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Preface
About the Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS MORALITY?
1.1. The Problem of Definition
1.2. First Example: Baby Theresa
1.3. Second Example: Jodie and Mary
1.4. Third Example: Tracy Latimer
1.5. Reason and Impartiality
1.6. The Minimum Conception of Morality
CHAPTER 2: THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM
2.1. Different Cultures Have Different Moral Codes
2.2. Cultural Relativism
2.3. The Cultural Differences Argument
2.4. What Follows from Cultural Relativism
2.5. Why There Is Less Disagreement Than It Seems
2.6. Some Values are Shared by All Cultures
2.7. Judging a Cultural Practice to Be Undesirable
2.8. Back to the Five Claims
2.9. What Can Be Learned from Cultural Relativism
CHAPTER 3: SUBJECTIVISM IN ETHICS
3.1. The Basic Idea of Ethical Subjectivism
3.2. The Evolution of the Theory
3.3. The First Stage: Simple Subjectivism
3.4. The Second Stage: Emotivism
3.5. The Role of Reason in Ethics
3.6. Are There Proofs in Ethics?
3.7. The Question of Homosexuality
CHAPTER 4: DOES MORALITY DEPEND ON RELIGION?
4.1. The Presumed Connection Between Morality and Religion
4.2. The Divine Command Theory
4.3. The Theory of Natural Law
4.4. Religion and Particular Moral Issues
CHAPTER 5: ETHICAL EGOISM
5.1. Is There a Duty to Help Starving People?
5.2. Psychological Egoism
5.3. Three Arguments for Ethical Egoism
5.4. Three Arguments Against Ethical Egoism
CHAPTER 6: THE IDEA OF A SOCIAL CONTRACT
6.1. Hobbes’s Argument
6.2. The Prisoner’s Dilemma
6.3. Some Advantages of the Social Contract Theory
6.4. The Problem of Civil Disobedience
6.5. Difficulties for the Theory
CHAPTER 7: THE UTILITARIAN APPROACH
7.1. The Revolution in Ethics
7.2. First Example: Euthanasia
7.3. Second Example: Marijuana
7.4. Third Example: Nonhuman Animals
CHAPTER 8:THE DEBATE OVER UTILITARIANISM
8.1. The Classical Version of the Theory
8.2. Is Pleasure All That Matters?
8.3. Are Consequences All That Matter?
8.4. Should We Be Equally Concerned for Everyone?
8.5. The Defense of Utilitarianism
8.6. Concluding Thoughts
CHAPTER 9: ARE THERE ABSOLUTE MORAL RULES?
9.1. Harry Truman and Elizabeth Anscombe
9.2. The Categorical Imperative
9.3. Kant's Arguments on Lying
9.4. Conflicts Between Rules
9.5. Kant's Insight
CHAPTER 10: KANT AND RESPECT FOR PERSONS
10.1. Kant's Core Ideas
10.2. Retribution and Utility in the Theory of Punishment
10.3. Kant’s Retributivism
CHAPTER 11: FEMINISM AND THE ETHICS OF CARE
11.1. Do Women and Men Think Differently about Ethics?
11.2. Implications for Moral Judgment
11.3. Implications for Ethical Theory
CHAPTER 12: THE ETHICS OF VIRTUE
12.1. The Ethics of Virtue and the Ethics of Right Action
12.2. The Virtues
12.3. Two Advantages of Virtue Ethics
12.4. The Problem of Incompleteness
12.5. Conclusion
CHAPTER 13: WHAT WOULD A SATISFACTORY MORAL THEORY BE LIKE?
13.1. Morality Without Hubris
13.2. Treating People as They Deserve
13.3. A Variety of Motives
13.4. Multiple-Strategies Utilitarianism
13.5. The Moral Community
13.6. Justice and Fairness
13.7. Conclusion
Notes on Sources
Index
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