03612cam a2200337 a 450000100090000000300090000900500170001800800410003501000170007602000250009304000530011808200120017124500800018325000120026326000410027530000330031650400410034950500780039050501130046850502780058150502860085950503630114550502830150850503340179150503320212550502980245750504490275565000230320470000210322770000260324815655019AU-EpEBC20130214130351.0090311s2009    inu           000 0 eng    a  2009010450  a9780872209626 (pbk.)  aDLCcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdBWXdYDXCPdCDXdDLCdNEMB00a170/MOR00aMoral philosophy :ba reader /cedited by Louis P. Pojman and Peter Tramel.  a4th ed.  aIndianapolis, IN :bHackett,cc2009.  axiv, 475 p. ;bpbk ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aPreface to the 4th ed -- General introduction : What is moral philosophy.  aI. What is morally right conduct?
Introduction: Plato's moral philosophy --
1. Plato: what is right conduct?  aII. 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.  aIII. 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.  aIV. 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?  aV. 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.  aVI. 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.  aVII. 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.  aVIII. 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.  aIX. 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. 0aEthicsvTextbooks.1 aPojman, Louis P.1 aTramel, Peter,d1965-