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Ethics
History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues

Third Edition

Edited by Steven M. Cahn and Peter Markie

Price: £36.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517840-1
Publication date: 25 August 2005
896 pages, 234x190 mm
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Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues , Third Edition, is organized into three sections, providing instructors with flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy. The first section, Historical Sources, moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Epictetus) through medieval views (Augustine and Aquinas) to modern theories (Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant, Bentham, and Mill), culminating with leading nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers (Nietzsche, James, Dewey, Camus, and Sartre). The readings are printed in their entirety wherever possible.


The second section, Modern Ethical Theory, includes many of the most important essays of the past century. The discussion of utilitarianism, Kantianism, egoism, and relativism continues in the work of major contemporary philosophers (Williams, Brandt, Feinberg, Foot, and Rachels). Landmark selections (Moore, Prichard, Ross, Ayer, Stevenson, Anscombe, Baier, Hare, Harman, and Gauthier) reflect concern with moral language and the justification of morality. The concepts of justice (Rawls) and rights (Feinberg) are explored, as well as recent views on the importance of virtue ethics (Rachels) and an ethic influenced by feminist concerns (Held).


In the third section, Contemporary Moral Problems, the readings present the current debates over abortion, euthanasia, famine relief, animal rights, the death penalty, and whether numbers should play a role in making moral decisions.
The third edition expands Part II, Modern Ethical Theory, adding essays by Onora O'Neill, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Allan Gibbard, Nicholas L. Sturgeon, and Martha Nussbaum. Part III, Contemporary Moral Problems, features new essays on abortion by Mary Anne Warren, Don Marquis, and Rosalind Hursthouse; an essay on the death penalty by Stephen Nathanson; and a debate between John Taurek and Derek Parfit on when and why one should save a greater rather than a lesser number of people from harm. The book concludes with an essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson on the trolley problem.

Contents
*=New to this edition
Preface
Introduction
I. HISTORICAL SOURCES
Introduction , Alasdair MacIntyre
1. Plato
Euthyphro
Defence of Socrates
Crito
Phaedo (115d-118)
Republic (selections)
2. Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics (selections)
3. Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus
Leading Doctrines
4. Epictetus
Enchiridion
5. Augustine
Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love (selections)
6. Thomas Aquinas
Summa Contra Gentiles (selections)
7. Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan (selections)
8. Joseph Butler
Fifteen Sermons (selections)
9. David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (selections)
10. Immanuel Kant
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
11. Jeremy Bentham
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (selections)
12. John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
13. Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil (selections)
On the Genealogy of Morals (selections)
Twilight of the Idols (selections)
14. William James
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life
15. John Dewey
The Quest for Certainty (selections)
16. Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus (selections)
17. Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism Is a Humanism
II. MODERN ETHICAL THEORY
Introduction , James Rachels
18. G.E. Moore
Principia Ethica (selections)
19. H.A. Prichard
Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?
20. W.D. Ross
The Right and the Good (selections)
21. A.J. Ayer
Language, Truth, and Logic (selections)
22. C.L. Stevenson
The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms
23. R.M. Hare
Freedom and Reason (selections)
24. Kurt Baier
The Point of View of Morality
25. G.E.M. Anscombe
Modern Moral Philosophy
26. John Rawls
A Theory of Justice (selections)
27. David Gauthier
Why Contractarianism?
28. Joel Feinberg
Psychological Egoism
29 Philippa Foot.
Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives
* 30. Onora O'Neill
Consistency in Action
* 31. Ruth Barcan Marcus
Moral Dilemmas and Consistency
32. Richard B. Brandt
Some Merits of One Form of Rule Utilitarianism
33. Bernard Williams
A Critique of Utilitarianism
* 34. Allan Gibbard
Moral Judgment and the Acceptance of Norms
35. Joel Feinberg
The Nature and Value of Rights
36. Gilbert Harman
The Nature of Morality (selections)
* 37. Nicholas L. Sturgeon
Moral Explanations
38. James Rachels
The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
* 39. Martha Nussbaum
Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach
40. Virginia Held
Reason, Gender, and Moral Theory
41. James Rachels
The Ethics of Virtue
42. Susan Wolf
Moral Saints
43. Thomas Nagel
Moral Luck
III. CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS
Introduction , Peter Singer
44. Judith Jarvis Thomson
A Defense of Abortion
* 45. Mary Anne Warren
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
* 46. Don Marquis
An Argument that Abortion is Wrong
* 47. Rosalind Hursthouse
Virtue Theory and Abortion
48. James Rachels
Active and Passive Euthanasia
49. Philippa Foot
Killing and Letting Die
50. Peter Singer
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
51. John Arthur
Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code
52. Tom Regan
The Case for Animal Rights
53. Carl Cohen
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
54. Ernest van den Haag
In Defense of the Death Penalty
* 55. Stephen Nathanson
An Eye for an Eye: The Morality of Punishing by Death
* 56. John M. Taurek
Should the Numbers Count?
* 57. Derek Parfit
Innumerate Ethics
* 58. Judith Jarvis Thomson
The Trolley Problem

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Steven M. Cahn, Professor of Philosophy, The City University of New York Graduate Center and
Peter Markie, Professor of Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia


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