Contents |
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Preface |
ix |
Part I. PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION |
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Introduction |
2 |
Richard Wasserstrom: Rights, Human Rights, and Racial Discrimination |
7 |
Betty Roszak: Women's Liberation |
25 |
Ann Dummett: Racism and Sexism, A False Analogy |
36 |
George Sher: Justifying Reverse Discrimination in Employment |
48 |
United States Supreme Court: University Of California v. Bakke |
60 |
Petter Singer: Animal Liberation |
83 |
Suggestions for Futher Reading |
101 |
Part II. ABORTION AND FETAL RESEARCH |
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Introduction |
104 |
United States Supreme Court: Roe v. Wade |
109 |
Richard Wasserstrom: The status of the Fetus |
118 |
Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion |
130 |
R. M. Hare: Arbotion and the Golden Rule |
151 |
Maggie Scarf: The Fetus as Guinea Pig |
174 |
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects: Guidelines for Fetal Research |
192 |
Petter Singer: Fetal Research |
197 |
Suggestions for Futher Reading |
203 |
Part III. POVERTY AND HUGER |
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Introduction |
206 |
Joel Feinberg: Justice and Economic Income |
211 |
Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom |
226 |
Bernard Gendron: Capitalism and Poverty |
243 |
Petter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality |
263 |
Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the poor |
279 |
Nick Eberstadt: Myths of the Food Crisis |
292 |
Suggestions for Futher Reading |
312 |
Part IV. PUNISHMENT |
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Introduction |
314 |
R. S. Downie: The Justification of Punishment |
321 |
American Friends Service Committee: Ctritique of Rehabilitation |
332 |
Victor H. Evjen: Against Capital Punishment |
346 |
Jacques Barzun: In Favor of Capital Purnsihment |
353 |
United States Supreme Court: Gregg v. Georgia |
365 |
Suggestions for Futher Reading |
374 |
Part V. WAR |
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Introduction |
376 |
Joseph McKenna: The Just War |
382 |
G. E. M. Anscombe: War and Murder |
393 |
Jan Narveson: Pacifism: A Philosophical Analysis |
408 |
Douglas Lackey: Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence |
426 |
Suggestions for Futher Reading |
442 |
Part VI. DEATH, SUICIDE, AND EUTHANASIA |
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Introduction |
444 |
Thomas Nagel: Death |
449 |
Richard Brandt: The Morality and Rationality of Suicide |
460 |
James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia |
490 |
A. D. Woozley: Euthanasia and The Principle of Harm |
498 |
Suggestions for Futher Reading |
507 |