Ethics : Theory and Contemporary Issues (with InfoTrac)

by MacKinnon, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780534564322
• ISBN10: 0534564321
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Through a combination of the illuminating overviews composed by the editor and readings drawn from important traditional and contemporary sources, MacKinnon's ETHICS provides students with an introduction to both ethical theory and the moral debates surrounding a variety of contemporary issues. Edited with the intention of providing reader friendly, but not superficial, access to many complex concepts, ETHICS is a comprehensive and clear-sighted introduction to both the general and specific guises ethical deliberation is obliged to take.

Table of Contents

Part I: ETHICAL THEORY

1. Ethics and Ethical Reasoning

Plato: Republic, Book II, The Myth of Gyges

Plato, Euthyphro

2. Relativism

Mary Midgley: Trying Out One's New Sword

3. Egoism

Hobbes: Leviathan

Ayn Rand: The Virtue of Selfishness

4. Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism

5. Kant's Moral Theory

Immanuel Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals

6. Natural Law and Natural Rights

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

John Locke: Two Treatises of Civil Government

7. Virtue Ethics

Philipa Foot: Virtues and Vices

Annette Baier: The Need for More than Justice

Part II: ETHICAL ISSUES

8. Euthanasia

J

Gay-Williams: The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia

Richard Brandt: A Moral Principle about Killing

9. Abortion

Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion

Don Marquis: Why Abortion is Immoral

10. Sexual Morality

Thomas Nagel: Sexual Perversion

Richard D

Mohr: Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values

11. Pornography

Ann Gary: Pornography and Respect for Women

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

12. Equality and Discrimination

Richard Wasserstrom: On Racism and Sexism, Realities and Ideals

Lisa Newton: Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified

13. Economic Justice

John Rawls: A Theory of Justice

Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia

14. Legal Punishment and the Death Penalty

Hugo Adam Bedau: A World without Punishment

Ernest Van Den Haag: The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense

15. Environmental Ethics

William F

Baxter: People or Penguins

Holmes Rolston III: Values in the Natural World

Arne Naess: A Defense of the Deep Ecology Movement

16. Animal Rights

Peter Singer: All Animals are Equal

Bonnie Steinbock: Speciesism and the Idea of Equality

17. Genetics and Human Cloning

Leon Kass: The Wisdom of Repugnance

Ronald M

Green: Much Ado about Mutton

18. Terrorism, Violence, and War

R

Frey and Christopher W

Morris: Violence, Terrorism, and Justice

Elizabeth Anscombe: War and Murder

19. Global Issues and Globalization

Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Herman E

Daly: Globalization and its Discontents

Polly Toynbee: Who's Afraid of Global Culture? Appendix: How to Write an Ethics Paper