Moral philosophy : a reader / edited by Louis P. Pojman and Peter Tramel.

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Publication details: Indianapolis, IN : Hackett, c2009.Edition: 4th edDescription: xiv, 475 p. ; pbk ; 24 cmISBN:

9780872209626 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Ethics -- Textbooks

DDC classification:

170/MOR

Contents:

Preface to the 4th ed -- General introduction : What is moral philosophy.

I. What is morally right conduct? Introduction: Plato's moral philosophy -- 1. Plato: what is right conduct?

II. Moral relativism vs moral objectivism. Introduction -- 2. Heroditus: Custom is king -- 3. Thomas Aquinas: Natural law -- 4. Ruth Benedict: Cultural relativism -- 5. Louis P. Pojman: A defense of ethical objectivism -- 6. Gilbert Harman: A defense of ethical relativism.

III. Ethics and egoism. Introduction -- 7. Plato: why should I be moral? -- 8. Thomas Hobbes: Egoism as the beginning of morality -- 9. Ayn Rand: A defense of ethical egoism -- 10. James Rachels: A critique ethical egoism -- 11. Howard Kahane: Sociobiology, egoism and reciprocity.

IV. Value: What is good? Introduction -- 12. Plato: The good and the allegory of the cave -- 13. Jeremy Bentham: Classical hedonism -- 14. Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil -- 15. G.E. Moore: The good is not natural -- 16. Robert Nozick: The experience machine -- 17. W.D. Ross: Value pluralism -- 18. Derek Parfit: What makes someone's life go best?

V. Utilitarian ethics. Introduction -- 19. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism -- 20. John Hospers: Rule-utilitarianism -- 21. Bernard Williams: A critique of utilitarianism -- 22. Stirling Harwood: Eleven objections to utilitarianism -- 23. Brad Hooker: Ideal code utilitarianism.

VI. Deontological ethics. Introduction -- 24. Immanuel Kant: The foundations of ethics -- 25. Melissa Bergeron and Peter Tramel: Rightness as fairness: Kant's Categorical imperative -- 26. W.D. Ross: What makes acts right? -- 27. William Frankena: A reconciliation of ethical theories -- 28. T.M. Scanlon: A Contractarian ethics.

VII. Virtue ethics. Introduction -- 29. Aristotle: Virtue ethics -- 30. Bernard Mayo: Virtue and the moral life -- 31. William Frankena: A critique of virtue-based ethics -- 32. Alasdair MacIntyre: The nature of virtues -- 33. Jonathan Bennett: The conscience of Huckleberry Finn -- 34. Rosalind Hursthouse: Virtue and emotion.

VIII. Morality and religion. Introduction -- 35. Plato: The Euthyphro problem -- 36. Bertrand Russell: A free man's worship -- 37. James Rachels: God and morality are incompatible -- 38. C. Stephen Layman: God and the moral order -- 39. Peter Byrne: God and the moral order: a reply to Layman.

IX. Applied ethics. Introduction -- 40. Judith Jarvis Thompson: The Trolley problem -- 41. Peter Singer: Famine, affluence and morality -- 42. Onora O'Neill: Kantian ethics and world hunger -- 43. John T. Noonan Jr.: Abortion is morally wrong -- 44. Mary Anne Warren: The personhood argument in favor of abortion rights 45. John Rawls: Fifty years after Hiroshima -- 46. Michael Walzer: Supreme emergency -- 47. Thomas Nagel: War and massacre.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Preface to the 4th ed -- General introduction : What is moral philosophy.

I. What is morally right conduct?
Introduction: Plato's moral philosophy --
1. Plato: what is right conduct?

II. Moral relativism vs moral objectivism.
Introduction --
2. Heroditus: Custom is king --
3. Thomas Aquinas: Natural law --
4. Ruth Benedict: Cultural relativism --
5. Louis P. Pojman: A defense of ethical objectivism --
6. Gilbert Harman: A defense of ethical relativism.

III. Ethics and egoism.
Introduction --
7. Plato: why should I be moral? --
8. Thomas Hobbes: Egoism as the beginning of morality --
9. Ayn Rand: A defense of ethical egoism --
10. James Rachels: A critique ethical egoism --
11. Howard Kahane: Sociobiology, egoism and reciprocity.

IV. Value: What is good?
Introduction --
12. Plato: The good and the allegory of the cave --
13. Jeremy Bentham: Classical hedonism --
14. Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil --
15. G.E. Moore: The good is not natural --
16. Robert Nozick: The experience machine --
17. W.D. Ross: Value pluralism --
18. Derek Parfit: What makes someone's life go best?

V. Utilitarian ethics.
Introduction --
19. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism --
20. John Hospers: Rule-utilitarianism --
21. Bernard Williams: A critique of utilitarianism --
22. Stirling Harwood: Eleven objections to utilitarianism --
23. Brad Hooker: Ideal code utilitarianism.

VI. Deontological ethics.
Introduction --
24. Immanuel Kant: The foundations of ethics --
25. Melissa Bergeron and Peter Tramel: Rightness as fairness: Kant's Categorical imperative --
26. W.D. Ross: What makes acts right? --
27. William Frankena: A reconciliation of ethical theories --
28. T.M. Scanlon: A Contractarian ethics.

VII. Virtue ethics.
Introduction --
29. Aristotle: Virtue ethics --
30. Bernard Mayo: Virtue and the moral life --
31. William Frankena: A critique of virtue-based ethics --
32. Alasdair MacIntyre: The nature of virtues --
33. Jonathan Bennett: The conscience of Huckleberry Finn --
34. Rosalind Hursthouse: Virtue and emotion.

VIII. Morality and religion.
Introduction --
35. Plato: The Euthyphro problem --
36. Bertrand Russell: A free man's worship --
37. James Rachels: God and morality are incompatible --
38. C. Stephen Layman: God and the moral order --
39. Peter Byrne: God and the moral order: a reply to Layman.

IX. Applied ethics.
Introduction --
40. Judith Jarvis Thompson: The Trolley problem --
41. Peter Singer: Famine, affluence and morality --
42. Onora O'Neill: Kantian ethics and world hunger --
43. John T. Noonan Jr.: Abortion is morally wrong --
44. Mary Anne Warren: The personhood argument in favor of abortion rights
45. John Rawls: Fifty years after Hiroshima --
46. Michael Walzer: Supreme emergency --
47. Thomas Nagel: War and massacre.

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