Thirteen Questions in Ethics and Social Philosophy,9780155036840

Thirteen Questions in Ethics and Social Philosophy

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780155036840
ISBN10: 015503684X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-10-23
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

In response to rising student interest in multi-culturalism and to reflect the current issues of today, THIRTEEN QUESTIONS IN ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Second Edition features articles and discussions on a variety of topics, from sexual harassment to medical ethics. Articles by authors from many different backgrounds are included, such as Sophocles, Bertrand Russell, Ellen Willis, and Catherine MacKinnon.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Preliminary Questions
What Kind of Person Do I Want to Be?
2(45)
Justice, Happiness, and Self-Knowledge
6(5)
Laurence Thomas
Integrity
11(6)
Lynne McFall
Standing for Something
17(6)
Cheshire Calhoun
Ethical Styles
23(4)
Robert C. Solomon
Your Money or Your Life
27(4)
Joe Dominguez
Vicki Robin
Beauty and the Reanimation of Things
31(5)
Thomas Moore
Impersonal Interests
36(5)
Bertrand Russell
A Precious Slice of Life
41(6)
Etty Hillesum
How Should I Treat My Family and Friends?
47(45)
The Confucian Analects
51(3)
Antigone
54(13)
Sophocles
What Do Children Owe Elderly Parents?
67(9)
Daniel Callahan
You Can't Pray a Lie
76(5)
Mark Twain
The Conditions of Female Friendship
81(5)
Janice Raymond
The Roots of Patriarchal Despotism
86(6)
Dorothy Dinnerstein
How Can I Make Sense of Sex?
92(50)
Sex, Contraception, and Conceptions of Sex
95(13)
Robert C. Solomon
Is Adultery Immoral?
108(11)
Richard Wasserstrom
Sexual Justice
119(7)
Morris Kaplan
Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving
126(5)
Audre Lorde
The Definition of Sexual Harassment
131(11)
Jan Crosthwaite
Graham Priest
PART TWO Individual Ethics
What Is Reproductive Freedom?
142(51)
The Question of Abortion
145(7)
Ann Druyan
Carl Sagan
A Defense of Abortion
152(12)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
The Moral Significance of Birth
164(8)
Mary Anne Warren
The Moral Status of the Foetus
172(6)
Alan Donagan
Can Having Children Be Immoral?
178(7)
Laura Purdy
Fathers' Rights, Patriarchy, and Sex Equality
185(8)
Mary L. Shanley
Is It Ever Right to Lie?
193(36)
On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives
196(3)
Immanuel Kant
The Evil of Lying
199(7)
Charles Fried
Autonomy and Benevolent Lies
206(7)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
The Duty of Veracity
213(5)
Henry Sidgwick
Trust and Anti-Trust
218(4)
Annette Baier
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
222(4)
Mark Twain
Reflections on Bullshit
226(3)
Harry Frankfurt
How Should I Make Money?
229(54)
Profits and Liberty
233(5)
John Hospers
Alienated Labor
238(4)
Karl Marx
The Economics of Liberation
242(5)
Enrique Dussell
International Business, Morality, and the Common Good
247(9)
Manuel Velasquez
Insider Trading: The Secret Seduction
256(5)
Joanne B. Ciulla
The Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics
261(7)
Robert C. Solomon
Bhopal: An Essay on Moral Responsibility and Civic Virtue
268(9)
John Ladd
Information Rights and the Information Manager
277(6)
Mark Alfino
What Are My Rights?
283(51)
The United States Bill of Rights
287(2)
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
289(6)
The Authority of Society over the Individual
295(5)
John Stuart Mill
Justice as Fairness
300(5)
John Rawls
The Entitlement Theory
305(4)
Robert Nozick
Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities
309(4)
Amitai Etzioni
The Right to Take Personal Risks
313(6)
Amartya Sen
Secrecy and Moral Choice
319(7)
Sissela Bok
AIDS and Confidentiality
326(8)
Grant Gillett
PART THREE Social Ethics
How Does Racism Affect My Life?
334(48)
Anti-Semite and Jew
338(2)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Metaphysics of Oppression
340(8)
Jorge Valadez
The Erasure of Black Women
348(7)
Elizabeth V. Spelman
The Invisible Man
355(3)
Ralph Ellison
Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
358(7)
Bell Hooks
The New Sovereignty
365(6)
Shelby Steele
To Have and Have Not
371(4)
Michael Lind
The Case for Affirmative Action: Racism Has Its Privileges
375(7)
Roger Wilkins
Can There Be Equality between Men and Women?
382(58)
The Subjection of Women
385(8)
John Stuart Mill
The Second Sex
393(6)
Simone de Beauvoir
Autonomy and Identity in Feminist Thinking
399(8)
Jean Grimshaw
Sexism
407(7)
Marilyn Frye
Put the Blame on Eve, Boys
414(10)
Caryl Rivers
Gender Differences
424(7)
Jacob Joshua Ross
Racism, Sexism, and the Ideal of Equality
431(9)
Linda A. Bell
Can We Control Violence?
440(49)
The Art of Warfare
444(3)
Sun-Tzu
The Prince
447(3)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Enemy as Abstraction
450(5)
Sam Keen
The Military Paradigm
455(5)
John McMurtry
The Moral Equivalent of War
460(4)
William James
Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis
464(10)
Lois Pineau
The United States Supreme Court Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
474(5)
Reflections on the Guillotine
479(4)
Albert Camus
Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic
483(6)
Bat-Ami Bar On
What Should We Sacrifice for Animals and the Environment?
489(66)
Ballade of Poisons
492(2)
Allen Ginsburg
The Nature and Possibility of an Environmental Ethic
494(11)
Tom Regan
Not for Humans Only: The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues
505(10)
Peter Singer
The Land Ethic
515(7)
Aldo Leopold
Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce
522(4)
Mark Sagoff
For the Sake of Future Generations
526(17)
Annette Baier
The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair
543(8)
Marti Kheel
Against the Glorification of Nature
551(4)
John Stuart Mill
How Should I Respond to Poverty?
555(51)
Multiculturalism and Welfare Reform
559(7)
John D. Jones
Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation
566(6)
Nancy Fraser
Homelessness and Welfare: The Prejudice against Men
572(6)
Peter Marin
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
578(4)
Peter Singer
Lifeboat Ethics
582(5)
Garrett Hardin
Wealth
587(5)
Andrew Carnegie
Property and Hunger
592(8)
Amartya Sen
Corporate Collectivism: A System of Social Injustice
600(6)
Michael Harrington
Who Should Decide When I Die?
606
Medical Paternalism
610
Allen Buchanan
The Contractural Argument for Withholding Medical Information
621
Donald Vandeveer
Public Health as Social Justice
626
Dan E. Beauchamp
Medical Progress and National Health Care
634
Loren E. Lomasky
Active and Passive Euthanasia
645
James Rachels
The Intentional Termination of Life
650
Bonnie Steinbock
Feminist Directions in Medical Ethics
655
Virginia L. Warren
Aging and the Ends of Medicine
665
Daniel Callahan

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