introductory readings in ethics Sommers, Christina Hoff. Fogelin, Robert J. text bibliography cau San Diego Harcourt Brace Jovanovich c1985 1985 monographic eng

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xv, 653 pages ; 22 cm. Good and Evil -- From Cruelty to Goodness -- The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn -- Who Saw Murder Didn't Call Police -- Compassion -- The Moral Insight -- The Tragedy of King Lear -- Theories of Moral Conduct -- The Judeo-Christian Tradition -- The Ten Commandments / Psalms 1, 15, and 23 / The Sermon on the Mount / The Parable of the Good Samaritan / Utilitarianism -- Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative -- Egoism and Moral Skeptic -- A Defense of Moral Relativism -- Ethical Relativism: A Critique -- Trying Out One's New Sword -- Virtue -- The Moral Virtues -- Of Models of the Catholic Church -- The Virtues in Heroic Societies -- Virtue or Duty? -- Virtues and Vices -- Gratitude -- Prudence and Courage -- Generosity -- Vice -- The The Depths of Vice -- Desire and Sin -- The Hypocrites -- Upon Self-deceit -- Jealousy, Envy, and Spite -- Revenge -- The Evil of Lying -- Without Virtue -- Freedom and Responsibility -- Leopold and Loed: The Crime of Compulsion -- The Delusion of Free Will -- A Defense of Compatibilism -- Free Will and the Self -- Existentialism and Freedom -- Self-Respect -- Dignity and Self-respect -- Ethical Pull -- On Self-respect -- On the Obsolescence of the Concept of Honor -- The New Narcissism -- Character and Culture -- Morality and the Family -- On Growing Old Gracefully -- What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents? -- Traditional Jewish Family Values -- Obedience and Illusions -- Lying to Children -- Divorce -- Humanae Vitae -- A Reply to Pope Paul's Humanae Vitae -- Tradition and the Generations -- Morality and Society -- Abortion: A Personal Dilemma -- Abortion and the Conscience of Nation -- A Defense of Abortion -- Famine, Affluence, and Morality -- Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against helping the Poor -- A Moral Defense of Vegetarianism -- Where Have All the Goods Deeds Gone? -- The Importance of Private Ethics -- Minimalist Ethics: On the Pacification of Morality [compiled by] Christina Hoff Sommers ; under the general editorship of Robert J. Fogelin. Includes bibliographies. Ethics Social ethics BJ 1012 .V45 1985 170 0155948903 (pbk.) 84081366 DLC 840612 20230810130017.0 3316709