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Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Tools for Study
1. What is Ethics?
Andrew Fisher; David Svolba; henryimler; and Mark Dimmock
2. Meta-Ethics, a Primer
Jan Franciszek Jacko
3. Utilitarianism
Andrew Fisher; Mark Dimmock; and henryimler
4. Religious Ethical Systems
Andrew Fisher; Mark Dimmock; henryimler; and Kristin Seemuth Whaley
5. Kantian Ethics
Andrew Fisher and Mark Dimmock
6. Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
7. The Ring of Gyges
Plato
8. Slave and Master Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Letter to Menoeceus
Epicurus
10. Higher and Lower Pleasures
John Stewart Mill
11. Euthyphro
12. Letter from the Birmingham City Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
13. The Categorical Imperative
Immanuel Kant
14. The Suffering of an Innocent Child
Fyodor Dostoevsky
15. The Virtues
Aristotle
16. The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
John Scalzi
17. Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
Gina Crosley-Corcoran
18. Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice
Francis Lee
19. Humanization and Liberation
Paulo Freire
20. Baldwin's Cambridge Debate Speech Opening
James Baldwin
21. Social Contracts of Exploitation
Charles Mills
22. Animal Rights
Eduardo Salazar
23. God, Morality, and Religion
Kristin Seemuth Whaley
24. John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance”
Ben Davies
25. Common Arguments about Abortion
Kristina Grob and Nathan Nobis
26. Better (Philosophical) Arguments about Abortion
27. Environmental Ethics and Climate Change
Jonathan Spelman
28. Utilitarianism: Pros and Cons
B.M. Wooldridge
29. Game Theory, the Nash Equilibrium, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Douglas E. Hill
30. The Natural Law
Thomas Aquinas
31. Crito
32. On Marxism and Value
33. Government in the Future
34. The 1971 Powell Memo
35. Magnificat and Sermon on the Mount
36. Mike Wallace Interviews Ayn Rand (1959)
37. Return of Utopia
These readings are merely for the web version and not included in the book itself.
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