Ethical Life Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems

Name: Ethical Life Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems
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ISBN: 9780195377699

ISBN-10: 0195377699

ISBN-13: 9780195377699

Edition: 2010

Authors: Russ Shafer-Landau

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Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring thirty-nine readings divided into four parts--Value Theory, Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Problems--it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range of moral issues. The essays include selections from such historically influential philosophers as Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill alongside work by contemporary philosophers like Philippa Foot, Robert Nozick, Peter Singer, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Detailed section and reading introductions provide helpful contextual information.…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on the Companion Volume


Help for Students and Instructors


Introduction



Value Theory: The Nature Of The Good Life



Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus



Hedonism




Brave New World




The Experience Machine




The Meaning of Life




Necessities




Normative Ethics: Theories Of Right Conduct



Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism




The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative




Leviathan




Natural Goodness




Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle



What Makes Right Acts Right?




What Is Feminist Ethics?




Metaethics: The Status Of Morality



Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason




The Subjectivity of Values




Ethics and Observation




Trying Out One's New Sword




Realism




Renford Bambrough, Proof



Moral Problems



The Singer Solution to World Poverty




Paid Surrogacy: Arguments and Responses




Playing God: Genes, Clones, and Luck




The Morality of Euthanasia




The Survival Lottery




Unsanctifying Human Life




People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution




A Defense of Abortion




Why Abortion Is Immoral




The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn




Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses




Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb




Letter from Birmingham City Jail




Justifying Legal Punishment




An Eye for an Eye?




America's Unjust Drug War




Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality




Adultery




Licensing Parents




What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?