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| Foundations of Ethics | |
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| What is Ethics? Moral Relativism The Point and Scope of Morality Religion and Ethics Philosophical Moral Deliberation | |
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| Ethics and Consequences The Role of Consequences in Ethics | |
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| Kantian Ethics The Role of Intentions in Ethics Immanuel Kant, fromThe Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Contract Ethics How Ethics Could be Contractual Thomas Hobbes, fromThe Leviathan | |
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| fromA Theory of Justice | |
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| Virtue Ethics The Nature of Happiness: Human Excellences Aristotle, fromNichomachean Ethics | |
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| Natural Law Ethics The Natural Law Tradition | |
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| fromSumma Theologica Interlude: Reflections on theoretical disunity in ethics | |
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| Abortion Hard Question: Is Abortion a Moral Issue? Two Conceptual Issues in Abortion: Murder and Mother | |
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| "A Defense of Abortion" Don Marquis, "Why Abortion is Immoral" | |
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| Sex and Pornography Hard Question: Is Pornography Immoral? Ethics and Human Sexuality Ann Garry, "Sex, Lies, and Pornography" | |
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| "Homosexuality and the Unnaturalness Argument" | |
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| Euthanasia Hard Question: Is Killing People Wrong? Suicide and Euthanasia | |
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| "Active and Passive Euthanasia" David Velleman, "A Right to Self-Termination" | |
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| Capital Punishment Hard Question: What is Cruel and Unusual Punishment? Theories of Punishment | |
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| "An Abolitionist's Survey of the Death Penalty in America Today" Luis Pojman, "Why the Death Penalty is Morally Permissable" | |
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| War Hard Question: Is War Ever the Answer? Terrorism Jeff McMahan, "Innocence, Self-Defense and Killing in War" Michael Walzer, "Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses" | |
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| Toleration Hard question: Should We Tolerate Hate Speech on Campus? Tolerating the Intolerable Bernard Williams, "Toleration: An Impossible Virtue?" | |
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| "The Difficulty of Tolerance" | |
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| Forgiveness Hard Question: When Should We Forgive? The Moral Logic of Forgiveness | |
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| "Forgiveness and Resentment" Norvin Richards, "Forgiveness" | |
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| Animals Hard Question: Should We Eat Animals? Animals and Morality Peter Singer, fromAnimal Liberation | |
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| "A Critique of the Alleged Moral Basis of Vegetarianism" | |
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| Environmental Ethics Hard Question: Ought We to Respect Nature? Intrinsic Value and the Natural World | |
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| "Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic" William Baxter, "The Case for Optimal Pollution" | |
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| Global Ethics Hard Question: Am I responsible for World Poverty? Morality and Globalization | |
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| fromOne World Thomas Pogge, "World Poverty and Human Rights" | |
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| Feminist Ethics Hard Question: Are women from Venus and Men from Mars? Feminist Ethics and Moral Philosophy | |
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| fromCaring: A Feminine Approachto Ethics and Moral Education Virginia Held, fromFeminist Morality | |
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| Metaethics Hard Question: Could I Have Done Other than I Did? Moral Responsibility Moral Realism | |
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| "Moral Luck" J.L. Mackie, "The Subjectivity of Values" | |
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| Challenges to Ethics Hard Question: Why Be Moral? | |
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| fromRepublic Nietzsche, fromBeyond Good and Evil | |
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| Non-Western Ethics Hard Question: Is Ethics the Same Everywhere? Two Non-Western Ethical Traditions: Buddhism and Confucianism Buddhism Selections: "The Four Noble Truths," from theDhammapada Confucius, from theAnalects Amartya Sen, "Human Rights and Asian Values" | |
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| Appendix Etiquette and Ethics A Hard Ethical Question: What Is Plagiarism and Why Is It Wrong? | |
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| Credits | |