Modern ethics in 77 arguments : a Stone reader

Catapano, Peter, (editor.). Critchley, Simon, 1960- (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 163149399X
ISBN: 9781631493997
ISBN: 1631492985
ISBN: 9781631492983
Physical Description: xi, 435 pages ; 25 cm
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Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

ON VIOLENCE -- Philosophizing with guns / Simone Gubler -- A crack in the stoic's armor / Nancy Sherman -- Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting -- The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander -- Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May -- ON RACE -- Walking while black in the "white gaze" / George Yancy -- Race, truth and our two realities / Chris Lebron -- Getting past the outrage on race / Gary Gutting -- Philosophy's Western bias / Justin E.H. Smith -- Dear White America / George Yancy -- Of cannibals, kings and culture: the problem of ethnocentricity / Adam Etinson -- What, to the black American, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? / Chris Lebron -- Is real inclusiveness possible? / Justin E.H. Smith -- ON WOMEN -- When prostitution is nobody's business / Laurie Shrage -- On abortion and defining a "person" / Gary Gutting -- Girlfriend, mother, professor? / Carol Hay -- The disappearing women / Rae Langton -- A feminist Kant / Carol Hay -- ON FAMILY -- Think before you breed / Christine Overall -- Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage -- "Mommy wars" redux: a false conflict / Amy Allen -- The end of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage -- My parents' mixed messages on the Holocaust / Jason Stanley -- ON EATING -- The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan -- If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder -- When vegans won't compromise / Bob Fischer and James McWilliams -- The enigma of animal suffering / Rhys Southan -- ON THE FUTURE -- Is humanity getting better? / Leif Wenar -- Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer -- What do we owe the future? / Patricia I. Vieira and Michael Marder -- The importance of the afterlife. Seriously. / Samuel Scheffler -- Accepting the past, facing the future / Todd May.

Summary, etc.:

"Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments explores long-standing ethical and moral issues in light of our most urgent dilemmas. Divided into twelve sections, the book opens with a series of broad arguments on existence, human nature and morality. Indeed, "big" questions of the human condition are explored by some of our best-known and most accomplished living philosophers: What is the meaning of our existence? Should we really "do what we love"? How should we respond to evil? Is pure altruism possible?"--Jacket.