Preface
A Note on the Companion Volume
Help for Students and Instructors
Introduction
Part One. Value Theory: The Nature of The Good Life
1. Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus
2. John Stuart Mill: Hedonism
3. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
4. Robert Nozick: The Experience Machine
5. Richard Taylor: The Meaning of Life
6. Jean Kazez: Necessities
Part Two. Normative Ethics: Theories of Right Conduct
7. Plato: * Euthyphro
8. Philippa Foot: Natural Goodness
9. Ayn Rand: * The Ethics of Emergencies
10. J.J.C. Smart: Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism
11. Immanuel Kant: The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative
12. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
13. W.D. Ross: What Makes Right Acts Right?
14. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
15. Hilde Lindemann: What Is Feminist Ethics?
Part Three. Metaethics: The Status of Morality
16. David Hume: Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason
17. A.J. Ayer: * Critique of Ethics
18. J.L. Mackie: The Subjectivity of Values
19. Harry Gensler: * Cultural Relativism
20. Michael Smith: Realism
21. Renford Bambrough: Proof (new version)
Part Four. Moral Problems
22. Peter Singer: The Singer Solution to World Poverty
23. John Corvino: Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality
24. Jonathan Bennett: The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
Euthanasia and a Modest Proposal:
25. James Rachels: The Morality of Euthanasia
26. John Harris: The Survival Lottery
Terrorism and Torture:
27. Michael Walzer: Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses
28. Alan Dershowitz: * Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist be Tortured?
The Treatment of Non-Humans: Animals and the Environment:
29. Alastair Norcross: * Puppies, Pigs and People
30. Paul Taylor: * The Ethics of Respect for the Environment
31. Thomas Hill Jr.: * Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments
Abortion:
32. Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion
33. Don Marquis: Why Abortion Is Immoral
34. Philippa Foot: * Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect
The Limits of the Law:
35. Igor Primoratz: Justifying Legal Punishment
36. Stephen Nathanson: An Eye for an Eye?
37. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham City Jail
38. Michael Huemer: America's Unjust Drug War
Children and Parents:
39. Hugh LaFollette: Licensing Parents
40. Jane English: What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?
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