Applying ethics : a text with readings /
Van Camp, Julie, 1947-
Applying ethics : a text with readings / Julie C. Van Camp, California State University, Long Beach, Jeffrey Olen, Regis University, Colorado Springs, Vincent Barry, Bakersfield College - Tenth edition - xvii, 552 pages ; 24 cm
Jeffrey Olen listed as first author on earlier eds Tenth edition published: Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2011
Includes bibliographical references and index
Moral Reasons -- Moral Reasoning -- Individual Morality and Social Morality -- Ethical Relativism -- Principles of Individual Morality -- Principles of Social Morality -- Summary and Conclusions -- Moral Virtue / Respect For Persons / Utilitarianism / Justice As A Virtue / The Ethics Of Care / Good Reasoning -- Arguments -- Evaluating Moral Arguments -- Summary and Conclusions -- Sexual Morality -- The Traditional View -- The Libertarian View -- Treating Sex Differently -- Arguments for Sexual Libertarianism -- Arguments against Sexual Libertarianism -- Declaration On Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics -- Framework For A Sexual Ethic : Just Sex / Aristotle -- Immanuel Kant -- John Stuart Mill -- Plato -- Virginia Held -- Margaret A. Farley 1. 2. 3. Sexual Morality-And The Concept Of Using Another Person / Gay Marriage : An American And Feminist Dilemma / Case Presentations -- Disease V. Promiscuity? -- Lawrence v. Texas : Private Rights and Public Morality -- Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health : A Right of Gay Marriage -- A Slippery Slope to Polygamy? -- Abortion -- Biological Background -- The Moral Problem -- The Ontological Status of the Fetus -- The Moral Status of the Fetus -- Pro-Life Arguments (against Abortion) -- Pro-Choice Arguments (for Abortion) -- Why Abortion Is Immoral / A Defense Of Abortion / On The Moral And Legal Status Of Abortion / Thomas A. Mappes -- Ann Ferguson -- Donald Marquis -- Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Mary Anne Warren 4. Expanding The Discussion About Fetal Life Within Prochoice Advocacy / Case Presentations -- Conceived In Violence, Born In Hate -- Death in Pensacola -- The Fight for Martina Greywind's Baby -- Sex-Selection Abortions -- Euthanasia -- Person hood -- Death -- Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Treatment -- Killing vs. Allowing to Die -- Meaning of Euthanasia : Narrow vs. Broad Interpretations -- Voluntary vs. Nonvoluntary Euthanasia -- Assisted Suicide -- The Right to Refuse Treatment -- Defective Newborns -- Arguments for Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia Bertha Alvarez Manninen -- 5. Arguments against Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia -- Voluntary Active Euthanasia / Against The Right To Die / Active And Passive Euthanasia / Gender, Feminism, And Death : Physician-Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia / Case Presentations -- "I Did It Because I Loved My Son" -- "A Choice Central to Personal Dignity" -- Legalized Assisted Suicide and Decriminalized Euthanasia -- Terri Schiavo : Voluntary Euthanasia or Murder? -- Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell Research, and Human Cloning -- How Cloning Works : A Brief History -- Why Clone Humans? -- Moral and Legal Issues -- Stem Cell Research -- Arguments against Human Cloning -- Arguments for Human Cloning Dan W. Brock -- J. David Velleman -- James Rachels -- Susan M. Wolf -- 6. Moral Status Of Cloning Humans / The Morality Of Killing Human Embryos / The Ethics Of Synthetic Biology / Stem Cells, Biotechnology, And Human Rights : Implications For A Posthuman Future / Case Presentations -- Cloning : Recommendations Of The President's Council On Bioethics -- A Birth to Save a Life -- Stem Cells : Presidential Policy -- Eight Is Enough -- Capital Punishment -- The Nature and Definition of Punishment -- The Moral Acceptability of Punishment -- Aims of Punishment -- Retentionist and Abolitionist Defined -- Capital Punishment as Deterrent -- Abolitionist Arguments (against Capital Punishment) Michael Tooley -- Bonnie Steinbock -- The Presidential Commission for the study of Bioethical Issues -- Paul Lauritzen -- 7. Retentionist Arguments (for Capital Punishment) -- Speech In Favor Of Capital Punishment / A Life For A Life / On Deterrence And The Death Penalty / Capital Punishment And Social Defense / Case Presentations -- Karla Faye Tucker and Stanley "Tookie" Williams : Rehabilitation on Death Row? -- A Failed Experiment? -- Warren McClesky -- Punishing Child Rapists War, Terrorism, and Civil Liberties -- "Just War" Theory -- Preemptive Wars -- Violence and Terrorism -- Jihadism -- Pacifism -- Civil Liberties -- Arguments for Trading Civil Liberties for Safety -- Arguments against Trading Civil Liberties for Safety John Stuart Mill -- Igor Primoratz -- Ernest Van Den Haag -- Hugo Adam Bedau -- 8. The Triumph Of Just War Theory (And The Dangers Of Success) / Violence, Terrorism, And Justice / Make Torture An Option / Torture And The Ticking Bomb / Case Presentations -- Preemptive War -- Driving While Veiled -- Fear of Flying -- The Geneva Conventions and Guantanamo Bay -- Globalization and Social Justice -- Globalization -- Distributive Justice -- Equality, Need, and Merit -- Libertarianism, Welfare Liberalism, and Socialism -- Arguments for Global Aid -- Arguments against Global Aid -- Global Poverty : What Are Our Obligations? / Sweatshops And Respect For Persons / Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, And Social Responsibility / Michael Walzer -- R.G. Frey / Christopher W. Morris -- Alan M. Dershowitz -- David Luban -- Peter Singer -- Denis G. Arnold / Norman E. Bowie -- James F. Dwyer 9. Female Genital Circumcision And Conventionalist Ethical Relativism / Case Presentations -- Stopping the Sweatshops -- Is There a Right to Health Care? -- Do Undocumented Immigrants Have a Right to Education? -- Yearning to Breathe Free -- Discrimination -- Discrimination : Its Nature and Forms -- Evidence of Discrimination -- Affirmative Action : Preferential Treatment? -- Arguments against Affirmative Action -- Arguments for Affirmative Action -- Affirmative Action And Diversity Goals in Hiring And Promotion / Affirmative Action Is About Helping All Of Us / Reverse Discrimination As Unjustified / Class, Not Race / Loretta M. Kopelman -- Tom L. Beauchamp -- Elizabeth Anderson -- Lisa Newton -- Richard D. Kahlenberg 10. Case Presentations -- Proposition 209 -- Fisher v. University of Texas : Taking Race into Account -- Reparations : An Overdue Debt to African Slaves in America? -- Friendly Sexual Harassment? -- Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics -- What Do We Owe Nonhuman Animals? -- What's Wrong With Speciesism? -- Evironmental Ethics -- Environmental Problems -- The Moral Issue -- Why Environmental Ethics? -- Arguments for Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Environment -- Arguments against Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Environment 11. All Animals Are Equal ... Or Why Supporters Of Liberation For Blacks And Women Should Support Animal Liberation Too / The Case For Animal Rights / Do Animals Have Rights? / The Ethics Of Respect For Nature / Case Presentations -- Animal Liberators -- Religious Sacrifice -- A Metaphor for the Energy Debate -- The Spotted Owl -- Computer Ethics and the Internet -- What Is Computer Ethics? -- Issues in Computer Ethics -- Arguments in Favor of Ethical Conduct with Computers and the Internet -- Arguments against Ethical Conduct with Computers and the Internet -- The Constitution In Cyberspace : Law And Liberty Beyond The Electronic Frontier / Free Speech In Cyberspace / Peter Singer -- Tom Regan -- Carl Cohen -- Paul W. Taylor -- Laurence H. Tribe -- Richard A. Spinello 12. Are Computer Hacker Break-Ins Ethical? / Cyberstalking, Personal Privacy, And Moral Responsibility / Case Presentations -- Ticketed for Obscenity on the Information Superhighway -- A Chill in Cyberspace -- Censoring Political Speech -- Pirates of the Campuses Eugene H. Spafford -- Herman T. Tavani / Frances S. Grodzinsky --
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Social ethics
United States--Social conditions
HM665 .V36 2011
Applying ethics : a text with readings / Julie C. Van Camp, California State University, Long Beach, Jeffrey Olen, Regis University, Colorado Springs, Vincent Barry, Bakersfield College - Tenth edition - xvii, 552 pages ; 24 cm
Jeffrey Olen listed as first author on earlier eds Tenth edition published: Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2011
Includes bibliographical references and index
Moral Reasons -- Moral Reasoning -- Individual Morality and Social Morality -- Ethical Relativism -- Principles of Individual Morality -- Principles of Social Morality -- Summary and Conclusions -- Moral Virtue / Respect For Persons / Utilitarianism / Justice As A Virtue / The Ethics Of Care / Good Reasoning -- Arguments -- Evaluating Moral Arguments -- Summary and Conclusions -- Sexual Morality -- The Traditional View -- The Libertarian View -- Treating Sex Differently -- Arguments for Sexual Libertarianism -- Arguments against Sexual Libertarianism -- Declaration On Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics -- Framework For A Sexual Ethic : Just Sex / Aristotle -- Immanuel Kant -- John Stuart Mill -- Plato -- Virginia Held -- Margaret A. Farley 1. 2. 3. Sexual Morality-And The Concept Of Using Another Person / Gay Marriage : An American And Feminist Dilemma / Case Presentations -- Disease V. Promiscuity? -- Lawrence v. Texas : Private Rights and Public Morality -- Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health : A Right of Gay Marriage -- A Slippery Slope to Polygamy? -- Abortion -- Biological Background -- The Moral Problem -- The Ontological Status of the Fetus -- The Moral Status of the Fetus -- Pro-Life Arguments (against Abortion) -- Pro-Choice Arguments (for Abortion) -- Why Abortion Is Immoral / A Defense Of Abortion / On The Moral And Legal Status Of Abortion / Thomas A. Mappes -- Ann Ferguson -- Donald Marquis -- Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Mary Anne Warren 4. Expanding The Discussion About Fetal Life Within Prochoice Advocacy / Case Presentations -- Conceived In Violence, Born In Hate -- Death in Pensacola -- The Fight for Martina Greywind's Baby -- Sex-Selection Abortions -- Euthanasia -- Person hood -- Death -- Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Treatment -- Killing vs. Allowing to Die -- Meaning of Euthanasia : Narrow vs. Broad Interpretations -- Voluntary vs. Nonvoluntary Euthanasia -- Assisted Suicide -- The Right to Refuse Treatment -- Defective Newborns -- Arguments for Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia Bertha Alvarez Manninen -- 5. Arguments against Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia -- Voluntary Active Euthanasia / Against The Right To Die / Active And Passive Euthanasia / Gender, Feminism, And Death : Physician-Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia / Case Presentations -- "I Did It Because I Loved My Son" -- "A Choice Central to Personal Dignity" -- Legalized Assisted Suicide and Decriminalized Euthanasia -- Terri Schiavo : Voluntary Euthanasia or Murder? -- Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell Research, and Human Cloning -- How Cloning Works : A Brief History -- Why Clone Humans? -- Moral and Legal Issues -- Stem Cell Research -- Arguments against Human Cloning -- Arguments for Human Cloning Dan W. Brock -- J. David Velleman -- James Rachels -- Susan M. Wolf -- 6. Moral Status Of Cloning Humans / The Morality Of Killing Human Embryos / The Ethics Of Synthetic Biology / Stem Cells, Biotechnology, And Human Rights : Implications For A Posthuman Future / Case Presentations -- Cloning : Recommendations Of The President's Council On Bioethics -- A Birth to Save a Life -- Stem Cells : Presidential Policy -- Eight Is Enough -- Capital Punishment -- The Nature and Definition of Punishment -- The Moral Acceptability of Punishment -- Aims of Punishment -- Retentionist and Abolitionist Defined -- Capital Punishment as Deterrent -- Abolitionist Arguments (against Capital Punishment) Michael Tooley -- Bonnie Steinbock -- The Presidential Commission for the study of Bioethical Issues -- Paul Lauritzen -- 7. Retentionist Arguments (for Capital Punishment) -- Speech In Favor Of Capital Punishment / A Life For A Life / On Deterrence And The Death Penalty / Capital Punishment And Social Defense / Case Presentations -- Karla Faye Tucker and Stanley "Tookie" Williams : Rehabilitation on Death Row? -- A Failed Experiment? -- Warren McClesky -- Punishing Child Rapists War, Terrorism, and Civil Liberties -- "Just War" Theory -- Preemptive Wars -- Violence and Terrorism -- Jihadism -- Pacifism -- Civil Liberties -- Arguments for Trading Civil Liberties for Safety -- Arguments against Trading Civil Liberties for Safety John Stuart Mill -- Igor Primoratz -- Ernest Van Den Haag -- Hugo Adam Bedau -- 8. The Triumph Of Just War Theory (And The Dangers Of Success) / Violence, Terrorism, And Justice / Make Torture An Option / Torture And The Ticking Bomb / Case Presentations -- Preemptive War -- Driving While Veiled -- Fear of Flying -- The Geneva Conventions and Guantanamo Bay -- Globalization and Social Justice -- Globalization -- Distributive Justice -- Equality, Need, and Merit -- Libertarianism, Welfare Liberalism, and Socialism -- Arguments for Global Aid -- Arguments against Global Aid -- Global Poverty : What Are Our Obligations? / Sweatshops And Respect For Persons / Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, And Social Responsibility / Michael Walzer -- R.G. Frey / Christopher W. Morris -- Alan M. Dershowitz -- David Luban -- Peter Singer -- Denis G. Arnold / Norman E. Bowie -- James F. Dwyer 9. Female Genital Circumcision And Conventionalist Ethical Relativism / Case Presentations -- Stopping the Sweatshops -- Is There a Right to Health Care? -- Do Undocumented Immigrants Have a Right to Education? -- Yearning to Breathe Free -- Discrimination -- Discrimination : Its Nature and Forms -- Evidence of Discrimination -- Affirmative Action : Preferential Treatment? -- Arguments against Affirmative Action -- Arguments for Affirmative Action -- Affirmative Action And Diversity Goals in Hiring And Promotion / Affirmative Action Is About Helping All Of Us / Reverse Discrimination As Unjustified / Class, Not Race / Loretta M. Kopelman -- Tom L. Beauchamp -- Elizabeth Anderson -- Lisa Newton -- Richard D. Kahlenberg 10. Case Presentations -- Proposition 209 -- Fisher v. University of Texas : Taking Race into Account -- Reparations : An Overdue Debt to African Slaves in America? -- Friendly Sexual Harassment? -- Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics -- What Do We Owe Nonhuman Animals? -- What's Wrong With Speciesism? -- Evironmental Ethics -- Environmental Problems -- The Moral Issue -- Why Environmental Ethics? -- Arguments for Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Environment -- Arguments against Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Environment 11. All Animals Are Equal ... Or Why Supporters Of Liberation For Blacks And Women Should Support Animal Liberation Too / The Case For Animal Rights / Do Animals Have Rights? / The Ethics Of Respect For Nature / Case Presentations -- Animal Liberators -- Religious Sacrifice -- A Metaphor for the Energy Debate -- The Spotted Owl -- Computer Ethics and the Internet -- What Is Computer Ethics? -- Issues in Computer Ethics -- Arguments in Favor of Ethical Conduct with Computers and the Internet -- Arguments against Ethical Conduct with Computers and the Internet -- The Constitution In Cyberspace : Law And Liberty Beyond The Electronic Frontier / Free Speech In Cyberspace / Peter Singer -- Tom Regan -- Carl Cohen -- Paul W. Taylor -- Laurence H. Tribe -- Richard A. Spinello 12. Are Computer Hacker Break-Ins Ethical? / Cyberstalking, Personal Privacy, And Moral Responsibility / Case Presentations -- Ticketed for Obscenity on the Information Superhighway -- A Chill in Cyberspace -- Censoring Political Speech -- Pirates of the Campuses Eugene H. Spafford -- Herman T. Tavani / Frances S. Grodzinsky --
9780495809395 1285196775
2013954886
Social ethics
United States--Social conditions
HM665 .V36 2011