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Preface | |
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Acknowledgement | |
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Good and Evil | |
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From Cruelty to Goodness | |
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The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn | |
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The Evil That Men Think�And Do | |
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Facing the Extreme: The War of All Against All | |
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Strategies for Survival | |
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The Perils of Obedience | |
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The Moral Insight | |
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Billy Budd | |
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Beyond Good and Evil | |
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Is It All Relative? | |
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Morality As Custom | |
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A Defense of Moral Relativism | |
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A Defense of Cultural Relativism | |
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Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights | |
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Female Circumcision/Genital Mutilation and Ethical Relativism | |
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An Alternative to Moral Relativism | |
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Who's to Judge? | |
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The Objective Basis of Morality | |
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The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule | |
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I Have a Dream | |
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The United Nations Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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Morality and Self-Interest | |
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The Ring of Gyges | |
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Of the State of Men without Civil Society | |
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Of Self-Love | |
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The Unselfishness Trap | |
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Egoism and Moral Skepticism | |
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The Virtue of Selfishness | |
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Egoism, Self-Interest, and Altruism | |
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Why Not Be a Bad Person? | |
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Why Act Morally? | |
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Moral Doctrines and Moral Theories | |
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The Judeo-Christian Tradition | |
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Morality Is Based on God's Commands | |
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Why Morality Does Not Depend on Religion | |
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Of Benevolence.John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism | |
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A Critique of Utilitarianism | |
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The Survival Lottery | |
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
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Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative | |
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The Holocaust and Moral Philosophy | |
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A Critique of Kantianism | |
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Virtue | |
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Aristotle: Happiness and the Virtues | |
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Virtue and the Human Soul | |
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Epictetus: The Art of Living | |
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The World of Epictetus | |
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Virtue or Duty? | |
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Tradition and the Virtues | |
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Virtues and Vices | |
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The Ethics of Virtue | |
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Of Justice and Beneficence | |
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The Origin of the Moral Sense | |
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Vice | |
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Plutarch: Vice | |
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The Depths of Vice | |
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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The Hypocrites | |
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Self-Deception | |
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Upon Self-Deceit | |
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Jealousy, Envy, and Spite | |
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? A Parable on Greed | |
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Morality and Social Policy | |
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Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
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World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case against Singer | |
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The Parable of the Sadhu | |
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“For Heaven's Sake, Please Stop the Aid“! | |
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An Almost Absolute Value in History | |
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | |
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A Defense of Abortion | |
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Why Abortion Is Immoral | |
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On Duties to Animals | |
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Down on the Factory Farm | |
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Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases | |
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An Animal's Place | |
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Case Against Animal Rights | |
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Affirmative Action and Fairness | |
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What Is Wrong with Affirmative Action? | |
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The Meaning of Life | |
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Substance, Shadow, and Spirit The Bhagavad Gita | |
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My Confession | |
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A Free Man's Worship | |
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The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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The Meaning of Life | |
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The Thoughtful Love of Life | |
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Existentialism Is Humanism | |
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Absurd Self-Fulfillment | |
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The Human Search for Meaning The Book of Job | |
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