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Tables of Contents for Moral Philosophy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Acknowledgment
x
General Introduction: What is Moral Philosophy?
xi
I What Is Morally Right Conduct?
Introduction: Plato's Moral Philosophy
1
1
What Is Right Conduct?
2
18
Plato
II. Moral Relativism vs. Moral Objectivism
Introduction
19
1
Custom Is King
20
1
Herodotus
Natural Law
21
12
Thomas Aquinas
A Defense of Ethical Relativism
33
5
Ruth Benedict
A Defense of Ethical Objectivism
38
15
Louis P. Pojman
III. Ethics and Egoism
Introduction
53
1
Why Should I Be Moral?
53
9
Plato
Egoism as the Beginning of Morality
62
10
Thomas Hobbes
A Defense of Ethical Egoism
72
7
Ayn Rand
A Critique of Ethical Egoism
79
8
James Rachels
Sociobiology, Egoism, and Reciprocity
87
20
Howard Kahane
IV. Value: What Is the Good?
Introduction
104
3
The Good and the Allegory of the Cave
107
6
Plato
Classical Hedonism
113
3
Jeremy Bentham
Beyond Good and Evil
116
8
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Experience Machine
124
2
Robert Nozick
Value Pluralism
126
5
W. D. Ross
What Makes Someone's Life Go Best?
131
10
Derek Parfit
V. Utilitarian Ethics
Introduction: ``The Greatest Happines for the Greatest Number''
139
2
Utilitarianism
141
6
John Stuart Mill
Against Moral Conservatism
147
10
Kai Nielsen
Rule-Utilitarianism
157
11
John Hospers
A Critique of Utilitarianism
168
11
Bernard Williams
Eleven Objections to Utilitarianism
179
15
Sterling Harwood
VI. Deontological Ethics
Introduction
193
1
The Foundations of Ethics
194
20
Immanuel Kant
An Examination of Kantian Ethics
214
15
Fred Feldman
What Makes Right Acts Right?
229
10
W. D. Ross
A Reconciliation of Ethical Theories
239
10
William Frankena
VII. Virtue Ethics
Introduction
247
2
Virtue Ethics
249
11
Aristotle
Virtue and the Moral Life
260
4
Bernard Mayo
A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethics
264
7
William Frankena
The Nature of the Virtues
271
16
Alasdair MacIntyre
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
287
9
Jonathan Bennett
Moral Minimalism and the Development of Moral Character
296
15
David L. Norton
VIII. Morality and Religion
Introduction
308
3
The Euthyphro Problem
311
2
Plato
A Free Man's Worship
313
5
Bertrand Russell
Religion and the Queerness of Morality
318
9
George Mavrodes
Ethics without Religion
327
8
Kai Nielsen
IX. Applied Ethics
Introduction
334
1
Lifeboat Ethics; The Case against Helping the Poor
335
9
Garrett Hardin
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
344
9
Peter Singer
Abortion Is Morally Wrong
353
5
John T. Noonan, Jr.
The Personhood Argument in Favor of Abortion
358
5
Mary Anne Warren
The Moral Equivalent of War
363
8
William James
Political Action; The Problem of Dirty Hands
371
12
Michael Walzer
Selected Bibliography
383