PHIL 2306 (Introduction to Ethics) - Dr. A. Antoninka

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CHAPTERS: The nature of applied ethics - Theories of ethics - Property rights and welfare redistribution - Civil disobedience and the duty to obey the law - Capitalism and Marxism - State punishment and the death penalty - Racism - Sexism - Affirmative action - The legal enforcement of morality - Hate crimes, literature, and speech - Pornography and censorship - Dirty hands - Sexual ethics -Gun control - Citizenship - Immigration - World hunger - War and terrorism - Nationalism and secession - Intergenerational justice - Bioethics - Abortion

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A fully updated and revised edition of this authoritative anthology of classic and contemporary essays covering a wide range of ethical and moral issues. Integrates ethical theory with discussions of practical moral problems, and includes three essays on theory written specifically for this volume. Nearly half of the essays are written or revised exclusively for this anthology, which now also features eleven essays new to this edition, as well as expanded sections discussing theory, reproductive technologies, war and terrorism, and animals.

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This collection pairs essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns. Leading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethics.

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Ethics and Experience introduces students to the key topics in moral theory through provocative moral issues-just war, abortion, physician assisted suicide, the death penalty and more. Steffen helps students bridge the gap between ethical theory and experience through developing a "common agreement" ethical system that is applicable to a variety of moral problems and issues with clear language and real-life examples

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The latest volume of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations addresses a range of contemporary issues in applied and professional ethics. It is ideally suited to researchers, postgraduates and professionals whose interests include such key issues as tax avoidance, global justice, information sharing and corporate privacy.

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CHAPTERS: pt. I. Normative ethics - 1. Utilitarianism - 2. Deontological theories - Kant's moral theory - Divine command theory - 3. Virtue ethics - pt. II. Practical ethics - 4. Euthanasia - 5. Abortion - 6. Animal rights - 7. Environmental ethics - pt. III. Metaethics - 8. Cognitivism - Ethical transcendentalism - Naturalism - Non-naturalism - 9. Non-cognitivism - Emotivism - Prescriptivism - 10. The case for a contemporary naturalism.

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The traditional form of consequentialism is one-dimensional, in that the rightness of an act is a function of a single moral aspect, such as the sum total of wellbeing it produces. In this book Martin Peterson introduces a new type of consequentialist theory: multidimensional consequentialism. According to this theory, an act's moral rightness depends on several separate dimensions, including individual wellbeing, equality and risk. Peterson's novel approach shows that moral views about equality and risk that were previously thought to be mutually incompatible can be rendered compatible.

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Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. It includes sixty-six extracts covering the central domains of ethics: why be moral? the meaning of moral language, morality and objectivity, consequentialism, deontology, virtue and character value and well-being, moral psychology, applications: including abortion, famine relief and consent. Included are both classical extracts from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill, as well as contemporary classics from philosophers such as Thomas Nagel, Thomas Scanlon, Martha Nussbaum, Derek Parfit, and Peter Singer

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CHAPTERS: Theoretical considerations - 1. Ethical theory - Humanitarian issues - 2. Immigration - 3. Capital punishment - 4. Torture - 5. Animal rights - Medical Ethics - 6. Legalizing narcotics - 7. Abortion - 8. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide - 9. Organ transplantation - 10. Reproductive Technology/human cloning - Marriage and sex - 11. Premarital sex - 12. Homosexuality - 13. Gender identity - International issues - 14. Environmentalism - 15. World hunger -- 16. War - Conclusion.

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CHAPTERS: Caring as relation and virtue in teaching - Professing medicine, virtue based ethics, and the retrieval of professionalism - Doctoring and self-forgiveness - Virtue ethics as professional ethics: the case of psychiatry - Trust, suffering, and the Aesculapian virtues - Environmental virtue ethics - The good life for non-human animas: what virtue requires of humans - Law, morality, and virtue - Virtue ethics, role ethics, and business ethics - Racial virtues - Virtue and a warrior's anger - Famine, affluence, and virtue - Filial piety as a virtue

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Nel Noddings builds an argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. She provides a consideration of whether organizations can truly be ethical. Noddings discusses the extent to which we may truly care for plants, animals, or ideas. Finally, she proposes a realignment of education to encourage and reward not just rationality and trained intelligence, but also enhanced sensitivity in moral matters.

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CHAPTERS: Introduction: Care - an evolving definition - The landscape of current care discourse - Merleau-Ponty and embodied epistemology: caring habits and caring knowledge - Caring imagination: bridging personal and social morality - Jane Addams and the social habits of care - What difference does embodied care make?: a study of same-sex marriage - Conclusion: Experiencing one another, deconstructing otherness, joyfully moving ahead.

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This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential lines in applied ethics. Drawing on core concepts in feminist philosophy, this book investigates five major issues: immigration, environmental preservation, intervention in medical areas, the peace movement, and matters of citizenship. The work draws on key thinkers in feminist ethics and also ventures to other areas of feminist philosophy.

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This book presents social issues from a feminist ethical perspective. The essays critique gender blindness and biases in traditional ethical theory and develop more gender-sensitive theories and concepts. They conceptualize issues of right action, social justice, and the human good out of the experience of women.

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This book critiques social practice and develops an ethics of universal justness. The essays explore the impact of reasoned moral action, the virtues of character, and the empowering responsibility that comes with morality.

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Most of Western philosophy tends to ignore women and perpetuate antifeminine biases of the society as a whole. In this collection of essays by some of the most noted feminist philosophers, Kourany showcases ideas on the newest work of Western philosophy that is benefiting women as well as men.

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Annette Baier presents new essays in ethics. In the public sphere, she enquires into patriotism, what we owe future people, and what toleration we should have for killing. In the private sphere, she discusses honesty, self-knowledge, hope, sympathy, and self-trust, and offers personal reflections on faces, friendship, and alienating affection.