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BJ1031 .C668 2014eb
BJ1031
.
C668
2014eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
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0470798203
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1118479394
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1118479831
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1118479866
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1118479874
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1306373344
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9780470798201
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9781118479391
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9781118479834
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9781118479865
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9781118479872
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9781306373340
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9781118479391
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Contemporary debates in applied ethics /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Second edition.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chichester, England :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Wiley-Blackwell,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014.
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (474 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Contemporary debates in philosophy ;
Volume Designation
15
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Issues of Life and Death; Issues in Justice; Issues of Privacy and the Good; Issues of Cosmospolitanism and Community; Ethical Theory; CHAPTER ONE: Theories of Ethics; Case Ethics; Normative Ethical Theory; Meta-ethics; Contractarianism/Contractualism; Contractarianism; Contractualism; Consequentialism; Deontology; Virtue Theory; CHAPTER TWO: The Wrong of Abortion; Human Embryos and Fetuses are Complete (though Immature) Human Beings; No-Person Arguments: The Dualist Version.
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Affirmative Action as a Remedy for Past InjusticesAffirmative Action as a Form of Compensatory Justice; Standardized Tests and Race; Affirmative Action and Equal Protection; Conclusions; CHAPTER NINE: Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic; Framing the Issue; Disentangling Race and Sex; Affirmative Action for Black People: Evaluating the Arguments; The compensatory (or backward-looking) argument; Corrective argument; Forward-looking arguments; Assessing the Arguments; Conclusion; CHAPTER TEN: A Defense of the Death Penalty; In Favor of the Death Penalty; Retribution; Deterrence.
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No-Person Arguments: The Evaluative VersionThe Argument that Abortion is Justified as Non-intentional Killing; CHAPTER THREE: The Moral Permissibility of Abortion; Introduction; The Moral Status of Embryos and Early Fetuses; Abortion and Gestational Assistance; Intimacy, Pregnancy, and Motherhood; Norms of Responsible Creation; CHAPTER FOUR: In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; Important Concepts and Distinctions; A Fundamental Defense of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia; The argument; The soundness of the argument.
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The underestimation of human harmsComparisons across species; Human Vivisection and Human Rights; Why the Benefits Argument Begs the Question; The Children of Willowbrook; The Basis of Human Rights; Why Animals Have Rights; Challenging Human and Animal Equality: Speciesism; Other Objections, Other Replies; Conclusion; CHAPTER SEVEN: Animals and Their Medical Use; The Abolitionist Appeal to Animal Rights; The "Anything Goes" View on Animals; The Value of Lives and Quality of Life; Two Senses of Moral Community; Conclusion; CHAPTER EIGHT: A Defense of Affirmative Action; Introduction.
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Voluntary Passive Euthanasia versus Voluntary Active EuthanasiaThe argument; An evaluation of the second argument; Should Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia Be Legal?; CHAPTER FIVE: A Case Against Euthanasia; Suicide: The Way (Rarely) Taken; Three Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia; Euthanasia as a Social, not Private, Act; Euthanasia and the Law; The Dutch Experience; Not Pain but Loss of Control; Catering to a Small Minority; CHAPTER SIX: Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection; The Benefits Argument; What the Benefits Argument Omits; The overestimation of human benefits.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns. Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories of ethics by Stephen DarwallLeading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethicsAn ideal semester-leng.
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568585
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Title
Contemporary debates in applied ethics.
International Standard Book Number
9781118479391
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Applied ethics.
Applied ethics.
PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY-- Social.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
PHI-- 005000
PHI-- 034000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
170
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
BJ1031
Book number
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C668
2014eb
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Cohen, Andrew I.
Wellman, Christopher Heath.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822151649.0
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