Morality in Practice

by Sterba, James P.

• ISBN13: 9780534595531
• ISBN10: 0534595537
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-18
• Publisher: CENGAGE Learning

Summary

The most timely anthology available, MORALITY IN PRACTICE covers a number of critical contemporary issues, including war and terrorism, cloning, and the environment. Providing broad coverage of topics and opinions, Sterba draws from current journalism as well as philosophy to present opposing viewpoints on each issue. Each chapter covers a different area of moral concern with readings that provide alternative views as well as practical applications. Introductions to each section provide background for each issue as well as discussion of the ethical theory behind the readings.

Author Biography

James P. Sterba is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Preface

General Introduction

I

THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH

Introduction

Alternative Views

John Hospers: The Libertarian Manifesto

James P

Sterba: From Liberty to Welfare

Kai Nielson: Radical Egalitarianism

John Rawls: Justice as Fairness: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

James P

Sterba: Rawls and a Morally Defensible Conception of Justice

Practical Applications

Supreme Court of the United States: Wyman, Commissioner of New York Department of Social Services v

James

Supreme Court of the United States: Plyler v

Doe

II

NEAR AND DISTANT PEOPLES

Introduction

Alternative Views

Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor

Peter Singer: The Solution to World Poverty

Lawrence Blum: Impartiality, Beneficence, and Friendship

James Rachels: Morality, Parents, and Children

Practical Application

Michael Marin: The Food Aid Racket

Mary B

Anderson: Some Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid

III

ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA

Introduction

Alternative Views

Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion

Don Marquis: Why Abortion is Immoral

Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

Sally Markowitz: A Feminist Defense of Abortion

James Rachels: Euthanasia, Killing, and Letting Die

Bonnie Steinbock: The Intentional Termination of Life

Practical Applications

Supreme Court of the United States: Planned Parenthood v

Casey

Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon and Judith Jarvis Thomson: The Brief of the Amici Curiae

Supreme Court of the United States: Washington et al

v

Glucksberg et al

GENETIC ENGINEERING

Introduction

Michael Tooley: Moral Status of Cloning Humans

Leon Kass: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans

Cass Sunstein:The Constitution and the Clone

Practical Applications

Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission

V

SEX EQUALITY

Introduction

Alternative Views

Susan Okin: Justice and Gender

James P

Sterba: Feminist Justice and the Family

Christina Sommers: Philosophers against the Family

Marilyn Friedman: They Lived Happily Ever After: Sommers on Women and Marriage

David Benatar: The Second Sexism

James P

Sterba:The Wolf Again in Sheep's Clothing

Practical Applications

National Organization for Women (NOW): Bill of Rights

The Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action

VI

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Introduction

Alternative Views

James P

Sterba: Defending Affirmative Action, Defending Preferences

Terry Pell: Race Preference and Formal Equality Preferences

James P

Sterba: What Really is Pell's Ideal of Formal Equality? Preferences

Terry Pell: What is the Big Deal about Racial Preferences? Practical Application

U

Supreme Court: Bollinger v

Grutter and Gratz

VII

SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Introduction

Alternative Views

Barbara A

Gutek: Understanding Sexual Harassment at Work

Ellen Frankel Paul: Exaggerating the Extent of Sexual Harassment

Nancy ("Ann") Davis: Sexual Harassment in the University

James P

Sterba: Understanding, Explaining and Eliminating Sexual Harassment

Practical Application

Supreme Court of the United States: Harris v

Forklift Systems Inc

VIII

PORNOGRAPHY

Introduction

Alternative Views

Catharine MacKinnon: Pornography, Civil Rights and Speech

Wendy Kaminer: Feminists Against the First Amendment

Practical Applications

United States District Court and Court of Appeals: American Booksellers v

Hudnutt

Supreme Court of Canada: Donald Victor Butler v

Her Majesty the Queen

IX

HATE SPEECH

Introduction

Alternative Views

Gerald Gunther: No Speech Code

Alan Dershowitz: Speech Codes and Diversity

Charles Lawrence III: Regulating Racial Speech on Campus

Katharine Bartlett and Jean O'Barb: The Chilly Climate on College Campuses: An Expansion of the 'Hate Speech' Debate

Practical Applications

Superior Court of California: Curry v

Stanford

ACLU: Policy Statement: Free Speech and Bias on College Campuses

X

GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS

Introduction

Alternative Views

John Finnis: Homosexual Conduct is Wrong

Martha Nussbaum: Homosexual Conduct is not Wrong

Richard Mohr: Prejudice and Homosexuality

Carl Horowitz: Homosexuality's Legal Revolution

Practical Applications

Supreme Court of Vermont: Baker v

Vermont

XI

ANIMAL LIBERATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Introduction

Alternative Views

Peter Singer: All Animals Are Equal

Michael Pollan: The Unnatural Idea of Animal Rights

Paul W

Taylor: The Ethics of Respect for Nature

James P

Sterba: Morality as a Compromise Between Anthropocentricism and Nonanthropocentrism

Karen Warren: The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism

Practical Applications

Congress of the United States: From the Animal Welfare Act

Congress of the United States: Amendments to the Animal Welfare Act

Supreme Court of the United States: Tennessee Valley Authority v

Hill

XII

PUNISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY

Introduction

Alternative Views

Karl Menninger: The Crime of Punishment

Richard B

Brandt: A Utilitarian Theory of Punishment

C

S

Lewis: A Critique of the Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

Edmund L

Pincoffs: Classical Retributivism

Practical Applications

Ernest van den Haag: Deterrence and Uncertainty

Jeffrrey H

Reiman: Civilization, Safety and Deterrence

Supreme Court of the United States: Gregg v

Georgia

XIII

WAR AND TERRORISM

Introduction

Alternative Views

James P

Sterba: Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists

Stephen Nathanson: Can Terrorism be Morally Justified? James P

Sterba: Terrorism and International Justice

Burton Leiser: Why War with Iraq is Morally Justified

James P

Sterba: Why War with Iraq is not Morally Justified

Practical Application

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.]]>