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Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life : Introductory Readings in Ethics,9780155030398

Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life : Introductory Readings in Ethics

by SOMMERS

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9780155030398

ISBN10:

0155030396

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

9/27/1996

Publisher(s):

Wadsworth Publishing

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Table of Contents

Preface

v

Introduction

xi

Good and Evil

1

(74)

From Cruelty to Goodness

5

(15)

Philip Hallie

The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn

20

(15)

Jonathan Bennett

The Evil That Men Think---And Do

35

(11)

Philip Hallie

38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call Police

46

(4)

Martin Gansberg

The Moral Insight

50

(4)

Josiah Royce

Billy Budd

54

(12)

Herman Melville

Beyond Good and Evil

66

(9)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral Doctrines and Moral Theories

75

(126)

The Judeo-Christian Tradition

79

(17)

The Objective Basis of Morality

96

(6)

Thomas Nagel

The Principle of Utility

102

(8)

Jeremy Bentham

Utilitarianism

110

(14)

J.J.C. Smart

A Critique of Utilitarianism

124

(9)

Bernard Williams

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

133

(7)

Ursula Le Guin

Why Not Murder?

140

(24)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative

164

(11)

Immanuel Kant

Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant

175

(17)

Rae Langton

A Critique of Kantianism

192

(9)

Richard Taylor

Is it all Relative?

201

(89)

Morality as Custom

203

(1)

Herodotus

A Defense of Moral Relativism

204

(9)

Ruth Benedict

A Defense of Cultural Relativism

213

(7)

William Graham Sumner

Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights

220

(6)

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

Uganda's Women: Children, Drudgery, and Pain

226

(5)

Jane Perlez

Sick Societies

231

(10)

Robert Edgerton

Who's to Judge?

241

(14)

Louis Pojman

The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule

255

(6)

R. M. Maclver

Our Universal Civilization

261

(16)

V. S. Naipaul

I Have a Dream

277

(5)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The United Nations Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

282

(8)

Virtue

290

(105)

Happiness and the Virtues

293

(12)

Aristotle

Of the Morals of the Catholic Church

305

(5)

Saint Augustine

Virtue or Duty?

310

(6)

Bernard Mayo

Tradition and the Virtues

316

(12)

Alasdair MacIntyre

Virtues and Vices

328

(16)

Philippa Foot

The Ethics of Virtue

344

(19)

James Rachels

Of Justice and Beneficence

363

(10)

Adam Smith

The Origin of the Moral Sense

373

(6)

Charles Darwin

The Moral Animal

379

(16)

Robert Wright

Vice

395

(61)

Vice

399

(3)

Plutarch

The Depths of Vice

402

(5)

Saint Augustine

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

407

(4)

Jonathan Edwards

The Hypocrites

411

(5)

Dante Alighieri

Self-Deception

416

(4)

Samuel Johnson

Upon Self-Deceit

420

(7)

Bishop Butler

Jealousy, Envy, and Spite

427

(8)

Immanuel Kant

Sexual Revenge

435

(10)

Susan Jacoby

On Rage

445

(11)

Daniel Goleman

Morality and Self-Interest

456

(67)

The Ring of Gyges

458

(6)

Plato

Of the State of Men without Civil Society

464

(8)

Thomas Hobbes

The Unselfishness Trap

472

(7)

Harry Browne

Egoism and Moral Skepticism

479

(13)

James Rachels

The Virtue of Selfishness

492

(4)

Ayn Rand

Egoism, Self-Interest, and Altruism

496

(6)

Louis Pojman

Why Not Be a Bad Person?

502

(12)

Colin McGinn

Why Act Morally?

514

(9)

Peter Singer

Character, Dignity, and Self-Respect

523

(51)

Dignity and Self-Respect

526

(10)

Immanuel Kant

Servility and Self-Respect

536

(13)

Thomas E. Hill, Jr.

On Self-Respect

549

(5)

Joan Didion

A Crisis in My Mental Life

554

(8)

John Stuart Mill

Character and Culture

562

(12)

Anthony Quinton

Moral Education

574

(131)

Habit and Virtue

577

(9)

Aristotle

The Child as a Moral Philosopher

586

(25)

Lawrence Kohlberg

Moral Education and Indoctrination

611

(15)

George Sher

William J. Bennett

In a Different Voice

626

(15)

Carol Gilligan

Other Voices, Other Rooms? Women's Psychology and Moral Theory

641

(16)

George Sher

The Values Clarification Approach

657

(8)

Sidney B. Simon

Leland W. Howe

Howard Kirschenbaum

The ``Values'' Wasteland

665

(12)

Charles Sykes

Teaching the Virtues

677

(11)

Christina Hoff Sommers

The World of Epictetus

688

(17)

Vice Admiral James Stockdale

Morality and the Family

705

(74)

On Growing Old Gracefully

707

(7)

Lin Yutang

What Do Grown Children Owe their Parents?

714

(7)

Jane English

Traditional Jewish Family Values

721

(11)

Norman Lamm

Divorce

732

(6)

Rebecca West

Filial Morality

738

(12)

Christina Hoff Sommers

The Good Divorce

750

(5)

Constance Ahrons

Is Divorce Immoral?

755

(11)

Lawrence Houlgate

Marital Faithfulness

766

(13)

Susan Mendus

Morality and Society

779

(3)

Famine, Affluence, and Morality

782

(10)

Peter Singer

World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case Against Singer

792

(8)

John Arthur

Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the poor

800

(13)

Garrett Hardin

Population and Food: Metaphors and the Reality

813

(11)

William M. Murdoch

Allan Oaten

An Almost Absolute Value in History

824

(8)

John T. Noonan, Jr.

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

832

(11)

Mary Anne Warren

Our Bodies, Our Souls

843

(18)

Naomi Wolf

A Defense of Abortion

861

(20)

Judith Jarvis Thomson

The Sex/Gender System

881

(11)

Virginia Held

The War Against Women

892

(6)

Marilyn French

Feminist Justice

898

(6)

James Sterba

The Feminist Revelation

904

Christina Hoff Sommers

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