The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature - Brossura

Vaughn, Lewis; Pojman, Louis

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ISBN 10: 0195396251 ISBN 13: 9780195396256

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2010

Riassunto

Now in its fourth edition, Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn's acclaimed The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature brings together an extensive and varied collection of eighty-five classical and contemporary readings on ethical theory and practice. Integrating literature with philosophy in an innovative way, the book uses literary works to enliven and make concrete the ethical theory or applied issues addressed. Literary works by Angelou, Camus, Hawthorne, Huxley, Ibsen, Le Guin, Melville, Orwell, Styron, Tolstoy, and many others lead students into such philosophical concepts and issues as relativism; utilitarianism; virtue ethics; the meaning of life; freedom and autonomy; sex, love, and marriage; animal rights; and terrorism. These topics are developed further through readings by philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Singer, Sartre, Nagel, and Thomson. This unique anthology emphasizes the personal dimension of ethics, which is often ignored or minimized in ethics texts. It also incorporates chapter introductions, study questions, suggestions for further reading, and biographical sketches of the writers.
The fourth edition features five new readings—by James Rachels, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Levin, John Corvino, and Stephen Nathanson—and a new appendix on how to write a philosophy paper. A new Companion Website features resources for both students and instructors including reading summaries; true/false, multiple-choice, and essay questions; and PowerPoint slides. Ideal for introductory ethics courses, The Moral Life, Fourth Edition, also provides an engaging gateway into personal and social ethics for general readers.

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Contenuti

• *=New to this Edition
• Each chapter ends with Further Readings.
• Preface:
• Introduction: On the Nature of Morality
• PART I. THE NATURE OF MORALITY: Good and Evil
• 1. What Is the Purpose of Morality?
• William Golding, Lord of the Flies: A Moral Allegory
• Louis P. Pojman, On the Nature and Purpose of Morality: Reflections on William Golding's Lord of the Flies
• On the State of Nature: Thomas Hobbes
• 2. Good and Evil
• Billy Budd: Herman Melville
• Why Is There Evil?: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Sophie's Choice: William Styron
• From Cruelty to Goodness: Philip Hallie
• Wickedness: Stanley Benn
• Beyond Good and Evil: Friedrich Nietzsche
• On the Origin of Good and Evil: Richard Taylor
• 3. Is Everything Relative?
• Custom Is King: Herodotus
• The Case for Moral Relativism: Ruth Benedict
• Why Morality Is Not Relative: * James Rachels
• Judge Not?: Jean Bethke Elshtain
• On Trying Out One's New Sword: Mary Midgley
• The Enemy of the People: Henrick Ibsen
• PART II. MORAL THEORIES AND MORAL CHARACTER
• 4. Utilitarianism
• Seaman Holmes and the Longboat of William Brown, Reported by John William Wallace
• Classical Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham
• Utilitarianism Refined: John Stuart Mill
• A Defense of Utilitarianism: Kai Nielsen
• Against Utilitarianism: Bernard Williams
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: Ursula Le Guin
• The Utilitarian Social Engineer and the Savage: Aldous Huxley
• 5. Deontological Ethics
• The Moral Law: Immanuel Kant
• Kant's Theory: William K. Frankena
• Intuitionism: W. D. Ross
• The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule: R. M. MacIver
• A Critique of the Golden Rule: Richard Whatley
• A Horseman in the Sky: Ambrose Bierce
• The Evil of Lying: Charles Fried
• Does Morality Depend on Religion?: Plato
• Moral Luck: Thomas Nagel
• 6. Virtue Ethics
• The Virtues: * Alasdair MacIntyre
• Virtue Ethics: Aristotle
• Virtue and the Moral Life: Bernard Mayo
• Saints and Heroes: J.O. Urmson
• The Great Stone Face: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethical Systems: William Frankena
• 7. Virtues and Vices
• The Sermon on the Mount; The Good Samaritan: Jesus of Nazareth
• Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need? Greed
• Jealousy, Malice, and Ingratitude: Immanuel Kant
• Moral Cowardice: Martin Gansberg
• The Stoic Catechism: Epictetus and Others
• Vice Admiral James Stockdale, The World of Epictetus: Courage and Endurance
• PART III. MORAL ISSUES
• 8. Ethics and Egoism: Why Should We Be Moral?
• The Ring of Gyges: Plato
• In Defense of Ethical Egoism: Ayn Rand
• Louis P. Pojman
• A Critique of Ethical Egoism: James Rachels
• 9. Does Life Have Meaning?
• The Good Brahmin: Voltaire
• Hedonism: Epicurus
• Life Is Absurd: Albert Camus
• Religion Gives Meaning to Life: Louis P. Pojman
• Viktor Frankl, The Human Search for Meaning: Reflections on Auschwitz
• The Four Noble Truths: Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
• Reflections on Suffering: Bertrand Russell
• 10. Freedom, Autonomy, and Self-Respect
• I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Graduation: Maya Angelou
• An Experiment in Autonomy: Stanley Milgram
• Existentialism Is a Humanism: Jean-Paul Sartre
• Servility and Self-Respect: Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
• Harrison Bergeron: Kurt Vonnegut
• PART IV. APPLIED ETHICS: Moral Problems
• 11. Sex, Love, and Marriage
• Pansexuality: John Barth
• On the Place of Sex in Human Existence: Immanuel Kant
• John McMurtry, Monogamy: A Critique
• Michael D. Bayles, Marriage, Love, and Procreation: A Critique of McMurtry
• What's Wrong with Adultery?: Bonnie Steinbock
• We Have No "Right to Happiness": C. S. Lewis
• What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?: Jane English
• Why Homosexuality Is Abnormal: * Michael Levin
• * John Corvino 12. Is Abortion Morally Permissible?
• Why Abortion Is Immoral: Don Marquis
• A Defense of Abortion: Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Abortion Is Morally Permissible: Mary Anne Warren
• Jane English, The Moderate Position: Beyond the Personhood Argument
• 13. The Morality of Euthanasia
• Voluntary Active Euthanasia: Dan W. Brock
• The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia: J. Gay-Williams
• Active and Passive Euthanasia: James Rachels
• 14. Our Duties to Animals
• Shooting an Elephant: George Orwell
• Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: All Animals Are Equal
• The Case Against Animal Rights: Carl Cohen
• 15. Our Duties to the Environment
• What Has Posterity Ever Done for Me?: Robert Heilbroner
• The Tragedy of the Commons: Garrett Hardin
• William F. Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution
• 16. International Justice and the Threat of Terrorism
• God's Command to Destroy Jericho and Ai
• Can Terrorism Be Morally Justified?: * Stephen Nathanson
• What Is Wrong with Terrorism?: Thomas Nagel
• * Appendix: How to Write a Philosophy Paper:

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Book by Pojman Louis P Vaughn Lewis

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195396251
• ISBN 13: 9780195396256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 1014
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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