Education, and the Politics of Incorporation
Gloria Holguin Cuádraz	473	(12)
Racisms
Kwame Anthony Appiah	485	(12)
Shared Responsibility for Racism
Larry May	497	(13)
An Almost Absolute Value in History
John T. Noonan Jr.	510	(6)
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Mary Anne Warren	516	(9)
Why Abortion Is Immoral
Don Marquis	525	(7)
Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive Autonomy
Christine Overall	532
Professional Responsibility, Reproductive Choice, and the Limits of Appropriate Intervention: The Battle Over RU	486	(62)
Kathleen Marie Dixon	541	(7)
The Problem of Coerced Abortion in China and Related Ethical Issues
Jing-Bao Nie	548	(12)
Contestation and Consensus: The Morality of Abortion in Japan
William R. LaFleur	560	(11)
IX Euthanasia, Sustaining and Creating Life	571
Active and Passive Euthanasia
James Rachels	575	(5)
The Intentional Termination of Life
Bonnie Steinbock	580	(7)
Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia
Stephen G. Potts	587	(5)
Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It
Margaret P. Battin	592	(16)
Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Susan M. Wolf	608	(16)
Confucian Views on Suicide and Their Implications for Euthanasia
Ping-Cheung Lo	624	(18)
Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia
Carl B. Becker	642	(11)
The Survival Lottery
John Harris	653	(6)
Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human
Sara Goering	659	(11)
The Wisdom of Repugnance
Leon Kass	670