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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fundamental Issues in Morality | |
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| Is Moral Relativism Correct? | |
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| Yes: Gilbert Harman, from "Moral Relativism," in Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson, eds., Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Blackwell, 1996) | |
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| No: Louis P. Pojman, from "The Case Against Moral Relativism," in Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn, eds., The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (Oxford University-Press, 2007) | |
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| Does Morality Need Religion? | |
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| Yes: C. Stephen Layman, from The Shape of the Good: Christian Reflections on the Foundations of Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 1991) | |
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| No: John Arthur, from "Religion, Morality, and Conscience," in John Arthur, ed., Morality and Moral Controversies, 4th ed. (Prentice Hall, 1996) | |
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| Gender, Sex, And Reproduction | |
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| Must Sex Involve Commitment? | |
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| Yes: Vincent C. Punzo, from Reflective Naturalism (Macmillan, 1969) | |
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| No: Alan H. Goldman, from "Plain Sex," Philosophy and Public Affairs (Spring 1977) | |
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| Is Abortion Immoral? | |
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| Yes: Don Marquis, from "Why Abortion Is Immoral/' The Journal \ of Philosophy (April 1989) | |
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| No: Margaret Olivia Little, from "The Moral Permissibility of Abortion," in Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman, eds, Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) | |
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| Is It Right to Prohibit Same-Sex Marriage? | |
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| Yes: Jeff Jordan, from "Is It Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?" Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 1995) | |
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| No: David Boonin, from "Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument from Public Disagreement," Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 2 (Summer 1999) | |
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| Should Human Cloning Be Banned? | |
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| Yes: Michael J. Sandel, from "The Ethical Implications of Human Cloning," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Spring 2005) | |
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| No: John A. Robertson, from "Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation," The New England Journal of Medicine (July 9, 1998) | |
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| Law and Society | |
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| Is Cloning Pets Ethically Justified? | |
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| Yes: Autumn Fiester, from "Creating Fido's Twin: Can Pet Cloning Be Ethically Justified?" Hastings Center Report (July/ August 2005) | |
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| No: Hilary Bok, from "Cloning Companion Animals Is Wrong," Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (vol. 5, no. 3, 2002) | |
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| Should Congress Allow the Buying and Selling of Human Organs? | |
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| Yes: Lewis Burrows, from "Selling Organs for Transplantation," The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine (September 2004) | |
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| No: James F. Childress, from "Should Congress Allow the Buying and Selling of Human Organs? No," Insight on the News (May 7, 2001) | |
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| Should Drags Be Legalized? | |
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| Yes: Meaghan Cussen and Walter Block, from "Legalize Drugs Now! An Analysis of the Benefits of Legalized Drugs," American Journal of Economics and Sociology (July 2000) | |
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| No: Theodore Dalrymple, from "Don't Legalize Drugs," cjonline.com {The City Journal) (Spring 1997) | |
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| Is Price Gouging Wrong? | |
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| Yes: Jeremy Snyder, from "What's the Matter with Price Gouging?" Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2 (April 2009) 184 | |
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| No: Matt Zwolinski, from "Price Gouging, Non-Worseness, and Distributive Justice," Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2 (April 2009) | |
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| Is Affirmative Action Fair? | |
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| If Yes: Albert G. Mosley, from "Affirmative Action: Pro," in Albert G. Mosley and Nicholas Capaldi, eds., Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Unfair Preference? (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996) | |
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| No: Louis P. Pojman, from "The Case Against Affirmative Action," International Journal of Applied Philosophy (Spring 1998) | |
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| Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished? | |
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| Yes: Michael Welch, from Punishment in America: Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment (Sage, 1999) | |
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| No: Ernest van den Haag, from "The Death Penalty Once More," U.C. Davis Law Review (Summer 1985) | |
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| Is Torture Ever Justified? | |
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| Yes: Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, from "Not Enough Official. Torture in the World?" University of San Francisco Law Review (Spring 2005) | |
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| No: Philip E. Devine, from "What's Wrong with Torture?" International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 49 (Septem-ber 2009) | |
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| Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Wrong? | |
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| Yes: Richard Doerglinger, from "Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life?" Hastings Center Report (January/February 1989) | |
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| No: David T. Watts and Timothy Howell, from "Assisted Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (October 1992) | |
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| Human Beings and Other Species | |
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| Does Morality Require Vegetarianism? | |
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| Yes: Michael Allen Fox from "Why We Should Be Vegetarians," International Journal of Applied Philosophy (vol. 20, no. 2, 2006) | |
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| No: Holmes Rolston 111, from Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World (Temple University Press, 1988) | |
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| Contributors | |