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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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| "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 | |