Moral Philosophy: A Reader 4th Edition by Louis P. Pojman, ISBN-13: 978-0872209626
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- Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; Fourth Edition,4 (September 1, 2009)
- Language: English
- 475 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780872209626
- ISBN-13: 978-0872209626
This collection of classic and contemporary readings in ethics presents sharp, competing views on a wide range of fundamentally important topics: moral relativism and objectivism, ethical egoism, value theory, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, ethics and religion, and applied ethics. The Fourth Edition dramatically increases the volume’s utility by expanding and updating the selections and introductions while retaining the structure that has made previous editions so successful.
Created on 9/1/2009 by Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, this variant of Moral Philosophy by Louis P. Pojman and Peter Tramel affords 464 pages of high-level content, which is 144 pages extra than its prior print: Moral Philosophy 2nd Edition from 9/1/1998. Encompassing thorough Ethics & Moral Philosophy themes, the author of Moral Philosophy 4th Edition (978-0872209626) drove to create a definitive textbook on the subject of Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy and associated topics.
Table of Contents:
Preface to the Fourth Edition
vii
General Introduction: What Is Moral Philosophy?
ix
I. What Is Morally Right Conduct?
Introduction: Plato’s Moral Philosophy
1(1)
What Is Right Conduct?
2(18)
Plato
II. Moral Relativism vs. Moral Objectivism
Introduction
19(1)
Custom Is King
20(1)
Herodotus
Natural Law
21(12)
Thomas Aquinas
Cultural Relativism
33(5)
Ruth Benedict
A Defense of Ethical Objectivism
38(15)
Louis P. Pojman
A Defense of Ethical Relativism
53(7)
Gilbert Harman
III. Ethics and Egoism
Introduction
60(1)
Why Should I Be Moral?
60(9)
Plato
Egoism as the Beginning of Morality
69(10)
Thomas Hobbes
A Defense of Ethical Egoism
79(7)
Ayn Rand
A Critique of Ethical Egoism
86(8)
James Rachels
Sociobiology, Egoism, and Reciprocity
94(20)
Howard Kahane
IV. Value: What Is the Good?
Introduction
111(3)
The Good and the Allegory of the Cave
114(6)
Plato
Classical Hedonism
120(3)
Jeremy Bentham
Beyond Good and Evil
123(8)
The Good Is Not Natural
131(10)
G.E. Moore
The Experience Machine
141(2)
Robert Nozick
Value Pluralism
143(5)
W. D. Ross
What Makes Someone’s Life Go Best?
148(10)
Derek Parfit
V. Utilitarian Ethics
Introduction
156(2)
Utilitarianism
158(6)
John Stuart Mill
Rule-Utilitarianism
164(11)
John Hospers
A Critique of Utilitarianism
175(11)
Bernard Williams
Eleven Objections to Utilitarianism
186(14)
Sterling Harwood
Ideal Code Utilitarianism
200(18)
Brad Hooker
VI. Deontological Ethics
Introduction
216(2)
The Foundations of Ethics
218(20)
Rightness as Fairness: Kant’s Categorical Imperative
238(23)
Melissa Bergeron
Peter Tramel
What Makes Right Acts Right?
261(10)
W. D. Ross
A Reconciliation of Ethical Theories
271(8)
William Frankena
A Contractarian Ethics
279(22)
T. M. Scanlon
VII. Virtue Ethics
Introduction
299(2)
Virtue Ethics
301(11)
Aristotle
Virtue and the Moral Life
312(4)
Bernard Mayo
A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethics
316(7)
William Frankena
The Nature of the Virtues
323(16)
Alasdair MacIntyre
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
339(9)
Jonathan Bennett
Virtue and Emotion
348(11)
Rosalind Hursthouse
VIII. Morality and Religion
Introduction
356(3)
The Euthyphro Problem
359(2)
Plato
A Free Man’s Worship
361(5)
Bertrand Russell
God and Morality Are Incompatible
366(11)
James Rachels
God and the Moral Order
377(11)
C. Stephen Layman
God and the Moral Order: A Reply to Layman
388(9)
Peter Byrne
IX. Applied Ethics
Introduction
395(2)
The Trolley Problem
397(15)
Judith Jarvis Thompson
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
412(9)
Peter Singer
Kantian Ethics and World Hunger
421(13)
Onora O’Neill
Abortion Is Morally Wrong
434(5)
John T. Noonan, Jr.
The Personhood Argument in Favor of Abortion Rights
439(5)
Mary Anne Warren
Fifty Years after Hiroshima
444(6)
John Rawls
Supreme Emergency
450(13)
Michael Walzer
War and Massacre
463
Thomas Nagel
Louis P. Pojman (1935-2005) was Professor of Philosophy, United States Military Academy.
Peter Tramel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, United States Military Academy.
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