Professor Robert L. Holmes (USA University of Rochester)
Introduction to Applied Ethics
Professor Robert L. Holmes (USA University of Rochester)
Introduction to Applied Ethics
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How do you decide what is ethically wrong and right? Few people make moral judgments by taking the theory first. Specifically written with the interests, needs, and experience of students in mind, this textbook approaches thinking ethically as you do in real life - by first encountering practical moral problems and then introducing theory to understand and integrate the issues. Built around engaging case studies from news media, court hearings, famous speeches and philosophical writings, each of the 15 chapters: - explains and defines the moral problem dealt with - provides excerpts of…mehr
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How do you decide what is ethically wrong and right? Few people make moral judgments by taking the theory first. Specifically written with the interests, needs, and experience of students in mind, this textbook approaches thinking ethically as you do in real life - by first encountering practical moral problems and then introducing theory to understand and integrate the issues. Built around engaging case studies from news media, court hearings, famous speeches and philosophical writings, each of the 15 chapters: - explains and defines the moral problem dealt with - provides excerpts of readings on all sides of the issue - analyses the problem, using the relevant theory The examples are recognizable ethical problems, including judgments about racism and sexism, controversial debates such as assisted suicide and the death penalty, and contemporary concerns like privacy and technology, corporate responsibility, and the environment. The mission of the book is to assist you to engage in informed, independent, critical thinking and to enable you to enter into ethical discussions in the classroom and beyond. Supported by learning features, including study questions, key quotes, handy definitions and a companion website, this book is essential for any student of moral philosophy.
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- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Seitenzahl: 552
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
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- ISBN-13: 9781350029811
- ISBN-10: 1350029815
- Artikelnr.: 47617365
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Seitenzahl: 552
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 844g
- ISBN-13: 9781350029811
- ISBN-10: 1350029815
- Artikelnr.: 47617365
Robert L. Holmes is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, USA. His main research is in philosophy of war, the ethics of nonviolence, and contemporary moral problems. He is the author of Basic Moral Philosophy (2006) and On War and Morality (1989), co-author of Philosophical Inquiry (1968), and co-editor of Nonviolence in Theory and Practice (1990). He has published over 75 scholarly papers.
Introduction I RACE, GENDER AND ETHNICITY Chapter 1. RACISM 1.1 Basic
Questions about Racism 1.2 What is Racism? 1.3 What is a Racist? 1.4 A
Racist Philosophy 1.5 The Racist's Burden of Proof 1.6 Is there such a
Thing as "Race"? 1.7 Are Some "Races" Superior to Others? 1.8 Ought
Innately Superior "Races" to dominate Inferior "Races"? 1.9 Race, Rights
and Utility 1.10 Racism and Universalizability 1.11 Conclusion Chapter 2.
SEXISM 2.1 Basic Questions about Sexism 2.2 What is Sexism? 2.3 What is a
Sexist? 2.4 The Sexist's Burden of Proof 2.5 Is One Sex Innately Superior
to the Other? 2.6 Ought One Sex to Dominate the Other? 2.7 Conclusion
Chapter 3. HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES 3.1 Hispanics in America 3.2 Are
Hispanics a "Race" or an Ethnic Group? 3.3 Naming 3.4 What Terms to Use and
Who Should Decide? 3.5 Can "Hispanic" Be Defined? 3.6 Anti-Hispanic
Discrimination 3.7 Hispanics, School Segregation, and Distributive Justice
3.9 Conclusion Chapter 4. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND DIVERSITY 4.1 What is
Affirmative Action? 4.2 The Evolution of Affirmative Action 4.3 Diversity
to the Forefront 4.4 Affirmative Action and the University of Michigan 4.5
A Definition of Affirmative Action. 4.6 The Moral Issue. 4.7 Reparations?
4.8 Affirmative Action Distinguished from Reparations 4.9 Justice for
Groups or for Individuals? 4.10 Is Affirmative Action Fair? 4.11 Diversity
or Compensation for Past Injustice? 4.12 Conclusion Chapter Five. SEXUAL
HARASSMENT 5.1 What is Sexual Harassment? 5.2 The Potential for
Misunderstanding 5.3 Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination 5.4 Is Sexual
Harassment the Same as Sex Discrimination? 5.5 Sexual Harassment and Sexism
5.6 Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct and Gender Harassment 5.7 Sexual
Harassment and Privacy 5.8 Sexual Harassment and the University 5.9
Conclusion II PROFIT AND THE PLIGHT OF OTHERS Chapter 6. CORPORATE
RESPONSIBILITY 6.1 The Problem 6.2 What are Corporations? 6.3 Liberal and
Conservative Positions on Corporate Social Responsibility 6.4 What is the
Basic Obligation of Corporations? 6.5 Possible Objections to Corporate
Responsibility 6.6 What Social Responsibilities? 6.7 Non-maleficence 6.8
Corporations and Distributive Justice 6.9 Corporations and the Making of
Moral judgments 6.10 Conclusion Chapter 7. POVERTY AND WORLD HUNGER 7.1
What is Poverty? 7.2 Is Poverty Always Bad? Voluntary and Involuntary
Poverty 7.3 How Serious a Problem is Poverty? 7.4 Are We Obligated
Individually to Fight Poverty? 7.5. Are We Obligated Collectively to Fight
Poverty? 7.6 Are Efforts to Fight Poverty Futile Under Present
Socio-economic Conditions? 7.7 Conclusion Chapter 8. CAPITALISM AND
SOCIALISM 8.1 What are Capitalism and Socialism? 8.2 Freedom, Liberty and
Rights 8.3 Natural Rights 8.4 Anarchism, Libertarianism, Conservatism and
Liberalism 8.5 Liberty and Equality 8.6 Marxism 8.7 Historical Materialism
8.8 Surplus Value 8.9 A Capitalist Conception of Distributive Justice 8.10
Are There Contradictions within Capitalism? 8.11 Conclusion III ANIMALS AND
THE ENVIRONMENT Chapter 9. CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 9.1 Why Care for the
Environment? 9.2 Basic and Derivative Moral Considerations 9.3 Who or What
Warrants Basic Moral Consideration? 9.4 Anthropocentrism 9.5 Sentientism
9.6 Biocentrism 9.7 Does Nature as a Whole Warrant Basic Moral
Consideration? 9.8 An Argument for Giving Nature Basic Moral Consideration
9.9 An Anthropocentric Objection 9.10 Intended and Foreseeable Consequences
of Environmental Impacts 9.11 Conclusion Chapter 10. MORAL CONSIDERATION
FOR ANIMALS 10.1 Kinds of Moral Consideration 10.2 Speciesism 10.3 Animals
and Discrimination 10.4 Ought Humans to Dominate Animals? 10.5 Are Humans
Naturally Superior to Animals? 10.6 What Extrinsic Value Does Human
Intelligence Have? 10.7 Superiority and Dominance 10.8 Conclusion IV
AUTONOMY AND THE INDIVIDUAL Chapter 11. PRIVACY 11.1 Why is Privacy
Important? 11.2 Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Privacy 11.3 The
Definition of Privacy 11.4 Personal Autonomy 11.5 The Paradox of Privacy
11.6 Setting Boundaries 11.7 The Prima Facie Right to Privacy 11.8
Violating Privacy for Political, Social or Personal Ends 11.9 Privacy and
Conflicting Values 11.10 Privacy and Technology 11.11 Conclusion Chapter
12. ABORTION 12.1 Is There Neutral Language With Which to Discuss Abortion?
12.2 What is It That is Aborted? 12.3 A Medical Perspective 12.4 Whose
Interests Warrant Moral Consideration in the Abortion Issue? 12.5 Roe v.
Wade (1973) 12.6 A Woman's "Right to Choose." 12.7 Do Men Have Rights in
the Abortion Issue? 12.8 Do the Unborn Have Rights? 12.9 Human Beings and
Persons 12.10 Abortion and the Killing of the Innocent 12.11 What Precisely
is Abortion? 12.12 Hare's Golden Rule Argument 12.13 Toward a New
Perspective on Abortion 12.14 The Basic Issue of Unwanted Pregnancy 12.15
Conclusion Chapter 13. PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE 13.1 Suicide 13.2 Is
There a Right to Die? 13.3 Active and Passive Euthanasia 13.4 The Quinlan,
Cruzan and Schiavo Cases 13.5 Consciousness, Coma and Persistent Vegetative
States 13.6 Killing and Letting Die 13.7 Is There a Moral Difference
Between Killing and Letting Die? 13.8 Is There a Slippery Slope from
Suicide to Assisted Suicide to Euthanasia? 13.9 The Case for a Logically
Slippery Slope 13.10 Conclusion V THE NONCONSENSUAL TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE
Chapter 14. THE DEATH PENALTY 14.1 The Death Penalty in America 14.2 What
is Punishment? 14.3 Deterrence and Retribution 14.4 What is Retributivism?
14.5 Objection to the Retributivist Justification of the Death Penalty 14.6
Is the Death Penalty a Deterrent? 14.7 Conclusion Chapter 15. TERRORISM AND
WAR 15.1 The Problem 15.2 What is Terrorism? 15.3 The Rationalization of
Terrorism 15.4 Who Are Terrorists? 15.5 How Some Terrorists View Themselves
15.6 Terrorism and the Killing of Innocents 15.7 What is War? 15.8 Can War
Be Morally Justified? 15.9 The Just War Theory 15.10 War and the Killing of
Innocents 15.11 War and the Killing of Soldiers 15.12 Are Soldiers Morally
Expendable? 15.13 Is There an Absolute Right to Kill in Self-Defense? 15.14
The Paradox of the Moral Expendability of Soldiers 15.15 Pacifism 15.16
Conclusion
Questions about Racism 1.2 What is Racism? 1.3 What is a Racist? 1.4 A
Racist Philosophy 1.5 The Racist's Burden of Proof 1.6 Is there such a
Thing as "Race"? 1.7 Are Some "Races" Superior to Others? 1.8 Ought
Innately Superior "Races" to dominate Inferior "Races"? 1.9 Race, Rights
and Utility 1.10 Racism and Universalizability 1.11 Conclusion Chapter 2.
SEXISM 2.1 Basic Questions about Sexism 2.2 What is Sexism? 2.3 What is a
Sexist? 2.4 The Sexist's Burden of Proof 2.5 Is One Sex Innately Superior
to the Other? 2.6 Ought One Sex to Dominate the Other? 2.7 Conclusion
Chapter 3. HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES 3.1 Hispanics in America 3.2 Are
Hispanics a "Race" or an Ethnic Group? 3.3 Naming 3.4 What Terms to Use and
Who Should Decide? 3.5 Can "Hispanic" Be Defined? 3.6 Anti-Hispanic
Discrimination 3.7 Hispanics, School Segregation, and Distributive Justice
3.9 Conclusion Chapter 4. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND DIVERSITY 4.1 What is
Affirmative Action? 4.2 The Evolution of Affirmative Action 4.3 Diversity
to the Forefront 4.4 Affirmative Action and the University of Michigan 4.5
A Definition of Affirmative Action. 4.6 The Moral Issue. 4.7 Reparations?
4.8 Affirmative Action Distinguished from Reparations 4.9 Justice for
Groups or for Individuals? 4.10 Is Affirmative Action Fair? 4.11 Diversity
or Compensation for Past Injustice? 4.12 Conclusion Chapter Five. SEXUAL
HARASSMENT 5.1 What is Sexual Harassment? 5.2 The Potential for
Misunderstanding 5.3 Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination 5.4 Is Sexual
Harassment the Same as Sex Discrimination? 5.5 Sexual Harassment and Sexism
5.6 Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct and Gender Harassment 5.7 Sexual
Harassment and Privacy 5.8 Sexual Harassment and the University 5.9
Conclusion II PROFIT AND THE PLIGHT OF OTHERS Chapter 6. CORPORATE
RESPONSIBILITY 6.1 The Problem 6.2 What are Corporations? 6.3 Liberal and
Conservative Positions on Corporate Social Responsibility 6.4 What is the
Basic Obligation of Corporations? 6.5 Possible Objections to Corporate
Responsibility 6.6 What Social Responsibilities? 6.7 Non-maleficence 6.8
Corporations and Distributive Justice 6.9 Corporations and the Making of
Moral judgments 6.10 Conclusion Chapter 7. POVERTY AND WORLD HUNGER 7.1
What is Poverty? 7.2 Is Poverty Always Bad? Voluntary and Involuntary
Poverty 7.3 How Serious a Problem is Poverty? 7.4 Are We Obligated
Individually to Fight Poverty? 7.5. Are We Obligated Collectively to Fight
Poverty? 7.6 Are Efforts to Fight Poverty Futile Under Present
Socio-economic Conditions? 7.7 Conclusion Chapter 8. CAPITALISM AND
SOCIALISM 8.1 What are Capitalism and Socialism? 8.2 Freedom, Liberty and
Rights 8.3 Natural Rights 8.4 Anarchism, Libertarianism, Conservatism and
Liberalism 8.5 Liberty and Equality 8.6 Marxism 8.7 Historical Materialism
8.8 Surplus Value 8.9 A Capitalist Conception of Distributive Justice 8.10
Are There Contradictions within Capitalism? 8.11 Conclusion III ANIMALS AND
THE ENVIRONMENT Chapter 9. CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 9.1 Why Care for the
Environment? 9.2 Basic and Derivative Moral Considerations 9.3 Who or What
Warrants Basic Moral Consideration? 9.4 Anthropocentrism 9.5 Sentientism
9.6 Biocentrism 9.7 Does Nature as a Whole Warrant Basic Moral
Consideration? 9.8 An Argument for Giving Nature Basic Moral Consideration
9.9 An Anthropocentric Objection 9.10 Intended and Foreseeable Consequences
of Environmental Impacts 9.11 Conclusion Chapter 10. MORAL CONSIDERATION
FOR ANIMALS 10.1 Kinds of Moral Consideration 10.2 Speciesism 10.3 Animals
and Discrimination 10.4 Ought Humans to Dominate Animals? 10.5 Are Humans
Naturally Superior to Animals? 10.6 What Extrinsic Value Does Human
Intelligence Have? 10.7 Superiority and Dominance 10.8 Conclusion IV
AUTONOMY AND THE INDIVIDUAL Chapter 11. PRIVACY 11.1 Why is Privacy
Important? 11.2 Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Privacy 11.3 The
Definition of Privacy 11.4 Personal Autonomy 11.5 The Paradox of Privacy
11.6 Setting Boundaries 11.7 The Prima Facie Right to Privacy 11.8
Violating Privacy for Political, Social or Personal Ends 11.9 Privacy and
Conflicting Values 11.10 Privacy and Technology 11.11 Conclusion Chapter
12. ABORTION 12.1 Is There Neutral Language With Which to Discuss Abortion?
12.2 What is It That is Aborted? 12.3 A Medical Perspective 12.4 Whose
Interests Warrant Moral Consideration in the Abortion Issue? 12.5 Roe v.
Wade (1973) 12.6 A Woman's "Right to Choose." 12.7 Do Men Have Rights in
the Abortion Issue? 12.8 Do the Unborn Have Rights? 12.9 Human Beings and
Persons 12.10 Abortion and the Killing of the Innocent 12.11 What Precisely
is Abortion? 12.12 Hare's Golden Rule Argument 12.13 Toward a New
Perspective on Abortion 12.14 The Basic Issue of Unwanted Pregnancy 12.15
Conclusion Chapter 13. PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE 13.1 Suicide 13.2 Is
There a Right to Die? 13.3 Active and Passive Euthanasia 13.4 The Quinlan,
Cruzan and Schiavo Cases 13.5 Consciousness, Coma and Persistent Vegetative
States 13.6 Killing and Letting Die 13.7 Is There a Moral Difference
Between Killing and Letting Die? 13.8 Is There a Slippery Slope from
Suicide to Assisted Suicide to Euthanasia? 13.9 The Case for a Logically
Slippery Slope 13.10 Conclusion V THE NONCONSENSUAL TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE
Chapter 14. THE DEATH PENALTY 14.1 The Death Penalty in America 14.2 What
is Punishment? 14.3 Deterrence and Retribution 14.4 What is Retributivism?
14.5 Objection to the Retributivist Justification of the Death Penalty 14.6
Is the Death Penalty a Deterrent? 14.7 Conclusion Chapter 15. TERRORISM AND
WAR 15.1 The Problem 15.2 What is Terrorism? 15.3 The Rationalization of
Terrorism 15.4 Who Are Terrorists? 15.5 How Some Terrorists View Themselves
15.6 Terrorism and the Killing of Innocents 15.7 What is War? 15.8 Can War
Be Morally Justified? 15.9 The Just War Theory 15.10 War and the Killing of
Innocents 15.11 War and the Killing of Soldiers 15.12 Are Soldiers Morally
Expendable? 15.13 Is There an Absolute Right to Kill in Self-Defense? 15.14
The Paradox of the Moral Expendability of Soldiers 15.15 Pacifism 15.16
Conclusion
Introduction I RACE, GENDER AND ETHNICITY Chapter 1. RACISM 1.1 Basic
Questions about Racism 1.2 What is Racism? 1.3 What is a Racist? 1.4 A
Racist Philosophy 1.5 The Racist's Burden of Proof 1.6 Is there such a
Thing as "Race"? 1.7 Are Some "Races" Superior to Others? 1.8 Ought
Innately Superior "Races" to dominate Inferior "Races"? 1.9 Race, Rights
and Utility 1.10 Racism and Universalizability 1.11 Conclusion Chapter 2.
SEXISM 2.1 Basic Questions about Sexism 2.2 What is Sexism? 2.3 What is a
Sexist? 2.4 The Sexist's Burden of Proof 2.5 Is One Sex Innately Superior
to the Other? 2.6 Ought One Sex to Dominate the Other? 2.7 Conclusion
Chapter 3. HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES 3.1 Hispanics in America 3.2 Are
Hispanics a "Race" or an Ethnic Group? 3.3 Naming 3.4 What Terms to Use and
Who Should Decide? 3.5 Can "Hispanic" Be Defined? 3.6 Anti-Hispanic
Discrimination 3.7 Hispanics, School Segregation, and Distributive Justice
3.9 Conclusion Chapter 4. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND DIVERSITY 4.1 What is
Affirmative Action? 4.2 The Evolution of Affirmative Action 4.3 Diversity
to the Forefront 4.4 Affirmative Action and the University of Michigan 4.5
A Definition of Affirmative Action. 4.6 The Moral Issue. 4.7 Reparations?
4.8 Affirmative Action Distinguished from Reparations 4.9 Justice for
Groups or for Individuals? 4.10 Is Affirmative Action Fair? 4.11 Diversity
or Compensation for Past Injustice? 4.12 Conclusion Chapter Five. SEXUAL
HARASSMENT 5.1 What is Sexual Harassment? 5.2 The Potential for
Misunderstanding 5.3 Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination 5.4 Is Sexual
Harassment the Same as Sex Discrimination? 5.5 Sexual Harassment and Sexism
5.6 Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct and Gender Harassment 5.7 Sexual
Harassment and Privacy 5.8 Sexual Harassment and the University 5.9
Conclusion II PROFIT AND THE PLIGHT OF OTHERS Chapter 6. CORPORATE
RESPONSIBILITY 6.1 The Problem 6.2 What are Corporations? 6.3 Liberal and
Conservative Positions on Corporate Social Responsibility 6.4 What is the
Basic Obligation of Corporations? 6.5 Possible Objections to Corporate
Responsibility 6.6 What Social Responsibilities? 6.7 Non-maleficence 6.8
Corporations and Distributive Justice 6.9 Corporations and the Making of
Moral judgments 6.10 Conclusion Chapter 7. POVERTY AND WORLD HUNGER 7.1
What is Poverty? 7.2 Is Poverty Always Bad? Voluntary and Involuntary
Poverty 7.3 How Serious a Problem is Poverty? 7.4 Are We Obligated
Individually to Fight Poverty? 7.5. Are We Obligated Collectively to Fight
Poverty? 7.6 Are Efforts to Fight Poverty Futile Under Present
Socio-economic Conditions? 7.7 Conclusion Chapter 8. CAPITALISM AND
SOCIALISM 8.1 What are Capitalism and Socialism? 8.2 Freedom, Liberty and
Rights 8.3 Natural Rights 8.4 Anarchism, Libertarianism, Conservatism and
Liberalism 8.5 Liberty and Equality 8.6 Marxism 8.7 Historical Materialism
8.8 Surplus Value 8.9 A Capitalist Conception of Distributive Justice 8.10
Are There Contradictions within Capitalism? 8.11 Conclusion III ANIMALS AND
THE ENVIRONMENT Chapter 9. CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 9.1 Why Care for the
Environment? 9.2 Basic and Derivative Moral Considerations 9.3 Who or What
Warrants Basic Moral Consideration? 9.4 Anthropocentrism 9.5 Sentientism
9.6 Biocentrism 9.7 Does Nature as a Whole Warrant Basic Moral
Consideration? 9.8 An Argument for Giving Nature Basic Moral Consideration
9.9 An Anthropocentric Objection 9.10 Intended and Foreseeable Consequences
of Environmental Impacts 9.11 Conclusion Chapter 10. MORAL CONSIDERATION
FOR ANIMALS 10.1 Kinds of Moral Consideration 10.2 Speciesism 10.3 Animals
and Discrimination 10.4 Ought Humans to Dominate Animals? 10.5 Are Humans
Naturally Superior to Animals? 10.6 What Extrinsic Value Does Human
Intelligence Have? 10.7 Superiority and Dominance 10.8 Conclusion IV
AUTONOMY AND THE INDIVIDUAL Chapter 11. PRIVACY 11.1 Why is Privacy
Important? 11.2 Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Privacy 11.3 The
Definition of Privacy 11.4 Personal Autonomy 11.5 The Paradox of Privacy
11.6 Setting Boundaries 11.7 The Prima Facie Right to Privacy 11.8
Violating Privacy for Political, Social or Personal Ends 11.9 Privacy and
Conflicting Values 11.10 Privacy and Technology 11.11 Conclusion Chapter
12. ABORTION 12.1 Is There Neutral Language With Which to Discuss Abortion?
12.2 What is It That is Aborted? 12.3 A Medical Perspective 12.4 Whose
Interests Warrant Moral Consideration in the Abortion Issue? 12.5 Roe v.
Wade (1973) 12.6 A Woman's "Right to Choose." 12.7 Do Men Have Rights in
the Abortion Issue? 12.8 Do the Unborn Have Rights? 12.9 Human Beings and
Persons 12.10 Abortion and the Killing of the Innocent 12.11 What Precisely
is Abortion? 12.12 Hare's Golden Rule Argument 12.13 Toward a New
Perspective on Abortion 12.14 The Basic Issue of Unwanted Pregnancy 12.15
Conclusion Chapter 13. PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE 13.1 Suicide 13.2 Is
There a Right to Die? 13.3 Active and Passive Euthanasia 13.4 The Quinlan,
Cruzan and Schiavo Cases 13.5 Consciousness, Coma and Persistent Vegetative
States 13.6 Killing and Letting Die 13.7 Is There a Moral Difference
Between Killing and Letting Die? 13.8 Is There a Slippery Slope from
Suicide to Assisted Suicide to Euthanasia? 13.9 The Case for a Logically
Slippery Slope 13.10 Conclusion V THE NONCONSENSUAL TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE
Chapter 14. THE DEATH PENALTY 14.1 The Death Penalty in America 14.2 What
is Punishment? 14.3 Deterrence and Retribution 14.4 What is Retributivism?
14.5 Objection to the Retributivist Justification of the Death Penalty 14.6
Is the Death Penalty a Deterrent? 14.7 Conclusion Chapter 15. TERRORISM AND
WAR 15.1 The Problem 15.2 What is Terrorism? 15.3 The Rationalization of
Terrorism 15.4 Who Are Terrorists? 15.5 How Some Terrorists View Themselves
15.6 Terrorism and the Killing of Innocents 15.7 What is War? 15.8 Can War
Be Morally Justified? 15.9 The Just War Theory 15.10 War and the Killing of
Innocents 15.11 War and the Killing of Soldiers 15.12 Are Soldiers Morally
Expendable? 15.13 Is There an Absolute Right to Kill in Self-Defense? 15.14
The Paradox of the Moral Expendability of Soldiers 15.15 Pacifism 15.16
Conclusion
Questions about Racism 1.2 What is Racism? 1.3 What is a Racist? 1.4 A
Racist Philosophy 1.5 The Racist's Burden of Proof 1.6 Is there such a
Thing as "Race"? 1.7 Are Some "Races" Superior to Others? 1.8 Ought
Innately Superior "Races" to dominate Inferior "Races"? 1.9 Race, Rights
and Utility 1.10 Racism and Universalizability 1.11 Conclusion Chapter 2.
SEXISM 2.1 Basic Questions about Sexism 2.2 What is Sexism? 2.3 What is a
Sexist? 2.4 The Sexist's Burden of Proof 2.5 Is One Sex Innately Superior
to the Other? 2.6 Ought One Sex to Dominate the Other? 2.7 Conclusion
Chapter 3. HISPANIC/LATINO ISSUES 3.1 Hispanics in America 3.2 Are
Hispanics a "Race" or an Ethnic Group? 3.3 Naming 3.4 What Terms to Use and
Who Should Decide? 3.5 Can "Hispanic" Be Defined? 3.6 Anti-Hispanic
Discrimination 3.7 Hispanics, School Segregation, and Distributive Justice
3.9 Conclusion Chapter 4. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND DIVERSITY 4.1 What is
Affirmative Action? 4.2 The Evolution of Affirmative Action 4.3 Diversity
to the Forefront 4.4 Affirmative Action and the University of Michigan 4.5
A Definition of Affirmative Action. 4.6 The Moral Issue. 4.7 Reparations?
4.8 Affirmative Action Distinguished from Reparations 4.9 Justice for
Groups or for Individuals? 4.10 Is Affirmative Action Fair? 4.11 Diversity
or Compensation for Past Injustice? 4.12 Conclusion Chapter Five. SEXUAL
HARASSMENT 5.1 What is Sexual Harassment? 5.2 The Potential for
Misunderstanding 5.3 Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination 5.4 Is Sexual
Harassment the Same as Sex Discrimination? 5.5 Sexual Harassment and Sexism
5.6 Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct and Gender Harassment 5.7 Sexual
Harassment and Privacy 5.8 Sexual Harassment and the University 5.9
Conclusion II PROFIT AND THE PLIGHT OF OTHERS Chapter 6. CORPORATE
RESPONSIBILITY 6.1 The Problem 6.2 What are Corporations? 6.3 Liberal and
Conservative Positions on Corporate Social Responsibility 6.4 What is the
Basic Obligation of Corporations? 6.5 Possible Objections to Corporate
Responsibility 6.6 What Social Responsibilities? 6.7 Non-maleficence 6.8
Corporations and Distributive Justice 6.9 Corporations and the Making of
Moral judgments 6.10 Conclusion Chapter 7. POVERTY AND WORLD HUNGER 7.1
What is Poverty? 7.2 Is Poverty Always Bad? Voluntary and Involuntary
Poverty 7.3 How Serious a Problem is Poverty? 7.4 Are We Obligated
Individually to Fight Poverty? 7.5. Are We Obligated Collectively to Fight
Poverty? 7.6 Are Efforts to Fight Poverty Futile Under Present
Socio-economic Conditions? 7.7 Conclusion Chapter 8. CAPITALISM AND
SOCIALISM 8.1 What are Capitalism and Socialism? 8.2 Freedom, Liberty and
Rights 8.3 Natural Rights 8.4 Anarchism, Libertarianism, Conservatism and
Liberalism 8.5 Liberty and Equality 8.6 Marxism 8.7 Historical Materialism
8.8 Surplus Value 8.9 A Capitalist Conception of Distributive Justice 8.10
Are There Contradictions within Capitalism? 8.11 Conclusion III ANIMALS AND
THE ENVIRONMENT Chapter 9. CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 9.1 Why Care for the
Environment? 9.2 Basic and Derivative Moral Considerations 9.3 Who or What
Warrants Basic Moral Consideration? 9.4 Anthropocentrism 9.5 Sentientism
9.6 Biocentrism 9.7 Does Nature as a Whole Warrant Basic Moral
Consideration? 9.8 An Argument for Giving Nature Basic Moral Consideration
9.9 An Anthropocentric Objection 9.10 Intended and Foreseeable Consequences
of Environmental Impacts 9.11 Conclusion Chapter 10. MORAL CONSIDERATION
FOR ANIMALS 10.1 Kinds of Moral Consideration 10.2 Speciesism 10.3 Animals
and Discrimination 10.4 Ought Humans to Dominate Animals? 10.5 Are Humans
Naturally Superior to Animals? 10.6 What Extrinsic Value Does Human
Intelligence Have? 10.7 Superiority and Dominance 10.8 Conclusion IV
AUTONOMY AND THE INDIVIDUAL Chapter 11. PRIVACY 11.1 Why is Privacy
Important? 11.2 Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Privacy 11.3 The
Definition of Privacy 11.4 Personal Autonomy 11.5 The Paradox of Privacy
11.6 Setting Boundaries 11.7 The Prima Facie Right to Privacy 11.8
Violating Privacy for Political, Social or Personal Ends 11.9 Privacy and
Conflicting Values 11.10 Privacy and Technology 11.11 Conclusion Chapter
12. ABORTION 12.1 Is There Neutral Language With Which to Discuss Abortion?
12.2 What is It That is Aborted? 12.3 A Medical Perspective 12.4 Whose
Interests Warrant Moral Consideration in the Abortion Issue? 12.5 Roe v.
Wade (1973) 12.6 A Woman's "Right to Choose." 12.7 Do Men Have Rights in
the Abortion Issue? 12.8 Do the Unborn Have Rights? 12.9 Human Beings and
Persons 12.10 Abortion and the Killing of the Innocent 12.11 What Precisely
is Abortion? 12.12 Hare's Golden Rule Argument 12.13 Toward a New
Perspective on Abortion 12.14 The Basic Issue of Unwanted Pregnancy 12.15
Conclusion Chapter 13. PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE 13.1 Suicide 13.2 Is
There a Right to Die? 13.3 Active and Passive Euthanasia 13.4 The Quinlan,
Cruzan and Schiavo Cases 13.5 Consciousness, Coma and Persistent Vegetative
States 13.6 Killing and Letting Die 13.7 Is There a Moral Difference
Between Killing and Letting Die? 13.8 Is There a Slippery Slope from
Suicide to Assisted Suicide to Euthanasia? 13.9 The Case for a Logically
Slippery Slope 13.10 Conclusion V THE NONCONSENSUAL TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE
Chapter 14. THE DEATH PENALTY 14.1 The Death Penalty in America 14.2 What
is Punishment? 14.3 Deterrence and Retribution 14.4 What is Retributivism?
14.5 Objection to the Retributivist Justification of the Death Penalty 14.6
Is the Death Penalty a Deterrent? 14.7 Conclusion Chapter 15. TERRORISM AND
WAR 15.1 The Problem 15.2 What is Terrorism? 15.3 The Rationalization of
Terrorism 15.4 Who Are Terrorists? 15.5 How Some Terrorists View Themselves
15.6 Terrorism and the Killing of Innocents 15.7 What is War? 15.8 Can War
Be Morally Justified? 15.9 The Just War Theory 15.10 War and the Killing of
Innocents 15.11 War and the Killing of Soldiers 15.12 Are Soldiers Morally
Expendable? 15.13 Is There an Absolute Right to Kill in Self-Defense? 15.14
The Paradox of the Moral Expendability of Soldiers 15.15 Pacifism 15.16
Conclusion