Intro -- Ethics in Practice: An Anthology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface for Instructors -- Acknowledgments -- Source Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Theorizing about Ethics -- Reading Philosophy -- Writing a Philosophy Paper [N] -- Part I Ethical Theory -- Ethical Theory -- 1 Consequentialism -- 2 Deontology -- 3 Rights -- 4 Virtue Theory -- Part II Life and Death -- Euthanasia -- 5 Rule-Utilitarianism and Euthanasia -- 6 Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths -- 7 Against the Right to Die -- 8 Dying at the Right Time: Reflections on (Un)Assisted Suicide -- 9 A Duty to Care Revisited -- Abortion -- 10 A Defense of Abortion -- 11 On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion -- 12 An Argument that Abortion is Wrong -- 13 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion -- 14 Virtue Theory and Abortion -- Animals -- 15 All Animals are Equal -- 16 Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism -- 17 The Case for Animal Rights -- 18 The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research -- 19 Why Cohen is Mistaken -- Part III The Personal Life -- Family and Sexuality -- 20 What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents? -- 21 Morality, Parents, and Children -- 22 Missing Staircases and the Marriage Debate: Is Same-Sex Marriage Bad for Children? -- 23 What is Marriage for? Children Need Mothers and Fathers -- Biomedical Technologies -- 24 Artificial Means of Reproduction and Our Understanding of the Family -- 25 Is Women's Labor a Commodity? -- 26 "Goodbye Dolly?" The Ethics of Human Cloning -- 27 The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans -- 28 Cognitive Enhancement -- Part IV Liberty and Equality -- Paternalism and Risk -- 29 Freedom of Action -- 30 On Improving People by Political Means -- 31 Against the Legalization of Drugs -- 32 Why We Should Decriminalize Drug Use -- 33 The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms.

34 Gun Control -- Free Speech -- 35 Freedom of Thought and Discussion -- 36 "The Price We Pay?" Pornography and Harm -- 37 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality -- 38 Sticks and Stones -- 39 Speech Codes and Expressive Harm -- Sexual and Racial Discrimination -- 40 Racism -- 41 Servility and Self-Respect -- 42 Sexual Harassment -- 43 Date Rape -- 44 Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape -- Affirmative Action -- 45 The Case against Affirmative Action -- 46 The Rights of Allan Bakke -- 47 Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of "Preferential Treatment" -- Part V Justice -- Punishment -- 48 Punishment and Desert -- 49 Out of Character: On the Psychology of Excuses in the Criminal Law -- 50 Does Punishment Work? -- 51 In Defense of the Death Penalty -- 52 Against the Death Penalty -- Economic Justice -- 53 A Theory of Justice -- 54 The Entitlement Theory of Justice -- 55 Displacing the Distributive Paradigm -- 56 Economic Competition: Should We Care about the Losers? -- World Hunger -- 57 Famine, Affluence, and Morality -- 58 Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code -- 59 Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend -- 60 Feeding People versus Saving Nature -- 61 The Value of Nature -- 62 A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 63 Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments -- 64 A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption -- War, Terrorism, and Reconciliation -- 65 Is the War on Terrorism a Defense of Civilization? -- 66 Just War Doctrine and the Military Response to Terrorism -- 67 Nipping Evil in the Bud: The Questionable Ethics of Preventive Force -- 68 The Justifiability of Humanitarian Intervention -- 69 Pacifism: Reclaiming the Moral Presumption -- 70 Political Reconciliation.

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