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Vice and virtue in everyday life : introductory readings in ethics

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  • Contributor: Sommers, Christina Hoff
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    2013
    Contents:
    • Good and evil. From cruelty to goodness / Philip Hallie
    • Conscience of Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Bennett
    • 38 who saw murder didn't call police / Martin Gansberg
    • Compassion / Richard Taylor
    • Moral insight / Josiah Royce
    • Tragedy of King Lear / Lionel Trilling
    • Theories of moral conduct. Judeo-Christian tradition
    • Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill
    • Good will, duty, and the categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant
    • Egoism and moral skepticism / James Rachels
    • Defense of moral relativism / Ruth Benedict
    • Ethical relativism: a critique / W.T. Stace
    • Trying out one's new sword / Mary Midgley
    • Virtue. Moral virtures / Aristotle
    • Of the morals of the Catholic Church / Saint Augustine
    • Virtues in heroic societies / Alasdair MacIntyre
    • Virtue or duty? / Bernard Mayo
    • Virtues and vices / Philippa Foot
    • Gratitude / Fred R. Berger
    • Prudence and courage / W.D. Falk
    • Generosity / James D. Wallace
    • Virtue / John Mackie
    • Vice. Vice / Plutarch
    • Depths of vice / Saint Augustine
    • Desire and sin / Peter Abelard
    • Hypocrites / Dante Alighieri
    • Self-deception / Samuel Johnson
    • Upon self-deceit / Bishop Butler
    • Jealousy, envy, and spite / Immanuel Kant
    • Revenge / Alexander Theroux
    • Evil of lying / Charles Fried
    • Without virtue / Peter Singer
    • Freedom and responsibility. Leopold and Loeb: the crime of compulsion / Clarence Darrow
    • Delusion of free will / Robert Blatchford
    • Defense of compatibilism / W.T. Stace
    • Free will and the unconscious / John Hospers
    • Free will and the self / C.A. Campbell
    • Existentialism and freedom / Jean-Paul Sartre
    • Self-respect. Dignity and self-respect / Immanual Kant
    • Ethical pull / Robert Nozick
    • On self-respect / Joan Didion
    • On the obsolescence of the concept of honor / Peter Berger
    • New narcissism / Christopher Lasch
    • Character and culture / Anthony Quinton
    • Morality and the family. On growing old gracefully / Lin Yutang
    • What do grown children owe their parents? / Jane English
    • Traditional Jewish family values / Norman Lamm
    • Obedience and illusions / Michael Slote
    • Lying to children / Sissela Bok
    • Divorce / Rebecca West
    • Humanae vitae / Pope Paul VI
    • Reply to Pope Paul's Humanae vitae / Carl Cohen
    • Tradition and the generations / Edward Shils
    • Morality and society. Abortion: a personal moral dilemma / Linda Bird Francke
    • Abortion and the conscience of the nation / Ronald Reagan
    • Defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson
    • Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer
    • Lifeboat ethics: the case against helping the poor / Garrett Hardin
    • Moral defense of vegetarianism / James Rachels
    • Where have all the good deeds gone? / Christina Hoff Sommers
    • Importance of private ethics / Joseph Wood Krutch
    • Minimalist ethics: on the pacification of morality / Daniel Callahan.
    Subject(s): Social ethics
    Original Publisher: San Diego : Harbour Brace Jovanovich, c1985
    Language(s): English