Applied Ethics

Erscheinungsjahr 1986
ISBN: 978-0-19-875067-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

The essays in this collection cover a range of issues of urgent practical concern in the field of ethics, including nuclear war and world famine, abortion and euthanasia, and the moral status of animals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singer, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Death - Thomas Nagel

- Of Suicide - David Hume

- Active and Passive Euthanasia - James Rachels

- A Defense of Abortion - Judith Jarvis Thomson

- Abortion and Infanticide - Michael Tooley

- The Survival Lottery - John Harris

- Speech in Favour of Capital Punishment (1868) - John Stuart Mill

- Judgement Day - Louis Pascal

- 'It Makes No Difference Whether or Not I Do It' - Jonathan Glover

- Overpopulation and the Quality of Life - Derek Parfit

- What is Wrong With Slavery? - R.M. Hare

- Seperate Spheres - Janet Radcliffe Richards

- All Animals are Equal - Peter Singer

- Games Theory and the Nuclear Arms Race - Nicholas Measor

- Notes of Contributors

- Bibliography

- Index of Names