Ethics
History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues
7th Edition
Published on 1. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
976 pages
978-0-19-094955-6 (ISBN)
Description
Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Seventh Edition, features fifty-nine selections organized into three parts, providing instructors with great flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy. Spanning 2,500 years of ethical theory, the first part, Historical Sources, ranges from Plato to Nietzsche. The second part, Modern Ethical Theory, includes many of the most important
essays of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The third part, Contemporary Moral Problems, presents the current debates over such issues as abortion, social justice, environmentalism, affirmative action, and sexual harassment. Nearly forty
percent of the modern readings are authored by women. The book is enhanced by part introductions, selection introductions, and study questions. The seventh edition includes twelve new essays.
essays of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The third part, Contemporary Moral Problems, presents the current debates over such issues as abortion, social justice, environmentalism, affirmative action, and sexual harassment. Nearly forty
percent of the modern readings are authored by women. The book is enhanced by part introductions, selection introductions, and study questions. The seventh edition includes twelve new essays.
Reviews / Votes
"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
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Edition
7th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-19-094955-6 (9780190949556)
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Persons
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).
Content
*=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: