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Ethics Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 0195127269

ISBN-13: 9780195127263

Edition: 2000

Authors: James P. Sterba

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Ethics: Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives offers students a unique introduction to ethics by integrating the historical development of Western moral philosophy with both feminist and multicultural approaches. Engaging and accessible, it provides an introductory sampling of several of the classical works of the Western tradition in ethics and then situates these readings within feminist and multicultural perspectives so that they can be better understood and evaluated in our contemporary environment. While some of the non-Western works parallel the views defended in the Western works (e.g., Confucius's work echoes that of Plato or Aristotle), others question…    
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List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 9.09" wide x 7.40" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English

Receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, James P. Sterba has gone on to publish (either as author or editor) many notable books, textbooks, and scholarly articles in the fields of ethics and social and political philosophy. He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Preface
General Introduction
Plato
Plato, The Republic
Julia Annas, Plato's Republic and Feminism
Confucius, The Analects
Aristotle and Musonius Rufus
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle, Politics
Musonius Rufus, Discourses
Eve Browning Cole, Women, Slaves, and "Love of Toil" in Aristotle's Moral Philosophy
Chuang Tzu, The Book of Chuang Tzu
Augustine
Augustine, The City of God
Augustine, Confessions
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Misogynism and Virginal Feminism in the Fathers of the Church
Jorge Valadez, Pre-Columbian Philosophical Perspectives
Aquinas and Christine De Pizan
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
Eleanor McLaughlin, Equality of Souls, Inequality of Sexes: Women in Medieval Theology
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
Hume
David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature
Annette C. Baier, Hume, the Women's Moral Theorist?
Ewe Proverbs
Kant
Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant, On the Sublime and the Beautiful
Rae Langton, Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant
The Bhagavad Gita
Mill and Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women
Maria H. Morales, Utility and Perfect Equality
Mo Tzu, Universal Love
Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Kathryn Pyne Addelson, Nietzsche and Moral Change
Mervyn Sprung, Nietzsche's Trans-European Eye
Sartre and De Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Elizabeth V. Spelman, Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who Does She Think "We" Is?
Eagle Man, We Are all Related
Rawls and Hare
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
R.M. Hare, The Structure of Ethics and Morals
Lynne S. Arnault, The Radical Future of Hare's Moral Theory
Ward Churchill, Perversions of Justice: A Native-American Examination of the Doctrine of U.S. Rights to Occupancy in North America
Macintyre and Nussbaum
Alasdair MacIntyre, The Nature of Virtues
Martha Nussbaum, Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach
Susan Okin, Whose Traditions?
Xiaorong Li, Gender Inequality in China and Cultural Relativism
Gewirth and Korsgaard
Alan Gewirth, The Justificatory Argument for Human Rights
Christine Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity
James P. Sterba, The Justification of Morality and the Behavior of Women
Moshoeshoe II, Harmony with Nature and Indigenous African Culture
Martin Luther King Jr. and Carol Gilligan
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream
Carol Gilligan, Moral Orientation and Moral Development
Concluding Feminist and Multicultural Postscript
Each section opens with an Introduction and concludes with Recommended Readings