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The Practice of Ethics

ISBN: 978-0-631-21945-3
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320 pages
November 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Learning to Theorize:.

1. The Ethical Impulse.

2. A Tale of Two Theories.

3. Using and Sharpening the Theoretical Tools.

4. Relativism.

Part II: The Moral Status of Groups:.

5. Racism.

6. Affirmative Action.

Part III: Life and Death:.

7. Religion and Morality.

8. Death, Dying, and Physician-assisted Suicide.

9. Slippery Slope Arguments.

Part IV: Autonomy, Responsibility, and Risk:.

10. Autonomy, Children, and Paternalism.

11. Punishment.

12. Gun Control.

Part V: Living Morally:.

13. Everyday Morality.

14. Character, Virtue Ethics, and Pragmatism.

15. Animals.

Part VI: The Demands of Morality:.

16. World Hunger.

17. Is Morality Demanding?.

18. Egoism: Psychological and Moral.

Part VII: Thinking Ahead:.

19. Moral Speculations.

Index

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