Applied ethics : a multicultural approach

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Applied ethics : a multicultural approach

edited by Larry May, Kai Wong, Jill Delston

Prentice Hall, c2011

5th ed

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The new fifth edition of Applied Ethics covers a wide variety of contemporary moral issues from many cultural perspectives. This approach permits students to appreciate diverse ethical positions different from those they may have been acculturated into. Topics include hotly debated issues such as abortion, euthanasia, racial discrimination and injustice as well human rights, war and violence, gender issues and human cloning.

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Contents Preface Introduction 1. Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community: Three Educational Values for a Multicultural Society LawrenceA. Blum 2. Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation Martha Nussbaum I Theoretical Perspectives 1. Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 2. A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics Onora O'Neill 3. Theory of Justice John Rawls 4. On Virtue Ethics Rosalind Hursthouse 5. Hindu Values Debabrata Sen Sharma 6. Images of Relationship Carol Gilligan II Human Rights 1. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2. Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights Charlotte Bunch 3. Islam, Islamic Law, and the Dilemma of Cultural Legitimacy for Universal Human Rights Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im 4. The African Context of Human Rights Claude Ake 5. Asian Justification for Human Rights and Values in Asia vs. Western Liberalism Daniel A. Bell 6. A Buddhist Response to the Nature of Human Rights Kenneth K. Inada 7. Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights Charles Taylor 8. Democracy as a Universal Value Amartya Sen III Environmental Ethics 1. The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis Lynn White,Jr. 2. Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic Dale Jamieson 3. Faking Nature Robert Elliot 4. A "Good" Environment: Just One of the Set of Human Objectives William Baxter 5. Look to the Mountain: Reflections on Indigenous Ecology Gregory Cajete 6. Environmental Racism, American Indians, and Monitored Retrievable Storage Sites for Radioactive Waste ShariCollins-Chobanian IV Hunger and Poverty 1. Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept Garrett Hardin 2. Feeding the Hungry Jan Narveson 3. Famine, Affluence, and Morality Peter Singer 4. A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Global Economic Order Thomas Pogge 5. Sex & Consequences: World Population Growth vs. Reproductive Rights Margaret P. Battin 6. Perils Amid Promises of Genetically Modified Foods Mae Wan-Ho V War and Violence 1. Just War Theory Douglas P. Lackey 2. Was the [First] Gulf War a Just War? Gregory S. Kavka 3. Was the [Second] Iraq War a Just War? Steven Lee 4. Jus Post Bellum and the Prosecution of Al Bashir for Darfur Larry May 5. A Women's Politics of Resistance Sara Ruddick 6. Letter from the Birmingham City Jail Martin Luther King Jr. VI Gender Roles and Morality 1. Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How? Sally Haslanger 2. Domestic Violence Against Women and Autonomy Marilyn Friedman 3. Re-Thinking Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriages Brook J. Sadler 4. Is Equality Tearing Families Apart? Joel Anderson 5. Is it Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality? Jeff Jordan 6. Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism Sarah Song VII Racial and Ethnic Discrimination 1. Philosophical and Social Implications of Race Naomi Zack 2. Collective Responsibility and Multiple Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Identities Kai C. Wong 3. Racisms Kwame Anthony Appiah 4. Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference Shelby Steele 5. Should Public Policy Be Class Conscious Rather than Color Conscious? Amy Gutmann 6. The Color-Blind Principle Bernard Boxill VIII Abortion 1. An Almost Absolute Value in History John T. Noonan Jr. 2. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion Mary Anne Warren 3. Why Abortion Is Immoral Don Marquis 4. Does a Fetus Already Have a Future-Like-Ours? Peter Mcinerney 5. The Problem of Coerced Abortion in China and Related Ethical Issues Jing-Bao Nie 6. Contestation and Consensus: The Morality of Abortion in Japan William R. LaFleur 7. The Classical Hindu View on Abortion and the Moral Status of Unborn Julius J.Lipner IX Euthanasia and Cloning 1. Active and Passive Euthanasia James Rachels 2. The Intentional Termination of Life Bonnie Steinbock 3. Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rowls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson 4. Objections to the Institutionalization of Euthanasia Stephen G. Potts 5. Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It Margaret P. Battin 6. Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Susan M. Wolf 7. Confucian Views on Suicide and Their Impli cations for Euthanasia Ping-Cheung Lo 8. Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia Carl B. Becker 9. The Wisdom of Repugnance Leon Kass

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