Ethics in America Source Reader

by Newton, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780132901802
• ISBN10: 0132901803
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Anthology of classic readings organized according to four major ethical traditions-the Greeks, the Bible, moral law, and utiliarianism. Can be used alone or in conjunction with the "Ethics in America" television course. Uses case studies to examine ethical conflicts in law, medicine, business, the military, journalism, government, and personal life. Correlated to the ethics in America reader. See listing under "anthology" section.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(6)
Ancient Greece	7	(58)
Thucydides	8	(3)
The Peloponnesian War	8	(3)
Plato	11	(32)
The Apology	11	(3)
Crito	14	(4)
The Republic	18	(25)
Aristotle	43	(22)
The Nicomachean Ethics	44	(17)
Politics	61	(4)
Biblical Tradition	65	(26)
The Law	67	(10)
Genesis	67	(4)
Exodus	71	(2)
Leviticus	73	(2)
Deuteronomy	75	(2)
The Prophets	77	(4)
Amos	77	(2)
Micah	79	(2)
The Gospels	81	(7)
Matthew	81	(5)
Luke	86	(1)
John	87	(1)
The Acts	88	(1)
The Epistle to the Corinthians (I)	89	(2)
Moral Law	91	(64)
Epictetus	92	(3)
Moral Discourses	93	(2)
Thomas Aquinas	95	(8)
Summa Theologica	97	(6)
Thomas Hobbes	103	(7)
Leviathan	104	(6)
John Locke	110	(13)
Treatise of Government, II (Civil)	110	(13)
Thomas Jefferson	123	(3)
The Declaration of Independence	124	(1)
An Act Establishing Religious Freedom	125	(1)
Immanuel Kant	126	(12)
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals	127	(11)
Joseph Royce	138	(7)
Philosophy of Loyalty	139	(6)
John Rawls	145	(6)
A Theory of Justice	146	(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.	151	(4)
``A Letter from a Birmingham Jail''	152	(3)
Utilitarianism	155	(36)
Epicurus	156	(2)
The Extant Remains	157	(1)
Jeremy Bentham	158	(8)
Principles of Morals and Legislation	158	(8)
John Stuart Mill	166	(25)
Utilitarianism	166	(16)
On Liberty	182	(9)
Epilogue	191	(6)
Suggestions For Further Reading	197	(2)
Acknowledgments	199