Harry Gensler / Earl Spurgin / James Swindal (eds.)

Ethics: Contemporary Readings

Herausgeber: Gensler, Harry; Swindal, James; Spurgin, Earl

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethics: Contemporary Readings is designed to lead any student into the subject, through carefully selected classic and contemporary articles. The book includes articles by the leading figures in the field and provides an excellent entry to the topic. The book complements Harry Gensler's Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 155mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780415256803
• ISBN-10: 0415256801
• Artikelnr.: 22059724

Autorenporträt

Harry J. Gensler, S.J.is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, Cleveland. He is author of Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 1998), Formal Ethics (Routledge 1996), and Introduction to Logic (Routledge 2002). Earl W. Spurgin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University and author of several articles in ethics and business ethics. James C. Swindal is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Carroll University and author of Reflection Revisited: Jürgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Moral Philosophy, Harry J. Gensler
Chapter 2 The History of Ethics, James C. Swindal, Earl W. Spurgin
Part 1 Initial Approaches to Morality
Chapter 3 Defending Cultural Relativism, Ruth Benedict
Chapter 4 Against Cultural Relativism, Harry J. Gensler, Mary Grace Tokmenko
Chapter 5 Ethical Claims Describe Feelings, David Hume
Chapter 6 Ethical Claims Are Objective, Thomas Nagel
Chapter 7 The Moral Law Is from God, C. S. Lewis
Chapter 8 The Bible
Part 2 Further Approaches to Morality
Chapter 9 Irreducible Ethical Truths, G. E. Moore
Chapter 10 Objective Prima Facie Duties, W. D. Ross
Chapter 11 Ethical Claims Express Feelings, A. J. Ayer
Chapter 12 Values Are Subjective, J. L. Mackie
Chapter 13 Universal Prescriptions, R. M. Hare
Chapter 14 An Existentialist Ethics, Jean-Paul Sartre
Part 3 Ethical Methodology
Chapter 15 Moral Justification, William K. Frankena
Chapter 16 Discourse Ethics, Jürgen Habermas
Chapter 17 Ethics Is Based on Reason, Immanuel Kant
Chapter 18 The Golden Rule and Society, Joyce Hertzler
Chapter 19 The Golden Rule and Religion, Paul Ricoeur
Chapter 20 Master and Slave Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche
Chapter 21 Racial Segregation, Martin Luther King
Chapter 22 Moral Education, Lawrence Kohlberg
Part 4 Normative Theory
Chapter 23 Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill
Chapter 24 Defending Utilitarianism, J. J. C. Smart
Chapter 25 Against Utilitarianism, Bernard Williams
Chapter 26 Rule Utilitarianism, Richard B. Brandt
Chapter 27 Objective Prima Facie Duties, W. D. Ross
Chapter 28 Goods and Absolutes, John Finnis
Chapter 29 A Theory of Justice, John Rawls
Chapter 30 Justice and Goods, Robert Nozick
Chapter 31 Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
Chapter 32 Virtue Ethics, Alasdair Macintyre
Chapter 33 Rudiments of Virtue Ethics, Michael Slote
Part 5 Applied Ethics
Chapter 34 A Defense of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson
Chapter 35 Pro-life Feminism, Sidney Callahan
Chapter 36 Animal Liberation, Peter Singer
Chapter 37 A Kantian Approach to Famine Relief, Onora O'Neill
Chapter 38 The Land Ethic, J. Baird Callicott