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Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman
| Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenAndrew I
WellmanChristopher Heath |
| Collana | Contemporary debates in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico | Applied ethics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-118-47983-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 VersionThe 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 EuthanasiaThe 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 harmsComparisons 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 InjusticesAffirmative 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; Assessing the Arguments; Conclusion; CHAPTER TEN: A Defense of the Death Penalty; In Favor of the Death Penalty; Retribution; Deterrence Objections to the Death Penalty |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453448403321 |
| Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman
| Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenAndrew I
WellmanChristopher Heath |
| Collana | Contemporary debates in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico | Applied ethics |
| ISBN |
1-118-47987-4
1-118-47983-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 VersionThe 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 EuthanasiaThe 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 harmsComparisons 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 InjusticesAffirmative 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; Assessing the Arguments; Conclusion; CHAPTER TEN: A Defense of the Death Penalty; In Favor of the Death Penalty; Retribution; Deterrence Objections to the Death Penalty |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790984403321 |
| Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman
| Contemporary debates in applied ethics / / edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenAndrew I
WellmanChristopher Heath |
| Collana | Contemporary debates in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico | Applied ethics |
| ISBN |
1-118-47987-4
1-118-47983-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 VersionThe 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 EuthanasiaThe 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 harmsComparisons 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 InjusticesAffirmative 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; Assessing the Arguments; Conclusion; CHAPTER TEN: A Defense of the Death Penalty; In Favor of the Death Penalty; Retribution; Deterrence Objections to the Death Penalty |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820390603321 |
| Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||