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El. knyga: Introduction to Applied Ethics

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Robert L. Holmes (University of Rochester, USA)

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Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic
Kalba: eng
ISBN-13: 9781350029798

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How do you decide what is ethically wrong and right? Few people make moral judgments by taking the theory first. Specifically written with the interests, needs, and experience of students in mind, this textbook approaches thinking ethically as you do in real life by first encountering practical moral problems and then introducing theory to understand and integrate the issues.

Built around engaging case studies from news media, court hearings, famous speeches and philosophical writings, each of the 15 chapters:

- explains and defines the moral problem dealt with - provides excerpts of readings on all sides of the issue - analyses the problem, using the relevant theory

The examples are recognizable ethical problems, including judgments about racism and sexism, controversial debates such as assisted suicide and the death penalty, and contemporary concerns like privacy and technology, corporate responsibility, and the environment.

The mission of the book is to assist you to engage in informed, independent, critical thinking and to enable you to enter into ethical discussions in the classroom and beyond. Supported by learning features, including study questions, key quotes, handy definitions and a companion website, this book is essential for any student of moral philosophy.

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Introduction to Applied Ethics is written in a clear and rigorous style, presenting and discussing the basic arguments in an exemplary way. * Ethical Perspectives * Written with exemplary clarity and astonishing erudition, this textbook will become a standard against which other texts in applied ethics must be measured for decades to come. -- Predrag Cicovacki, Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, USA This is an excellent introduction to applied ethics: it is concise, rigorous and interestingly written. -- James Connelly, Professor of Political Theory, University of Hull

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An introductory textbook designed to support undergraduate students studying contemporary moral problems.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

xvii

Part I Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

1 Racism

(46)

Introduction

(1)

1.1 Three basic questions about racism

(2)

1.2 What is racism?

(3)

1.3 What is a racist?

(10)

1.4 A racist philosophy

(3)

1.5 The racist's burden of proof

(2)

1.6 Is there such a thing as "race"?

(8)

1.7 Are some "races" superior to others?

(5)

1.8 Ought supposedly superior "races" to dominate supposedly inferior "races"?

(3)

1.9 "Race," rights, and utility

(5)

1.10 Racism and universalizability

(1)

1.11 Conclusion

(1)

Study questions

(1)

Notes

(2)

2 Sexism

(38)

Introduction

(1)

2.1 Three basic questions about sexism

(2)

2.2 What is sexism?

(4)

2.3 What is a sexist?

(3)

2.4 The sexist's burden of proof

(10)

2.5 Is one sex innately superior to the other?

(9)

2.6 Ought one sex to dominate the other?

(8)

2.7 Conclusion

(1)

Study questions

(1)

Notes

(2)

3 Hispanic/Latino Immigration and Rights

(34)

Introduction

(1)

3.1 Hispanics in America

(5)

3.2 Are Hispanics a race or an ethnic group?

(3)

3.3 Naming

(2)

3.4 What words to use and who should decide?

(4)

3.5 Can "Hispanic" be defined?

101

(6)

3.6 Immigration and anti-Hispanic bias

107

(3)

3.7 Anti-Hispanic discrimination

110

(3)

3.8 Hispanics and the problem of language

113

(2)

3.9 Hispanics, school segregation, and distributive justice

115

(3)

3.10 Conclusion

118

(1)

Study questions

119

(1)

Notes

119

(2)

4 Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Reparations

121

(44)

Introduction

121

(1)

4.1 What is affirmative action?

122

(1)

4.2 The evolution of affirmative action

122

(6)

4.3 Diversity to the forefront

128

(3)

4.4 The Supreme Court and the University of Michigan

131

(5)

4.5 Defining affirmative action

136

(2)

4.6 The moral problem

138

(1)

4.7 Reparations?

139

(5)

4.8 Affirmative action distinguished from reparations

144

(1)

4.9 Justice for groups or for individuals?

145

(5)

4.10 Is affirmative action unfair?

150

(5)

4.11 Diversity or compensation for past injustices?

155

(4)

4.12 Conclusion

159

(2)

Study questions

161

(1)

Notes

161

(4)

5 Sexual Harassment

165

(32)

Introduction

165

(1)

5.1 What is sexual harassment?

165

(6)

5.2 The potential for misunderstanding

171

(3)

5.3 Kinds of sexual harassment

174

(3)

5.4 Sexual harassment and sex discrimination

177

(5)

5.5 Sexual harassment and sexism

182

(3)

5.6 Sexual harassment, sexual misbehavior, and gender harassment

185

(1)

5.7 Sexual harassment and privacy

186

(1)

5.8 Sexual harassment and the university

187

(4)

5.9 Conclusion

191

(1)

Study questions

191

(1)

Notes

192

(5)

Part II Profit and the Plight of Others

6 Corporate Responsibility

197

(26)

Introduction

197

(1)

6.1 The problem

197

(1)

6.2 What are corporations?

198

(4)

6.3 Liberal and conservative positions on corporate social responsibility

202

(1)

6.4 What is the basic obligation of corporations?

203

(1)

6.5 Possible objections to corporate social responsibility

204

(6)

6.6 Which social responsibilities?

210

(1)

6.7 Non-maleficence

211

(1)

6.8 Corporations and distributive justice

212

(1)

6.9 Corporations and the making of moral judgments

213

(6)

6.10 Conclusion

219

(1)

Study questions

220

(1)

Notes

221

(2)

7 Poverty and World Hunger

223

(28)

Introduction

223

(1)

7.1 What is poverty?

223

(1)

7.2 Is poverty necessarily bad?

224

(5)

7.3 How serious a problem is poverty?

229

(3)

7.4 Are we individually obligated to fight world poverty?

232

(7)

7.5 Are we collectively obligated to fight world poverty?

239

(6)

7.6 Are efforts to fight poverty futile under present socioeconomic conditions?

245

(2)

7.7 Conclusion

247

(1)

Study questions

248

(1)

Notes

248

(3)

8 Capitalism, Socialism, and Economic Justice

251

(36)

Introduction

251

(1)

8.1 What are capitalism and socialism?

251

(4)

8.2 Freedom, liberty, and rights

255

(4)

8.3 Human rights

259

(1)

8.4 Anarchism, libertarianism, conservatism, and liberalism

260

(2)

8.5 Liberty and equality

262

(3)

8.6 Marxism

265

(1)

8.7 Historical materialism

266

(2)

8.8 Surplus value

268

(5)

8.9 A capitalist conception of distributive justice

273

(6)

8.10 "Contradictions" within capitalism?

279

(2)

8.11 Conclusion

281

(1)

Study questions

282

(1)

Notes

282

(5)

Part III Animals and the Environment

9 Environmental Ethics

287

(30)

Introduction

287

(1)

9.1 Why care about the environment?

287

(1)

9.2 Basic and derivative moral consideration

288

(1)

9.3 Who or what warrants basic moral consideration?

289

(1)

9.4 Anthropocentrism

289

(3)

9.5 Sentientism

292

(2)

9.6 Biocentrism

294

(8)

9.7 Does nature as a whole warrant basic moral consideration?

302

(3)

9.8 An argument for giving nature basic moral consideration

305

(4)

9.9 An anthropocentric challenge

309

(3)

9.10 Intended and foreseeable consequences of environmental impacts

312

(1)

9.11 Conclusion

313

(1)

Study questions

314

(1)

Notes

315

(2)

10 Moral Consideration for Animals

317

(40)

Introduction

317

(1)

10.1 Basic and derivative moral consideration

317

(2)

10.2 Speciesism

319

(2)

10.3 Animals and discrimination

321

(1)

10.4 Hunting

322

(4)

10.5 Eating animals

326

(1)

10.6 Experimenting on animals

326

(1)

10.7 Ought we to dominate animals?

327

(1)

10.8 Are humans innately superior to animals?

328

(2)

10.9 What extrinsic value does human intelligence have?

330

(3)

10.10 Do animals have rights?

333

(14)

10.11 Vegetarianism

347

(4)

10.12 Conclusion

351

(1)

Study questions

352

(1)

Notes

352

(5)

Part IV Autonomy and the Individual

11 Privacy

357

(22)

Introduction

357

(1)

11.1 Why is privacy important?

357

(4)

11.2 The philosophical and legal foundations of privacy

361

(4)

11.3 A definition of privacy

365

(1)

11.4 Personal autonomy

366

(1)

11.5 The paradox of privacy

367

(1)

11.6 Setting boundaries

368

(1)

11.7 The prima facie right to privacy

369

(1)

11.8 Violations of privacy for political, social, or personal ends

370

(1)

11.9 Privacy and conflicting values

371

(2)

11.10 Privacy and technology

373

(1)

11.11 Conclusion

374

(1)

Study questions

375

(1)

Notes

375

(4)

12 Abortion

379

(36)

Introduction

379

(1)

12.1 Is there neutral language with which to discuss the abortion issue?

379

(1)

12.2 What is it that is aborted?

380

(3)

12.3 A medical perspective

383

(1)

12.4 Whose interests warrant moral consideration in the abortion issue?

384

(1)

12.5 Roe V. Wade (1973)

385

(1)

12.6 A woman's "right to choose"

386

(4)

12.7 Do men have rights in the abortion issue?

390

(3)

12.8 Do the unborn have rights?

393

(1)

12.9 Human beings and persons

394

(1)

12.10 Abortion and the killing of the innocent

395

(5)

12.11 What precisely is abortion?

400

(2)

12.12 Hare's golden rule argument

402

(3)

12.13 Toward a new perspective on abortion

405

(2)

12.14 The basic problem of unwanted pregnancy

407

(4)

12.15 Conclusion

411

(1)

Study questions

412

(1)

Notes

412

(3)

13 Medical Aid in Dying, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia

415

(36)

Introduction

415

(1)

13.1 Suicide

415

(1)

13.2 Self-administering lethal medication versus committing suicide

416

(4)

13.3 Is there a right to die?

420

(4)

13.4 Active and passive euthanasia

424

(1)

13.5 The Quinlan, Cruzan, and Schiavo cases

425

(2)

13.6 Consciousness, coma, and persistent vegetative states

427

(3)

13.7 Killing and letting die

430

(8)

13.8 Is there a moral difference between killing and letting die?

438

(3)

13.9 Is there a slippery slope from suicide to assisted suicide to euthanasia?

441

(1)

13.10 The case for a logically slippery slope

442

(3)

13.11 Conclusion

445

(1)

Study questions

445

(1)

Notes

446

(5)

Part V The Nonconsensual Taking of Human Life

14 The Death Penalty

451

(20)

Introduction

451

(1)

14.1 The death penalty in America

451

(3)

14.2 What is punishment?

454

(1)

14.3 Deterrence and retribution

455

(1)

14.4 What is retributivism?

456

(4)

14.5 Objections to the retributivist justification of the death penalty

460

(3)

14.6 The consequentialist justification of the death penalty as a deterrent

463

(3)

14.7 The role of fear in deterrence

466

(2)

14.8 Conclusion

468

(1)

Study questions

468

(1)

Notes

469

(2)

15 Terrorism and War

471

(32)

Introduction

471

(1)

15.1 The problem

471

(1)

15.2 What is terrorism?

472

(2)

15.3 Rationalizations of terrorism

474

(3)

15.4 Who are terrorists?

477

(1)

15.5 How some terrorists view themselves

478

(1)

15.6 Terrorism and the killing of innocents

479

(3)

15.7 What is war?

482

(2)

15.8 Can war be morally justified?

484

(1)

15.9 The just war theory

485

(4)

15.10 War and the killing of innocents

489

(3)

15.11 War and the killing of soldiers

492

(1)

15.12 Are soldiers morally expendable?

493

(1)

15.13 Is there an absolute right to kill in self-defense?

494

(2)

15.14 The paradox of the moral expendability of soldiers

496

(1)

15.15 Pacifism

497

(1)

15.16 Conclusion: a common ground between warists and pacifists

498

(1)

Study questions

499

(1)

Notes

500

(3)

Glossary

503

(12)

Selected Bibliography

515

(2)

Index

517

Robert L. Holmes is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, USA. His main research is in philosophy of war, the ethics of nonviolence, and contemporary moral problems. He is the author of Pacifism (2016) Basic Moral Philosophy (2006) and On War and Morality (1989), co-author of Philosophical Inquiry (1968), and co-editor of Nonviolence in Theory and Practice (1990).

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