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245 0 0 _aMoral philosophy :
_ba reader /
_cedited by Louis P. Pojman and Peter Tramel.
250 _a4th ed.
260 _aIndianapolis, IN :
_bHackett,
_cc2009.
300 _axiv, 475 p. ;
_bpbk ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aPreface to the 4th ed -- General introduction : What is moral philosophy.
505 _aI. What is morally right conduct? Introduction: Plato's moral philosophy -- 1. Plato: what is right conduct?
505 _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.
505 _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.
505 _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?
505 _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.
505 _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.
505 _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.
505 _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.
505 _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.
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700 1 _aTramel, Peter,
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