Morality and Moral Controversies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136012876 ISBN 13: 9780136012870

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1986

Synopsis

This comprehensive anthology includes classic and contemporary readings in moral theory along with a wide array of essays that address today's most philosophically interesting and controversial ethical and political issues. Covering a broad range of topics — across the entire philosophical and political spectrum — it shows the relevance of traditional thinkers as well as the many ways that contemporary writers are challenging the limits of the classical works. KEY TOPICS: The readings address: individual conscience and religious authority; classical theories of morality; contemporary perspectives; the sources and grounds of morality; violence, terrorism, and war; capital punishment; animals and the natural environment; abortion; euthanasia and eugenics; justice and economic distribution; civil disobedience and rule of law; liberty and freedom; free speech; equality and difference; racism and affirmative action; sex, love, and friendship; and marriage and family. MARKET: For those interested in ethics, morality, and political and social philosophy.       

About this title

From the Publisher:

This comprehensive anthology includes classic and contemporary readings in moral theory along with a wide array of essays that address today's most philosophically interesting and controversial ethical and political issues. Covering a broad range of topics -- across the entire philosophical and political spectrum -- it shows the relevance of traditional thinkers as well as the many ways that contemporary writers are challenging the limits of the classical works.

From the Back Cover:

Morality and Moral Controversies: Readings in Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy, Sixth Edition blends historical and contemporary readings on a wide array of topics. At the same time, it emphasizes philosophical dialogue and disagreement as authors respond directly to one another. John Arthur's popular collection has been used for a wide array of courses including Social and political philosophy, as well as ethics and applied ethics.

The Sixth Edition features:

• seventeen new articles
• expanded coverage of capital punishment
• new selections on economic justice including "The Communist Manifesto"
• new articles on the ethical impact of computers, eugenics and genetic engineering
• new selections on same-sex marriage, no-fault family law and homosexuality
• previously unpublished essay on reparations and racism

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0136012876
• ISBN 13: 9780136012870
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 470