The Moral Life
An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature
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Product details:
- Edition number 3
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 4 September 2008
- ISBN 9780195308518
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages1024 pages
- Size 210x140 mm
- Weight 10 g
- Language English 0
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Featuring new selections chosen by coeditor Lewis Vaughn, the third edition of Louis P. Pojman's The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature brings together an extensive and varied collection of ninety-one classical and contemporary readings on ethical theory and practice. Integrating literature with philosophy in an innovative way, the book uses literary works to enliven and make concrete the ethical theory or applied issues addressed in each chapter.
Literary works by Camus, Hawthorne, Hugo, Huxley, Ibsen, Le Guin, Melville, Orwell, Styron, Tolstoy, and many others lead students into such philosophical concepts and issues as relativism; utilitarianism; virtue ethics; the meaning of life; freedom and autonomy; sex, love, and marriage; animal rights; and
terrorism. Once introduced, these topics are developed further through readings by philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nozick, Singer, and Sartre. This unique anthology emphasizes the personal dimension of ethics, which is often ignored or minimized in ethics texts. It also incorporates chapter introductions, study questions, suggestions for further reading, and biographical sketches of the writers.
The third edition brings the collection up-to-date, adding selections by Jane English, William Frankena, Don Marquis, John Stuart Mill, Mary Midgley, Thomas Nagel, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and J.O. Urmson. It also features a new chapter on euthanasia with essays by Dan W. Brock, J. Gay-Williams, and James Rachels. Ideal for introductory ethics courses, The Moral Life, Third Edition, also provides an engaging gateway into personal and social ethics for general readers.
Table of Contents:
*=New to this edition
Each chapter ends with Further Readings.
PART I. THE NATURE OF MORALITY: Good and Evil
1. What Is the Purpose of Morality?
William Golding, Lord of the Flies: A Moral Allegory
Louis P. Pojman, On the Nature and Purpose of Morality: Reflections on William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Thomas Hobbes
2. Good and Evil
Herman Melville
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Styron
Kevin Bales
Philip Hallie
Stanley Benn
Friedrich Nietzsche
Richard Taylor
3. Is Everything Relative?
Herodotus
Ruth Benedict
Louis P. Pojman
Jean Bethke Elshtain
* Mary Midgley
Henrick Ibsen
PART II. MORAL THEORIES AND MORAL CHARACTER
4. Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
* John Stuart Mill
Kai Nielsen
Bernard Williams
Ursula Le Guin
Aldous Huxley
5. Deontological Ethics
Immanuel Kant
* William K. Frankena
W. D. Ross
R. M. MacIver
Richard Whatley
Ambrose Bierce
Charles Fried
Plato
Thomas Nagel
6. Virtue Ethics
Victor Hugo
Aristotle
Bernard Mayo
* J.O. Urmson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Frankena
7. Virtues and Vices
Jesus of Nazareth
Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need? Greed
Immanuel Kant
Martin Gansberg
Helen Keller, Three Days to See: Gratitude
Epictetus and Others
Plutarch, In Consolation to His Wife: Equanimity
Vice Admiral James Stockdale, The World of Epictetus: Courage and Endurance
Bertrand Russell
PART III. MORAL ISSUES
8. Ethics and Egoism: Why Should We Be Moral?
Plato
Ayn Rand
Louis P. Pojman
James Rachels
9. Does Life Have Meaning?
Voltaire
Epicurus
Albert Camus
Lois Hope Walker
Viktor Frankl, The Human Search for Meaning: Reflections on Auschwitz
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Robert Nozick
10. Freedom, Autonomy, and Self-Respect
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou
Stanley Milgram
Jean-Paul Sartre
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut
PART IV. APPLIED ETHICS: Moral Problems
11. Sex, Love, and Marriage
John Barth
Immanuel Kant
John McMurtry, Monogamy: A Critique
Michael D. Bayles, Marriage, Love, and Procreation: A Critique of McMurtry
Bonnie Steinbock
C. S. Lewis
* Jane English
12. Is Abortion Morally Permissible?
* Don Marquis
* Judith Jarvis Thomson
Mary Anne Warren
Jane English, The Moderate Position: Beyond the Personhood Argument
* 13. The Morality of Euthanasia
* Dan W. Brock
* J. Gay-Williams
* James Rachels
14. Our Duties to Animals
George Orwell
Immanuel Kant
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: All Animals Are Equal
Carl Cohen
15. Our Duties to the Environment
Sophocles
Robert Heilbroner
Garrett Hardin
William F. Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution
16. International Justice and the Threat of Terrorism
God's Command to Destroy Jericho and Ai
Martha C. Nussbaum
Louis P. Pojman
* Thomas Nagel
