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_beng
050 0 0 _aBJ1012
_b.S428 2010
245 0 4 _aThe ethical life :
_bfundamental readings in ethics and moral problems /
_c[edited by] Russ Shafer-Landau.
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2010.
300 _aviii, 408 p. :
_c21 cm.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Value theory : the nature of the good life. Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus -- John Stuart Mill, Hedonism -- Aldous Huxley, Brave new world -- Robert Nozick, The experience machine -- Richard Taylor, The meaning of life -- Jean Kazez, Necessities -- Normative ethics : theories of right conduct. J.J.C. Smart, Extreme and restricted utilitarianism -- Immanuel Kant, The good will and the categorical imperative -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan -- Philippa Foot, Natural goodness -- Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics -- W.D. Ross, What makes right acts right? -- Hilde Lindemann, What is feminist ethics? -- Metaethics : the status of morality. David Hume, Moral distinctions not derived from reason -- J.L. Mackie, The subjectivity of values -- Gilbert Harman, Ethics and observation -- Mary Midgley, Trying out one's new sword -- Michael Smith, Realism -- Renford Bambrough, Proof -- Moral problems. Peter Singe, The Singer solution to world poverty -- Heidi Malm, Paid surrogacy: arguments and responses -- Ronald Dworkin, Playing God : genes, clones, and luck -- James Rachels, The morality of euthanasia -- John Harris, The survival lottery -- Peter Singer, Unsanctifying human life -- William F. Baxter, People or penguins: the case for optimal pollution -- Judith Jarvis Tthomson, A defense of abortion -- Don Marquis, Why abortion is immoral -- Jonathan Bennett, The conscience of Huckleberry Finn -- Michael Walzer, Terrorism: a critique of excuses -- David Luban, Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail -- Igor Primoratz, Justifying legal punishment -- Stephen Nathanson, An eye for an eye? -- Michael Huemer, America's unjust drug war -- John Corvino, Why shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy have sex?: a defense of homosexuality -- Bonnie Steinbock, Adultery -- Hugh LaFollette, Licensing parents -- Jane English, What do grown children owe their parents?
650 0 _aEthics
_vTextbooks.
700 1 _aShafer-Landau, Russ.
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