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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Moral Arguments and Moral Relativism Relativism Arguments Evaluating Arguments | |
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Three Arguments for Cultural Relativism Arguments Against | |
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Cultural Relativism Making Moral Arguments Exceptions to Moral Principles | |
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First Principles Aristotle, from Nicomachean | |
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Aquinas, from Summa Theologica | |
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From A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of | |
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From Utilitarianism | |
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A Letter to | |
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From The Ethics of Ambiguity Sexual Behavior | |
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"Our Sexual Ethics" | |
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"Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person" | |
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"Abortion and the Sexual Agenda" | |
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From Sexual Desire Animals International League of the Rights of Animals | |
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"Universal Declaration of the Rights of Animals" | |
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From Animal Liberation | |
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"The Case for Animal Rights" | |
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"The Case for the Use of Animals in | |
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The Environment | |
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From "The Tragedy of the Commons" | |
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"Property Rights: The Real Issue" | |
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"Risks, Costs, and Benefits" | |
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From Deep Ecology | |
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"The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism" | |
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"Predicament or Progress" | |
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Liberty Theoretical Approaches Plato | |
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From The Republic Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics | |
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From Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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From On Liberty Drug Legalization | |
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"An Open Letter to Bill Bennett" | |
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"A Response to Milton Friedman" | |
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"The Case for Legalization" | |
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"Against the Legalization of Drugs" Pornography | |
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"Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech" | |
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The Attorney General''s Commission on Pornography | |
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"The Question of Harm" | |
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From Sexual Correctness Offensive Speech and Behavior Justice Antonin Scalia | |
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Majority Opinion in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota Stanley Fish | |
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From There''s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It''s a Good Thing | |
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Too Johnathan Rauch, "Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought" | |
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Justice | |
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Majority Opinion in Texas v. Johnson | |
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Chief Justice | |
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Dissenting Opinion in Texas v. Johnson | |
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Sexual Orientation and Gay Marriage | |
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Justice Byron White, Majority Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick | |
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Justice Anthony Kennedy, Majority Opinion in Lawrence v. Texas | |
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Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall | |
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Majority Opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health Justice | |
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Dissenting Opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health | |
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"Objections to These Unions" | |
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"The Libertarian Question" | |
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Rights and Responsibilities Theoretical Approaches | |
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From Leviathan | |
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From Second Treatise of Government | |
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From Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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From Utilitarianism Privacy | |
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"The Right to Privacy" | |
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From The Economics of Justice | |
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"Driving to the Panopticon: A Philosophical Exploration of the Risks to Privacy Posed by the Information Technology of the Future" | |
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"Liberal and Communitarian Defenses of Workplace Privacy" | |
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"Rationality and the Right to Privacy" Abortion Justice | |
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Majority Opinion in | |
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"A Defense of Abortion" | |
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"On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" Jane English | |
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"Abortion and the Concept of a Person" | |
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"Why Abortion Is Immoral" | |
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"Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion" | |
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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Matter of Quinlan | |
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"The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia" | |
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"The Morality of Euthanasia" | |
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"The Brief of the Amici Curiae" Chief Justice | |
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Majority Opinion in Washington v. Glucksberg et al. Capital Punishment | |
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From On Crimes and Punishment | |
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"The Right of Punishing" | |
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From "Reflections on the Guillotine" Justice | |
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Concurring Opinion in Furman v. Georgia Justices Stewart, Powell, and Stevens | |
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Majority Opinion in | |
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From The Death Penalty: A Debate | |
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"The Case against the Death Penalty" | |
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"Why the Death Penalty Works" War | |
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"Whether It Is Always Sinful to Wage War" | |
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From On the Law of War and Peace | |
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From On War | |
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Non-Violence in Various Aspects" | |
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From Just and Unjust Wars | |
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"Preventive War" | |
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Justice and Equality Theoretical Approaches Aristotle | |
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From Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle | |
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From Politics | |
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From Second Treatise of Government | |
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From Discourse on the Origin of Inequality | |
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From On the Social Contract | |
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From Manifesto of the Communist Party | |
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"Bread and Freedom" | |
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From A Theory of Justice | |
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From Anarchy, State, and Utopia Economic Equality | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Address | |
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"Egalitarian Justice: Equality as a Goal and Equality as a Right" | |
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"What Libertarianism Is" | |
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"Liberalism" | |
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"Welfare, Membership and Need" | |
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From Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 | |
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Michael Tanner and Stephen Moore | |
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"Why Welfare Pays" Racial Equality Chief | |
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Majority Opinion in Brown v. Board of Education Justice | |
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Majority Opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | |
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"The Disease as a Cure" | |
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From Blacks and Social Justice | |
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"''Affirmative Action'': A Worldwide Disaster" | |
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From The Shape of the River Chief Justice | |
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Majority Opinion in Gratz v. Bollinger Justice | |
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Majority Opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger Sexual Equality Justices | |
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Majority Opinion in United States v. Virginia et al. | |
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From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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"Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality" | |
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"Reconstructing Sexual Equality" | |
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From Who Stole Feminism? | |
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From Domestic Tranquility Asterisk denotes readings new to this edition | |