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Wolff, Jonathan,

Readings In Moral Philosophy / Jonathan Wolff, Blavatnik Professor of Public Policty, Blavatnick School of Government, Oxford University. - First Edition. - xviii, 638 pages ; 21 cm

Contents
Part 1 - Meta-Ethics;
Right and Wrong;
Moral Distinctions Not Derived From Reason;
Patterns of Culture;
Trying Out One’s New Sword;
Beyond Good and Evil;
A Critique of Ethics;
Inventing Right and Wrong;
Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility;
God and Morality;
Evolution and Morality;
Part 2 - Normative Ethics;
The Natural Law;
The Ethics of Emergencies;
What Is the Value of Justice?
The State of Nature;
The Original Position;
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation;
Utilitarianism;
The Experience Machine;
The Categorical Imperative;
The Need for More than Justice;
Nicomachean Ethics;
Analects;
The Caring Person;
Existentialism and Humanism;
Part 3 - Applied Ethics;
Gender Equality;
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman;
The Second Sex;
Age, Race, Class, and Sex;
Gender Policing;
Free Speech and Its Limits;
On Liberty of Expression;
Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech;
The Coddling of the American Mind;
Sexual Morality;
Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis;
Alcohol and Rape;
Feminist Ethics: Evaluating the Hookup Culture;
Abortion;
A Defense of Abortion;
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion;
Why Abortion Is Immoral;
Virtue Theory and Abortion;
Euthanasia;
Active and Passive Euthanasia;
Euthanasia;
The Death Penalty;
Speech in Defense of Capital Punishment;
How to Argue About the Death Penalty;
The Criminalization of Drugs;
Four Points About Drug Decriminalization;
On the Decriminalization of Drugs;
Animal Rights;
Duties Towards Animals;
All Animals Are Equal;
Animal Rights and Wrongs;
The Environment;
The Land Ethic;
Justice and Climate Change;
War;
50 Years After Hiroshima;
War and Massacre;
Terror and Torture;
Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured?
Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses;
Resistance;
On Civil Disobedience;
Letter From Birmingham Jail;
I Am Prepared to Die;
Racial Justice;
The Souls of Black Folk;
Racial Integration Remains an Imperative;
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference;
Black Lives Matter;
Economic Justice;
A Theory of Justice;
The Entitlement Theory of Justice;
Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice;
World Hunger and Foreign Aid;
Famine, Affluence, and Morality;
Dead Aid;
Ending World Hunger;
Credits;
Index

ISBN: 9780393923605 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2017040606

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethics
Moral Philosophy

LC Class. No.: BJ1012 / .W65 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 170 WOL