Ethics The Big Questions [Paperback]

As with the first edition, Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian viewpoints are all well represented here, and this second edition features updated sections throughout—including eighteen new readings—and an entirely new section on multiculturalism.

• Presents students with a unique focus on three main challenges to ethics: feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism
• Pedagogical focus on the 'big questions' motivates student interest
• Collects readings on all key traditional theoretical and practical questions in ethics

List of Sources.
Introduction.
Part I: The Nature of Morality: What Is Morality?
1. Morality as a Good in Itself: Plato.
2. The Emotive Theory of Morality: A. J. Ayer.
3. The New Subjectivism in Morality: Brand Blanshard.
4. How to Derive “Ought” from “Is”: John R. Searle.
5. On Not Deriving “Ought” from “Is”: Antony Flew.
6. Moral Beliefs: Philippa Foot.
7. Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism: Alasdair MacIntyre.
Part II: The Justification of Morality: Why Be Moral?
8. On Reason and the Emotions: David Hume.
9. The Justificatory Argument for Human Rights: Alan Gewirth.
10. The Sources of Normativity: Christine M. Korsgaard.
11. The Justification of Morality and the Behavior of Women: James P. Sterba.
12. The Rational Justification of Morality Revisited: Alan Gewirth.
13. Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives: Philippa Foot.
Part III: Alternative Moral Perspectives: What Does Morality Require?
A. Utility.
14. Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill.
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