The ethical life
Subtitle: fundamental readings in ethics and moral problems
By: Russ Shafer-Landau.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195377699
Subjects: Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Value theory : the nature of the good life; title: Epicurus letter to Menoeceus; title: John Stuart Mill, Hedonism; title: Aldous Huxley, Brave new world; title: Robert Nozick, The experience machine; title: Richard Taylor, The meaning of life; title: Jean Kazez, Necessities; title: Normative ethics : theories of right conduct; title: J.J.C. Smart, Eextreme and restricted utilitarianism; title: Immanuel Kant the good will & the categorical imperative; title: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; title: Philippa Foot, Natural goodness; title: Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics; title: W.D. Ross, What makes right acts right?; title: Hilde Lindemann, What is feminist ethics?; title: Metaethics : the status of morality; title: David Hume, Moral distinctions not derived from reason; title: J.L. Mackie, The subjectivity of values; title: Gilbert Harman, Ethics and observation; title: Mary Midgley, Trying out one's new sword; title: Michael Smith, Rrealism; title: Renford Bambrough, Pproof; title: Moral problems; title: Peter Singe, The Singer solution to world poverty; title: Heidi Malm, Paid surrogacy: arguments and responses; title: Ronald Dworkin, Playing God : genes, clones, and luck; title: James Rachels, The morality of euthanasia; title: John Harris, The survival lottery; title: Peter Singer, Unsanctifying human life; title: William F. Baxter, People or penguins : the case for optimal pollution; title: Judith Jarvis, Tthomson a defense of abortion; title: Don Marquis, Why abortion is immoral; title: Jonathan Bennett, The conscience of Huckleberry Finn; title: Michael Walzer, Terrorism : a critique of excuses; title: David Luban, Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb; title: Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail; title: Igor Primoratz, Justifying legal punishment; title: Stephen Nathanson, An eye for an eye; title: Michael Huemer, America's unjust drug war; title: John Corvino, Why shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy have sex? : a defense of homosexuality; title: Bonnie Steinbock, Adultery; title: Hugh Lafollette, Licensing parents; title: Jane English, What do grown children owe their parents?