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Ethics in the Real World : 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter /
The author, a philosopher, applies controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. The author asks whether chimp...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton and Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Big Questions. The Value of a Pale Blue Dot ; Does Anything Matter? ; Is There Moral Progress? ; God and Suffering, Again ; Godless Morality (with Marc Hauser) ; Are We Ready for a "Morality Pill"? (with Agata Sagan) ; The Quality of Mercy Thinking about the Dead ; Should This Be the Last Generation? ; Philosophy on Top
- Animals. Europe's Ethical Eggs ; If Fish Could Scream ; Cultural Bias against Whaling? ; A Case for Veganism ; Consider the Turkey: Thoughts for Thanksgiving ; In Vitro Meat ; Chimpanzees Are People, Too The Cow Who ...
- Beyond the Ethic of the Sanctity of Life. The Real Abortion Tragedy ; Treating (or Not) the Tiniest Babies ; Pulling Back the Curtain on the Mercy Killing of Newborns ; No Diseases for Old Men ; When Doctors Kill ; Choosing Death ; Dying in Court
- Bioethics and Public Health. The Human Genome and the Genetic Supermarket ; The Year of the Clone? ; Kidneys for Sale? ; The Many Crises of Health Care ; Public Health versus Private Freedom? ; Weigh More, Pay More ; Should We Live to 1,000? ; Population and the Pope
- Sex and Gender. Should Adult Sibling Incest Be a Crime? ; Homosexuality Is Not Immoral ; Virtual Vices ; A Private Affair? ; How Much Should Sex Matter? (with Agata Sagan) ; God and Woman in Iran
- Doing Good. The One-Percent Solution.