Preface to 2nd Edition
Introduction
Studying Moral Philosophy
PART 1: The Foundations of Morality
JONATHAN WOLFF
Morality and Objectivity
Study Questions
MARY MIDGLEY
Trying Out One’s New Sword
Study Questions
J. L. MACKIE
Inventing Right and Wrong
Study Questions
HARRY G. FRANKFURT
Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility
Study Questions
PART 2: Moral Theories
Natural Law
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
The Natural Law
Study Questions
The Social Contract
PLATO
What Is the Value of Justice?
Study Questions
THOMAS HOBBES
The State of Nature
Study Questions
JOHN RAWLS
The Original Position
Study Questions
Utilitarianism
JEREMY BENTHAM
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Study Questions
JOHN STUART MILL
Utilitarianism
Study Questions
Deontology
IMMANUEL KANT
The Categorical Imperative
Study Questions
The Ethics of Care
ANNETTE BAIER
The Need for More than Justice
Study Questions
Virtue Ethics
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Study Questions
Ancient Chinese Ethics
CONFUCIUS
Analects
Study Questions
PART 3: Moral Questions
GENDER EQUALITY
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Study Questions
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex
Study Questions
AUDRE LORDE
Age, Race, Class, and Sex
Study Questions
LORI GIRSHICK
Gender Policing
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
FREE SPEECH AND ITS LIMITS
JOHN STUART MILL
On Liberty of Expression
Study Questions
CATHARINE MACKINNON
Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech
Study Questions
GREG LUKIANOFF AND JONATHAN HAIDT
The Coddling of the American Mind
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
SEXUAL MORALITY
NICHOLAS DIXON
Alcohol and Rape
Study Questions
AMIA SRINIVASAN
The Right to Sex
Study Questions
MIRANDA PILIPCHUK
Good Survivor, Bad Survivor: #MeToo and the Moralization of Survivorship
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Question
ABORTION
JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON
A Defense of Abortion
Study Questions
MARY ANNE WARREN
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Study Questions
DON MARQUIS
Why Abortion Is Immoral
Study Questions
ROSALIND HURSTHOUSE
Virtue Theory and Abortion
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
EUTHANASIA
DAN BROCK
Voluntary Active Euthanasia
Study Questions
WILLIAM ROBERT NIELSEN
MAiD in Canada: Ethical Considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
PUNISHMENT
JOHN STUART MILL
Speech in Defense of Capital Punishment
Study Questions
ANGELA DAVIS
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Study Questions
TOMMIE SHELBY
Prisons Abolition or Reform?
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Question
ANIMAL ETHICS
PETER SINGER
All Animals Are Equal
Study Questions
ROGER SCRUTON
Animal Rights and Wrongs
Study Questions
JOSEPHINE DONOVAN
Attention to Suffering: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
THE ENVIRONMENT
ALDO LEOPOLD
The Land Ethic
Study Questions
DARREL MOELLENDORF
Justice and Climate Change
Study Questions
SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER
The Right to be Cold
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Question
WAR, TERROR AND TORTURE
JOHN RAWLS
50 Years After Hiroshima
Study Questions
TERROR AND TORTURE
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured?
Study Questions
MICHAEL WALZER
Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
RESISTANCE
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Letter From Birmingham Jail
Study Questions
NELSON MANDELA
I Am Prepared to Die
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
RACIAL JUSTICE AND INCLUSION
W. E. B. DU BOIS
The Souls of Black Folk
Study Questions
JENNIFER MORTON
Flourishing in the Academy: Complicity and Compromise
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
ELIZABETH ANDERSON
Racial Integration Remains an Imperative
Study Questions
SHELBY STEELE
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference
Study Questions
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON
Dissenting Judment in Students for Fair Admissions
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice
Study Questions
ROBERT NOZICK
The Entitlement Theory of Justice
Study Questions
IRIS MARION YOUNG
Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
WORLD HUNGER AND FOREIGN AID
PETER SINGER
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Study Questions
DAMBISA MOYO
Dead Aid
Study Questions
ONORA O’NEILL
Ending World Hunger
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
HEALTH JUSTICE
DAN BROCK
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Study Questions
CLARENCE H. BRADDOCK III
Racism and Bioethics: The Myth of Color-Blindness
Study Questions
MICHAEL MARMOT
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Study Questions
JONATHAN WOLFF
Three Waves of Pandemic Ethics
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
THE ETHICS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
IASON GABRIEL and VAFA GHAZAVI
The Challenge of Value Alignment: From Fairer Algorithms to AI Safety?
Study Questions
CARISSA VELIZ
The Surveillance Delusion
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions
THE MEANING OF LIFE
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Existentialism and Humanism
Study Questions
ROBERT NOZICK
The Experience Machine
Study Questions
SUSAN WOLF
Happiness and Meaning
Study Questions
Compare and Contrast Questions