Thirteen Questions in Ethics and Social Philosophy

by Bowie, G. Lee; Higgins, Kathleen M.; Michaels, Meredith

• ISBN13: 9780155036840
• ISBN10: 015503684X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-23
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

In response to rising student interest in multi-culturalism and to reflect the current issues of today, THIRTEEN QUESTIONS IN ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Second Edition features articles and discussions on a variety of topics, from sexual harassment to medical ethics. Articles by authors from many different backgrounds are included, such as Sophocles, Bertrand Russell, Ellen Willis, and Catherine MacKinnon.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Preliminary Questions
What Kind of Person Do I Want to Be?	2	(45)
Justice, Happiness, and Self-Knowledge	6	(5)
Laurence Thomas
Integrity	11	(6)
Lynne McFall
Standing for Something	17	(6)
Cheshire Calhoun
Ethical Styles	23	(4)
Robert C. Solomon
Your Money or Your Life	27	(4)
Joe Dominguez
Vicki Robin
Beauty and the Reanimation of Things	31	(5)
Thomas Moore
Impersonal Interests	36	(5)
Bertrand Russell
A Precious Slice of Life	41	(6)
Etty Hillesum
How Should I Treat My Family and Friends?	47	(45)
The Confucian Analects	51	(3)
Antigone	54	(13)
Sophocles
What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents?	67	(9)
Daniel Callahan
You Can't Pray a Lie	76	(5)
Mark Twain
The Conditions of Female Friendship	81	(5)
Janice Raymond
The Roots of Patriarchal Despotism	86	(6)
Dorothy Dinnerstein
How Can I Make Sense of Sex?	92	(50)
Sex, Contraception, and Conceptions of Sex	95	(13)
Robert C. Solomon
Is Adultery Immoral?	108	(11)
Richard Wasserstrom
Sexual Justice	119	(7)
Morris Kaplan
Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving	126	(5)
Audre Lorde
The Definition of Sexual Harassment	131	(11)
Jan Crosthwaite
Graham Priest
PART TWO Individual Ethics
What Is Reproductive Freedom?	142	(51)
The Question of Abortion	145	(7)
Ann Druyan
Carl Sagan
A Defense of Abortion	152	(12)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
The Moral Significance of Birth	164	(8)
Mary Anne Warren
The Moral Status of the Foetus	172	(6)
Alan Donagan
Can Having Children Be Immoral?	178	(7)
Laura Purdy
Fathers' Rights, Patriarchy, and Sex Equality	185	(8)
Mary L. Shanley
Is It Ever Right to Lie?	193	(36)
On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives	196	(3)
Immanuel Kant
The Evil of Lying	199	(7)
Charles Fried
Autonomy and Benevolent Lies	206	(7)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
The Duty of Veracity	213	(5)
Henry Sidgwick
Trust and Anti-Trust	218	(4)
Annette Baier
On the Decay of the Art of Lying	222	(4)
Mark Twain
Reflections on Bullshit	226	(3)
Harry Frankfurt
How Should I Make Money?	229	(54)
Profits and Liberty	233	(5)
John Hospers
Alienated Labor	238	(4)
Karl Marx
The Economics of Liberation	242	(5)
Enrique Dussell
International Business, Morality, and the Common Good	247	(9)
Manuel Velasquez
Insider Trading: The Secret Seduction	256	(5)
Joanne B. Ciulla
The Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics	261	(7)
Robert C. Solomon
Bhopal: An Essay on Moral Responsibility and Civic Virtue	268	(9)
John Ladd
Information Rights and the Information Manager	277	(6)
Mark Alfino
What Are My Rights?	283	(51)
The United States Bill of Rights	287	(2)
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights	289	(6)
The Authority of Society over the Individual	295	(5)
John Stuart Mill
Justice as Fairness	300	(5)
John Rawls
The Entitlement Theory	305	(4)
Robert Nozick
Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities	309	(4)
Amitai Etzioni
The Right to Take Personal Risks	313	(6)
Amartya Sen
Secrecy and Moral Choice	319	(7)
Sissela Bok
AIDS and Confidentiality	326	(8)
Grant Gillett
PART THREE Social Ethics
How Does Racism Affect My Life?	334	(48)
Anti-Semite and Jew	338	(2)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Metaphysics of Oppression	340	(8)
Jorge Valadez
The Erasure of Black Women	348	(7)
Elizabeth V. Spelman
The Invisible Man	355	(3)
Ralph Ellison
Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory	358	(7)
Bell Hooks
The New Sovereignty	365	(6)
Shelby Steele
To Have and Have Not	371	(4)
Michael Lind
The Case for Affirmative Action: Racism Has Its Privileges	375	(7)
Roger Wilkins
Can There Be Equality between Men and Women?	382	(58)
The Subjection of Women	385	(8)
John Stuart Mill
The Second Sex	393	(6)
Simone de Beauvoir
Autonomy and Identity in Feminist Thinking	399	(8)
Jean Grimshaw
Sexism	407	(7)
Marilyn Frye
Put the Blame on Eve, Boys	414	(10)
Caryl Rivers
Gender Differences	424	(7)
Jacob Joshua Ross
Racism, Sexism, and the Ideal of Equality	431	(9)
Linda A. Bell
Can We Control Violence?	440	(49)
The Art of Warfare	444	(3)
Sun-Tzu
The Prince	447	(3)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Enemy as Abstraction	450	(5)
Sam Keen
The Military Paradigm	455	(5)
John McMurtry
The Moral Equivalent of War	460	(4)
William James
Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis	464	(10)
Lois Pineau
The United States Supreme Court Gregg v. Georgia (1976)	474	(5)
Reflections on the Guillotine	479	(4)
Albert Camus
Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic	483	(6)
Bat-Ami Bar On
What Should We Sacrifice for Animals and the Environment?	489	(66)
Ballade of Poisons	492	(2)
Allen Ginsburg
The Nature and Possibility of an Environmental Ethic	494	(11)
Tom Regan
Not for Humans Only: The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues	505	(10)
Peter Singer
The Land Ethic	515	(7)
Aldo Leopold
Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce	522	(4)
Mark Sagoff
For the Sake of Future Generations	526	(17)
Annette Baier
The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair	543	(8)
Marti Kheel
Against the Glorification of Nature	551	(4)
John Stuart Mill
How Should I Respond to Poverty?	555	(51)
Multiculturalism and Welfare Reform	559	(7)
John D. Jones
Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation	566	(6)
Nancy Fraser
Homelessness and Welfare: The Prejudice against Men	572	(6)
Peter Marin
Famine, Affluence, and Morality	578	(4)
Peter Singer
Lifeboat Ethics	582	(5)
Garrett Hardin
Wealth	587	(5)
Andrew Carnegie
Property and Hunger	592	(8)
Amartya Sen
Corporate Collectivism: A System of Social Injustice	600	(6)
Michael Harrington
Who Should Decide When I Die?	606
Medical Paternalism	610
Allen Buchanan
The Contractural Argument for Withholding Medical Information	621
Donald Vandeveer
Public Health as Social Justice	626
Dan E. Beauchamp
Medical Progress and National Health Care	634
Loren E. Lomasky
Active and Passive Euthanasia	645
James Rachels
The Intentional Termination of Life	650
Bonnie Steinbock
Feminist Directions in Medical Ethics	655
Virginia L. Warren
Aging and the Ends of Medicine	665
Daniel Callahan