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The Right Thing To Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy(English)

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The Right Thing to Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy is the engaging companion reader to James Rachels and Stuart Rachels’ best-selling text, The Elements of Moral Philosophy (0-07-803824-3). It offers readable, well-argued essays on compelling issues that students are familiar with and can understand. This collection can also stand on its own as the text for a course in moral philosophy, or it can be used to supplement any introductory text.

Table of Contents:
PrefaceAbout the Authors INTRODUCTION1. A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, James Rachels 2. Some Basic Points about Arguments, James RachelsUTILITARIANISM 3. Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill 4. Utilitarianism and Integrity, Bernard Williams 5. The Experience Machine, Robert NozickOTHER THEORETICAL ESSAYS 6. The Subjectivity of Values, J. L. Mackie 7. The Categorical Imperative, Immanuel Kant 8. The Virtues, Aristotle 9. Master Morality and Slave Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche 10. Caring Relations and Principles of Justice, Virginia Held ABORTION 11. Why Abortion Is Immoral, Don Marquis 12. A Defense of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson 13. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion and Postscript on Infanticide, Mary Ann Warren ANIMALS 14. All Animals Are Equal, Peter Singer 15. Torturing Puppies and Eating Meat: It's All in Good Taste, Alastair Norcross 16. Do Animals Have Rights?, Tibor R. MachanSTARVATION 17. The Singer Solution to World Poverty, Peter SingerTHE DEATH PENALTY18. A Defense of the Death Penalty, Louis P. Pojman 19. Why the United States Will Join the Rest of the World in Abandoning Capital Punishment, Stephen B. Bright WAR, TERRORISM, AND TORTURE 20. Hellhole, Atul Gawande21. The Ethics of War and Peace, Douglas P. Lackey 22. Fifty Years after Hiroshima, John Rawls 23. What Is Wrong with Terrorism?, Thomas Nagel 24. Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb, David LubanSEX AND DRUGS 25. America’s Unjust Drug War, Michael Huemer 26. Our Sexual Ethics, Bertrand Russell 27. Monogamy: A Critique, John McMurtry 28. A Few Words about Gay Marriage, Andrew Sullivan29. Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument from Public Disagreement, David Boonin30. Alcohol and Rape, Nicholas Dixon RACE 31. Letter from the Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. 32. Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary?, Peter Singer 33. In Defense of Quotas, James RachelsBIOETHICS 34. The Morality of Euthanasia, James Rachels 35. The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia, J. Gay-Williams36. The New Eugenics, Matt Ridley37. Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation, John A. Robertson38. Selling Organs for Transplantation, Lewis Burrows39. A Free Market Would Reduce Donations and Would Commodify the Human Body, James F. Childress


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780078038235
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 221 mm
  • No of Pages: 346
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0078038235
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 6
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 345 gr


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