Morality and Moral Controversies

Readings in Moral, Social and Political Philosophy

Steven Scalet, John Arthur (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

672 Seiten

2008 | 8th edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-13-603137-6 (ISBN)

Infos

For courses in Ethics, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Ethics, and Ethics and Moral Issues. 

 

This comprehensive anthology includes classic and contemporary readings in moral theory and the most current applied ethics debates emphasizing international concerns.  Includes court cases in philosophical readings, an ethical theory overview; shows relevance of traditional and contemporary writers.

Inhalt

Table of Contents (new articles and essays are bolded)

 

Part  I  Moral Theory

 

Part II  Issues of Life and Death

1.Terrorism and War



Is Terrorism Morally Distinctive? Samuel Scheffler
Torture — The Case for Dirty Harry  Uwe Steinhoff
Training Torturers — A Critique of the “Ticking Bomb” Argument  Jessica Wolfendale
On the Morality of War Richard A. Wassertstrom
The Morality of Pacifism  Cheyney Ryan
Civil Liberties in the Time of War  Korematsu v. U.S.

 

 2. Capital Punishment



Gregg v. Georgia
Perlmutter
Van den Haag
Reiman

 

3. Animals and Environmentalism.



Singer
Steinbock
Baxter
Callicott
The Maze and Aura  Jack Turner

 

4. Human Reproduction: Cloning and Abortion



The Ethics of Cloning-to-Produce-Children  The President’s Council on Bioethics
Roe v. Wade
Thomson
Warren
English
Marquis
Harris

 

5. Medicine and Deciding Who Should Live



JFK Memorial v. Heston
Godwin
Dyck
Rachels
Death with Dignity Act  Gonzales v. Oregon
Brandt
Callahan
Harris

 





Part III Personal Relationships

 

6. Love and Sex



Kant
Finnis
Goldman
Mohr
Pineau
Paglia

 

7. Family and Friendship



Wassterstrom
Joseph
Bennett and Sullivan
Steinbock
Posner
LaFollette
Can Parents and Children be Friends?  Joseph Kupfer
Parents and Children as Friends  Kristjan Kristjansson
English

 

Part IV Political, Social, and Economic Relationships

8. The Ideal State



Locke
Machan
Mill
Mill
Rawls

 

9. Patriotism, Civil Disobedience, and the Rule of Law [last Dworkin deleted]



Texas v. Johnson
MacIntyre
Plato
Dworkin
Rawls
Letter from a Birmingham Jail  Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fuller

10. Property, Markets, and the Global Economy



Of Justice  David Hume
The Entitlement Theory  Robert Nozick
Inequality and Other Problems with Nozick’s Libertarianism John Rawls
The Communist Manifesto  Karl Marx
Property Rights and Eminent Domain  Kelo v. City of New London
Markets, Property, and Power  Michael Walzer
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits  Milton Friedman
Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business. John Mackey and Milton Friedman
Real World Justice  Thomas Pogge
Antipoverty Warriors  John McMillan

 

11. Liberty: Drugs and Speech



Szasz
Goodin
Shapiro
Mill
Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party
Lawrence and Gunther
Dershowitz
Longino
Wicclair
American Booksellers v. Hudnut

 

12. Equality: Race and Gender



Separate But Equal?  Brown v. Board of Education
Mill and Taylor
Kymlicka
Wasserstrom
Young
Richards

13. Immigration and the Multicultural Society



The Ethics of Immigration  Veit Bader
Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility  James Dwyer
Raz
Sen
Wisconsin v. Yoder

 

14. Affirmative Action, Reparations, and Apologies



Affirmative Action in Higher Education  Grutter v. Bollinger
Affirmative Action in Higher Education  Gratz v. Bollinger
Reparations and Apologies: Recent Action and Conflicted Views  Wendy Koch, Stanley Fish, and Z. Dwight Bellingsly
Reverse Discrimination  James Rachels

 

Appendix: The Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2008
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• ISBN-10: 0-13-603137-4 / 0136031374
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-603137-6 / 9780136031376
• Zustand: Neuware