Today's moral issues : classic and contemporary perspectives / Daniel Bonevac.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION MORAL ARGUMENTS AND MORAL RELATIVISM
Relativism
Arguments
Evaluating arguments: three arguments for cultural relativism
Arguments against cultural relativism
Making moral arguments
Etc.

PART 1 FIRST PRINCIPLES
Aristotle, from Nicomachean ethics
St, Thomas Aquinas from summa theological
David Hume, from a treatise of human nature
Immanuel Kant, from fundamental principles of the metaphysics of morals
John Rawls Mill, from utilitarianism
Etc.

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
Bertand Russell, ''Our sexual ethics

Thomas A. Mappes, ''Sexual morality and the concept of using anther person
Sidney Callahan, Abortion and sexual agenda
Roger Scruton, from sexual desire

ANIMALS
International league of the rights of animals,
Peter Singer, from animal liberation
Tome Regan The case for animal rights
Carl Cohen, The case for the use of animals in Biomedical research

THE ENVIRONMENT

PART II LIBERTY

THEORETICAL APPROACHES

DRUG LEGALIZATION

PORNOGRAPHY

OFFENSIVE SPEECH AND BEHAVIOR

PART III RIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Theoretical approaches
Privacy
Abortion Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
Capital punishment

PART IV JUSTICE AND EQUALITY
Theoretical approaches
Economic equality
Racial equality
Sexual equality
Global equality

Includes bibliographical references.