Ethics Contemporary Readings 1st Edition by Harry Gensler, Earl Spurgin, James Swindal 020356975X 9780203569757

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ISBN 10: 020356975X 

ISBN 13: 9780203569757

Author: Harry J. Gensler, Earl W. Spurgin, James C.  Swindal

Ethics: Contemporary Readings is designed to lead any student into the subject, through carefully selected classic and contemporary articles. The book includes articles by the leading figures in the field and provides an excellent entry to the topic. The book complements Harry Gensler’s Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).

Table of contents:

Part I: Initial Approaches to Morality

• Ruth Benedict: Defending Cultural Relativism

• Harry J. Gensler and Mary Grace Tokmenko: Against Cultural Relativism

• David Hume: Ethical Claims Describe Feelings

• Thomas Nagel: Ethical Claims Are Objective

• C. S. Lewis: The Moral Law Is from God

• The Bible: Love of God and Neighbor

Part II: Further Approaches to Morality

• G. E. Moore: Irreducible Ethical Truths

• W. D. Ross: Objective Prima Facie Duties

• A. J. Ayer: Ethical Claims Express Feelings

• J. L. Mackie: Values Are Subjective

• R. M. Hare: Universal Prescriptions

• Jean–Paul Sartre: An Existentialist Ethics

Part III: Ethical Methodology

• William K. Frankena: Moral Justification

• Jürgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics

• Immanuel Kant: Ethics Is Based on Reason

• Joyce Hertzler: The Golden Rule and Society

• Paul Ricoeur: The Golden Rule and Religion

• Friedrich Nietzsche: Master and Slave Morality

• Martin Luther King: Racial Segregation

• Lawrence Kohlberg: Moral Education

Part IV: Normative Theory

• John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism

• J. J. C. Smart: Defending Utilitarianism

• Bernard Williams: Against Utilitarianism

• Richard B. Brandt: Rule Utilitarianism

• W. D. Ross: Objective Prima Facie Duties

• John Finnis: Goods and Absolutes

• John Rawls: A Theory of Justice

• Robert Nozick: Justice and Goods

• Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

• Alasdair Macintyre: Virtue Ethics

• Michael Slote: Rudiments of Virtue Ethics

Part V: Applied Ethics

• Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion

• Sydney Callahan: Pro–life Feminism

• Peter Singer: Animal Liberation

• Onora O’Neill: A Kantian Approach to Famine Relief

• J. Baird Callicott: The Land Ethic

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