Social Ethics : Morality and Social Policy

by Mappes, Thomas A.; Zembaty, Jane S.

• ISBN13: 9780070401433
• ISBN10: 0070401438
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Summary

In its seventh edition, "Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy" continues to provide material that will encourage reflective and critical examination of key contemporary moral problems. With additional readings and a new organization that groups related chapters together under four categories, this edition enhances the teachability that was the most salient characteristic of previous editions. The text maintains its ability to bring the central issues into clear focus, while allowing supporting arguments for widely diverse positions to be presented by those who embrace them.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
CHAPTER 1 ABORTION	1	(54)
Introduction	1	(9)
Mary Anne Warren
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion	10	(8)
Jane English
Abortion and the Concept of a Person	18	(9)
Don Marquis
Why Abortion Is Immoral	27	(6)
Justice Harry A. Blackmun
Majority Opinion in Roe v. Wade	33	(6)
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor
Anthony M. Kennedy
David H. Souter
Opinion in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania	39	(9)
Susan Sherwin
Abortion: A Feminist Perspective	48	(5)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 1	53	(2)
CHAPTER 2 EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE	55	(49)
Introduction	55	(6)
James Rachels
Active and Passive Euthanasia	61	(5)
Daniel Callahan
Killing and Allowing to Die	66	(4)
Dan W. Brock
Voluntary Active Euthanasia	70	(3)
Stephen G. Potts
Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia	73	(4)
Margaret P. Battin
Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It	77	(12)
David T. Watts
Timothy Howell
Assisted Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia	89	(6)
Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.
Majority Opinion in Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington	95	(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 2	103	(1)
CHAPTER 3 THE DEATH PENALTY	104	(46)
Introduction	104	(6)
Justices Potter Stewart
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
John Paul Stevens
Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia	110	(11)
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia	121	(4)
Igor Primoratz
A Life for a Life	125	(7)
Stephen Nathanson
An Eye for an Eye?	132	(6)
Jonathan Glover
Deterrence and Murder	138	(4)
Ernest van den Haag
Deterrence and Uncertainty	142	(2)
Richard C. Dieter
The Practical Burdens of Capital Punishment	144	(5)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 3	149	(1)
CHAPTER 4 SEXUAL MORALITY	150	(52)
Introduction	150	(7)
Vincent C. Punzo
Morality and Human Sexuality	157	(6)
Thomas A. Mappes
Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person	163	(14)
Robin West
The Harms of Consensual Sex	177	(5)
Mike W. Martin
Homosexuality and Homophobia	182	(7)
Justice Byron R. White
Majority Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick	189	(3)
John Arthur
Privacy, Homosexuality, and the Constitution	192	(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 4	200	(2)
CHAPTER 5 PORNOGRAPHY, HATE SPEECH, AND CENSORSHIP	202	(52)
Introduction	202	(6)
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty	208	(4)
The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
The Question of Harm	212	(7)
Helen E. Longino
Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look	219	(9)
Mark R. Wicclair
Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship	228	(6)
Illinois Supreme Court
Opinion in Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America	234	(5)
Charles R. Lawrence III
Racist Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words	239	(3)
Andrew Altman
Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination	242	(10)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 5	252	(2)
CHAPTER 6 SEXISM, RACISM, AND OPPRESSION	254	(44)
Introduction	254	(3)
Marilyn Frye
Sexism	257	(8)
Gloria Yamato
Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name	265	(4)
Marilyn Frye
Oppression	269	(4)
Iris M. Young
Five Faces of Oppression	273	(14)
Kenneth Clatterbaugh
The Oppression Debate in Sexual Politics	287	(10)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 6	297	(1)
CHAPTER 7 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION	298	(46)
Introduction	298	(6)
Edwin C. Hettinger
What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination?	304	(11)
Shelby Steele
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference	315	(8)
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Opinion in Adarand Constructors v. Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation	323	(6)
Justice John Paul Stevens
Dissenting Opinion in Adarand Constructors v. Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation	329	(4)
Justice Clarence Thomas
Concurring Opinion in Adarand Constructors v. Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation	333	(1)
Cornel West
Nihilism in Black America	334	(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 7	342	(2)
CHAPTER 8 ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND WELFARE	344	(47)
Introduction	344	(5)
John Hospers
What Libertarianism Is	349	(7)
Kai Nielsen
A Moral Case for Socialism	356	(9)
Charles Murray
A Proposal for Public Welfare	365	(5)
Nancy Fraser
Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation	370	(7)
Trudy Govier
The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work	377	(12)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 8	389	(2)
CHAPTER 9 WORLD HUNGER AND GLOBAL JUSTICE	391	(41)
Introduction	391	(5)
The Presidential Commission on World Hunger
Why Should the United States Be Concerned?	396	(2)
Peter Singer
Famine, Affluence, and Morality	398	(8)
Garrett Hardin
Living on a Lifeboat	406	(7)
Kai Nielsen
Global Justice, Capitalism and the Third World	413	(9)
Richard T. De George
Property and Global Justice	422	(8)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 9	430	(2)
CHAPTER 10 ANIMALS	432	(44)
Introduction	432	(4)
Peter Singer
All Animals Are Equal	436	(10)
Tom Regan
The Case for Animal Rights	446	(5)
R. G. Frey
Moral Vegetarianism and the Argument from Pain and Suffering	451	(7)
Carl Cohen
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research	458	(9)
Mary Anne Warren
Human and Animal Rights Compared	467	(7)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 10	474	(2)
CHAPTER 11 THE ENVIRONMENT	476
Introduction	476	(5)
William F. Baxter
People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution	481	(5)
Aldo Leopold
The Land Ethic	486	(6)
Bernard E. Rollin
Environmental Ethics	492	(7)
Bill Devall
George Sessions
Deep Ecology	499	(8)
Ramachandra Guha
Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique	507	(8)
Karen J. Warren
The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism	515	(9)
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 11	524