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Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus

Autor Lawrence M. Hinman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iul 2017
Contemporary Moral Issues is an anthology that provides a selection of readings on contemporary social issues revolving around three general themes: Matters of Life and Death, Matters of Equality and Diversity, and Expanding the Circle, which includes duties beyond borders, living together with animals, and environmental ethics. The text contains a number of distinctive, high-profile readings and powerful narratives, including Jonathan Foer's "Eating Animals," Eva Feder Kittay's "On the Ethics of Selective Abortion for Disability," and Susan M. Wolf's "Confronting Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: My Father's Death." Each set of readings is accompanied by an extensive introduction, a bibliographical essay, pre-reading questions, and discussion questions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138425040
ISBN-10: 1138425044
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 187 x 235 mm
Greutate: 2.45 kg
Ediția:4
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Notă biografică

Authored by Hinman, Lawrence M.

Cuprins

Preface Introduction: A Pluralistic Approach to Contemporary Moral Issues An Initial Self-Assessment General Bibliographical Resources for Ethics PART I. MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Chapter 1 Choosing Our Children: Genetic Enhancement Chapter 2 Abortion Chapter 3 Euthanasia Chapter 4 Punishment and the Death Penalty Chapter 5 War, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism PART II. MATTERS OF DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY Chapter 6 Race and Ethnicity Chapter 7 Gender Chapter 8 Sexual Orientation PART III. EXPANDING THE CIRCLE Chapter 9 Living with Scarcity: World Hunger and Poverty Chapter 10 Living Together With Animals Chapter 11 Living in the Natural World: Environmental Ethics Chapter 12 Living in Virtual Space: Cyberethics

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Contemporary Moral Issues is an anthology that provides a selection of readings on contemporary social issues revolving around three general themes: Matters of Life and Death, Matters of Equality and Diversity, and Expanding the Circle, which includes duties beyond borders, living together with animals, and environmental ethics