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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ethics. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)624602555 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven M Cahn; Peter J Markie |
| ISBN: | 0195104536 9780195104530 |
| OCLC Number: | 36817107 |
| Description: | vi, 887 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Euthyphro ; Apology ; Crito ; Phaedo (114d-118) ; Republic (selections) / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics (selections) / Aristotle -- Letter to Menoeceus ; Leading doctrines / Epicurus -- Enchiridion / Epictetus -- Enchiridion on faith, hope, and love (selections) / Saint Augustine -- Summa contra gentiles (selections) / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Leviathan (selections) / Thomas Hobbes -- Fifteen sermons (selections) / Joseph Butler -- Enquiry concerning the principles of morals (selections) / David Hume -- Fundamental principles of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- Introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (selections) / Jeremy Bentham -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Fear and trembling (Problema I and II) / Soren Kierkegaard -- On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Beyond good and evil (selections) ; On the genealogy of morals (selections) ; Twilight of the idols ( selections) / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Moral philosopher and the moral life / William James -- Quest for certainty (selections) / John Dewey -- Myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- Existentialism is a humanism / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Principia ethica (selections) / G. E. Moore -- Right and the good (selections) / W. D. Ross -- Emotive meaning of ethical terms / C. L. Stevenson -- Freedom and reason (selections) / R. M. Hare -- Point of view of morality / Kurt Baier -- Nature of morality (selections) / Gilbert Harman -- Challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- Psychological egoism / Joel Feinberg -- Critique of utilitarianism / Bernard Williams -- Some merits of one form of rule utilitarianism / Richard B. Brandt -- Nature and value of rights / Joel Feinberg -- Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives / Philippa Foot -- Theory of justice (selections) / John Rawls -- Why contractarianism? / David Gauthier -- After virtue (selections) / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Ethics of virtue / James Rachels -- Feminist transformations of moral theory / Virginia Held -- Saints and heroes / J. O. Urmson -- Moral saints / Susan Wolf -- Moral luck / Thomas Nagel -- Defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- Abortion, distant peoples, and future generations / James Sterba -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Euthanasia / Philippa Foot -- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- Famine relief and the ideal moral code / John Arthur -- Case for animal rights / Tom Regan -- Case for the use of animals in biomedical research / Carl Cohen -- In defense of the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag -- Eye for an eye : the morality of punishing by death (selections) / Stephen Nathanson -- Message of affirmative action / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. -- Injustice of affirmative action involving preferential treatment / John Kekes. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Steven M. Cahn, Peter Markie. |
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