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Ethics in Practice (2nd edition) Hugh LaFollette (editor) | [pdf version] |
"Ethics
in Practice is an extraordinary anthology. Not only has LaFollette
done an excellent job selecting seminal essays on the crucial
issues, he's lined-up authors famous for their abilities to bring their
deep theoretical insights to bear on everyday moral questions."
"This
is perhaps the best collection of articles on applied ethics that I
know. It covers many of the areas that comprise the general topic, with
articles of note, by philosophers of quality. It is a superb volume not
only for teaching applied ethics but also for introducing students to
rigorous thinking in philosophy." |
Third edition published in 2006
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Preface to the instructor | ix |
Acknowledgments | xi |
General Introduction | 1 |
Theorizing about Ethics | 3 |
Reading Philosophy | 12 |
N new to the second edition |
R revised for Ethics in Practice |
W written for Ethics in Practice |
I. Life and Death |
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Euthanasia | 19 | ||
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1 |
" Rule Utilitarianism and Euthanasia" Brad Hooker [W] |
22 |
2 | "Against the Right to Die" J. David Velleman [NR] | 32 | |
3 |
"Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths" Tom L. Beauchamp [W] |
40 | |
4 |
"Dying at the Right Time: Reflections on (Un)Assisted Suicide" John Hardwig [W] |
48 | |
Abortion | 60 | ||
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5 |
"A Defense of Abortion" Judith Jarvis Thomson |
63 |
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6 |
"On The Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" Mary Ann Warren [R] |
72 |
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7 |
"An Argument that Abortion is Wrong" Don Marquis [W] |
83 |
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8 |
"Virtue Theory and Abortion" Rosalind Hursthouse [NR] |
94 |
Animals | 104 | ||
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9 |
"All Animals Are Equal" Peter Singer |
107 |
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10 |
"The Moral Community" Michael Allen Fox |
117 |
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11 |
"Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism" R.G. Frey |
128 |
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12 |
"The Case for Animal Rights" Tom Regan
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147 |
II. The Personal Life |
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Family and Reproductive Technology | 149 | ||
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13 |
"What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?" Jane English |
152 |
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14 |
"Emotional Exploitation" Sandra Lee Bartky [R] |
156 |
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15 |
"Morality, Parents and Children" James Rachels |
167 |
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16 |
"Artificial Means of Reproduction and our Understanding of the Family" Ruth Macklin [N] |
178 |
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17 |
"Is Women's Labor a Commodity?" Elizabeth S. Anderson [N] |
187 |
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18 |
"Goodbye, Dolly: the Ethics of Human Cloning" John Harris [N] |
199 |
Sexuality | 209 | ||
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19 |
"What's Wrong with Rape?" Pamela Foa |
212 |
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20 |
"Morality and Human Sexuality" Vincent Punzo |
220 |
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21 |
"Plain Sex" Alan H. Goldman |
225 |
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22 |
"Why Homosexuality is Abnormal" Michael Levin [R] |
233 |
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23 |
"Homosexuality and the Moral Relevance of Experience" John Corvino [NW] |
241 |
Virtues | 251 | ||
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24 |
"Servility and Self-Respect" Thomas E. Hill, Jr. |
254 |
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25 |
"On Improving People by Political Means" Lester H. Hunt |
261 |
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26 |
"Generosity" James D. Wallace |
271 |
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27 |
"Humility" Judith Andre [NR]
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276 |
III. Liberty and Equality |
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Paternalism and Risk | 287 | ||
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28 |
"Individuality" J.S. Mill |
290 |
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29 |
"Against the Legalization of Drugs" James Q. Wilson |
295 |
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30 |
"The War on Drugs is Lost" William F. Buckley, Jr., et. al. [N] |
300 |
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31 |
"Permissible Paternalism: Saving Smokers from Themselves" Robert E. Goodin |
307 |
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32 |
"The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms" Todd C. Hughes & Lester H. Hunt [NR] |
313 |
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33 |
"Gun Control" Hugh LaFollette [N] | 325 |
Free Speech | 338 | ||
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34 |
"Freedom of Thought and Discussion" J.S. Mill |
340 |
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35 |
"Sex, Lies, and Pornography" Ann Garry [NR] |
344 |
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36 |
"MacKinnon's Words" Ronald Dworkin [N] |
356 |
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37 |
"Sticks and Stones" John Arthur [W] |
364 |
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38 |
"Speech Codes and Expressive Harm" Andrew Altman [NW] |
376 |
Sexual and Racial Discrimination | 385 | ||
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39 |
"Racisms" Kwame Anthony Appiah |
389 |
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40 |
"Sexual Harassment" Anita M. Superson |
400 |
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41 |
"Date Rape" Lois Pineau |
410 |
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42 |
"Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape" Larry May and Robert Strikwerda [R] |
418 |
Affirmative Action | 428 | ||
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43 |
"Affirmative Action" Michael Levin |
431 |
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44 |
"The Rights of Allan Bakke" Ronald Dworkin |
441 |
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45 |
"Affirmative Action As Equalizing
Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of 'Preferential Treatment'"
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448 |
IV Justice |
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Punishment | 463 | ||
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46 |
"Punishment and Desert" James Rachels [W] |
466 |
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47 |
"Repentance and Criminal Punishment" Jeffrie G. Murphy [R] |
475 |
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48 |
"Making Hard Times Even Harder" Lynn Pasquerella [W] |
481 |
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49 |
"In Defense of the Death Penalty" Louis Pojman [N] |
493 |
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50 |
"Against the Death Penalty" Jeffrey Reiman [N] |
503 |
Economic Justice | 511 | ||
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51 |
"A Theory of Justice" John Rawls |
514 |
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52 |
"The Entitlement Theory of Justice" Robert Nozick |
527 |
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53 |
"Displacing the Distributive Paradigm" Iris Marion Young |
540 |
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54 |
"Economic Competition: Should We Care about the Losers?" Jonathan Wolff [NW] |
551 |
World Hunger and International Justice | 560 | ||
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55 |
"Free Movement: If People Were Money" Robert E. Goodin [R] |
563 |
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56 |
"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" Peter Singer |
572 |
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57 |
"Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code" John Arthur [NW] |
582 |
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58 |
"Hunger, Capacity, and Development" David A. Crocker [R] |
591 |
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59 |
"Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief
for a Global Resources Dividend" [NR] |
604 |
Environment | 618 | ||
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60 |
"Feeding People versus Saving Nature" Holmes Rolston III [R] |
621 |
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61 |
"The Land Ethic" Aldo Leopold |
631 |
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62 |
"Challenges of Ecofeminism: from `Should' to `Can'" Gail Stenstad [NW] |
640 |
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63 |
"Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments" Thomas E. Hill Jr. [N] |
654 |
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64 |
"Hume and Nature" Alan Carter [NW]
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664 |
Index | 674 |