Ethics: Reason, Morality and Public Policy

G.M. Brown, Ph. D.

Table of Contents

• Ruth Benedict, The Diversity Thesis
• Edward Westermarck, Custom, Morality and Sympathy
• Louis P. Pojman, An Argument Against Ethical Relativism
• Plato, The Myth of the Ring
• Friedrich Nietzsche, An Argument for Ethical Egoism
• Milton Friedman , The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
• Søren Kierkegaard, Obeying Divine Commands
• St. Thomas Aquinas, The Theory of Natural Law Of the Eternal Law
• John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
• Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative
• Plato, On Obeying the Laws of the State
• Thomas Hobbes, Escaping the State of Nature
• Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
• John Rawls, Two Principles of Justice
• Justice Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade (1973)
• John T. Noonan, An Almost Absolute Value in History
• Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion
• Mary Anne Warren, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
• Chief Justice Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court, Vacco v. Quill (1997)
• The Oregon Death with Dignity Act
• James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia
• Bonnie Steinbock, The Intentional Termination of Life
• Philippa Foot, Killing and Letting Die
• The U.S. Supreme Court, Gregg v. Georgia (1976) Justice Stewart
• Louis P. Pojman, The Death Penalty
• Jeffrey H. Reiman, Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty
• Anthony G. Amsterdam, Capital Punishment
• James P. Sterba, Defending Affirmative Action
• Louis P. Pojman, The Case Against Affirmative Action
• Shelby Steele, I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent?