Introducing ethics: for here and now
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2013
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| ISBN: | 9780205226689 020522668X |
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PREFOCE IX
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER 2
WHY DO WE NEED THIS KNOWLEDGE? 2 THREE CHALLENGES TO ETHICS 3
THREE TRADITIONAL ETHICAL PERSPEETIVES 4
THREE MORE CHALLENGES TO ETHICS 5
CONCLUSION 5
NOTES 5
RELIGION AND MORALITY 6
THE EUTHYPHRO QUESTION 6 MEDIEVAL DEVELOPMENTS OF DIVINE COMMAND THEORY
7
MORALITY DEPENDENT ON GOD THROUGH CREATION 7
PROBLEMS FOR DIVINE COMMAND THEORY 8
HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND GOD'S COMMANDS? 8
ARE GOD'S COMMANDS JUSTIFIED BY CREATION? 9
HOW ARE WE TO IDENTIFY GOD'S COMMANDS? 10
RADICALLY MODIFIED DIVINE COMMAND THEORY I I
RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC ARENA I I
IS RAWLS'S REQUIREMENT OF PUBLIC REASON UNFAIR? 13
SEEING DIFFERENT KINDS OF UNFAIRNESS 14
CAN RELIGIOUS MORAL TEACHINGS BE REQUIRED BY REASON? 17
HOW PUBLIC REASONS ARE TO BE MADE ACCESSIBLE 18
CONCLUSION 19
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 19
NOTES 20
THE CHALLENGE OF MORAL RELATIVISM 22
NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FROM ENDORSING MORAL RELATIVISM 23 TOLERANCE--A
BENEFIT FROM ENDORSING MORAL RELATIVISM? 23
BUT IS IT T RUE? 25
ANALYSIS OF THE CASE OF RAPE AND MARRIAGE 28
ANALYSIS OF THE CASE OF WIDOWS AND SUTTEE 30
ANALYSIS OF THE CASE OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION 31 V
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VI CONTENTS
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
A COMPARISON TO DIVINE COMMAND THEORY 33
THE STANDARD CRITICISM OF MORAL RELATIVISM 33
OUR SIX PURPORTED CASES OF MORAL RELATIVISM 34
CONCLUSION 35
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 35
NOTES 35
THE CHALLENGE OF EGOISM 37
PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM 37 ETHICAL EGOISM 39
INDIVIDUAL ETHICAL EGOISM 39
UNIVERSAL ETHICAL EGOISM 40
APPEALING TO PUBLICITY 41
PARALLELING EGOISM AND RACISM 41
APPEALING TO CONSISTENCY 42
IS THERE NO WAY TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF UNIVERSAL
ETHICAL EGOISM? 43
FROM RATIONALITY TO MORALITY 44
LIFEBOAT CASES 47
MORALITY AS COMPROMISE 47
CONCLUSION 48
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 48
NOTES 48
UTILITARIAN ETHICS 5I
INTRODUCING UTILITARIAN ETHICS 52 AN IMPLICATION OF UTILITARIAN ETHICS:
SACRIFICING THE FEW
FOR THE MANY 53
OSAMA BIN LADEN AND TERRORISM 54
HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLES 56
AN OBJECTION TO UTILITARIAN ETHICS: NEVER DO EVIL 57
REFINING AND ANSWERING THE OBJECTION: NECESSARY HARM
AND INDEPENDENT REASONS 57
A FURTHER DEFENSE: ACT UTILITARIANISM AND RULE
UTILITARIANISM 59
A BETTER DEFENSE: THE "OUGHT" IMPLIES "CAN" PRINCIPLE 60
CONCLUSION 62
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 63
NOTES 63
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CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
KANTIAN ETHICS 65
KANT'S CATEGORICALLMPERATIVE TEST 65
KANT, EGOISM AND HYPOTHETICAL IMPERATIVES 66
A CENTRAL REQUIREMENT OF MORALITY 67
UNIVERSALIZABILITY NOT ENOUGH 68
OTHER FORMULATIONS OF KANT'S TEST 68
TWO INTERPRETATIONS OF KANT'S ETHICS 69
WELFARE LIBERALISM 69
LIBERTARIANISM 70
SUPPORTING EXAMPLES 71
CONFLICTING LIBERTIES 73
AN EXPANDED "OUGHT" IMPLIES "CAN" PRINCIPLE AGAIN 73
LIBERTARIAN OBJECTIONS 74
CONCLUSION 76
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 76
NOTES 77
ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS 78
HAPPINESS AND THE VIRTUOUS LIFE 78
CHARACTERIZING THE VIRTUOUS LIFE 80
CONFLICTS WITH KANTIAN ETHICS 81
THE IMPORTANCE OF RULES 82
FOCUSING ON HOW WE SHOULD ACT 82
THE PRIORITY QUESTION 83
AYN RAND'S ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS 84
THE NO-CONFLICT THESIS 85
CONFLICTS OF SELF-INTEREST IN RAND'S NOVELS 87
THE NO-DUTY THESIS 88
THE IMPORTANCE OF REJECTING THE NO-CONFLICT THESIS 89
CONCLUSION 90
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 90
NOTES 9/
TAKING-STOCK INTERLUDE 93
THE CHALLENGE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM 95 SINGER'S UTILITARIAN
ENVIRONMENTALISM 95
REGAN'S KANTIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM 96
BIOCENTRISM 96
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VIII CONTENTS
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
PRINCIPLES OF CONTLIET RESOLUTION 98
INDIVIDUALISM AND HOLISM 10 I
AN OBJECTION FROM A SOMEWHAT ALIEN PERSPECTIVE I 04
CONCLUSION I06
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 107
NOTES /07
THE CHALLENGE OF FEMINISM 109
GILLIGAN'S CHALLENGE I09 THE PRACTICAL INADEQUACY OF T RADITIONAL
THEORIES OF JUSTICE I I 1
IS IT DISCRIMINATION OR IS IT CHOICE? I 12
THE PRACTICAL INADEQUACY OF THE T RADITIONAL IDEALS OF AMORALLY GOOD
PERSON I 15
CONCLUSION I 18
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS I 19
NOTES //9
THE CHALLENGE OF MULTICULTURALISM 122
CORRECTING AND INTERPRETING TRADITIONAL ETHICS 124 USING AMERICAN INDIAN
CULTURE 124
USING CONFUCIUS 126
NEW OBLIGATIONS FOR T RADITIONAL ETHICS 128
APPLYING TRADITIONAL ETHICS CROSS-CULTURALLY 133
CONCLUSION 135
MYSEARCHLAB CONNECTIONS 136
NOTES /36
CONCLUSION 138
THREE CHALLENGES 138 THREE CONCEPTIONS OF ETHICS 138
THREE MORE CHALLENGES 139
PRACTICING ETHICS 140
SUMMING-UP 144
NOTES /44
GLOSSARY 145
INDEX 147 |
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