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| Thinking About Ethics | |
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| Ethics and Critical Thinking | |
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| Studying Ethics | |
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| God's Commandments and Ethics | |
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| Religion and Ethics | |
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| Reading: Plato,Euthyphro | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Ethics and Reason | |
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| Reasoning about Ethics | |
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| Elements of Kantian Ethics | |
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| Criticisms of Kantian Ethics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Kant,Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Ethics and Emotions | |
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| Follow Your Reason or Follow Your Heart? | |
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| Objective and Subjective Feelings | |
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| Intuitionism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Hume,A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Utilitarian Ethics | |
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| Utilitarian Theory | |
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| Act- vs. Rule-Utilitarians | |
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| Utiliatarians and the Quality of Pleasures | |
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| Criticisms of Utilitarian Ethics | |
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| Nozick�s Challenge to Utilitarian Ethics | |
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| The Uses of Utilitarian Ethics | |
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| Opposition to Utilitarianism | |
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| Reading: Bentham,An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | |
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| Reading: Mill,What Utilitarianism Is | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Social Contract Ethics | |
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| Framing the Social Contract | |
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| Fairness and Social Contract Theory: John Rawls | |
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| Gauthier's Contractarian Ethics | |
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| The Social Contract Myth and its Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Hobbes,Leviathan | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Egoism, Relativism, and Pragmatism | |
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| Egoism | |
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| Relativism | |
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| Pragmatism | |
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| Readings: Rorty,Philosophy and Social Hope | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Virtue Ethics | |
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| The Distinctive Focus of Virtue Ethics | |
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| The Strengths of Virtue Ethics | |
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| Criticisms of Virtue Theory | |
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| Virtue Theory and Medicine | |
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| Reading: Aristotle,Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Care Ethics | |
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| The Neglect of Women's Ethical Views | |
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| The Care Perspectives on Ethics | |
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| Women and Ethics | |
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| Reading: Baier,The Need for More than Justice | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Scope of Morality | |
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| Who is Due Moral Consideration? | |
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| Moral Agents | |
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| Darwin and the Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals | |
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| Reading: Darwin,The Descent of Man | |
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| Reading: Frans de Waal,Primates and Philosophers | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Ethical NonObjectivism | |
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| The Nature of Ethical Nonobjectivism | |
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| Arguments for Ethical Nonobjectivism | |
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| The Continuing Struggle Between Objectivists and Nonobjectivists | |
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| Reading: Ayer,Language, Truth, and Logic | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Moral Realism | |
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| Contemporary Moral Realism | |
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| Moral Realism and the Argument from Simplicity | |
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| Moral Facts and Scientific Revolutions | |
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| Two Ways that Moral Realism Might Fail | |
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| Reading: Smith,Realism | |
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| Exercises | |
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| How Hard is Ethics? | |
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| The Demands of Ethical Living | |
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| Comparing Ethical Systems on the Basis of Difficulty | |
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| Duty and Feelings | |
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| Reading: Mencius,Book of Mencius | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Free Will | |
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| Determinism | |
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| Fatalism | |
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| Determinism and Free Will | |
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| Libertarian Free Will and the Rejection of Determinism | |
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| Reading: Wolf,Asymmetrical Freedom | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Freedom, Moral Responsibility, and Ethics | |
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| Types of Responsibility | |
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| Moral Responsibility and the Utility of Punishment | |
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| Conditions for Moral Responsibility | |
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| Moral Responsibility and Ethics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Nagel,Moral Luck | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Death Penalty | |
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| The Death Penalty Should Be Abolished � Stephen Bright | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Homose | |
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| What A | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |