Current issues and enduring questions : a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings / Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau.

Contents

Part One. Critical Thinking and Reading
I. Critical Thinking
2. Critical Reading: Getting Started
3. Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments

Part Two. Critical Writing
4. Writing an Analysis of an Argument
5. Developing an Argument of your own
6. Using Sources

Part Three. Further Views on Arguments
7. A philosopher's view: The Toulmin Model
8. A logician's View: Deduction, Induction Fallacies
9. A moralist view ways of thinking Ethically
10. A Lawyers View: Steps towards Civic Literacy
11. A Psychologist's view Rogerian Argument
12.A Literary Critics view: Arguing about Literature

Part Four. Current Issues: Occasions for Debate
13. Abortion: Whose Rights to Life is it anyway?
14. Affirmative Action: Is it Fair?
15. Gay Marriages: Should they be Legalized?
16. Gun Control: Would it really help?
17. Sex Education: Should Condoms be Distributed in Schools?
18. Women in the military: What is there role, if any

Part Five. Current Issues: Case Books
19. Business Ethics: Do Corporations have a social Responsibility?
20. The Death Penalty: Can it Even Be Justified?
21. Drugs: should their Sale and use Be legalized?
22. Euthanasia; Should Doctors Intervene at the End of Life?
23. Juvenile Crime; How Should Society Respond?
24: Privacy: What are its limits?
25. Sexual Harassment: Is there any doubt about What it is?
26. Video Violence: Do Children Need to be Protected?

Part Six. Enduring Questions: Essays, Stories, Poems, and A play
27. What is the Ideal Society
28. How Free is the will of Individual within society?
29. What are Grounds of Religious Faith?

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.