Ethics : Contemporary Readings
by Gensler, Harry J.; Spurgin, Earl W.; Swindal, JamesPub. Date: 2003-11-27
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
Ethics: Contemporary Readings is designed to lead any student into the subject, through carefully selected classic and contemporary articles. The book includes articles by the leading figures in the field.
Table of Contents
| Initial Approaches to Morality | |
| Cultural Relativism 'Defending Cultural Relativism' | |
| 'Against Cultural Relativism' | |
| Subjectivism 'Ethical Claims Describe Feelings' | |
| 'Ethical Claims are Objective' | |
| Supernaturalism 'The Moral Law is from God' | |
| 'Love of God and Neighbor' | |
| Further Approaches to Morality | |
| Institutionism 'Irreducible Ethical Truths' | |
| 'Objective Prima Facie Duties' | |
| Emotivism 'Ethical Claims Express Feelings' | |
| 'Values are Subjective' | |
| Precscriptivism 'Universal Prescriptions' | |
| 'An Existentialist Ethics' | |
| Ethical Methodology | |
| Justifying Moral Claims 'Moral Justification' | |
| 'Discourse Ethics' | |
| 'Ethics Based on Reason' | |
| The Golden Rule 'The Golden Rule and Society' | |
| 'The Golden Rule and Religion' | |
| 'Master and Slave Morality' | |
| Two Applications 'Racial Segregation' | |
| 'Moral Education' | |
| Normative Theory | |
| Consequentialism 'Utilitarianism' | |
| 'Defending Utilitarianism' | |
| 'Against Utilitarianism' | |
| 'Rule Utilitarianism' | |
| 'Goods and Absolutes' | |
| 'A Theory of Justice' (selections) | |
| 'Justice and Goods' | |
| Applied Ethics | |
| Abortion 'Defense of Abortion' | |
| 'Pro-life Feminism' | |
| Animal and Environment 'Animal Liberation' | |
| 'A Kantian Approach to Famine Relief' | |
| 'The Land Ethic' | |
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