Taking sides. Clashing views on moral issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Stephen Satris.

By: Satris, Stephen (ed.) [author]
Contributor(s): Satris, Stephen
Series: McGraw-Hill contemporary learning seriesPublisher: Dubuque, Iowa : McGraw-Hill, c2008Edition: Eleventh EditionDescription: xxii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0073397156; 9780073397153Other title: Clashing views on moral issues | Moral issuesSubject(s): Ethics | Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects | Same-sex marriage | Human cloning | Animals -- Cloning | Sale of organs, tissues, etc | Drug legalization | Gambling -- Moral and ethical aspects | Affirmative action programs | Gun control | Capital punishment | Assisted suicide | Vegetarianism -- Moral and ethical aspects | Social ethics | Debates and debatingDDC classification: 170 LOC classification: BJ1012 | .T24 2008Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
Unit 1. Fundamental issues in morality -- Issue 1. Is morality relativism correct? -- Issue 2. Does morality need religion? -- Issue 3. Is Ayn Rand's ethical egoism correct? -- Unit 2. Gender, sex, and reproduction -- Issue 4. Is abortion immoral? -- Issue 5. Must sex involve commitment? -- Issue 6. Should same-sex marriage be allowed? -- Issue 7. Should human cloning be banned? -- Unit 3. Law and society -- Issue 8. Is cloning pets ethically justified? -- Issue 9. Should Congress allow the buying and selling of human organs? -- Issue 10. Should drugs be legalized? -- Issue 11. Is gambling immoral? -- Issue 12. Is affirmative action fair? -- Issue 13. Should handguns be banned? -- Issue 14. Should the death penalty be abolished? -- Issue 15. Is torture ever justified? -- Issue 16. Is physician-assisted suicide wrong? -- Unit 4. Human beings and other species -- Issue 17. Does morality require vegetarianism?
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit 1. Fundamental issues in morality -- Issue 1. Is morality relativism correct? -- Issue 2. Does morality need religion? -- Issue 3. Is Ayn Rand's ethical egoism correct? -- Unit 2. Gender, sex, and reproduction -- Issue 4. Is abortion immoral? -- Issue 5. Must sex involve commitment? -- Issue 6. Should same-sex marriage be allowed? -- Issue 7. Should human cloning be banned? -- Unit 3. Law and society -- Issue 8. Is cloning pets ethically justified? -- Issue 9. Should Congress allow the buying and selling of human organs? -- Issue 10. Should drugs be legalized? -- Issue 11. Is gambling immoral? -- Issue 12. Is affirmative action fair? -- Issue 13. Should handguns be banned? -- Issue 14. Should the death penalty be abolished? -- Issue 15. Is torture ever justified? -- Issue 16. Is physician-assisted suicide wrong? -- Unit 4. Human beings and other species -- Issue 17. Does morality require vegetarianism?

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