Title: Ethics and metaethics; readings in ethical philosophy.
Authors: Abelson, Raziel; Abelson, Raziel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Year: 1963
Subjects: Ethics Collections.; Ethics.; Metaethics.
Contents: Capital punishment -- a defense / John J. Ford -- Punishment and crime / Hugh S. R. Elliot -- Capital punishment / Beccaria -- Hangman's protection / Arthur Koestler -- On divorce and polygamy / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Of polygamy and divorces / David Hume -- Divorce / Bertrand Russell -- Divorce is a necessity / Rebecca West -- Whether it is lawful to kill oneself? / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Of suicide / David Hume -- On suicide / Arthur Schopenhauer -- On Christian marriage / Pope Pius XI -- Of self-defilement / Immanuel Kant -- Control of conception / Glanville Williams -- World communism and nuclear war / Bertrand Russell -- Free man's choice / Sidney Hook -- Counter-reply / Bertrand Russell -- Counter-rejoinder / Sidney Hook -- Republic, books VI-VII / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics, book I / Aristotle -- Natural law / Jacques Maritain -- Principle of utility / Jeremy Bentham -- Good and bad conduct / Herbert Spencer -- Theory of valuation / John Dewey -- Subject matter of ethics / G. E. Moore -- Critique of ethics / A. J. Ayer -- Description and evaluation / R. M. Hare -- Bible and ethics / Robert C. Mortimer -- Of man / Thomas Hobbes -- Foundation of morals / Immanuel Kant -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- What makes right acts right? / W. D. Ross -- Protagoras / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics, book II / Aristotle -- Treatise of human nature / David Hume -- Master morality / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Being and nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre -- What means this freedom / John Hospers -- Has the self "free will"? / C. A. Campbell -- Freedom and responsibility / P. H. Nowell-Smith.