Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life Introductory Readings in Ethics
by Hoff Sommers, Christina; Sommers, FredEdition: 8th
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Pub. Date: 2009-02-19
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Explore classical and contemporary topics of character, personal integrity and social morality with a book college students have loved for years-Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life. Throughout every topic and each different point of view, Christina Hoff Sommers and Fred Sommers maintain a strong sense of the importance of avoiding cruelty and practicing kindness in a well-lived life.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Good and Evil | p. 1 |
| From Cruelty to Goodness | p. 4 |
| The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn | p. 15 |
| The Evil That Men Think-And Do | p. 25 |
| Facing the Extreme: The War of All Against All | p. 33 |
| Strategies for Survival | p. 39 |
| The Perils of Obedience | p. 46 |
| The Moral Insight | p. 56 |
| Billy Budd | p. 59 |
| Beyond Good and Evil | p. 67 |
| Is It All Relative? | p. 76 |
| Morality As Custom | p. 78 |
| A Defense of Moral Relativism | p. 79 |
| A Defense of Cultural Relativism | p. 85 |
| Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights | p. 90 |
| Uganda's Women: Children, Drudgery, and Pain | p. 94 |
| An Alternative to Moral Relativism | p. 98 |
| Who's to Judge? | p. 103 |
| The Objective Basis of Morality | p. 113 |
| The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule | p. 117 |
| I Have a Dream | p. 121 |
| The United Nations Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | p. 124 |
| Morality and Self-Interest | p. 130 |
| The Ring of Gyges | p. 132 |
| Of the State of Men without Civil Society | p. 135 |
| Of Self-Love | p. 141 |
| The Unselfishness Trap | p. 146 |
| Egoism and Moral Skepticism | p. 151 |
| The Virtue of Selfishness | p. 160 |
| Egoism, Self-Interest, and Altruism | p. 163 |
| Why Not Be a Bad Person? | p. 167 |
| Why Act Morally? | p. 176 |
| Moral Doctrines and Moral Theories | p. 182 |
| The Judeo-Christian Tradition | p. 184 |
| Morality Is Based on God's Commands | p. 196 |
| Why Morality Does Not Depend on Religion | p. 200 |
| Of Benevolence | p. 207 |
| Utilitarianism | p. 211 |
| A Critique of Utilitarianism | p. 216 |
| The Experience Machine | p. 222 |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | p. 225 |
| Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative | p. 230 |
| The Holocaust and Moral Philosophy | p. 239 |
| A Critique of Kantianism | p. 244 |
| Virtue | p. 250 |
| Happiness and the Virtues | p. 252 |
| Virtue and the Human Soul | p. 264 |
| The Art of Living | p. 267 |
| The World of Epictetus | p. 271 |
| Virtue or Duty? | p. 282 |
| Tradition and the Virtues | p. 286 |
| The Ethics of Virtue | p. 295 |
| Of Justice and Beneficence | p. 309 |
| The Origin of the Moral Sense | p. 316 |
| The Parable of the Sadhu | p. 320 |
| Vice | p. 329 |
| Vice | p. 331 |
| The Depths of Vice | p. 333 |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | p. 337 |
| The Hypocrites | p. 339 |
| Self-Deception | p. 343 |
| Upon Self-Deceit | p. 346 |
| Jealousy, Envy, and Spite | p. 351 |
| How Much Land Does a Man Need? A Parable on Greed | p. 357 |
| Morality and Social Policy | p. 368 |
| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | p. 370 |
| World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case against Singer | p. 377 |
| "For Heaven's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!" | p. 383 |
| An Almost Absolute Value in History | p. 386 |
| On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | p. 392 |
| A Defense of Abortion | p. 400 |
| Why Abortion Is Immoral | p. 414 |
| On Duties to Animals | p. 419 |
| A Moral Defense of Vegetarianism | p. 421 |
| Down on the Factory Farm | p. 427 |
| An Animal's Place | p. 435 |
| Case Against Animal Rights | p. 447 |
| The Case for Affirmative Action | p. 452 |
| What Is Wrong with Affirmative Action? | p. 461 |
| The Meaning of Life | p. 468 |
| Substance, Shadow, and Spirit | p. 470 |
| The Bhagavad Gita | p. 472 |
| My Confession | p. 481 |
| A Free Man's Worship | p. 489 |
| The Myth of Sisyphus | p. 495 |
| The Meaning of Life | p. 499 |
| Existentialism Is Humanism | p. 502 |
| Absurd Self-Fulfillment | p. 509 |
| The Human Search for Meaning | p. 512 |
| The Book of Job | p. 518 |
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