Moral issues / edited by Jan Narveson.
| Other author | Narveson, Jan, 1936- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983. |
| Description | xii, 448 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Euthanasia / Philippa Foot -- Suicide and gambling with life / Jonathan Glover -- Suicide and false desires / Robert M. Martin -- In defense of war / William Earle -- In defense of peace / Jan Narveson -- Some paradoxes of deterrence / Gregory S. Kavka -- Missiles and morals: a utilitarian look at nuclear deterrence / Dougas P. Lackey -- Capital punishment and social defense / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Rights and capital punishment / Thomas Hurka -- The death sentence / Sidney Hook -- Capital punishment -- cruel and unusual?: a retributivist response / Robert S. Gerstein -- The justice of restitution / Randy E. Barnett -- Killing and starving to death / James Rachels -- Living on a lifeboat / Garrett Hardin -- Lifeboat earth / Onora O'Neill -- A third way / Wayne Sumner -- In defense of abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- A question about potentiality / Joel Feinberg -- Abortion and the death of the fetus / Steven L. Ross -- The avoidable moral dilemma / James M. Humber -- What is a woman? / Simone de Beauvoir -- Is adultery immoral? / Richard Wasserstrom -- Sex and personal intimacy / John Hunter -- Erotic love: a final appraisal / Russell Vannoy -- Is racial discrimination arbitrary? / Peter Singer -- Freedom and women / William T. Blackstone -- Male chauvinism: a conceptual analysis / Marilyn Frye -- What is sexual equality and why does tey want it? / W.E. Cooper -- Gay rights / Richard D. Mohr -- An exchange on preferential treatment / Robert L. Simon & Sara Ann Ketchum -- Equality of opportunity / Alistair M. MacLeod -- Justice: a funeral oration / Wallace Matson -- Equality / Robert Nozick -- Reverse discrimination as unjustified / Lisa H. Newton -- A defense of programs of preferential treatment / Richard Wasserstrom -- What should we do about future people? / Trudy Govier -- Future generations / Derek Parfit. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-448). |
| Genre/form | Aufsatzsammlung. |
| LCCN | 83213890 |
| ISBN | 0195404262 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780195404265 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0830981527 |
| ISBN | 9780830981526 |