Right Thing to Do Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy

Name: Right Thing to Do Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780073407401

ISBN-10: 0073407402

ISBN-13: 9780073407401

Edition: 5th 2010

Authors: James Rachels, Stuart Rachels

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List price: $88.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

James Rachels is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birminghamand is widely respected in the field of moral philosophy. He is also the author of THE END OF LIFE: Euthanasia and Morality and CREATED FROM ANIMALS: The Moral Implications of Darwinism.



Contents are preliminary indicates new to this edition


Preface



A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy




Some Basic Points about Arguments




Utilitarianism




Utilitarianism and Integrity




The Experience Machine




The Subjectivity of Values




The Categorical Imperative




The Virtues




Master Morality and Slave Morality




Caring Relations and Principles of Justice




Why Abortion is Immoral




A Defense of Abortion




On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion / Postscript on Infanticide




All Animals Are Equal,Peter Singer Torturing Puppies and Eating Meat: It's All in Good Taste




Do Animals Have Rights?




9/11 and Starvation




The Singer Solution to World Poverty




The Ethics of War and Peace




Fifty Years After Hiroshima




What is Wrong with Terrorism?




The War on Terrorism and the End of Human Rights




Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb




A Defense of the Death Penalty




Why The United States Will Join the Rest of the World in Abandoning Capital Punishment




AmericaG++s Unjust Drug War




Is Homosexuality Unnatural?




Monogamy: A Critique




Our Sexual Ethics




Alcohol and Rape




Charges Against Prostitution




Letter from the Birmingham City Jail




Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary?




In Defense of Quotas




The Morality of Euthanasia




Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life?




The New Eugenics