Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life Introductory Readings in Ethics

by Hoff Sommers, Christina; Sommers, Fred

• ISBN13: 9780155067967
• ISBN10: 0155067966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This best-selling anthology offers students an engaging, intellectually challenging selection of readings that address fundamental ethical issues. Students will become acquainted with central ethical theories and learn methods for reasoning about moral issues. Furthermore, the text encourages students to consider their own moral history and character. Possible course titles applicable to this reader include Introduction to Ethics, Ethics for Everyday Life, and Personal Values.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	xi
Good and Evil	1	(78)
From Cruelty to Goodness	5	(16)
Philip Hallie
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn	21	(15)
Jonathan Bennett
The Evil That Men Think---And Do	36	(2)
Philip Hallie
Martin Gansberg	38	(9)
Who Saw Murder Didn't Call Police	47	(4)
The Moral Insight	51	(4)
Josiah Royce
Billy Budd	55	(12)
Herman Melville
Beyond Good and Evil	67	(12)
Friendrich Nietzsche
Moral Doctrines and Moral Theories	79	(127)
The Judeo-Christian Tradition	82	(17)
Morality Is Based on God's Commands	99	(5)
Robert C. Mortimer
Why Morality Does Not Depend on Religion	104	(11)
John Arthur
Of Benevolence	115	(5)
David Hume
Utilitarianism	120	(7)
John Stuart Mill
A Critique of Utilitarianism	127	(9)
Bernard Williams
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	136	(7)
Ursula Le Guin
Why Not Murder?	143	(24)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative	167	(14)
Immanuel Kant
Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant	181	(18)
Rae Langton
The Holocaust and Moral Philosophy	199	(7)
Fred Sommers
Is it all Relative?	206	(70)
Morality as Custom	208	(2)
Herodotus
A Defense of Moral Relativism	210	(9)
Ruth Benedict
A Defense of Cultural Relativism	219	(7)
William Graham Sumner
Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights	226	(6)
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Uganda's Women: Children, Drudgery, and Pain	232	(5)
Jane Perlez
Who's to Judge?	237	(14)
Louis Pojman
The Objective Basis of Morality	251	(6)
Thomas Nagel
The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule	257	(6)
R. M. MacIver
I Have a Dream	263	(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United Nations Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights	268	(8)
Virtue	276	(95)
Happiness and the Virtues	279	(17)
Aristotle
Of the Morals of the Catholic Church	296	(5)
Saint Augustine
Virtue or Duty?	301	(6)
Bernard Mayo
Tradition and the Virtues	307	(12)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Virtues and Vices	319	(16)
Philippa Foot
The Ethics of Virtue	335	(20)
James Rachels
Of Justice and Beneficence	355	(12)
Adam Smith
The Origin of the Moral Sense	367	(4)
Charles Darwin
Vice	371	(63)
Vice	375	(4)
Plutarch
The Depths of Vice	379	(5)
Saint Augustine
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	384	(4)
Jonathan Edwards
The Hypocrites	388	(5)
Dante Alighieri
Self-Deception	393	(4)
Samuel Johnson
Upon Self-Deceit	397	(7)
Bishop Butler
Jealousy, Envy, and Spite	404	(9)
Immanuel Kant
Sexual Revenge	413	(10)
Susan Jacoby
On Rage	423	(11)
Daniel Goleman
Morality and Self-Interest	434	(74)
The Ring of Gyges	436	(6)
Plato
Of the State of Men without Civil Society	442	(8)
Thomas Hobbes
Of Self-Love	450	(7)
David Hume
The Unselfishness Trap	457	(18)
Harry Browne
Egoism and Moral Skepticism	475	(2)
James Rachels
The Virtue of Selfishness	477	(4)
Ayn Rand
Egoism, Self-Interest, and Altruism	481	(6)
Louis Pojman
Why Not Be a Bad Person?	487	(13)
Colin McGinn
Why Act Morally?	500	(8)
Peter Singer
Character, Dignity, and Self-Respect	508	(59)
The Art of Living	512	(6)
Epictetus
The World of Epictetus	518	(15)
Vice Admiral James Stockdale
Dignity and Self-Respect	533	(10)
Immanuel Kant
On Self-Respect	543	(6)
Joan Didion
A Crisis in My Mental Life	549	(7)
John Stuart Mill
Character and Culture	556	(11)
Anthony Quinton
Moral Education	567	(115)
Habit and Virtue	570	(9)
Aristotle
The Child as a Moral Philosopher	579	(24)
Laurence Kohlberg
Moral Education and Indoctrination	603	(16)
George Sher
William J. Bennett
In a Different Voice	619	(15)
Carol Gilligan
Other Voices, Other Rooms? Women's Psychology and Moral Theory	634	(16)
George Sher
The Values Clarification Approach	650	(8)
Sidney B. Simon
Leland W. Howe
Howard Kirschenbaum
The ``Values'' Wasteland	658	(12)
Charles Sykes
Teaching the Virtues	670	(12)
Christina Hoff Sommers
Morality and the Family	682	(74)
On Growing Old Gracefully	684	(7)
Lin Yutang
What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?	691	(7)
Jane English
Traditional Jewish Family Values	698	(12)
Norman Lamm
Divorce	710	(6)
Rebecca West
Filial Morality	716	(12)
Christina Hoff Sommers
The Good Divorce	728	(5)
Constance Ahrons
Is Divorce Immoral?	733	(11)
Laurence Houlgate
Marital Faithfulness	744	(12)
Susan Mendus
Morality and Social Policy	756	(124)
Famine, Affluence, and Morality	759	(10)
Peter Singer
World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case Against Singer	769	(8)
John Arthur
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor	777	(13)
Garrett Hardin
Population and Food: Metaphors and the Reality	790	(11)
William W. Murdoch
Allan Oaten
Unfree, Hence Poor	801	(7)
Gerald O'Driscoll
Kim Holmes
Melanie Kirkpatrick
The Sex / Gender System	808	(11)
Virginia Held
The War Against Women	819	(5)
Marilyn French
Feminist Justice	824	(7)
James Sterba
The Feminist revelation	831	(25)
Christina Hoff Sommers
A Moral Defense of Vegetarianism	856	(9)
James Rachels
The Land Ethic	865	(10)
Aldo Leopold
Is God in Trees?	875	(5)
Dennis Prager
The Case Against Nature	880
Gregg Easterbrook