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Preface | |
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Ethical Theories | |
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Classical Theories | |
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Immanual Kant: Deontological Ethics | |
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John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism | |
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Thomas Hobbes: Contractual Ethics | |
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Relativism and Objectivism | |
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Herodotus: Custom Is King | |
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Ruth Benedict: A Defense of Ethical Relativism | |
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Louis P. Pojman: A Defense of Ethical Objectivism | |
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The Sanctity of Life and the Quality of Life | |
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The Bible: Genesis and Psalm 8: The Devine Creation of Humanity | |
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Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life | |
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Jonathan Glover: Against the Sanctity of Life Doctrine | |
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H. Tristram Englehardt, Jr.: The Sanctity of Life and the Concept of a Person | |
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Daniel Callahan: The Sanctity of Life Principle: The New Consensus | |
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Death and the Meaning of Life | |
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Plato: Death and Immortality | |
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Epicurus: Death Is Nothing to Us | |
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Richard Taylor: Does Life Have a Meaning? | |
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Lois Hope Walker: Religion and the Meaning of Life and Death | |
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Jeffrie Murphy: Rationality and the Fear of Death | |
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Prasannatma Das: A Hindu Theory of Life and Death | |
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Suicide | |
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Thomas Aquinas: Suicide Is Unnatural and Immoral | |
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David Hume: On the Naturalness of Suicide | |
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Albert Camus: Life Is Absurd | |
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Richard Brandt: On the Morality and Rationality of Suicide | |
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Margaret Pabst Battin: Suicide: A Fundamental Right? | |
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Euthanasia | |
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Yale Kamisar: Against Legalizing Euthanasia | |
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Glanville Williams: For Legalizing Euthanasia: A Rejoinder | |
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James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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Thomas D. Sullivan: Active and Passive Euthanasia: An Impertinent Distinction? | |
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The Oregon Law on the Right to Die | |
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What Is Death? The Crisis of Criteria | |
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Robert M. Veatch: Defining Death Anew | |
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David J. Mayo and Daniel Wikler: Euthanasia and the Transition from Life to Death | |
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Abortion | |
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John T. Noonan, Jr.: Abortion Is Morally Wrong | |
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Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion | |
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Baruch Brody: Against an Absolute Right to Abortion | |
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Mary Anne Warren: The Personhood Argument in Favor of Abortion | |
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Harry J. Gensler: The Golden Rule Argument Against Abortion | |
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Don Marquis: Why Abortion Is Immoral | |
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Gerald H. Paske: Abortion and the Neo-Natal Right to Life: A Critique of Marquis's Futurist Argument | |
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Human Cloning | |
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Leon R. Kass: The Wisdom of Repugnance | |
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National Bioethics Advisory Board: Against Cloning Human Beings | |
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Richard Lewontin: The Confusion over Cloning | |
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Gregory E. Pence: Will Cloning Harm People? | |
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The Death Penalty | |
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Immanual Kant: Retributivism: The Right to Capital Punishment | |
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Thurgood Marshall: The Death Penalty Is a Denial of Human Dignity | |
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Burton Leiser: A Retributivist Justification of the Death Penalty | |
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Hugo Adam Bedau: Against Retributive Justification of the Death Penalty | |
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Sidney Hook: The Death Sentence: Limited Use | |
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Ernest van den Haag and Louis Schwartz: The Death Penalty: Pro and Con | |
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Animal Rights | |
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Immanual Kant: We Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals | |
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Peter Singer: All Animals Are Equal | |
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R. G. Frey: A Utilitarian Critique of Animal Rights | |
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Tom Regan: The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights | |
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Robert White: The Case for Animal Experimentation | |
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Tom Regan: The Case Against Animal Experimentation | |
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Mary Anne Warren: Difficulties with the Strong Animal Rights Position | |
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Carl Cohen: The Case Against Animal Rights | |
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James Rachels: Vegetarianism and "The Other Weight Problem" | |
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War | |
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Robert Phillips: Just War Theory | |
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Jan Narveson: A Critique of Pacifism | |
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Cheyney Ryan: A Defense of Pacifism | |
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The U.S. Catholics Bishops: Against the Use of Nuclear Weapons | |
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Charles Krauthammer: On Nuclear Morality | |
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Douglas Lackey: Missiles and Morals | |
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William James: The Moral Equivalent of War | |
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World Hunger | |
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Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor | |
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William Murdoch and Allen Oaten: Population and Food: Metaphors and the Reality | |
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Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
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Richard Watson: Reason and Morality in a World of Limited Food | |
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John Arthur: Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code | |