The moral life : an introductory reader in ethics and literature /

The moral life : an introductory reader in ethics and literature / [compiled by] Louis P. Pojman, Lewis Vaughn.

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Other Authors: Pojman, Louis P., Vaughn, Lewis.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Ethics > Textbooks.
Literature and morals > Textbooks.
Table of Contents:
  • Lord of the flies : a moral allegory / William Golding
  • On the nature and purpose of morality : reflections on William Golding's Lord of the flies / Louis P. Pojman
  • On the state of nature / Thomas Hobbes
  • Billy Budd / Herman Melville
  • Why is there evil? / Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Sophie's choice / William Styron
  • The new slavery / Kevin Bales
  • From cruelty to goodness / Philip Hallie
  • Wickedness / Stanley Benn
  • Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche
  • On the origin of good and evil / Richard Taylor
  • Custom is king / Herodotus
  • The case for moral relativism / Ruth Benedict
  • The case against moral relativism / Louis P. Pojman
  • Judge not? / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Trying out one's new sword / Mary Midgley
  • The enemy of the people / Henrik Ibsen
  • Seaman Holmes and the longboat of William Brown / John William Wallace
  • Classical utilitarianism / Jeremy Bentham
  • Utilitarianism refined / John Stuart Mill
  • A defense of utilitarianism / Kai Nielsen
  • Against utilitarianism / Bernard Williams
  • The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula Le Guin
  • The utilitarian social engineer and the savage / Aldous Huxley
  • The moral law / Immanuel Kant
  • Kant's theory / William K. Frankena
  • Intuitionism / W.D. Ross
  • The deep beauty of the golden rule / R.M. MacIver
  • A critique of the golden rule / Richard Whately
  • A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce
  • The evil of lying / Charles Fried
  • Does morality depend on religion? / Plato
  • Moral luck / Thomas Nagel
  • The bishop and the candlesticks / Victor Hugo
  • Virtue ethics / Aristotle
  • Virtue and the moral life / Bernard Mayo
  • Saints and heroes / J.O. Urmson
  • The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • A critique of virtue-based ethical systems / William K. Frankena
  • The sermon on the mount ; The good Samaritan / Jesus of Nazareth
  • How much land does a man need? : Greed / Leo Tolstoy
  • Jealousy, malice, and ingratitude / Immanuel Kant
  • Moral cowardice / Martin Gansberg
  • Three days to see : gratitude / Helen Keller
  • The stoic catechism / Epictetus and others
  • In consolation to his wife : equanimity / Plutarch
  • The world of Epictetus : courage and endurance / James Stockdale
  • Reflections on suffering / Bertrand Russell
  • The ring of Gyges / Plato
  • In defense of ethical egoism / Ayn Rand
  • Egoism and altruism : a critique of Ayn Rand / Louis P. Pojman
  • A critique of ethical egoism / James Rachels
  • The good Brahmin / Voltaire
  • Hedonism / Epicurus
  • Albert Camus / Life is absurd
  • Religion gives meaning to life / Lois Hope Walker
  • The human search for meaning : reflections on Auschwitz / Viktor Frankl
  • The four noble truths / Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
  • The experience machine / Robert Nozick
  • I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Graduation / Maya Angelou
  • An experiment in autonomy / Stanley Milgram
  • Existentialism is a humanism / Jean-Paul Sarte
  • Servility and self-respect / Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
  • Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut
  • Pansexuality / John Barth
  • On the place of sex in human existence / Immanuel Kant
  • Monogamy : a critique / John McMurtry
  • Marriage, love, and procreation : a critique of McMurtry / Michael D. Bayles
  • What's wrong with adultery? / Bonnie Steinbock
  • We have no "right to happiness" / C.S. Lewis
  • What do grown children owe their parents? / Jane English
  • Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis
  • A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson
  • Abortion is morally permissible / Mary Anne Warren
  • The moderate position : beyond the personhood argument / Jane English
  • Voluntary active euthanasia / Dan W. Brock
  • The wrongfulness of euthanasia / J. Gay-Williams
  • Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels
  • Shooting an elephant / George Orwell
  • We have only indirect duties to animals / Immanuel Kant
  • Animal liberation : all animals are equal / Peter Singer
  • The case against animal rights / Carl Cohen
  • On mankind's power over nature / Sophocles
  • What has posterity ever done for me? / Robert Heilbroner
  • The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin
  • People or penguins : the case for optimal pollution
  • God's command to destroy Jericho and Ai
  • Compassion and terror / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • The cosmopolitan response to terrorism / Louis P. Pojman
  • What is wrong with terrorism? / Thomas Nagel.

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