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• Links personal values to a philosophical treatment of the principal ethical theories
• Presents ethics in the context of social/political issues that face our nation and the world.
• Challenges the student to react to the presented material through critical exercises that may be used as weekly assignments and can form the basis of class discussion and evaluation.
• Engages the student to think about underlying issues first (in the basic questions) before presenting the most popular solutions (in the basic answers).
• Invites the student to make-up their own mind on how to formulate an ethical theory that will help her in her own life.
• A fourteen chapter format to fit into most semester calendars
• An overall structure that establishes foundational problems in ethical theory in the first section of the book that are variously addressed by the different ethical theories in the second section of the book
• Key terms are highlighted to assist the reader in grappling with issues raised (and reviewed in a glossary)
•  A final chapter designed to help students comprehend the book in its entirety. 

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• Expanded coverage of normative theories to include non-cognitivism and contractarianism
• A preview of each chapter
• Thought experiments and examples that help the student better engage with the text
• An integrative exercise at the end of each chapter to test proficiency in comprehension and application of the material in that chapter
• A final chapter that is designed to help the student pull together much of the book

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE BASIC QUESTIONS     

Chapter One: Living in a World of Values              

1.1 Who We Are and What We Value            

1.2 What is Ethics?                                                      

1.3 The Individual: Metaethics, Normative Ethics,         

and Applied Ethics                                                                   

1.4 The Society: Social and Political Ethics                               

A Thought Experiment on Individual and Social Ethics

Key Terms–5-10 terms

Notes

Chapter Two: Personal Worldview and Community Worldview                                                                             

2.1 The Normative Nature of Worldview

2.2  Personal worldview

2.3  Community worldview

Key Terms

An Exercise on worldview

Notes

Chapter Three: Relativism                                                  

3.2 Moral Relativism                                                                

3.3  What’s at Stake?                                                               

Key Terms                                                                             

A Thought Experiment: Finding out what you Believe    

Notes                                                                                      

4.1 Psychological Egoism                                                         

4.2 Ethical Egoism                                                                   

4.3 Egoism and Altruism                                                          

Key Terms                                                                              

A Thought Experiment: Finding out what you Believe.               

Notes                                                                                      

5.1   Humans are Bad

5.2   Humans are Good

5.3  What Difference Does it Make?

Key Terms

A Thought Experiment: Finding out what you Believe.

Notes

6.1 The Origin of the Problem                                      

6.2 Absolute Good                                                                  

6.3 Divine Command Theory                                                   

6.4 Ethics with and without Religion                                         

Key Terms

A Thought Experiment: Finding out what you Believe.   

Notes                                                                                      

7.1  Gender: Are Men and Women Different?               

7.2  Care and Justice                                                                

7.3  Race: What is Race and Why is it an Issue?            

7.4  Opportunity and Desert                                                     

Key Terms                                                                              

A Thought Experiment: Finding out what you Believe.   

Notes  

PART TWO: TRADITIONAL Moral Theories: THE BASIC ANSWERS

Chapter Eight: It’s All Your Intuition: Ethical Intuitionism 

8.1 Snapshot

8.2 The Problem this Theory Addresses

8.3 The Argument for the Theory

8.4 The Argument Against the Theory

A Challenging Case Study

Key Terms

Notes

Chapter Nine: It’s All in Your Attitude: Ethical Non-Cognitivism

9.1 Snapshot                                                                                       

9.2    The Problem this Theory Addresses

9.3    The Argument for the Theory

9.4    The Argument Against the Theory

A Challenging Case Study

Key Terms

Notes

Chapter Ten: It’s About What You Agree: Ethical Contractarianism               

10.1 Snapshot                                                                         

10.2 The Problem these Theories Address                               

10.3 The Argument for each theory                                          

10.4 The Argument Against the Theory

A Challenging Case Study

Key Terms

Notes

Chapter Eleven: It’s All in Your Character: Virtue Ethics

11.1 Snapshot                                                                         

11.2 The Problem this Theory Addresses                                 

11.3 The Argument for the Theory                                           

11.4 The Argument Against the Theory                        

A Challenging Case Study                                                        

Key Terms                                                                              

Notes

Chapter Twelve: It’s About the Team: Utilitarianism

12.1 Snapshot                                                                         

12.2 The Problem this Theory Addresses                                 

12.3 The Argument for the Theory                                           

12.4 The Argument Against the Theory            

A Challenging Case Study                                            

Key Terms                                                                  

Chapter Thirteen: It’s About Doing Your Duty                                              

13.1 Snapshot                                                             

13.2 The Problem this Theory Addresses                     

13.3 The Argument for the Theory                               

13.4 The Argument Against the Theory            

A Challenging Case Study                                            

Key Terms                                                                  

Notes                                                                                                                                                              

PART THREE: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

Chapter Fourteen: Formulating Your Own Answer    

14.1    Personal Expression                                            

14.2    Social/Political ethics                                           

Two Exercises                                                             

Glossary                                              

Index                                                   

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