Ethics in Practice : An Anthology

by LaFollette, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781405129459
• ISBN10: 140512945X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

With incisive and engaging introductions by the editor, Ethics in Practice integrates ethical theory and the discussion of practical moral problems into a text that is ideal for introductory and applied ethics courses. A fully updated and revised edition of this authoritative anthology of classic and contemporary essays covering a wide range of ethical and moral issues Integrates ethical theory with discussions of practical moral problems Provides coverage of ethical issues on familiar topics such as abortion, free speech and affirmative action and contains an entirely new section on war and terrorism Also features essays on economic justice, world hunger and international justice, and obligations to the environment An excellent companion to LaFollette's text, The Practice of Ethics (2006)

Author Biography

Hugh LaFollette is Marie and Leslie E. Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is author of Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (1995), co-author of Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (1996), author of The Practice of Ethics (Blackwell 2007) and co-editor of six other volumes, including The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (1999).

Table of Contents

N]= New to third edition

[R] = Revised for Ethics in Practice

[W]= Written for Ethics in Practice

Preface to the instructor

Acknowledgmentseneral

General Introduction Theorizing about Ethics

Reading Philosophy

Ethical Theory

Consequentialism [NW]

Deontology [NW]

Virtue Theory [NW]

Life and Death Euthanasia

Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths [W]

Against the Right to Die [R]

Dying at the Right Time: Reflection on (Un)Assisted Suicide [W]

A Duty to Care [RN]

A Defense of Abortion

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion [R]

An Argument that Abortion is Wrong [W]

The Moral Permissibility of Abortion [N]

Virtue Theory and Abortion [R]

All Animals are Equal

The Moral Community

Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Specieism

The Case for Animal Rights

The Personal Lifeamily and Reproductive Technology

What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?

Morality, Parents and Children

Artificial Means of Reproduction and our Understanding of the Family

Is Women''s Labor a Commodity?

Goodbye, Dolly: the Ethics of Human Cloning

The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans [N]

Morality and Human Sexuality

Plain Sex

Why Homosexuality is Abnormal [R]

Homosexuality and the Moral Relevance of Experience

Liberty and Equality aternalism and Risk

Individuality

On Improving People by Political Means

Against the Legalization of Drugs

Why We Should Decriminalize Drug Use

The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms [R]

Gun control

Freedom of Thought and Discussion

The Price We Pay?[NR]

The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality [N]

Sticks and Stones [W]

Speech Codes and Expressive Harm [W]

Sexual and Racial Discrimination

Racism [N]

Servility and Self-Respect

Sexual Harassment

Date Rape

Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape [R]

Affirmative Action

Against Affirmative Action [NR]

The Rights of Allan Bakke

Affirmative Action As Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth ofreferential Treatment [W]

Justiceunishment

Punishment and Desert [W]

Out of Character: On the Psychology of Excuses in the Criminal Law [NW]

Does Punishment Work?

In Defense of the Death Penalty

Against the Death Penalty

A Theory of Justice

The Entitlement Theory of Justice

Displacing the Distributive Paradigm

Economic Competition: Should We Care about the Losers?[W]

Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code [W]

Eradicating Systemic Poverty

Feeding People versus Saving Nature [R]

The Land Ethic

A Place for Cost Benefit Analysis [NR]

Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Nat

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