Today's moral issues : classic and contemporary perspectives /
Daniel Bonevac.
- 4th edition
- Boston : McGraw Hill, 2002.
- xiv, 605 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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