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Author:   Cahn ,  Markie
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   7th edition
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9780190949556

ISBN 10:   0190949554
Pages:   976
Publication Date:   01 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

*=New to this Edition Preface: Introduction: PART I: HISTORICAL SOURCES Introduction, Alasdair MacIntyre 1. Plato Euthyphro: Defence of Socrates: Crito: Phaedo (115b-118): Republic (selections): 2. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (selections): 3. Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus: Leading Doctrines: 4. Cicero On Duties (selections): 5. Epictetus Enchiridion: 6. Augustine Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love (selections): 7. Thomas Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles (selections): 8. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (selections): 9. Joseph Butler Fifteen Sermons (Sermons I, II, III, *IX, XI, XII): 10. David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (selections): An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (selections): 11. Immanuel Kant Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: 12. Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (selections): 13. John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism: * 14. Henry Sidgwick The Methods of Ethics (selections): 15. Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals (selections): PART II: MODERN ETHICAL THEORY Introduction, James Rachels 16. G.E. Moore Principia Ethics (selections): 17. H.A. Prichard Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?: 18. A. J. Ayer Language, Truth, and Logic (selections): 19. C. L. Stevenson The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms: 20. John Dewey Theory of Valuation: 21. R. M. Hare Freedom and Reason (selections): 22. J. J. C. Smart Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism: 23. Bernard Williams A Critique of Utilitarianism: 24. W. D. Ross The Right and the Good (selections): 25. John Rawls A Theory of Justice (selections): 26. David Gauthier Why Contractarianism?: * 27. T. M. Scanlon What We Owe to Each Other (selections): 28. Barbara Herman On the Value of Action: 29. Philippa Foot Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives: 30. Christine Korsgaard Skepticism about Practical Reason: 31. Thomas Nagel Moral Luck: 32. Susan Wolf Moral Saints: 33. Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism: 34. G. E. M. Anscombe Modern Moral Philosophy: 35. Julia Annas Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing: * 36. Noma Arpaly Moral Worth: 37. Virginia Held Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory: 38. Gilbert Harman The Nature of Morality (selections): 39. J.L. Mackie Inventing Right and Wrong (selections): 40. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Moral Intuitionism Meets Empirical Psychology: 41. Mary Midgley Trying Out One's New Sword: 42. James Rachels Egoism and Moral Skepticism: PART III: CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS Introduction, Peter Singer 43. Judith Jarvis Thomas A Defense of Abortion: 44. Don Marquis An Argument That Abortion Is Wrong: 45. James Rachels Active and Passive Euthanasia: 46. Philippa Foot Killing and Letting Die: 47. Peter Singer Famine, Affluence, and Morality: * 48. Travis Timmerman A Reply to Singer: * 49. Tom Regan We Are What We Eat: * 50. Henry Shue Global Environment and International Inequality: * 51. Karen Hanson Facing Facts and Responsibilities: * 52. Laurence Thomas What Good Am I?: * 53. Celia Wolf-Devine Proportional Representation: * 54. N. Ann Davis Sexual Harassment in the University: * 55. Margaret Crouch Sexual Harassment in Public Places: 56. Judith Jarvis Thomson The Trolley Problem: 57. Judith Jarvis Thomson Turning the Trolley: 58. Thomas Nagel Death: 59. Richard Taylor The Meaning of Life:

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"""Ethics is a fine collection, one that is organized so that it can be tailored on a daily basis to an instructor's pedagogical goals. The introductions are models of clarity and accessibility for philosophy students, in particular for those who are new to philosophy.""--Paul Hughes, University of Michigan-Dearborn ""The book's greatest strength is its excellent primary resources, which include a great variety of classical and contemporary authors. Students have access to the grand sweep of thinking in ethics and also pertinent information from prominent thinkers of today. The organization is helpful, and it matches much of what I teach in my ethics course.""--L. Dean Allen, Northwest Florida State College ""I have looked at many other anthologies and this really is the best one for the survey course I teach. All of Cahn's anthologies, but especially this one, do an admirable job of abbreviating texts so that they are as accessible as possible, and so that they focus on the themes that carry over to other readings in the collection.""--Gary Jaeger, Vanderbilt University"

Ethics is a fine collection, one that is organized so that it can be tailored on a daily basis to an instructor's pedagogical goals. The introductions are models of clarity and accessibility for philosophy students, in particular for those who are new to philosophy. --Paul Hughes, University of Michigan-Dearborn The book's greatest strength is its excellent primary resources, which include a great variety of classical and contemporary authors. Students have access to the grand sweep of thinking in ethics and also pertinent information from prominent thinkers of today. The organization is helpful, and it matches much of what I teach in my ethics course. --L. Dean Allen, Northwest Florida State College I have looked at many other anthologies and this really is the best one for the survey course I teach. All of Cahn's anthologies, but especially this one, do an admirable job of abbreviating texts so that they are as accessible as possible, and so that they focus on the themes that carry over to other readings in the collection. --Gary Jaeger, Vanderbilt University

Ethics is a fine collection, one that is organized so that it can be tailored on a daily basis to an instructor's pedagogical goals. The introductions are models of clarity and accessibility for philosophy students, in particular for those who are new to philosophy. --Paul Hughes, University of Michigan-Dearborn The book's greatest strength is its excellent primary resources, which include a great variety of classical and contemporary authors. Students have access to the grand sweep of thinking in ethics and also pertinent information from prominent thinkers of today. The organization is helpful, and it matches much of what I teach in my ethics course. --L. Dean Allen, Northwest Florida State College I have looked at many other anthologies and this really is the best one for the survey course I teach. All of Cahn's anthologies, but especially this one, do an admirable job of abbreviating texts so that they are as accessible as possible, and so that they focus on the themes that carry over to other readings in the collection. --Gary Jaeger, Vanderbilt University

Author Information

Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books. He is the editor of Exploring Ethics, Fifth Edition (OUP, 2019) and The World of Philosophy, Second Edition (OUP, 2018). Peter Markie is Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Descartes's Gambit (1988) and the coauthor of Introducing Ethics (OUP, 2014).

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