Introduction to Ethics

by Noah Levin

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Publisher
Golden West College
Subjects
Humanities, Philosophy
Licence
CC BY, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Licensing
  7. Preface
  8. 1: Introduction to Contemporary Ethics - Technology, Affirmative Action, and Immigration
  9. 1.1: The “Trolley Problem” and Self-Driving Cars- Your Car’s Moral Settings (Noah Levin)
  10. 1.2: What is Ethics and What Makes Something a Problem for Morality? (David Svolba)
  11. 1.3: Letter from the Birmingham City Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr).
  12. 1.4: A Defense of Affirmative Action (Noah Levin)
  13. 1.5: The Moral Issues of Immigration (B.M. Wooldridge)
  14. 1.6: The Ethics of our Digital Selves (Noah Levin)
  15. 2: Torture, Death, and the “Greater Good”
  16. 2.1: The Ethics of Torture (Martine Berenpas)
  17. 2.2: What Moral Obligations do we have (or not have) to Impoverished Peoples? (B.M. Wooldridge)
  18. 2.3: Euthanasia, or Mercy Killing (Nathan Nobis)
  19. 2.4: An Argument Against Capital Punishment (Noah Levin)
  20. 2.5: Common Arguments about Abortion (Nathan Nobis and Kristina Grob)
  21. 2.6: The Better (Philosophical) Arguments about Abortion (Nathan Nobis and Kristina Grob)
  22. 3: Persons, Autonomy, the Environment, and Rights
  23. 3.1: Animal Rights (Eduardo Salazar)
  24. 3.2: John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance” (Ben Davies)
  25. 3.3: Environmental Ethics- Climate Change (Jonathan Spelman)
  26. 3.4: Rape, Date Rape, and the “Affirmative Consent” Law in California (Noah Levin)
  27. 3.5: The Ethics of Pornography- Deliberating on a Modern Harm (Eduardo Salazar)
  28. 3.6: The Social Contract (Thomas Hobbes)
  29. 4: Happiness
  30. 4.1: Is Pleasure all that Matters? Thoughts on the “Experience Machine” (Prabhpal Singh)
  31. 4.2: Utilitarianism (J.S. Mill)
  32. 4.3: Utilitarianism- Pros and Cons (B.M. Wooldridge)
  33. 4.4: Existentialism, Genetic Engineering, and the Meaning of Life - The Fifths (Noah Levin)
  34. 4.5: The Solitude of the Self (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
  35. 4.6: Game Theory, the Nash Equilibrium, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma (Douglas E. Hill)
  36. 5: Religion, Law, and Absolute Morality
  37. 5.1: The Myth of Gyges and The Crito (Plato)
  38. 5.2: God, Morality, and Religion (Kristin Seemuth Whaley)
  39. 5.3: The Categorical Imperative (Immanuel Kant)
  40. 5.4: The Virtues (Aristotle)
  41. 5.5: Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
  42. 5.6: Other Moral Theories- Subjectivism, Relativism, Emotivism, Intuitionism, etc. (Jan F. Jacko)
  43. Back Matter
  44. Index
  45. Glossary
  46. Glossary
  47. Detailed Licensing