The Moral Life - Vaughn, Lewis

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Résumé :

• Preface


• Introduction


• Part I: The Nature of Morality: Good and Evil


• 1. What is the Purpose of Morality?


• William Golding, Lord of the Flies: A Moral Allegory


• Louis P. Pojman, On the Nature and Purpose of Morality: Reflections on William Golding's Lord of the Flies


• Thomas Hobbes, On the State of Nature


• 2. Good and Evil


• Herman Melville, Billy Budd


• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Why Is There Evil?


• William Styron, Sophie's Choice


• Philip Hallie, From Cruelty to Goodness


• Philippa Foot, Natural Goodness


• Richard Taylor, On the Origin of Good and Evil


• 3. Is Everything Relative?


• Herodotus, Custom Is King


• Ruth Benedict, The Case for Moral Relativism


• David Enoch, Why I Am an Objectivist about Ethics (And Why You Are, Too)


• James Rachels, Why Morality Is Not Relative


• Jean Bethke Elshtain, Judge Not?


• Mary Midgley, Trying Out One's New Sword


• Henrick Ibsen, The Enemy of the People


• Part II: Moral Theories and Moral Character


• 4. Utilitarianism


• Seaman Holmes and the Longboat of William Brown, Reported by John William Wallace


• Jeremy Bentham, Classical Utilitarianism


• John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism Refined


• Kai Nielsen, A Defense of Utilitarianism


• Bernard Williams, Against Utilitarianism


• Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas


• 5. Deontological Ethics


• Immanuel Kant, The Moral Law


• William K. Frankena, Kant's Theory


• W. D. Ross, Intuitionism


• Ambrose Bierce, A Horseman in the Sky


• Charles Fried, The Evil of Lying


• Plato, Does Morality Depend on Religion?


• James Rachels, The Divine Command Theory


• Thomas Nagel, Moral Luck


• Carl Dennis, New Year's Eve


• 6. Virtue Ethics


• Aristotle, Virtue Ethics


• Alasdair MacIntyre, The Virtues


• Susan Wolf, Moral Saints


• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face


• William K. Frankena, A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethical Systems


• Jesus of Nazareth, The Sermon on the Mount...

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• Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need? Greed


• Epictetus and Others, The Stoic Catechism


• Vice Admiral James Stockdale, The World of Epictetus: Courage and Endurance


• 7. Feminist Ethics and the Ethics of Care


• Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Ethics


• Jan Crosthwaite, Gender and Bioethics


• Annette C. Baier, The Need for More than Justice


• Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care


• Part III Moral Issues


• 8. Ethics and Egoism: Why Should We Be Moral?


• Plato, The Ring of Gyges


• Ayn Rand, In Defense of Ethical Egoism


• Louis P. Pojman, Egoism and Altruism: A Critique of Ayn Rand


• James Rachels, A Critique of Ethical Egoism


• 9. Does Life Have Meaning?


• Voltaire, The Good Brahmin


• Epicurus, Hedonism


• Albert Camus, Life Is Absurd


• Viktor Frankl, The Human Search for Meaning: Reflections on Auschwitz


• * John Messerly, The Ascent of Meaning


• Bertrand Russell, Reflections on Suffering


• Richard Taylor, The Meaning of Life


• Part IV: Applied Ethics: Moral Problems


• 10. Sexism and Misogyny


• Ann E. Cudd and Leslie Jones, Sexism


• Kate Manne with Sean Illing, What We Get Wrong about Misogyny


• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper


• 11. Racism, Equity, and Privilege


• Lawrence Blum, Racism: What It Is and Isn't


• Naomi Zack, Uses and Abuses of the Discourse of White Privilege


• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists


• Shannon Sullivan, Good White Liberals


• 12. Free Speech and Hate Speech


• Sigal Ben-Porath, Free Speech on Campus


• Richard Stengel and Conor Friedersdorf, Two Views of Speech Laws


• Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman, Hate Speech


• 13. Pandemic Ehics


• Michael Sandel with Colleen Walsh, Why Some Americans Refuse to Social Distance and Wear Masks


• Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Et Al., Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of COVID-19


• 14. Food Ethics


• George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant


• Tristram McPherson, How to Argue for (and Against) Ethical Veganism


• Joel Salatin, Animal Welfare


• Alastair Norcross, Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases


• 15. The Ethics of Climate Change


• Robert Heilbroner, What Has Prosperity Ever Done for Me?


• Stephen M. Gardiner, A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change


• John Broome, The Public and Private Morality of Climate Change