Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cohen, Andrew I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Issues of Life and Death
  • Issues in Justice
  • Issues of Privacy and the Good
  • Issues of Cosmospolitanism and Community
  • Ethical Theory
  • CHAPTER ONE: Theories of Ethics
  • Case Ethics
  • Normative Ethical Theory
  • Meta-ethics
  • Contractarianism/Contractualism
  • Contractarianism
  • Contractualism
  • Consequentialism
  • Deontology
  • Virtue Theory
  • CHAPTER TWO: The Wrong of Abortion
  • Human Embryos and Fetuses are Complete (though Immature) Human Beings
  • No-Person Arguments: The Dualist Version
  • No-Person Arguments: The Evaluative Version
  • The Argument that Abortion is Justified as Non-intentional Killing
  • CHAPTER THREE: The Moral Permissibility of Abortion
  • Introduction
  • The Moral Status of Embryos and Early Fetuses
  • Abortion and Gestational Assistance
  • Intimacy, Pregnancy, and Motherhood
  • Norms of Responsible Creation
  • CHAPTER FOUR: In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
  • Important Concepts and Distinctions
  • A Fundamental Defense of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia
  • The argument
  • The soundness of the argument
  • Voluntary Passive Euthanasia versus Voluntary Active Euthanasia
  • The argument
  • An evaluation of the second argument
  • Should Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia Be Legal?
  • CHAPTER FIVE: A Case Against Euthanasia
  • Suicide: The Way (Rarely) Taken
  • Three Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia
  • Euthanasia as a Social, not Private, Act
  • Euthanasia and the Law
  • The Dutch Experience
  • Not Pain but Loss of Control
  • Catering to a Small Minority
  • CHAPTER SIX: Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection
  • The Benefits Argument
  • What the Benefits Argument Omits
  • The overestimation of human benefits
  • The underestimation of human harms
  • Comparisons across species
  • Human Vivisection and Human Rights
  • Why the Benefits Argument Begs the Question
  • The Children of Willowbrook
  • The Basis of Human Rights
  • Why Animals Have Rights
  • Challenging Human and Animal Equality: Speciesism
  • Other Objections, Other Replies
  • Conclusion
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Animals and Their Medical Use
  • The Abolitionist Appeal to Animal Rights
  • The "Anything Goes" View on Animals
  • The Value of Lives and Quality of Life
  • Two Senses of Moral Community
  • Conclusion
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: A Defense of Affirmative Action
  • Introduction
  • Affirmative Action as a Remedy for Past Injustices
  • Affirmative Action as a Form of Compensatory Justice
  • Standardized Tests and Race
  • Affirmative Action and Equal Protection
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER NINE: Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic
  • Framing the Issue
  • Disentangling Race and Sex
  • Affirmative Action for Black People: Evaluating the Arguments
  • The compensatory (or backward-looking) argument
  • Corrective argument
  • Forward-looking arguments

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