EthicsISBN: 978-0-7456-4067-9
Hardcover
200 pages
January 2009, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Introduction.
SECTION ONE. NORMATIVE ETHICS.
Chapter 1. Utilitarianism.
Chapter 2. Deontological Theories.
a) Kant’s Moral Theory.
b) Divine Command Theory.
Chapter 3. Virtue Ethics.
SECTION TWO. PRACTICAL ETHICS.
Chapter 4. Euthanasia.
Chapter 5. Abortion.
Chapter 6. Animal Rights.
Chapter 7. Environmental Ethics.
SECTION THREE. METAETHICS.
Chapter 8. Cognitivism.
a) Ethical Transcendentalism.
b) Naturalism.
c) Nonnaturalism.
Chapter 9. Noncognitivism.
a) Emotivism.
b) Prescriptivism.
Chapter 10. The Case for a Contemporary Naturalism.
Postscript.
Appendix.
Selected Bibliography