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" The ethical life : "
Russ Shafer-Landau, The University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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873246
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Shafer-Landau, Russ
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The ethical life : : fundamental readings in ethics and moral problems /\ Russ Shafer-Landau, The University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Fourth edition.
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New York, NY ;Oxford, UK :: Oxford University Press,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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xiii, 519 pages ;; 21 cm
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0190631317
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: 9780190631314
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Part I. The good life -- Part II. Normative ethics: Theories of right conduct -- Part III. Metaethics: The status of morality -- Part IV. Moral problems.
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Part I: The good life. Hedonism / John Stuart Mill -- The experience machine / Robert Nozick -- Faring well and getting what you want / Chris Heathwood -- The elements of well-being / Brad Hooker -- Happiness and meaning: two aspects of the good / Susan Wolf -- Part II: Normative ethics : theories of right conduct. Euthyphro / Plato -- Natural law / Thomas Aquinas -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- The good will and the categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- What makes right acts right? / W.D. Ross -- Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- What is feminist ethics? / Hilde Lindemann -- Part III: Metaethics : the status of morality. Moral distinctions not derived from reason / David Hume -- The subjectivity of values / J. L. Mackie -- Ethics and observation / Gilbert Harman -- Cultural relativism / Harry Gensler -- Why I am an objectivist about ethics (and why you are, too) / David Enoch -- Part IV: Moral problems. What will future generations condemn us for? / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Poverty and hunger. The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- Feeding the hungry / Jan Narveson -- Euthanasia and a modest proposal. The morality of euthanasia / James Rachels -- The survival lottery / John Harris --The moral status of animals. Puppies, pigs and people : eating meat and marginal cases / Alastair Norcross -- Moral standing, the value of lives, and speciesism / R. G. Frey -- The environment. Climate change justice / Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein -- Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments / Thomas Hill, Jr. -- Abortion. A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis -- Abortion and the doctrine of the double effect / Philippa Foot -- The death penalty. Justifying legal punishment / Igor Primoratz -- An eye for an eye? / Stephen Nathanson -- Guns. Why gun 'control' is not enough / Jeff McMahan -- Is there a right to own a gun? / Michael Huemer -- The legacy of racism. Time for a new black radicalism / Chris Lebron -- The case against affirmative action / Louis P. Pojman -- Affirmative Action : bad arguments and some good ones / Daniel M. Hausman -- The future of racial integration / Elizabeth Anderson -- Drugs. America's unjust drug war / Michael Huemer -- Against the legalization of drugs / Peter de Marneffe -- Copyright. Why illegally downloading files is morally wrong / Jonathan Trerise -- Why legally downloading music is morally wrong / Tim Anderson and D.E. Wittkower.
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Ethics, Textbooks.
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Ethics.
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170
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BJ1012.S53 2018
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BJ1012.E882 2018
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