Ethics in Practice : An Anthology

by Editor: Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida )

• ISBN13: 9780631228349
• ISBN10: 0631228349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This second edition of Ethics in Practice is a comprehensive collection of more than 60 new, newly-revised, and classic essays on fourteen contemporary moral questions. Through the selection of essays, organization of sections, and incisive general and section introductions, this book integrates ethical theory and the discussion of practical moral problems. In addition to the more familiar issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, preferential treatment, and the environment, the volume includes coverage of less familiar, but equally important issues such as immigration, political correctness, free speech, the use of drugs, world hunger, and economic justice. The second edition includes 21 essays not in the first edition, with expanded sections discussing three more topics: reproductive technologies, gun control, and capital punishment. This volume features accessible and engaging, yet philosophically rigorous essays that encourage the student to think critically about a wide range of practical moral issues. The supporting website at http://www.stpt.usf.edu/hhl/papers/ethics.in.practice.2nd.htm contains extensive links to sources on the topics, ethical theories, and guides on writing papers. These features make Ethics in Practice the ideal text for introductory and applied ethics courses.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
General Introduction	1	(2)
Theorizing about Ethics	3	(9)
Reading Philosophy	12	(7)
Part 1 Life and Death
Euthanasia	19	(41)
Rule-Utilitarianism and Euthanasia	22	(10)
Brad Hooker
Against the Right to Die	32	(8)
J. David Velleman
Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths	40	(8)
Tom L. Beauchamp
Dying at the Right Time: Reflections on (Un)Assisted Suicide	48	(12)
John Hardwig
Abortion	60	(44)
A Defense of Abortion	63	(9)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion	72	(11)
Mary Anne Warren
An Argument that Abortion is Wrong	83	(11)
Don Marquis
Virtue Theory and Abortion	94	(10)
Rosalind Hursthouse
Animals	104	(45)
All Animals Are Equal	107	(10)
Peter Singer
The Moral Community	117	(11)
Michael Allen Fox
Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism	128	(12)
R. G. Frey
The Case for Animal Rights	140	(9)
Tom Regan
Part II The Personal Life
Family and Reproductive Technology	149	(60)
What Do Grown Children Own Their Parents?	152	(4)
Jane English
Emotional Exploitation	156	(11)
Sandra Lee Bartky
Morality, Parents, and Children	167	(11)
James Rachels
Artificial Means of Reproduction and Our Understanding of the Family	178	(9)
Ruth Macklin
Is Women's Labor a Commodity?	187	(12)
Elizabeth S. Anderso
``Goodbye, Dolly?'': the Ethics of Human Cloning	199	(10)
John Harris
Sexuality	209	(42)
What's Wrong with Rape?	212	(8)
Pamela Foa
Morality and Human Sexuality	220	(5)
Vincent C. Punzo
Plain Sex	225	(8)
Alan H. Goldman
Why Homosexuality is Abnormal	233	(8)
Michael Levin
Homosexuality and the Moral Relevance of Experience	241	(10)
John Corvino
Virtues	251	(36)
Servility and Self-Respect	254	(7)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
On Improving People by Political Means	261	(11)
Lester H. Hunt
Generosity	272	(4)
James D. Wallace
Humility	276	(11)
Judith Andre
Part III Liberty and Equality
Paternalism and Risk	287	(51)
Freedom of Action	290	(5)
John Stuart Mill
Against the Legalization of Drugs	295	(5)
James Q. Wilson
The War on Drugs is Lost	300	(7)
William F. Buckley Jr.
Permissible Paternalism: Saving Smokers from Themselves	307	(6)
Robert E. Goodin
The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms	313	(12)
Todd C. Hughes
Lester H. Hunt
Gun Control	325	(13)
Hugh LaFollette
Free Speech	338	(48)
Freedom of Thought and Discussion	340	(4)
John Stuart Mill
Sex, Lies, and Pronography	344	(12)
Ann Garry
MacKinnon's Words	356	(8)
Ronald Dworkin
Sticks and Stones	364	(12)
John Arthur
Speech Codes and Expressive Harm	376	(10)
Andrew Altman
Sexual and Racial Discrimination	386	(42)
Racisms	389	(11)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Sexual Harassment	400	(10)
Anita M. Superson
Date Rape	410	(8)
Lois Pineau
Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape	418	(10)
Larry May
Robert Strikwerda
Affirmative Action	428	(35)
Affirmative Action	431	(10)
Michael Levin
The Rights of Allan Bakke	441	(7)
Ronald Dworkin
Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of ``Preferential Treatment''	448	(15)
Luke Charles Harris
Uma Narayan
Part IV Justice
Punishment	463	(48)
Punishment and Desert	466	(9)
James Rachels
Repentance and Criminal Punishment	475	(6)
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Making Hard Time Even Harder	481	(12)
Lynn Pasquerella
In Defense of the Death Penalty	493	(10)
Louis Pojman
Against the Death Penalty	503	(8)
Jeffrey Reiman
Economic Justice	511	(49)
A Theory of Justice	514	(13)
John Rawls
The Entitlement Theory of Justice	527	(13)
Robert Nozick
Displacing the Distributive Paradigm	540	(11)
Iris Marion Young
Economic Competition: Should We Care About the Losers?	551	(9)
Jonathan Wolff
World Hunger and International Justice	560	(58)
Free Movement: If People Were Money	563	(9)
Robert E. Goodin
Famine, Affluence, and Morality	572	(10)
Peter Singer
Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code	582	(9)
John Arthur
Hunger, Capacity, and Development	591	(13)
David A. Crocker
Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend	604	(14)
Thomas W. Pogge
Environment	618	(56)
Feeding People versus Saving Nature	621	(10)
Holmes Rolston III
The Land Ethic	631	(9)
Aldo Leopold
Challenges of Ecofeminism: from ``Should'' to ``Can''	640	(14)
Gail Stenstad
Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments	654	(10)
Thomas E. Hill Jr.
Hume and Nature	664	(10)
Alan Carter
Index	674