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1 online resource (448 p.) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Source Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction Values -- 1 Values: Fiction -- Too Much -- Questions -- 2 Values: Discussion -- Too Much -- Values -- Personal Values -- Some distinctions -- Happiness as the ultimate personal value -- Happiness research -- Other personal values -- Moral Values -- Moral values/issues in the story -- What are moral values? -- Biased moral reasoning -- Notes and selected sources -- Definitions |
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Questions -- 3 Values: Readings -- Claudia Wallis writes about the "new science of happiness" -- Robert Nozick discusses his case of the "experience machine" -- Jonathan Glover discusses the dual values of happiness and flourishing -- Patrick Grim asks what makes a life good, distinguishing between "lives to envy" and "lives to admire" -- Louis P. Pojman, Richard Joyce and Shaun Nichols give their views on what morality is -- Jonathan haidt discusses biases in our moral reasoning -- Part II Moral Theory -- 4 Moral Theory: Fiction -- Long Live the King -- Questions -- 5 Moral Theory: Discussion |
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Long Live the King -- Religious ethics -- God and the good -- The God perspective -- Utilitarianism and rights -- Utilitarianism -- A first look at rights -- The idealized human perspective -- Aristotle and virtue ethics -- Kant and universalizability -- Rawls and the ideal agent -- The unidealized human perspective -- Evolutionary ethics -- Basic social contract theory -- Moral libertarianism -- Notes and selected sources -- Definitions -- Questions -- Appendix: moral relativism -- What's supposed to be relative? -- Cultural relativism -- Individual relativism/moral subjectivism |
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Notes and selected sources -- Definitions -- Questions -- 6 Moral Theory: Readings -- Jeremy Bentham presents a classic statement of the principle of utility -- John Stuart Mill argues that there are higher and lower forms of happiness -- Peter Singer discusses what ethics is and offers a justification for a utilitarian ethic -- Immanuel Kant argues that ethics is based on "the categorical imperative" -- John Rawls argues that from an original position of equality we would reject utilitarianism in favor of his two principles of justice |
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Robert Nozick discusses the moral principles behind his political libertarianism -- Jeremy Waldron discusses the concept of human rights and gives an argument for "welfare rights" -- Aristotle analyzes happiness as a life lived according to virtue -- Jonathan Haidt discusses virtue ethics in the context of positive psychology -- Jean Grimshaw discusses the idea of a female ethic, reviewing some contemporary writers on the subject -- Simon Blackburn warns against confusions we should avoid if we read popular literature on ethics and evolution |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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George Lakoff describes two forms of Christianity that parallel two different models of the family |
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Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118625354 |
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1118625358 |
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