Preface | |
Ehtical Theory | |
An Introduction to Ethics | |
The Nature of Morality | |
Normative Theories of Ethics | |
Ethical Relativism | |
The Challenge of Cultural Relativism | |
Four Rival Ethical Perspectives | |
Happiness, Function, and Virtue | |
Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative | |
Utilitarianism | |
What Makes Right Acts Right? | |
Issues in Applied Ethics | |
Suicide and Euthanasia | |
The Morality and Rationality of Suicide | |
Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
When Self-Determination Runs Amok | |
Is There a Duty to Die? | |
Abortion | |
An Almost Absolute Value in History | |
The Moral Status of Abortion | |
An Argument That Abortion Is Wrong | |
A Defense of Abortion | |
Virtue Theory and Abortion | |
Animals, Vegetarianism, and Environmental Ethics | |
The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues | |
Do Animals Have Rights? | |
Why You Are Committed to the Immorality of Eating Meat | |
Why I Am Only a Demi-Vegetarian | |
Reply to Hare | |
Respect for Life | |
Reply to Rolston | |
Liberty and Paternalism | |
On Liberty | |
Paternalism | |
A Drug-Free America--or a Free America? | |
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency: Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization | |
Marriage and Sexual Morality | |
Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? | |
Homosexuality, Gay Marriage, and the Common Good | |
Gay Marriage: The Case for Equal Treatment | |
Adultery and Fidelity | |
Alcohol and Rape | |
Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom | |
Voting and Democracy | |
Considerations on Representative Government | |
Is There a Duty to Vote? | |
Editors, Harvard Law Review: The Case for Compulsory Voting | |
Crime, Guns, and Rights | |
The False Promise of Gun Control | |
Handguns and Violent Crime | |
Is There a Right to Own a Gun? | |
Punishment and the Death Penalty | |
Punishment and the Criminal Justice System | |
The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense | |
Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty | |
U.S. Supreme Court: Atkins v. Virginia | |
The Ethics of War and the Response to Terrorism | |
Pacifism | |
Jus ad Bellum and an Officer's Moral Obligations: Ignorance, the Constitution, and Iraq | |
Civilians and Combatants | |
Torture in Principle and in Practice | |
Race, Discrimination, and Affirmative Action | |
A More Perfect Union | |
One Way to Understand and Defend Programs of Preferential Treatment | |
The Case Against Affirmative Action | |
U.S. Supreme Court: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases | |
Weight Discrimination | |
Social Justice | |
Editors, Harvard Law Review: Never Again Shall A People Starve in a World of Plenty | |
Welfare and Social Justice | |
Let the Poor Sell Their Kidneys | |
Is Inheritance Justified? | |
U.S. Supreme Court: Kelo v. City of New London | |
Ethics in Business | |
The Inconclusive Case Against Manipulative Advertising | |
The Ethics of Sales | |
Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing | |
Drug Testing in Employment | |
For Further Reading | |
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