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Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus, 2/e

Lawrence M. Hinman, University of San Diego

Coming December, 1999 by Prentice Hall Humanities/Social Science

Copyright 2000, 576 pp.
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ISBN 0-13-086219-3


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Summary

For undergraduate courses in Ethics, Social Ethics, and Contemporary Moral Problems. This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of readings on eleven contemporary social issues revolving around three general themes: Matters of Life and Death, Matters of Equality and Diversity, and Expanding the Circle (duties beyond borders, living together with animals, and environmental ethics). Each set of readings is accompanied by an extensive introduction, a bibliographical essay, pre-reading questions, and discussion questions.

Features


NEW—How to Develop a Position on Ethical Issues.

  • Shows students step-by-step how develop a personal position on ethical issues.
NEW—Ethics Starts Here: Academic Integrity—Preliminary material introducing students to an ethical issue important in their lives as college students.
  • Demonstrates the connection between the study of ethics and the students' own lives.
NEW—25 new readings.
  • Provides up-to-date coverage.
NEW—New, up-to-date ABC Videos—Drawn from 1998-99: Survivor of Abortion Clinic Bombing Speaks. Thinking Twice about Human Cloning. Mercy or Homicide? The Strange Case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Crime and Justice: Judgment at Midnight. A Murder in Mississippi. Men, Women, and Sex in the Workplace. Man Apparently Killed Because He Was Gay. Working for Welfare-Fair Deal or Slavery? Millions of People at Risk of Starving in the Sudan. Where Have All the Tigers Gone? Texaco in the Amazon.
Overview of moral theory.
  • Provides students with structure to build their analysis of moral issues.
Ethical self-inventory—With pre-test and post-test.
  • Helps students track changes in their own beliefs.
Detailed introductions to each moral issue—Surveys the major issues and perspectives on the problem.
  • Helps students grasp often difficult and complex material.
Culturally diverse readings—As well as a chapter devoted solely to issues of race and cultural diversity.
  • Highlights diversity of approaches to ethics and ethical issues.
Narrative selections—At the beginning of every chapter.
  • Presents moral issues from a first person point of view to help students better relate to the issues as “real” situations, rather than as abstract concepts.
How to read and write papers on moral problems—In an appendix.
  • Shows students how to analyze arguments and construct counter-examples.


Table of Contents
    Introduction: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Problems.
    Initial Self-Quiz.
    How to Develop a Position on Ethical Issues.
    Ethics Starts Here: Academic Integrity.
I. MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH.
    Matters of Life and Death: An Introduction.
    1. Matters of Life and Death: Abortion.
    Experiential Accounts.

      Linda Bird Francke, There Just Wasn't Room in Our Lives Now for Another Baby. Sallie Tisdale, We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story.
    Abortion: An Introduction to the Moral Issues. The Arguments.

      Jane English, Abortion and the Concept of a Person. Judith Jarvis Thomson, Abortion. Edward Langerak, Abortion: Listening to the Middle. Don Marquis, Why Abortion Is Immoral.

    2. Matters of Life and Death: Genetic Manipulation and Cloning.
    Experiential Accounts.

      David Shenk, Biocapitalism: What Price the Genetic Revolution?
    Cloning and Genetic Manipulation: An Introduction to the Moral Issues. The Arguments.

      Ronald Bailey, What Exactly Is Wrong with Cloning People? Leon Kass, The Wisdom of Repugnance. Patrick Hopkins, Bad Copies: How Popular Media Represent Cloning as an Ethical Problem. Richard A. McCormick, Should We Clone Humans?

    3. Matters of Life and Death: Euthanasia.
    Narrative Accounts.

      Anonymous, It's Over, Debbie. Timothy Quill, MD. Death and Dignity.
    An Introduction to the Moral Issues. The Arguments.

      John Hardwig, Is There a Duty to Die? James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia. Richard Doerflinger, Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life? Gregory Kavka, Banning Euthanasia.

    4. Matters of Life and Death: Punishment and the Death Penalty.
    Narrative Account.

      Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Crime Victims on the Anvil of Pain. Wilbert Rideau, Why Prisons Don't Work.
    Introduction: An Introduction to the Issues. The Arguments.

      David Gelernter, What Do Murderers Deserve? Walter Berns, On the Morality of Anger. Jeffrey Reiman, Why the Death Penalty Should Be Abolished.
II. MATTERS OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.
    5. Race and Ethnicity: Issues of Equality and Diversity.
    Narrative Accounts.

      Studs Turkel, Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel about the American Obsession.
    Race and Ethnicity: Issues of Equality and Diversity. An Introduction to the Moral Issues. The Arguments.

      Derek Bok, The Case for Racial Preferences: Admitting Success. Louis Pojman, Why Affirmative Action Is Immoral. Bernard Boxill, Equality, Discrimination, and Preferential Treatment. Lawrence Blum, Philosophy and the Values of a Multicultural Community.

    6. Gender: Issues of Equality and Diversity.
    Experiential Accounts.

      Elizabeth L'Hommedieu and Frances Conley, MD, Walking Out on the Boys.
    Gender: Diversity and Equality. An Introduction to the Moral Issues. The Arguments.

      Catherine MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment: The Experience. Mary Ann Glendon, Feminism and the Family. Susan Moller Okin, Toward a Humanist Justice.

    7. Sexual Orientation: Issues of Equality and Diversity.
    Experiential Accounts.

      Andre Dubus, A Quiet Siege: the Death and Life of a Gay Naval Officer. David Firestone, Murder Reveals Double Life Of Being Gay in Rural South.
    Sexual Orientation: Diversity and Equality. An Introduction to the Moral Issues. The Arguments.

      Barry Goldwater, Job Protection for Gays. Martha Nussbaum, A Defense of Lesbian and Gay Rights. James Q. Wilson, Against Gay Marriage. Jeffrey Jordan, Is It Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?

    8. Poverty and Welfare: Issues of Equality and Diversity.
    Narrative Accounts.

      Rosemary L. Bray, So How Did I Get Here?
    Poverty and Welfare: Issues of Equality and Diversity. An Introduction to the Moral Issues. The Arguments.

      Henry Shue, Basic Rights. Tibor Machan, The Nonexistence of Basic Welfare Rights. Charles Murray, The Coming White Underclass.
III. EXPANDING THE CIRCLE.
    Introduction to Expanding the Circle.
    9. Expanding the Circle: Duties Beyond Borders.
    Narrative Accounts.

      Lawrence B. Salander, The Hunger.
    World Hunger: An Introduction to the Ethical Issues. The Arguments.

      Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor. Peter Singer, Rich and Poor. Hugh LaFollette and Larry May, Suffer the Little Children. Amartya Sen, Property and Hunger.

    10. Living Together with Animals: Expanding the Circle.
    Narrative Accounts.

      Peter Singer, Down on the Factory Farm.
    Expanding the Circle: Living Together with Animals. The Arguments.

      Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights. Carl Cohen, The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research. Michael Leahy, Brute Equivocation. Bonnie Steinbock, Speciesism and the Idea of Equality.

    11. The World Around Us: Environmental Ethics.
    Narrative Accounts.

      Scott Momaday, Native American Attitudes to the Environment.
    Introduction: An Introduction to the Issues. The Arguments.

      Robert Elliott, Environmental Ethics. Janet Thomson, The Refutation of Environmental Ethics. Holmes Rolston, III, Challenges in Environmental Ethics.

    Appendix: A Guide to Reading, Analyzing, and Writing Philosophical Arguments.

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