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Table of Contents

Introduction
Value theory : the nature of the good life
Epicurus letter to Menoeceus
John Stuart Mill, Hedonism
Aldous Huxley, Brave new world
Robert Nozick, The experience machine
Richard Taylor, The meaning of life
Jean Kazez, Necessities
Normative ethics : theories of right conduct
J.J.C. Smart, Eextreme and restricted utilitarianism
Immanuel Kant the good will & the categorical imperative
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Philippa Foot, Natural goodness
Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics
W.D. Ross, What makes right acts right?
Hilde Lindemann, What is feminist ethics?
Metaethics : the status of morality
David Hume, Moral distinctions not derived from reason
J.L. Mackie, The subjectivity of values
Gilbert Harman, Ethics and observation
Mary Midgley, Trying out one's new sword
Michael Smith, Rrealism
Renford Bambrough, Pproof
Moral problems
Peter Singe, The Singer solution to world poverty
Heidi Malm, Paid surrogacy: arguments and responses
Ronald Dworkin, Playing God : genes, clones, and luck
James Rachels, The morality of euthanasia
John Harris, The survival lottery
Peter Singer, Unsanctifying human life
William F. Baxter, People or penguins : the case for optimal pollution
Judith Jarvis, Tthomson a defense of abortion
Don Marquis, Why abortion is immoral
Jonathan Bennett, The conscience of Huckleberry Finn
Michael Walzer, Terrorism : a critique of excuses
David Luban, Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Igor Primoratz, Justifying legal punishment
Stephen Nathanson, An eye for an eye
Michael Huemer, America's unjust drug war
John Corvino, Why shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy have sex? : a defense of homosexuality
Bonnie Steinbock, Adultery
Hugh Lafollette, Licensing parents
Jane English, What do grown children owe their parents?

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
170
Library of Congress
BJ1012 .S428 2010, BJ1012.S428 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL23230087M
Internet Archive
ethicallifefunda0000unse_a2e8
ISBN 13
9780195377699
LCCN
2009019515
OCLC/WorldCat
326682299

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OL15109931W

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