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Book SynopsisTaking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have provoked heated debates on current ethical issues. Contemporary Moral Arguments: Readings in Ethical Issues, Second Edition, opens with an extensive two-chapter introduction to moral reasoning and moral theories that provides students with the background necessary to analyze the arguments in the following chapters. Chapters 3-12 present seventy-six readings that are organized--in the conventional way--into ten topical areas: abortion; drugs and autonomy (new to this edition); euthanasia and assisted suicide; genetic engineering and cloning; the death penalty; war, terrorism, and torture; pornography; economic justice and health care; animal rights and environmental duties; and global obligations to the poor.Offering a special feature not found in other anthologies, the selections are also organized in an unconventional way, by argument, so
Table of Contents*=NEW TO THIS EDITION; CHAPTERS 3-12 OPEN WITH AN INTRODUCTION, KEY TERMS, AND ARGUMENTS AND READINGS; EACH CHAPTER ENDS WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 1: MORAL REASONING; CHAPTER 2: MORAL THEORIES; CHAPTER 3: ABORTION; 1. WARREN'S PERSONHOOD ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION; 2. NOONAN'S PERSONHOOD-AT-CONCEPTION ARGUMENT AGAINST ABORTION; 3. THOMSON'S SELF-DEFENSE ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION; * CHAPTER 4: DRUGS AND AUTONOMY; * 4. THE HARM ARGUMENT AGAINST DRUG USE; * 5. THE ARGUMENT AGAINST PATERNALISM; CHAPTER 5: EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE; 6. THE AUTONOMY ARGUMENT FOR EUTHANASIA; 7. THE KILLING/LETTING DIE ARGUMENT; 8. THE SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT AGAINST EUTHANASIA; CHAPTER 6: GENETIC ENGINEERING AND CLONING; 9. THE BENEFICENCE ARGUMENT FOR GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; 10. THE OPEN-FUTURE ARGUMENT AGAINST CLONING; CHAPTER 7: THE DEATH PENALTY; 11. KANT'S RETRIBUTIVISM ARGUMENT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY; 12. THE DISCRIMINATION ARGUMENT AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY; 13. THE DETERRENCE ARGUMENT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY; CHAPTER 8: WAR, TERRORISM, AND TORTURE; 14. THE PACIFIST ARGUMENT AGAINST WAR; 15. THE SELF-DEFENSE ARGUMENT FOR WAR; 16. THE JUST WAR ARGUMENT AGAINST TERRORISM; 17. THE TICKING BOMB ARGUMENT FOR TORTURE; CHAPTER 9: PORNOGRAPHY AND FREE SPEECH; 18. THE LIBERTY ARGUMENT AGAINST CENSORSHIP; 19. MACKINNON'S HARM-TO-WOMEN ARGUMENT FOR CENSORSHIP; ECONOMIC JUSTICE: HEALTH CARE; 20. DANIELS'S ARGUMENT FOR A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE; 21. THE ARGUMENT FOR RATIONING BY MORAL WORTHINESS; CHAPTER 11: ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DUTY; 22. SINGER'S "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL" ARGUMENT; 23. REGAN'S ARGUMENT FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS; 24. THE SUFFERING ARGUMENT FOR VEGETARIANISM; 25. TAYLOR'S ARGUMENT FOR THE EQUALITY OF ALL LIFE; CHAPTER 12: ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND GLOBAL OBLIGATIONS; 26. HARDIN'S LIFEBOAT ARGUMENT AGAINST AIDING THE POOR; 27. SINGER'S UTILITARIAN ARGUMENT FOR AIDING THE POOR
