The moral life: an introductory reader in ethics and literature

INDICE: *=New to this Edition; Each chapter ends with Further Readings.; Preface: ; Introduction: On the Nature of Morality; PART I. THE NATURE OF MORALITY: Good and Evil; 1. What Is the Purpose of Morality?; William Golding, Lord ofthe Flies: A Moral Allegory; Louis P. Pojman, On the Nature and Purpose of Morality: Reflections on William Golding's Lord of the Flies; On the State of Nature: Thomas Hobbes; 2. Good and Evil; Billy Budd: Herman Melville; Why Is There Evil?: Fyodor Dostoevsky; Sophie's Choice: William Styron; From Cruelty to Goodness: Philip Hallie; Wickedness: Stanley Benn; Beyond Good and Evil: Friedrich Nietzsche; On the Origin of Good and Evil: Richard Taylor; 3. Is Everything Relative?; Custom Is King: Herodotus; The Case for Moral Relativism: Ruth Benedict; Why Morality Is Not Relative: * James Rachels; Judge Not?: Jean Bethke Elshtain; On Trying Out One's New Sword: Mary Midgley; The Enemy of the People: Henrick Ibsen; PART II. MORAL THEORIES AND MORAL CHARACTER; 4. Utilitarianism; Seaman Holmes and the Longboat of William Brown, Reported by John WilliamWallace; Classical Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham; Utilitarianism Refined: John Stuart Mill; A Defense of Utilitarianism: Kai Nielsen; Against Utilitarianism: Bernard Williams; The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: Ursula Le Guin; The Utilitarian Social Engineer and the Savage: Aldous Huxley; 5. Deontological Ethics; The Moral Law: Immanuel Kant; Kant's Theory: William K. Frankena; Intuitionism: W. D. Ross; The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule: R. M. MacIver; A Critique of the Golden Rule: Richard Whatley; A Horseman in the Sky: Ambrose Bierce; The Evil of Lying: Charles Fried; Does Morality Depend on Religion?: Plato; Moral Luck: Thomas Nagel; 6. Virtue Ethics; The Virtues: * Alasdair MacIntyre;Virtue Ethics: Aristotle; Virtue and the Moral Life: Bernard Mayo; Saints andHeroes: J.O. Urmson; The Great Stone Face: Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Critique ofVirtue-Based Ethical Systems: William Frankena; 7. Virtues and Vices; The Sermon on the Mount; The Good Samaritan: Jesus of Nazareth; Leo Tolstoy, How MuchLand Does a Man Need? Greed; Jealousy, Malice, and Ingratitude: Immanuel Kant; Moral Cowardice: Martin Gansberg; The Stoic Catechism: Epictetus and Others;Vice Admiral James Stockdale, The World of Epictetus: Courage and Endurance; PART III. MORAL ISSUES; 8. Ethics and Egoism: Why Should We Be Moral?; The Ring of Gyges: Plato; In Defense of Ethical Egoism: Ayn Rand; Louis P. Pojman; A Critique of Ethical Egoism: James Rachels; 9. Does Life Have Meaning?; The Good Brahmin: Voltaire; Hedonism: Epicurus; Life Is Absurd: Albert Camus; Religion Gives Meaning to Life: Louis P. Pojman; Viktor Frankl, The Human Search for Meaning: Reflections on Auschwitz; The Four Noble Truths: Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha; Reflections on Suffering: Bertrand Russell; 10. Freedom, Autonomy,and Self-Respect; I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.; Graduation: Maya Angel

• ISBN: 978-0-19-539625-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
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• Fecha Publicación: 03/06/2010
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