The Ethical Life
Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 November 2009
- ISBN 9780195377699
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 209x140x16 mm
- Weight 417 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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 historically influential philosophers alongside work by
contemporary philosophers. Designed as a companion reader to Russ Shafer-Landau's textbook, The Fundamentals of Ethics, The Ethical Life is also comprehensive enough to be used on its own.
Long description:
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. Designed as a companion reader to Russ Shafer-Landau's textbook, The Fundamentals of
Ethics, The Ethical Life is also comprehensive enough to be used on its own. The book is enhanced by an Instructor's Manual and Testbank on CD and a Companion Website for students and instructors.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE. VALUE THEORY: THE NATURE OF THE GOOD LIFE
1. <i>Epicurus,</i> Letter to Menoeceus
2. <i>John Stuart Mill,</i> Hedonism
3. <i>Aldous Huxley,</i> Brave New World
4. <i>Robert Nozick,</i> The Experience Machine
5. <i>Richard Taylor,</i> The Meaning of Life
6. <i>Jean Kazez,</i> Necessities
PART TWO. NORMATIVE ETHICS: THEORIES OF RIGHT CONDUCT
7. <i>J.J.C. Smart,</i> Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism
8. <i>Immanuel Kant,</i> The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative
9. <i>Thomas Hobbes,</i> Leviathan
10. <i>Philippa Foot,</i> Natural Goodness
11. <i>Aristotle,</i> Nicomachean Ethics
12. <i>W.D. Ross,</i> What Makes Right Acts Right?
13. <i>Hilde Lindemann,</i> What Is Feminist Ethics?
PART THREE. METAETHICS: THE STATUS OF MORALITY
14. <i>David Hume,</i> Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason
15. <i>J.L. Mackie,</i> The Subjectivity of Values
16. <i>Gilbert Harman,</i> Ethics and Observation
17. <i>Mary Midgley,</i> Trying Out One's New Sword
18. <i>Michael Smith,</i> Realism
19. <i>Renford Bambrough,</i> Proof
PART FOUR. MORAL PROBLEMS
20. <i>Peter Singer,</i> The Singer Solution to World Poverty
21. <i>Heidi Malm,</i> Paid Surrogacy: Arguments and Responses
22. <i>Ronald Dworkin, Playing God: Genes, Clones, and Luck
23. <i>James Rachels,</i> The Morality of Euthanasia
24. <i>John Harris,</i> The Survival Lottery
25. <i>Peter Singer,</i> Unsanctifying Human Life
26. <i>William F. Baxter,</i> People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution
27. <i>Judith Jarvis Thomson,</i> A Defense of Abortion
28. <i>Don Marquis,</i> Why Abortion Is Immoral
29. <i>Jonathan Bennett,</i> The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
30. <i>Michael Walzer,</i> Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses
31. <i>David Luban,</i> Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb
32. <i>Martin Luther King, Jr.,</i> Letter from Birmingham City Jail
33. <i>Igor Primoratz,</i> Justifying Legal Punishment
34. <i>Stephen Nathanson,</i> An Eye for an Eye?
35. <i>Michael Huemer,</i> America's Unjust Drug War
36. <i>John Corvino,</i> Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy Have Sex?: A Defense of Homosexuality
37. <i>Bonnie Steinbock,</i> Adultery
38. <i>Hugh LaFollette,</i> Licensing Parents
39. <i>Jane English,</i> What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?
