Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 404 g
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 404 g
ISBN: 978-0-07-811908-8
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
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RACHELS, THE RIGHT THING TO DO: BASIC READINGS IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY, 7ETABLE OF CONTENTSPreface
About the AuthorsINTRODUCTION 1. A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy James Rachels
2. Some Basic Points about Arguments James Rachels UTILITARIANISM 3. Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill
4. Utilitarianism and Integrity Bernard Williams
5. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick OTHER THEORETICAL ESSAYS 6. The Subjectivity of Values J. L. Mackie
7. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis
8. The Categorical Imperative Immanuel Kant
9. The Virtues Aristotle
10. Master Morality and Slave Morality Friedrich Nietzsche
11. Caring Relations and Principles of Justice Virginia Held ABORTION 12. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion and Postscript on Infanticide Mary Anne Warren
13. Why Abortion Is Immoral Don Marquis
14. A Defense of Abortion Judith Jarvis Thomson ANIMALS 15. All Animals Are Equal Peter Singer
16. Torturing Puppies and Eating Meat: It’s All in Good Taste Alastair Norcross
17. Do Animals Have Rights? Tibor R. Machan POVERTY 18. Famine, Affluence, and Morality Peter Singer
19. Poverty and Parenthood Stuart Rachels THE DEATH PENALTY 20. A Defense of the Death Penalty Louis P. Pojman
21. Why the United States Will Join the Rest of the World in Abandoning Capital Punishment Stephen B. Bright WAR, TERRORISM, AND TORTURE 22. Hellhole Atul Gawande
23. The Ethics of War and Peace Douglas P. Lackey
24. Fifty Years after Hiroshima John Rawls
25. What Is Wrong with Terrorism? Thomas Nagel
26. Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb David Luban SEX AND DRUGS 27. America’s Unjust Drug War Michael Huemer
28. Our Sexual Ethics Bertrand Russell
29. A Few Words about Gay Marriage Andrew Sullivan
30. Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument from Public Disagreement David Boonin
31. Alcohol and Rape Nicholas Dixon RACE, WOMEN, AND IMMIGRATION 32. Letter from the Birmingham City Jail Martin Luther King Jr.
33. Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary? Peter Singer
34. In Defense of Quotas James Rachels
35. Homeward Bound Linda Hirshman
36. The Case for Open Immigration Michael Huemer BIOETHICS 37. The Morality of Euthanasia James Rachels
38. The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia J. Gay-Williams
39. The New Eugenics Matt Ridley
40. Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation John A. Robertson
41. Selling Organs for Transplantation Lewis Burrows
42. A Free Marked Would Reduce Donations and Would Commodify the Human Body James F. Childress