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| Preface | |
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| Ethical Theories | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Egoism and Moral Skepticism | |
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| Religion, Morality, and Conscience | |
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| The Natural Law | |
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| Morality is based on Sentiment | |
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| Trying Out One's New Sword | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| The Categorical Imperative | |
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| Happiness and Virtue | |
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| A Theory of Justice | |
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| What is Feminist Ethics? | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court: Excerpts from Roe v. Wade (1973) | |
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| An Almost Absolute Value in History | |
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| A Defense of Abortion | |
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| On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | |
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| An Argument that Abortion is Wrong | |
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| The Egg and I: Conception, Identity, and Abortion | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Euthanasia And The Duty To Die | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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| The Intentional Termination of Life | |
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| Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
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| Is There a Duty to Die? | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Capital Punishment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court: Gregg v. Georgia (1976) | |
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| Immanuel Kant: The Retributive Theory of Punishment | |
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| Ernest van den Haag: The Ultimate Punishment | |
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| Jeffrey H. Reiman: Against the Death Penalty | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Same-Sex Marriage | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Is it Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality? | |
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| Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument From | |
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| Public Disagreement | |
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| Who Needs Marriage? | |
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| What Marriage is For | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Animal Liberation And Vegetarianism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Our Duties to Animals | |
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| All Animals Are Equal | |
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| Speciesism and the Idea of Equality | |
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| Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating | |
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| Meat and Marginal Cases | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| World Poverty And Hunger | |
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| Introduction | |
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| World Poverty and Hunger | |
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| Antipoverty Warriors | |
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| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
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| Living on a Lifeboat | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Financial Crisis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Descent of Money | |
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| From Financial Crisis to World Slump | |
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| The Return of Depression Economics | |
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| Meet the Hazzards | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| War And Terrorism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Pacifism | |
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| Just War Principles | |
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| The Slippery Slope to Preventive War | |
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| The Terrorist's Tacit Message | |
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| What Is Wrong with Terrorism? | |
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| The War on Terrorism and the End of Human Rights | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Torture | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Case for Torturing the Ticking Bomb TerroriSt | |
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| Liberalism, Torture and the Ticking Bomb | |
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| The Case for Dirty Harry and against Alan Dershowitz | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Assassination | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rethinking the Ban on Assassination: Just War Principles in the Age of Terror | |
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| Targeted Killing | |
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| Problem Cases | |
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| Suggested Readings | |