Taking sides. Clashing views on moral issues /
Taking sides. Clashing views on moral issues /
Clashing views on moral issues Moral issues
selected, edited, and with introductions by Stephen Satris
- 13th ed.
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2012
- xx, 331 p. ; 24 cm.
- Contemporary learning series Taking sides .
- McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series Taking sides .
Includes bibliographical references
Unit 1. Fundamental issues in morality. Issue 1. Is moral relativism correct? ; Issue 2. Does morality need religion? -- Unit 2. Gender, sex, and reproduction. Issue 3. Must sex involve commitment? ; Issue 4. Is abortion moral? ; Issue 5. Is it right to prohibit same-sex marriage? ; Issue 6. Should human cloning be banned? -- Unit 3. Law and society. Issue 7. Is cloning pets ethically justified? ; Issue 8. Should Congress allow the buying and selling of human organs? ; Issue 9. Should drugs be legalized? -- Issue 10. Is price gouging wrong? ; Issue 11. Is affirmative action fair? ; Issue 12. Should the death penalty be abolished? ; Issue 13. Is torture ever justified? ; Issue 14. Is physician-assisted suicide wrong? -- Unit 4. Human beings and other species. Issue 15. Does morality require vegetarianism?
9780078050091 007805009X
Ethics
Social ethics
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects
Same-sex marriage
Human cloning
Animals--Cloning
Sale of organs, tissues, etc.
Drug legalization
Affirmative action programs
Capital punishment
Assisted suicide
Vegetarianism--Moral and ethical aspects
Includes bibliographical references
Unit 1. Fundamental issues in morality. Issue 1. Is moral relativism correct? ; Issue 2. Does morality need religion? -- Unit 2. Gender, sex, and reproduction. Issue 3. Must sex involve commitment? ; Issue 4. Is abortion moral? ; Issue 5. Is it right to prohibit same-sex marriage? ; Issue 6. Should human cloning be banned? -- Unit 3. Law and society. Issue 7. Is cloning pets ethically justified? ; Issue 8. Should Congress allow the buying and selling of human organs? ; Issue 9. Should drugs be legalized? -- Issue 10. Is price gouging wrong? ; Issue 11. Is affirmative action fair? ; Issue 12. Should the death penalty be abolished? ; Issue 13. Is torture ever justified? ; Issue 14. Is physician-assisted suicide wrong? -- Unit 4. Human beings and other species. Issue 15. Does morality require vegetarianism?
9780078050091 007805009X
Ethics
Social ethics
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects
Same-sex marriage
Human cloning
Animals--Cloning
Sale of organs, tissues, etc.
Drug legalization
Affirmative action programs
Capital punishment
Assisted suicide
Vegetarianism--Moral and ethical aspects