Contemporary Moral Issues is an anthology that provides a selection of readings on contemporary social issues revolving around three general themes: Matters of Life and Death, Matters of Equality and Diversity, and Expanding the Circle, which includes duties beyond borders, living together with animals, and environmental ethics. The text contains a number of distinctive, high-profile readings and powerful narratives, including Jonathan Foer's "Eating Animals," Eva Feder Kittay's "On the Ethics of Selective Abortion for Disability," and Susan M. Wolf's "Confronting Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: My Father's Death." Each set of readings is accompanied by an extensive introduction, a bibliographical essay, pre-reading questions, and discussion questions.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: A Pluralistic Approach to Contemporary Moral Issues
An Initial Self-Assessment
General Bibliographical Resources for Ethics
PART I. MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Chapter 1 Choosing Our Children: Genetic Enhancement
Chapter 2 Abortion
Chapter 3 Euthanasia
Chapter 4 Punishment and the Death Penalty
Chapter 5 War, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism
PART II. MATTERS OF DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY
Chapter 6 Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 7 Gender
Chapter 8 Sexual Orientation
PART III. EXPANDING THE CIRCLE
Chapter 9 Living with Scarcity: World Hunger and Poverty
Chapter 10 Living Together With Animals
Chapter 11 Living in the Natural World: Environmental Ethics
Chapter 12 Living in Virtual Space: Cyberethics
About the Author :
Authored by Hinman, Lawrence M.
