Jeffrey Olen listed as first author on earlier eds

Tenth edition published: Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2011

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Moral Reasons -- Moral Reasoning -- Individual Morality and Social Morality -- Ethical Relativism -- Principles of Individual Morality -- Principles of Social Morality -- Summary and Conclusions -- Moral Virtue / Aristotle -- Respect For Persons / Immanuel Kant -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Justice As A Virtue / Plato -- The Ethics Of Care / Virginia Held -- 2. Good Reasoning -- Arguments -- Evaluating Moral Arguments -- Summary and Conclusions -- 3. 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 / Margaret A. Farley

Sexual Morality-And The Concept Of Using Another Person / Thomas A. Mappes -- Gay Marriage : An American And Feminist Dilemma / Ann Ferguson -- 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? -- 4. 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 / Donald Marquis -- A Defense Of Abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- On The Moral And Legal Status Of Abortion / Mary Anne Warren

Expanding The Discussion About Fetal Life Within Prochoice Advocacy / Bertha Alvarez Manninen -- Case Presentations -- Conceived In Violence, Born In Hate -- Death in Pensacola -- The Fight for Martina Greywind's Baby -- Sex-Selection Abortions -- 5. 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

Arguments against Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia -- Voluntary Active Euthanasia / Dan W. Brock -- Against The Right To Die / J. David Velleman -- Active And Passive Euthanasia / James Rachels -- Gender, Feminism, And Death : Physician-Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia / Susan M. Wolf -- 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? -- 6. 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

Moral Status Of Cloning Humans / Michael Tooley -- The Morality Of Killing Human Embryos / Bonnie Steinbock -- The Ethics Of Synthetic Biology / The Presidential Commission for the study of Bioethical Issues -- Stem Cells, Biotechnology, And Human Rights : Implications For A Posthuman Future / Paul Lauritzen -- Case Presentations -- Cloning : Recommendations Of The President's Council On Bioethics -- A Birth to Save a Life -- Stem Cells : Presidential Policy -- Eight Is Enough -- 7. 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)

Retentionist Arguments (for Capital Punishment) -- Speech In Favor Of Capital Punishment / John Stuart Mill -- A Life For A Life / Igor Primoratz -- On Deterrence And The Death Penalty / Ernest Van Den Haag -- Capital Punishment And Social Defense / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Case Presentations -- Karla Faye Tucker and Stanley "Tookie" Williams : Rehabilitation on Death Row? -- A Failed Experiment? -- Warren McClesky -- Punishing Child Rapists 8. 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

The Triumph Of Just War Theory (And The Dangers Of Success) / Michael Walzer -- Violence, Terrorism, And Justice / R.G. Frey / Christopher W. Morris -- Make Torture An Option / Alan M. Dershowitz -- Torture And The Ticking Bomb / David Luban -- Case Presentations -- Preemptive War -- Driving While Veiled -- Fear of Flying -- The Geneva Conventions and Guantanamo Bay -- 9. 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? / Peter Singer -- Sweatshops And Respect For Persons / Denis G. Arnold / Norman E. Bowie -- Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, And Social Responsibility / James F. Dwyer

Female Genital Circumcision And Conventionalist Ethical Relativism / Loretta M. Kopelman -- Case Presentations -- Stopping the Sweatshops -- Is There a Right to Health Care? -- Do Undocumented Immigrants Have a Right to Education? -- Yearning to Breathe Free -- 10. 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 / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Affirmative Action Is About Helping All Of Us / Elizabeth Anderson -- Reverse Discrimination As Unjustified / Lisa Newton -- Class, Not Race / Richard D. Kahlenberg

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? -- 11. 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

All Animals Are Equal ... Or Why Supporters Of Liberation For Blacks And Women Should Support Animal Liberation Too / Peter Singer -- The Case For Animal Rights / Tom Regan -- Do Animals Have Rights? / Carl Cohen -- The Ethics Of Respect For Nature / Paul W. Taylor -- Case Presentations -- Animal Liberators -- Religious Sacrifice -- A Metaphor for the Energy Debate -- The Spotted Owl -- 12. 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 / Laurence H. Tribe -- Free Speech In Cyberspace / Richard A. Spinello

Are Computer Hacker Break-Ins Ethical? / Eugene H. Spafford -- Cyberstalking, Personal Privacy, And Moral Responsibility / Herman T. Tavani / Frances S. Grodzinsky -- Case Presentations -- Ticketed for Obscenity on the Information Superhighway -- A Chill in Cyberspace -- Censoring Political Speech -- Pirates of the Campuses