TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bonevac,Daniel A.
TI  - Today's moral issues: classic and contemporary perspectives 
SN  - 0767420209 (alk. paper)
SN  - 978076742
AV  - BJ1031 .T63 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw Hill
KW  - Ethical problems
KW  - Applied ethics
N1  - Includes Index;  	
Introduction --
Moral Arguments and Moral Relativism Relativism / Arguments / Evaluating Arguments: Three Arguments for Cultural Relativism / Arguments Against Cultural Relativism / Making Moral Arguments / Exceptions to Moral Principles Part I. First Principles Theoretical Approaches / Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics / *St. Thomas Aquinas, from Summa Theologica / David Hume, from A Treatise of Human Nature / Immanuel Kant, from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals / John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism / John Rawls, from A Theory of Justice / *Simone de Beauvoir, from The Ethics of Ambiguity Sexual Behavior / Bertrand Russell, "Our Sexual Ethics" / Thomas Mappes, "Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person" / Sydney Callahan, Abortion and the Sexual Agenda / Roger Scruton, from Sexual Desire Animals / International League of the Rights of Animals, Universal Declaration of the Rights of Animals / Peter Singer, from Animal Liberation / Tom Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights" / Carl Cohen, The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research / David Carruthers, from The Animals Issue The Environment / *Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons / *Richard Stroup, John Baden, with David Fractor, Property Rights: The Real Issue / Paul and Anne Ehrlich, "Risks, Costs, and Benefits" / *Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic" / William Baxter, from People or Penguins / Bill Devall and George Sessions, "Deep Ecology" / *Karen J. Warren, The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism Part II. Liberty Theoretical Approaches / *Plato, from the Republic / Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics / Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France / John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty Drug Legalization / Milton Friedman, "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett" / William J. Bennett, "A Response to Milton Friedman" / Ethan A. Nadelmann, "The Case for Legalization" / James Q. Wilson, "Against the Legalization of Drugs" / Douglas Husak, from Drugs and Rights Pornography / Catherine MacKinnon, "Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech" / Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, "The Question of Harm" / Wendy McElroy, from Sexual Correctness / Nadine Strossen, from Defending Pornography Offensive Speech and Behavior / Justice Antonin Scalia, majority opinion in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota / Stanley Fish, from There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too / Johnathan Rauch, "Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought" Part III. Rights and Responsibilities Theoretical Approaches / Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan / John Locke, from Second Treatise of Government / Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France / John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism Privacy / *Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy" / Richard Posner, from The Economics of Justice / Jeffrey H. Reiman, "Driving to the Panopticon" / *Rita C. Manning, "Liberal and Communitarian Defenses of Workplace Privacy" / *Mark Alfino and G. Randolph Mayes, "Rationality and the Right to Privacy" Abortion / Justice Harry Blackmun, majority opinion in Roe v. Wade / Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion" / Mary Anne Warren, "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" / Jane English, "Abortion and the Concept of a Person" / Don Marquis, "Why Abortion Is Immoral" Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide / Matter of Quinlan / J. Gay-Williams, "The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia" / James Rachels, "The Morality of Euthanasia" / Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozik, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson, "The Brief of the Amici Curiae" / Chief Justice William Rehnquist, majority opinion in Washington v. Glucksberg Capital Punishment / *Albert Camus, Reflections on the Guillotine / Justice William Brennan, concurring opinion in Furman v. Georgia / Justices Stewart, Powell, and Stevens, majority opinion in Gregg v. Georgia / Ernest van den Haag, from The Death Penalty: A Debate / Hugo Adam Bedau, "The Case Against the Death Penalty" / *William Tucker, "Why the Death Penalty Works" Part IV. Justice and Equality Theoretical Approaches / Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle, from Politics / John Locke, from Second Treatise of Government / Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Discourse on the Origin of Inequaiity; from On the Social Contract / *Albert Camus, Bread and Freedom / John Rawls, from A Theory of Justice / Robert Nozick, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia / *Susan Okin, Justice and Gender Economic Equality / Kai Nielsen, "Egalitarian Justice: Equality as a Goal and Equality as a Right" / John Hospers "What Libertarianism Is¿ / Ronald Dworkin, "Liberalism" / *Michael Walzer, "Welfare, Membership, and Need" / Charles Murray, Losing Ground / Michael Tanner and Stephen Moore, "Why Welfare Pays" Racial Equality / *Justice Earl Warren, majority opinion in Brown v. Board of Education / *Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" / Justice Lewis Powell, majority opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke / Hopwood v. Texas / Justice Antonin Scalia, "The Disease as a Cure" / Bernard R. Boxil, "Blacks and Social Justice" / Thomas Sowell, "Affirmative Action: A Worldwide Disaster" / *William G. Bowen and Derek Bok, The Shape of the River Sexual Equality / *Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, majority opinion in U.S. v. Virginia / *Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting opinion in U.S. v. Virginia / *Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / *Alison Jaggar, "Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality" / *Christine Littleton, "Reconstructing Sexual Equality" / *Christina Hoff Sommers, from Who Stole Feminism? Global Equality / Garrett Hardin, "The Case Against Helping the Poor" / Peter Singer, from Practical Ethics / *Gerald P.O. Driskill, Jr., Kim R. Holmes, and Melanie Kirkpatrick, "Who's Free, Who's Not" Asterisk denotes readings new to this edition.evac
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