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| Each chapter ends with "For Review" and "Exercises and Notes" sections | |
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| Preface | |
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| Embracing Ethics | |
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| Ethics as a Learning Experience | |
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| What Is Ethics? | |
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| Why Study Ethics? | |
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| Readings:: Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?"Ted Kerasote, from i | |
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| Bloodties/i | |
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| Ethics-Avoidance Disorders | |
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| Flying by Instinct | |
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| Offhand Self-Justification | |
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| Dogmatism | |
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| Relativism | |
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| Using Your Tools #1: "Is Food the New Sex?" | |
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| Readings:: Mary Eberstadt, "Is Food the New Sex?" | |
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| Maggie Castor, "Food and Sex Reconsidered" | |
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| Ethics and Religion | |
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| An Approach to Religious Ethics | |
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| Let the Stories Be Stories! | |
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| Thinking for Yourselfi | |
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| Reading:/i Jamal Rahman, "Making Peace with the Sword Verse" | |
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| Moral Values | |
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| Taking Values Seriously | |
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| Varieties of Values | |
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| Families of Moral Values | |
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| Attending to Valuesi | |
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| Reading:/i Rayna Rapp, "XYLO" | |
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| Using Your Tools #2: Values on the Edgei | |
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| Reading:/i Edward Abbey, "The Great American Desert" | |
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| The Ethics of the Person | |
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| Valuing Personsi | |
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| Reading:/i Philip Hallie, "Le Chambon" | |
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| Kant's Categorical Imperativei | |
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| Reading:/i Immanuel Kant, from i | |
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| Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals/i | |
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| Rights, Equality, Justicei | |
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| Reading:/i The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| The Ethics of Happiness | |
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| Hedonismi | |
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| Reading:/i Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, from i | |
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| Flow/i | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| Readings:: John Stuart Mill, from i | |
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| Utilitarianism/i | |
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| Bertrand Russell, from "The Harm That Good Men Do" | |
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| Can Utility Be the Single Measure of Value? | |
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| Using Your Tools #3: A Utilitarian Approach to Povertyi | |
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| Reading:/i Peter Singer, "The Solution to World Poverty" | |
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| The Ethics of Virtue | |
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| An Abundance of Virtues | |
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| A Greek View of Virtuei | |
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| Reading:/i Aristotle, from i | |
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| Nicomachean Ethics/i | |
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| A Chinese View of Virtuei | |
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| Reading:/i Lao Tzu, from the i | |
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| Tao Te Ching/i | |
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| Cultivating the Virtuesi | |
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| Reading:/i John Sullivan, from i | |
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| Living Large/i | |
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| The Ethics of Relationship | |
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| Care Ethicsi | |
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| Reading:/i Nel Noddings, from i | |
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| Caring/i | |
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| Ethics and Communityi | |
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| Reading:/i Kwasi Wiredu, from "The Moral Foundations of an African Culture" | |
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| The Expanding Circlei | |
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| Reading:/i Aldo Leopold, from "The Land Ethic" | |
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| Using Your Tools #4: Building a Student Code of Ethics | |
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| Skills for Ethical Practice | |
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| Critical Thinking | |
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| Facts and Sources | |
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| Inferences | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Quick Reference: Critical-Thinking Basics | |
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| Judging Like Cases Alike | |
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| Consistency Is a Challenge | |
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| How to Restore Consistency | |
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| Hypothetical Casesi | |
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| Reading:/i Colin McGinn, "Speciesism" | |
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| Quick Reference: Judging Like Cases Alike: Using Your Tools #5: Exploring the Welfare Question | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| How to Have a Fruitless Debate | |
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| How to Have a Useful Discussion | |
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| Readings:: Mary Jacksteit and Adrienne Kaufmann, "The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice" | |
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| Spoma Jovanovic, "Deepening Ethical Dialogue" | |
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| Quick Reference: Ethical Dialogue | |
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| When Values Clash | |
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| Right versus Right | |
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| Integrating Values | |
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| Big Decisionsi | |
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| Reading:/i Roger Gottlieb, "Can We Talk? Understanding the 'Other Side" in the Animal Rights Debates" | |
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| Quick Reference: When Values Clash: Using Your Tools #6: Can We Talk . . . about Marriage," Martin Fowler | |
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| Creative Problem-Solving | |
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| The Space for Inventiveness in Ethics | |
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| Creative Explorations | |
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| Creative Provocations | |
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| Quick Reference: Creativity Basics | |
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| Reframing Problems | |
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| Opening Up a Problem | |
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| Reading: Fran Peavey, "Strategic Questioning"Three Methods | |
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| Can the Abortion Debate be Reframed? | |
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| Quick Reference: Reframing Problems: Using Your Tools #7: Reframing Bioethical Issues: Or, Where Ethics Meets Politics | |
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| Moral Vision | |
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| Working from a Vision | |
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| Environmental Visionsi | |
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| Reading:/i Bill Thomas, from i | |
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| What Are Old People For?/i | |
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| Quick Reference: Moral Vision | |
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| Challenges | |
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| Response-ability | |
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| Self-Possession | |
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| Sexual Choices | |
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| Readings:: Keith Clark, from i | |
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| Being Sexual and Celibate/i | |
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| Carol Queen, from i | |
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| Real Live Nude Girl/i | |
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| Eating | |
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| Using Your Tools #8: Personal Ethical Mission Statements, by Nim Batchelor | |
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| Making a Difference | |
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| The Power of One | |
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| Becoming a Change-Maker | |
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| Communities Making Change | |
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| Joining a Change-Making Community | |
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| The Future of Ethics | |
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| Three Doubts about Ethics | |
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| Ethics Is Inescapable | |
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| Turning Criticali | |
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| Reading:/i William McDonough, "Design for a New World"Using Your Tools #9: Ethical Change Projects | |
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| The Toolbox in the Classroom | |
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| Experiential Teaching in Ethics, by Sharon Hartline, Department of Philosophy and Religion, i | |
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| Radford University/i | |