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Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, Second Edition, is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring forty readings divided into four parts - Value Theory, Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Problems - it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range of moral issues. The essays include selections from such historically influential philosophers as Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill alongside work by contemporary philosophers like Philippa Foot, Robert Nozick, Peter Singer, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Detailed section and reading introductions provide helpful contextual information.

The second edition adds nine new readings, by Plato, Ayn Rand, A.J. Ayer, Harry Gensler, Alan Dershowitz, Alastair Norcross, Paul Taylor, Thomas Hill, Jr., and Philippa Foot. It also features new subcategories in Part IV. Moral Problems: Euthanasia and a Modest Proposal; Terrorism and Torture; The Treatment of Non-Humans (Animals and the Environment); Abortion; The Limits of the Law; and Children and Parents. Designed as a companion reader to Russ Shafer-Landau's textbook, The Fundamentals of Ethics, Second Edition, The Ethical Life, Second Edition, is also comprehensive enough to be used on its own.

Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Preface
A Note on the Companion Volume
Help for Students and Instructors
Introduction
Part One. Value Theory: The Nature of The Good Life
1. Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus
2. John Stuart Mill: Hedonism
3. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
4. Robert Nozick: The Experience Machine
5. Richard Taylor: The Meaning of Life
6. Jean Kazez: Necessities
Part Two. Normative Ethics: Theories of Right Conduct
7. Plato: * Euthyphro
8. Philippa Foot: Natural Goodness
9. Ayn Rand: * The Ethics of Emergencies
10. J.J.C. Smart: Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism
11. Immanuel Kant: The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative
12. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
13. W.D. Ross: What Makes Right Acts Right?
14. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
15. Hilde Lindemann: What Is Feminist Ethics?
Part Three. Metaethics: The Status of Morality
16. David Hume: Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason
17. A.J. Ayer: * Critique of Ethics
18. J.L. Mackie: The Subjectivity of Values
19. Harry Gensler: * Cultural Relativism
20. Michael Smith: Realism
21. Renford Bambrough: Proof (new version)
Part Four. Moral Problems
22. Peter Singer: The Singer Solution to World Poverty
23. John Corvino: Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality
24. Jonathan Bennett: The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
Euthanasia and a Modest Proposal:
25. James Rachels: The Morality of Euthanasia
26. John Harris: The Survival Lottery
Terrorism and Torture:
27. Michael Walzer: Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses
28. Alan Dershowitz: * Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist be Tortured?
The Treatment of Non-Humans: Animals and the Environment:
29. Alastair Norcross: * Puppies, Pigs and People
30. Paul Taylor: * The Ethics of Respect for the Environment
31. Thomas Hill Jr.: * Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments
Abortion:
32. Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion
33. Don Marquis: Why Abortion Is Immoral
34. Philippa Foot: * Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect
The Limits of the Law:
35. Igor Primoratz: Justifying Legal Punishment
36. Stephen Nathanson: An Eye for an Eye?
37. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham City Jail
38. Michael Huemer: America's Unjust Drug War
Children and Parents:
39. Hugh LaFollette: Licensing Parents
40. Jane English: What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?
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