Morality and Moral Controversies : Readings in Moral, Social and Political Philosophy

by Scalet, Steven; Arthur, John

• ISBN13: 9780136031376
• ISBN10: 0136031374
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-25
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This comprehensive anthology includes classic and contemporary readings in moral theory--a wide array of essays that address today's most philosophically interesting and controversial ethical and political issues. Includes an ethical theory overview; shows relevance of traditional and contemporary writers.Featuresarticleson self-interest and morality, rule utilitarianism and the conflict between duty and sentiment; Featuresreadingson life and death, terrorism, internment in time of war, distribution of scarce medical resources and the survival lottery; Featuresessayson democracy, capitalism and its ethos, multiculturalism, identity and reparations. Extensive coverage of violence, terrorism, and war, as well as relativism and grounds of morality.For those involved in social or political ethical decision making.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents(new articles and essays arebolded)

Moral Theory

Issues of Life and Death

Terrorism and War

Is Terrorism Morally Distinctive?

Torture - The Case for Dirty

Training Torturers - A Critique of the "Ticking Bomb"

Argument

On the Morality of War

The Morality of Pacifism

Civil Liberties in the Time of War

Capital Punishment

Gregg v. Georgia

Perlmutter

Animals and Environmentalism

Singer

Steinbock

Baxter

Callicott

The Maze and Aura Jack Turner

Human Reproduction: Cloning and Abortion

The Ethics of Cloning-to-Produce-Children The President's Council on Bioethics

English

Medicine and Deciding Who Should Live

JFK Memorial

Death with Dignity Act Gonzales v. Oregon

Personal Relationships

Love and Sex

Kant Finnis Goldman Mohr Pineau Paglia

Family and Friendship

Wassterstrom Joseph Bennett and Sullivan Steinbock Posner LaFollette

Can Parents and Children be Friends? Joseph Kupfer

Parents and Children as Friends Kristjan Kristjansson English

Political, Social, and Economic Relationships

The Ideal State

Locke Machan Mill Mill Rawls

Patriotism, Civil Disobedience, and the Rule of Law [last Dworkin deleted]

Texas

Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr Fuller

Property, Markets, and the Global Economy

Of Justice David Hume

The Entitlement Theory Robert Nozick

Inequality and Other Problems with Nozick;s

Libertarianism

The Communist Manifesto

Property Rights and Eminent

City of New London Markets, Property, and Power Michael Walzer

The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits Milton Friedman

Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business

John Mackey and Milton Friedman

Real World Justice Thomas Pogge

Antipoverty Warriors John McM

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