The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Theory [Paperback]

Brief yet thorough and affordably priced,The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems,Sixth Edition, is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring forty-eight readings divided into four parts, it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range of moral issues.Brief yet thorough and affordably priced,The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems,Sixth Edition, is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring forty-eight readings divided into four parts, it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range of moral issues. The essays include selections from such historically influential philosophers as Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill alongside work by contemporary philosophers like Philippa Foot, Robert Nozick, Peter Singer, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Detailed reading introductions provide helpful contextual information.PrefaceA Note on the Companion VolumeIntroductionPART I. The Good Life1. John Stuart Mill Hedonism2. Robert Nozick The Experience Machine3. Chris Heathwood Faring Well and Getting What You Want4. Brad Hooker The Elements of Well-Being5. Susan Wolf Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the Good LifePART II. Normative Ethics: Theories of Right Conduct6. Plato Euthyphro7. Thomas Aquinas Natural Law8. John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism9. Immanuel Kant The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative10. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan11. W. D. Ross What Makes Right Acts Right?12. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics13. Hilde Lindemann What Is Feminist Ethics?PART III. Metaethics: The Status of Morality14. David Hume Moral Distinctions not Derived from Reason15. J. L. Mackie The Subjectivity of Values16. Diane Jeske Cultural Relativism17. David Enoch Why I am an Objectivist about Ethics (and Why You Are, Too)18. Sarah McGrath Moral KnowledgePART IV. Moral Problems