The moral life : an introductory reader in ethics and literature /
Ideal for introductory ethics courses, The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature, Seventh Edition, brings together a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary moral issues. The first two thirds of the book comprises readings on historical and contemporary ethical the...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Introduction: On the nature of morality -- 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/On the state of nature -- 2. Good and evil. Herman Melville/Billy Budd ; Fyodor Dostoevsky/Why is there evil? ; William Styron/Sophie's Choice ; Philip Hallie/From cruelty to goodness ; Philippa Foot/Natural goodness ; Richard Taylor/On the origin of good and evil -- 3. Is everything relative? Herodotus/Custom is king ; Ruth Benedict/The case for moral relativism ; David Enoch/Why I am an objectivist about ethics (and why you are, too) ; James Rachels/Why morality is not relative ; Jean Bethke Elshtain/Judge not? ; Mary Midgley/Trying out one's new sword ; Henrik Ibsen/The enemy of the people -- Part II: Moral theories and moral character. 4. Utilitarianism. Seaman Holmes and the longboat of William Brown, reported by John William Wallace ; Jeremy Bentham/Classical utilitarianism ; John Stuart Mill/Utilitarianism refined ; Kai Nielsen/A defense of utilitarianism ; Ursula Le Guin/The ones who walk away from Omelas -- 5. Deontological ethics. Immanuel Kant/The moral law ; William K. Frankena/Kant's theory ; W. D. Ross/Intuitionism ; Ambrose Bierce/A horseman in the sky ; Charles Fried/The evil of lying ; Plato/Does morality depend on religion? ; James Rachels/The divine command theory ; Thomas Nagel/Moral luck ; Carl Dennis/New Year's Eve -- 6. Virtue ethics. Aristotle/Virtue ethics ; Alasdair MacIntyre/The virtues ; Susan Wolf/Moral saints ; Nathaniel Hawthorne/The great stone face ; William K. Frankena/A critique of virtue-based ethical systems ; Jesus of Nazareth/The sermon on the mount ; The good Samaritan ; Leo Tolstoy/How much land does a man need? Greed ; Epictetus and others/The stoic catechism ; Vice Admiral Jame Stockdale/The world of Epictetus : courage and endurance -- 7. Feminist ethics and the ethics of care. Alison M. Jaggar/Feminist ethics ; Jan Crosthwaite/Gender and bioethics ; Annette C. Baier/The need for more than justice ; Virginia Held/The ethics of care -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part III: Moral issues. 8. Ethics and egoism : why should we be moral? Plato/The ring of Gyges ; Ayn Rand/In defense of ethical egoism ; Louis P. Pojman/Egoism and altruism : a critique of Ayn Rand ; James Rachels/A critique of ethical egoism -- 9. Does life have meaning? Voltaire/The good Brahmin ; Epicurus/Hedonism ; Albert Camus/Life is absurd ; Viktor Frankl/The human search for meaning : reflections on Auschwitz ; John Messerly/The ascent of meaning ; Bertrand Russell/Reflections on suffering ; Richard Taylor/The meaning of life -- Part IV: Applied ethics : moral problems. 10. Sexism and misogyny. Ann E. Cudd and Leslie E. Jones/Sexism ; Kate Manne with Sean Illing/What we get wrong about misogyny ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The yellow wallpaper -- 11. Racism, equity, and privilege. Lawrence Blum/Racism : what it is and isn't ; Naomi Zack/Uses and abuses of the discourse of white privilege ; Eduardo Bonilla-Silva/Good white liberals -- 12. Free speech and hate speech. Sigal R. Ben-Porath/Free speech on campus ; Richard Stengel and Conor Friedersdorf/Two views of speech laws ; Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman/Hate speech -- 13. Pandemic ethics. Michael Sandel with Colleen Walsh/Why some Americans refuse to social distance and wear masks ; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James P. Phillips/Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of COVID-19 -- 14. Food ethics. George Orwell/Shooting an elephant ; Tristram McPherson/How to argue for (and against) ethical veganism ; Joel Salatin/Animal welfare ; Alastair Norcross/Puppies, pig, and people : eating meat and marginal cases -- 15. The ethics of climate change. Robert Heilbroner/What has posterity ever done for me? ; Stephen M. Gardiner/A perfect moral storm : the ethical tragedy of climate change ; John Broome/The public and private morality of climate change -- Appendix: How to read and write philosophy papers. | |
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