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• CH. 1 THE PUBLIC PERSPECTIVE: AN INTRODUCTION / CH.2 PUBLIC REASON AND AGREEMENT / CH.3 THE ETHICS OF BELIEF AND THE LIBERAL TRADITION / CH.4 HAVING REASONS AND GIVING REASONS / CH.5 FACING DISAGREEMENT / CH.6 EQUAL FREEDOM / CH. 7 LIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM /
• 8. CONCLUSIONS / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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Public debates in our societies are marked by appeals to tradition, religion and even manipulative uses of `post-truth'. This book argues that the antidote to such tendencies can only be public reasoning. We can find the resources to build what I call the public perspective if we make two commitments: to respect people as free autonomous agents and to endorse a shared ethics of beliefs. An ethics of belief is a set of epistemic and moral rules that inform the beliefs that we bring to the public forum and make possible discussion and confrontation on a terrain that is adequately public. The epistemological aspects cannot be severed from the political commitments that motivate public justification in the first place. An ethics of belief shields us against two temptations: on the one hand, to abandon reason and claim that all sorts of beliefs and opinion should weigh into public reasoning; or, on the other, to appeal to objective reasons only, independently of whether people recognise them as such or not.
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• Editor's introduction / Author's introduction / Part I: Interrelational Subjects and Social Sublimation /
• 1. The Gestation of the Other in Phenomenology /
• 2. The Look of Love and Ecological Subjectivity /
• 3. Social Melancholy, Shame and Sublimation / Part II: Responsible Subjects and Witnessing /
• 4. Witnessing Subjectivity and Testimony /
• 5. Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics /
• 6. Between Ethics and Politics / Part III: Response Ethics and the Non-humans /
• 7. Animal Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Responsiveness /
• 8. Service Dogs: Between Animal Studies and Disability Studies /
• 9. Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation / Part IV: Witnessing in the Age of Spectacle /
• 10. Death as a Penalty and Instant Death /
• 11. Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment /
• 12. The Spectacle of War / Interview with Kelly Oliver / Bibliography / Index.
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What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless? In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a "response ethics" as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver's response ethics is grounded in an innovative understanding of subjectivity. Insofar as one's subjectivity is informed by the social, and our sense of self is constituted by our ability to respond to our environment, reconceptualizing subjectivity transforms our ethical responsibility to others. Oliver's engagement in various debates in applied ethics, ranging from our ecological commitments to the death penalty, from sexual assaults on campus to reproductive technology, shows the relevance of response ethics in contemporary society. In the age of pervasive war, assaults, murder, and prejudice, Response Ethics offers timely contributions to the field of ethics.
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• Preface. General Introduction. I. THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH. Introduction. Alternative Views. John Hospers: The Libertarian Manifesto. James P. Sterba: From Liberty to Welfare. Kai Nielson: Radical Egalitarianism. John Rawls: Justice as Fairness: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. James P. Sterba: Rawls and a Morally Defensible Conception of Justice. Practical Applications. Supreme Court of the United States: Wyman, Commissioner of New York Department of Social Services v. James. Supreme Court of the United States: Plyler v. Doe. II. NEAR AND DISTANT PEOPLES. Introduction. Alternative Views. Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor. Peter Singer: The Solution to World Poverty. Lawrence Blum: Impartiality, Beneficence, and Friendship. James Rachels: Morality, Parents, and Children. Practical Application. Michael Marin: The Food Aid Racket. Mary B. Anderson: Some Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid. III. ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA. Introduction. Alternative Views. Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion. Don Marquis: Why Abortion is Immoral. Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion. Sally Markowitz: A Feminist Defense of Abortion. James Rachels: Euthanasia, Killing, and Letting Die. Bonnie Steinbock: The Intentional Termination of Life. Practical Applications. Supreme Court of the United States: Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon and Judith Jarvis Thomson: The Brief of the Amici Curiae. Supreme Court of the United States: Washington et al. v. Glucksberg et al. IV. GENETIC ENGINEERING. Introduction. Michael Tooley: Moral Status of Cloning Humans. Leon Kass: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans. Cass Sunstein:The Constitution and the Clone. Practical Applications. Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. V. SEX EQUALITY. Introduction. Alternative Views. Susan Okin: Justice and Gender. James P. Sterba: Feminist Justice and the Family. Christina Sommers: Philosophers against the Family. Marilyn Friedman: They Lived Happily Ever After: Sommers on Women and Marriage. David Benatar: The Second Sexism. James P. Sterba:The Wolf Again in Sheep's Clothing. Practical Applications. National Organization for Women (NOW): Bill of Rights. The Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action. VI. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Introduction. Alternative Views. James P. Sterba: Defending Affirmative Action, Defending Preferences. Terry Pell: Race Preference and Formal Equality Preferences. James P. Sterba: What Really is Pell's Ideal of Formal Equality? Preferences. Terry Pell: What is the Big Deal about Racial Preferences? Practical Application. U.S. Supreme Court: Bollinger v. Grutter and Gratz. VII. SEXUAL HARASSMENT. Introduction. Alternative Views. Barbara A. Gutek: Understanding Sexual Harassment at Work. Ellen Frankel Paul: Exaggerating the Extent of Sexual Harassment. Nancy ("Ann") Davis: Sexual Harassment in the University. James P. Sterba: Understanding, Explaining and Eliminating Sexual Harassment. Practical Application. Supreme Court of the United States: Harris v. Forklift Systems Inc. VIII. PORNOGRAPHY. Introduction. Alternative Views. Catharine MacKinnon: Pornography, Civil Rights and Speech. Wendy Kaminer: Feminists Against the First Amendment. Practical Applications. United States District Court and Court of Appeals: American Booksellers v. Hudnutt. Supreme Court of Canada: Donald Victor Butler v. Her Majesty the Queen. IX. HATE SPEECH. Introduction. Alternative Views. Gerald Gunther: No Speech Code. Alan Dershowitz: Speech Codes and Diversity. Charles Lawrence III: Regulating Racial Speech on Campus. Katharine Bartlett and Jean O'Barb: The Chilly Climate on College Campuses: An Expansion of the 'Hate Speech' Debate. Practical Applications. Superior Court of California: Curry v. Stanford. ACLU: Policy Statement: Free Speech and Bias on College Campuses. X. GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS. Introduction. Alternative Views. John Finnis: Homosexual Conduct is Wrong. Martha Nussbaum: Homosexual Conduct is not Wrong. Richard Mohr: Prejudice and Homosexuality. Carl Horowitz: Homosexuality's Legal Revolution. Practical Applications. Supreme Court of Vermont: Baker v. Vermont. XI. ANIMAL LIBERATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS. Introduction. Alternative Views. Peter Singer: All Animals Are Equal. Michael Pollan: The Unnatural Idea of Animal Rights. Paul W. Taylor: The Ethics of Respect for Nature. James P. Sterba: Morality as a Compromise Between Anthropocentricism and Nonanthropocentrism. Karen Warren: The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism. Practical Applications. Congress of the United States: From the Animal Welfare Act. Congress of the United States: Amendments to the Animal Welfare Act. Supreme Court of the United States: Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill. XII. PUNISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY. Introduction. Alternative Views. Karl Menninger: The Crime of Punishment. Richard B. Brandt: A Utilitarian Theory of Punishment. C. S. Lewis: A Critique of the Humanitarian Theory of Punishment. Edmund L. Pincoffs: Classical Retributivism. Practical Applications. Ernest van den Haag: Deterrence and Uncertainty. Jeffrrey H. Reiman: Civilization, Safety and Deterrence. Supreme Court of the United States: Gregg v. Georgia. XIII. WAR AND TERRORISM. Introduction. Alternative Views. James P. Sterba: Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists. Stephen Nathanson: Can Terrorism be Morally Justified? James P. Sterba: Terrorism and International Justice. Burton Leiser: Why War with Iraq is Morally Justified. James P. Sterba: Why War with Iraq is not Morally Justified. Practical Application. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.
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The most timely anthology available, MORALITY IN PRACTICE covers a number of critical contemporary issues, including war and terrorism, cloning, and the environment. Providing broad coverage of topics and opinions, Sterba draws from current journalism as well as philosophy to present opposing viewpoints on each issue. Each chapter covers a different area of moral concern with readings that provide alternative views as well as practical applications. Introductions to each section provide background for each issue as well as discussion of the ethical theory behind the readings.
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• Ulrich Beck on contemporary transformations in culture and society-- Zygmunt Bauman on consumerism, identity and insecurity-- Adam Phillips on what it means to be alive-- Suzanne Franks on rethinking work-- Michael Kenny and Nick Stevenson on change and masculinity-- Roshi Naidoo on identity and roots-- Madeline Bunting on virtue and religion-- Rachel Thomson on ethics-- Ray Pahl on friendship-- and Wendy Wheeler on being alone.
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We are living at a time of great change - largely brought about because of the influence of the market over every part of our lives. This collection of essays addresses the question of how to live ethically in the face of this collapsing of wider frameworks of reference.
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In this volume of Leys Lectures, the third collection of Wayne Leys Memorial Lectures, six distinguished essayists demonstrate the relevance of ethics to contemporary concerns by constructively exploring major ethical issues deeply embedded in our society.The essays, written by noted scholars Tom Regan, Carol C. Gould, James Rachels, James P. Sterba, Louis P. Pojman, and David L. Norton, focus on issues of feminism, the exploitation of animals, economic injustice, racial prejudice, naive moral relativism, and the failure of public education.Tom Regan and Louis P. Pojman both address the issue of animal rights. Regan directs his attention to an ethic-of-care feminism, which contends that the ideology of male superioritynot only to women but to all creaturesmust be destroyed. By means of a "consistency argument, " he extends ethic-of-care feminism to the treatment of animals, insisting that we must not permit to be done to animals "in the name of science" what we would not allow to be done to human beings. Pojman, on the other hand, addresses the question of animal rights through a critical analysis of seven theories of the moral status of animals, arguing that while animals have no natural "rights" since they are unable to enter into contracts, they do deserve to be treated kindly. In his view, much animal research could be abandoned without significant loss.What rethinking of democracy in terms of freedom and equality is required by economic justice? Carol C. Gould offers an answer to this question by arguing that economic justice requires that workers control the production process as well as the distribution process. Such justice would provide the basis of "positive freedom" as self-development without ignoring the importance of the absence of constraints.Taking racial prejudice as his paradigm, James Rachels explores the deeper meaning of prejudice and what equality of treatment involves. Noting the subtlety of prejudicial reasoning, he examines how stereotypes, unconscious bias, and the human tendency toward rationalization make it difficult even for people of good will to prevent prejudice from influencing their actions.James P. Sterba invites the reader to consider a different and more general problem of how to persuade people to act for moral reasons. To accomplish this aim he shows morality to be a requirement of rationality and "the welfare liberal ideal" (the right to welfare and the right to equal opportunity) to be a fusion of the practical ends of five idealsliberty, fairness, common good, androgyny, and equality.For David L. Norton, one of our most pressing problems is the failure of our educational system. The system fails to enable students to make wise "life-shaping" choices involving vocation, marriage, children, and friendship. In order to make good choices, human beings must live and work in an environment that provides experiences that authenticate "personal truths" indispensable to worthy living. These personal truths include direct acquaintance with vocational alternatives and participation in actual service to others.Collectively, these essays bring into sharp focus the urgent moral issues confronting our society and the need for ongoing discussion and examination of these issues in order to gain deeper understanding of and possible solutions to the problems they present.".
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• I. FREEDOM.
• 1. Privacy. Hyman Gross, The Right to Privacy. Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Right to Privacy.
• 2. Moral Enforcement. Patrick Devlin, Morals and the Criminal Law. H.L.A. Hart, Social Solidarity and the Enforcement of Morality.
• 3. Paternalism. Gerald Dworkin, Paternalism. Tom L. Beauchamp, A Critique of Paternalism.
• 4. Rights of the Free Press. Thomas Scanlon, A Theory of Freedom of Expression. Ronald Dworkin, Is the Press Losing the First Amendment? II. JUSTICE.
• 5. Social Justice. John Rawls, A Contractarian Theory of Justice. Robert Nozick, A Libertarian Theory of Justice.
• 6. Racial and Sexual Discrimination. William T. Blackstone, Reverse Discrimination and Compensatory Justice. Tom L. Beauchamp, The Justification of Reverse Discrimination in Hiring.
• 7. World Hunger and the Right to Food. Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality. Onora O'Neill, Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems.
• 8. Punishment and The Death Penalty. Ernest van den Haag, On Deterrence and the Death Penalty. Hugo Adam Bedau, Deterrence and the Death Penalty: A Reconsideration. III. RESPECT FOR LIFE.
• 9. Abortion. Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion. Baruch Brody, The Morality of Abortion. H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Viability and the Use of the Fetus.
• 10. Euthanasia. James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia. Tom L. Beauchamp, A Reply to Rachels on Active and Passive Euthanasia. Richard B. Brandt, Defective Newborns and the Morality of Termination.
• 11. Research with Human Subjects. Alan Donagan, Informed Consent in Therapy and Experimentation. H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Proxy Consent. Carl Wellman, Consent to Medical Research on Children.
• 12. Animal Rights and Animal Research. Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal. R.G. Frey, The Case Against Animals.
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This book offers a well-balanced introduction to a broad range of ethical issues. Policy issues are used as a pivotal point for applying ethical theory to current moral problems.
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