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| Each chapter opens with an Introduction | |
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| Preface | |
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| Principal Aims | |
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| Some Ways to Use This Text | |
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| Sample Syllabi | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Moral Domain | |
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| Relativism, Skepticism and the Possibility of Moral Judgment | |
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| Tolstoy: After the Ball | |
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| Rachels: Against Relativism | |
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| Midgely: Being Judgmental and Moral Judgment | |
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| The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Accepting Differences | |
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| Tolerance | |
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| The Possibility of Real Moral Differences | |
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| Thin and Thick Moral Concepts (Williams) | |
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| Origins of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Glendon) | |
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| The Good Life, Reason and Tragic Conflict | |
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| Sophocles: Antigone | |
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| Socrates and Plato: from Apology, Phaedo, Euthyphro, Protagoras, Republic | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Why Go Back to the Cave? (Annas) | |
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| Simplification and Purity (Murdoch) | |
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| Plato's Basis for ""Strong Evaluation"" (Taylor) | |
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| The Good Life, Community and Plato's Totalitarianism (Popper) | |
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| The Good Life, Reason and Virtue | |
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| Aristotle: from The Nichomachean Ethics | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Ethical ""Science,"" Tragic Conflict and Human Vulnerability (Kraut, Nussbaum) | |
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| Moral Education (Sher and Bennett) | |
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| Community and Friendship (Cooper) | |
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| The Virtue of Generosity (Wallace) | |
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| Confucian Parallels (and Differences) (The Confucian School) | |
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| Morality and Religion | |
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| Psalm 1, Psalm 19 | |
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| Aquinas: from Summa Theologica: The Treatise On Law | |
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| Aquinas: from Summa Theologica: On Wisdom and Folly | |
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| Aquinas: The Principle of Double Effect (from de Malo) | |
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| The Story of Abraham and Issac (Gen. 22) | |
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| Duns Scotus: On Divine Commands and Divine Will (from the Ordinatio and the Reportatio, trans. Thomas Williams) | |
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| The Bhagavad Gita | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Further Points About Natural Law and Double Effect | |
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| Further Points About Divine Commands | |
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| Folly and the Death Camp Doctors (Stump) | |
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| Religious Worship and Moral Agency Are Incompatible (Rachels) | |
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| A Revised Divine Command Theory (Adams) | |
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| Double Effect, Abortion, Euthanasia (Matthews) | |
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| Double Effect, Warfare and Murder (Anscombe) | |
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| Stoicism and the Bhagavad Gita (Epictetus) | |
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| Evil, Vice and Reason | |
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| Dostoevsky: from The Brothers Karamazov | |
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| Nietzsche: Art and Morality, Aristocratic Morality, Suspicion of the Good/Evil Distinction | |
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| Albert Camus: The Human Crisis | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Good and Evil as ""Natural"" (Taylor) | |
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| Kinds of Evil and Wickedness (Benn) | |
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| The Banality of Evil (Arendt) | |
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| The Vice of Self-Deception (Johnson) | |
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| The Qualities of Vice and Punishment (Augustine, Dante) | |
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| Egoism, Reason and Morality | |
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| Golding: Lord of the Flies | |
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| Mencius and Hsun-Tzu: Whether Human Nature Is Inherently Good or Evil | |
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| Hobbes: from Leviathan | |
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| Butler: Sermon XI from Fifteen Sermons | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| The Unselfishness Trap (Browne) | |
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| Reason and Morality (Baier) | |
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| Rational Choice, Ethics and the Prisoner's Dilemma | |
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| Egoism, Altruism, and Biology | |
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| An Aristotelian Account of Reason, Egoism and Justice (Broadie) | |
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| Feeling, Reason and Morality | |
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| Mark Twain: from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| Hume: from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | |
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| Hume: from Treatise of Human Nature | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Emotivism, Prescriptivism, Noncognitivism, the Open-Question Argument | |
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| Sympathy, Moral Judgment and Morality (Bennett) | |
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| Sentiment and Sentimentality (Carroll) | |
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| The Education of Feelings | |
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| Projectivism (Blackburn) | |
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| Is/Ought, Facts and Values, and Institutional Facts (Searle) | |
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| Reason, Duty and Dignity | |
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| Trollope: from Dr. Wortle's School | |
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| Kant: from The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Prima Facie Duties and Conflict Between Duties (Ross) | |
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| Personal Goodness and Kantian Good Will (Sorell) | |
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| Kant on Sex and Using Persons Merely as Means (Singer) | |
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| Duties Toward Animals (Kant, Reagan) | |
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| Moral Development, Moral Education and Autonomy (Kohlberg) | |
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| Moral Principles and the Moral Focus of Women (Gilligan, Homiak) | |
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| Kantian Ethical Concepts and Discursive Reason (Habermas) | |
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| Rightness, Reason and Consequences | |
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| Dostoevsky: ""Reason,"" Consequences and Murder (from Crime and Punishment ) | |
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| Bentham: The Calculation of Pleasures and Pains (from The Principles of Morals and Legislation) | |
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| Mill: Utility, Higher and Lower Pleasures and Justice (from Utilitarianism) | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Criticisms of Utilitarianism (Williams) | |
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| A Defense of Utilitarianism (Hare) | |
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| Utilitarianism and Feeding the Hungry (Singer) | |
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| Under What Description? (Schick) | |
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| Social Justice and Utility (Rawls) | |
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| Justice and the Allocation of Medical Resources (Veatch) | |
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| Virtues, Narrative and Community: Some Recent Discussions | |
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| Wharton: from The House of Mirth | |
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| MacIntyre: Narrative, Human Action, and the Virtues (from After Virtue) | |
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| Further Discussion and Applications | |
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| Problems with Virtue Theories | |
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| Virtues and the Will (Roberts) | |
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| Applying Virtue Ethics (Hursthouse) | |
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| Virtue and Care for Natural Environments (Hill) | |
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| The People of Le Chambon (Hallie, Sauvage) | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Topical Index | |