Ethics: Contemporary Readings (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 Moral Philosophy, Harry J. Gensler; Chapter 2 The History of Ethics, James C. Swindal, Earl W. Spurgin; Part 1 Initial Approaches to Morality; Chapter 3 Defending Cultural Relativism, Ruth Benedict; Chapter 4 Against Cultural Relativism, Harry J. Gensler, Mary Grace Tokmenko; Chapter 5 Ethical Claims Describe Feelings, David Hume; Chapter 6 Ethical Claims Are Objective, Thomas Nagel; Chapter 7 The Moral Law Is from God, C. S. Lewis; Chapter 8 The Bible; Part 2 Further Approaches to Morality; Chapter 9 Irreducible Ethical Truths, G. E. Moore; Chapter 10 Objective Prima Facie Duties, W. D. Ross; Chapter 11 Ethical Claims Express Feelings, A. J. Ayer; Chapter 12 Values Are Subjective, J. L. Mackie; Chapter 13 Universal Prescriptions, R. M. Hare; Chapter 14 An Existentialist Ethics, Jean-Paul Sartre; Part 3 Ethical Methodology; Chapter 15 Moral Justification, William K. Frankena; Chapter 16 Discourse Ethics, Jurgen Habermas; Chapter 17 Ethics Is Based on Reason, Immanuel Kant; Chapter 18 The Golden Rule and Society, Joyce Hertzler; Chapter 19 The Golden Rule and Religion, Paul Ricoeur; Chapter 20 Master and Slave Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche; Chapter 21 Racial Segregation, Martin Luther King; Chapter 22 Moral Education, Lawrence Kohlberg; Part 4 Normative Theory; Chapter 23 Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill; Chapter 24 Defending Utilitarianism, J. J. C. Smart; Chapter 25 Against Utilitarianism, Bernard Williams; Chapter 26 Rule Utilitarianism, Richard B. Brandt; Chapter 27 Objective Prima Facie Duties, W. D. Ross; Chapter 28 Goods and Absolutes, John Finnis; Chapter 29 A Theory of Justice, John Rawls; Chapter 30 Justice and Goods, Robert Nozick; Chapter 31 Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle; Chapter 32 Virtue Ethics, Alasdair Macintyre; Chapter 33 Rudiments of Virtue Ethics, Michael Slote; Part 5 Applied Ethics; Chapter 34 A Defense of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson; Chapter 35 Pro-life Feminism, Sidney Callahan; Chapter 36 Animal Liberation, Peter Singer; Chapter 37 A Kantian Approach to Famine Relief, Onora O’Neill; Chapter 38 The Land Ethic, J. Baird Callicott;