Ethics for Modern Life

Ethics for Modern Life, an anthology of classic and contemporary readings, offers students a well-balanced and cohesive introduction to ethics.

PART I THE NATURE OF MORALITY
    Sophocles, From Philoctetes*
    
  CHAPTER 1 STANDARDS OF RIGHT AND WRONG
    Robert M. Adams, Divine Command*
    Immanuel Kant, Rationality
    John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism*
    Gil Harmon, Convention*
    Thomas Scanlon, Contractualism*
    Philippa Foot, Virture Ethics
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Self Assertion
    Annette Baier, Feminist Ethics
    
  CHAPTER 2 WHEN ARE WE RESPONSIBLE?
    Galen Strawson, Hard Determinism*
    Roderick Chisholm, Libertarianism
    Peter Van Inwagen, Indeterminism*
    Simon Blackburn, Soft Determinism*
    Susan Wolf, Hard and Soft Determinism
    
    
PART II THE MORALITY OF TAKING LIFE
    Tom Godwin, The Cold Equation*
    
  CHAPTER 3 PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA
    Dan W. Brock, The Moral Justifiability of Assisted Suicide*
    Daniel Callahan, The Immorality of Assisted Suicide*
    Frances Kamm, A Right to Choose Death*
    Sissela Bok, Too Dangerous*
    
  CHAPTER 4 ABORTION
    Philip Devine, The Wrongs of Abortion*
    Mary Anne Warren, The Right to Abortion
    Paul Wilkes, The Moral Dilemma of Abortion*
    
  CHAPTER 5 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
    Louis P. Pojman, The Wisdom of Capital Punishment*
    Jeffrey Reiman, The Folly of Capital Punishment*
    Supreme Court Justice H. Blackmun, Dissenting from Collins vs. Collins*
    Supreme Court Justice A. Scalia, Cocurring with Collins vs. Collins*
    
    
PART III THE GOOD SOCIETY
    Aldous Huxley, From Brave New World*
    
  CHAPTER 6 FAMINE RELIEF
    Peer Singer, Rich and Poor
    Garrett Hardin, The Harm of Famine Relief
    
  CHAPTER 7 ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
    Al Gore, The Need for Environmental Protection*
    Wallace Kaufman, The Excesses of Environmentalism*
    
  CHAPTER 8 PRIVACY AND ITS LIMITS
    John Stuart Mill, The Private Domain
    Gerald Dworkin, Paternalism
    David A.J. Richards, Sex, Drugs and Privacy
    
  CHAPTER 9 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
    Lisa Newton, The Injustice of Reverse Discrimination
    Ronald Dworkin, The Justice of Affirmative Action
    Charles Murray, Affirmative Racism*
    Gertrude Ezorsky, A Reply to Critics of Affirmative Action*
    
  CHAPTER 10 DO ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS?
    Tom Regan, Animals Have Rights*
    Ruth Cigman, Animals Do Not Have Rights
    Christina Hoff, Immoral and Moral Uses of Animals*
    
  CHAPTER 11 IS GENETIC ENGINEERING GOOD OR BAD?*
    Robert Sinsheimer, Too Dangerous*
    Stephen Stich, Worth the Risk*
    Hilary Putnam, Against Cloning People*
    John Harris, Why Not Clone?*
    
  CHAPTER 12 MULTICULTURALISM AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS*
    Lawrence Foster, In Support of Multiculturalism*
    Jan Narveson, Against Multiculturalism*
    
  CHAPTER 13 WAR AND TERRORISM*
    Burleigh T .Wilkins, Can Terrorism Be Justified?*
    A. R. Louch, Terrorism Is Immoral*
    
   * New to this edition