Ethics in America source reader
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Ethics in America source reader
Prentice Hall, c1989
1st ed
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Designed to accompany a college television course and prime time television series entitled: Ethics in America
"An Annenberg/CPB Project."
"Produced by Columbia University Seminars on Media and Society."
"Educational print materials produced by WNET/New York."
Bibliography: p. 197-198
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Description
Anthology of classic readings organized according to four major ethical traditions-the Greeks, the Bible, moral law, and utilitarianism. Can be used alone or in conjunction with the "Ethics in America" television course. Uses case studies to examine ethical conflicts in law, medicine, business, the military, journalism, government, and personal life.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. ANCIENT GREECE. 1. Thucydides, From The Peloponnesian War. 2. Plato, from The Apology. from The Crito: from The Repulbic. 3. Aristotle, from Nichomachean Ethics
- from from Politics. BIBLICAL TRADITION. 4. Selections from: Genesis, Exodux, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Amos, Micah, Mathew, Luke, John, Acts, Corinthians. MORAL LAW. 5. Stoics. 6. Epictetus, from Moral Discourses. 7. Aquinas, from Summa Theologica.. 8. Hobbes, from Leviathan. 9. Locke, from Treatise on Government. 10. Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
- An Act of Establishing Religious Freedom. 11. Kant, from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals. 12. Royce, from Philosophy of Loyalty. 13. Rawls, from Theory of Justice. 14. King, from A Birmingham Jail. UTILITARIANS. 15. Epricurus, from The Extant Remains. 16. Bentham, from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. 17. Mill, from Utilitarianism: On Liberty.
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