| Preface | |
| About the Fourth Edition | |
| What Is Morality? | |
| The Problem Of Definition | |
| First Example | |
| Baby Theresa | |
| Second Example | |
| Jodie and Mary | |
| Third Example | |
| Tracy LatimerReason and Impartiality | |
| The Minimum Conception of Morality | |
| The Challenge Of Cultural Relativism | |
| How Different Societies Have Different Moral Codes | |
| Cultural Relativism | |
| The Cultural Differences Argument | |
| The Consequences of Taking Cultural Relativism Seriously | |
| Why There is Less Disagreement than it Seems | |
| How All Cultures Have Some Values in Common | |
| Judging a Cultural Practice to be Undesirable | |
| What Can be Learned from Cultural Relativism | |
| Subjectivism In Ethics the | |
| Basic Idea of Ethical Subjectivism | |
| The Evolution of the Theory | |
| The First Stage | |
| Simple Subjectivism | |
| The Second Stage | |
| Emotivism | |
| Are There Any Moral Facts? | |
| Are There Proofs in Ethics? | |
| The Question of Homosexuality | |
| Does Morality Depend On Religion? | |
| The Presumed Connection Between Morality and Religion | |
| The Divine Command Theory | |
| The Theory of Natural Law | |
| Religion and Particular Moral Issues | |
| Psycholological Egoism | |
| is Unselfishness Possible? | |
| The Strategy of Reinterpreting Motives | |
| Two Arguments in Favor of Psychological Egoism | |
| Clearing Away Some Confusions | |
| The Deepest Error in Psychological Egoism | |
| Ethical Egoismis | |
| There a Duty to Help Starving People? | |
| Three Arguments in Favor of Ethical Egoism | |
| Three Arguments Against Ethical Egoism | |
| The Utilitarian Approach | |
| The Revolution in Ethics | |
| First Example: Euthanasia | |
| Second Example: Nonhuman Animals | |
| The Debate Over Utilitarianism | |
| The Classical Version of the Theory | |
| Is Happiness the Only Thing That Matters? | |
| Are Consequences All That Matter? | |
| Should We be Equally Concerned for Everyone? | |
| The Defense of Utilitarianism | |
| Are There Any Absolute Moral Rules? | |
| Harry Truman and Elizabeth Anscombe | |
| The Categorical Imperative | |
| Absolute Rules and the Duty Not to Lie | |
| Conflicts Between Rules | |
| Another Look at Kant's Basic Idea | |
| Kant And Respect For Persons | |
| The Idea of Human Dignity | |
| Retribution and Utility in the Theory of Punishment | |
| Kant's Retributivism | |
| the Idea Of A Social Contract | |
| Hobbes's Argument | |
| The Prisoner's Dilemma | |
| Some Advantages of the Social Contract Theory of Morals | |
| The Problem of Civil Disobedience | |
| Feminism And The Ethics Of Care | |
| Do Women and Men Think Differently About Ethics? | |
| Implications for Moral Judgment | |
| Implications for Ethical Theory | |
| The Ethics Of Virtue | |
| The Ethics of Virtue and the Ethics of Right Action | |
| The Virtues | |
| Some Advantages of Virtue Ethics | |
| The Problem of Incompleteness | |
| What Would A Satisfactory Moral Theory Be Like? | |
| Morality Without Hubris | |
| Treating People as They Deserve and Other Motives | |
| Multiple-Strategies Utilitarianism | |
| The Moral Community | |
| Justice and Fairness | |
| Conclusion | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
| Notes on Sources | |
| Index | |
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