| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xi, 256 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 242-251. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION -- The Roots of the Ethical Problem -- Why Ethics Is Important -- The Nature of This Book -- The Plan of the Book -- Story of the Book -- CHAPTER 1: FREEDOM MEANS RESPONSIBILITY -- Freedom Is Physical Freedom -- Freedom Is Doing As One Pleases -- Ideal Freedom, Creative Freedom, Freedom -- Freedom Is Self-Determination -- Determinism -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 2: BEING A PERSON IS A LIFELONG JOB -- Remaining a person is not the problem -- Becoming a person is not the problem -- The Problem is How to Be a Person -- Self-Determination -- Character and "Fundamental Option" -- Giving meaning to life -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- |
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CHAPTER 3: WHAT FULFILLMENT ISN'T -- The problem with pleasure -- Fulfillment isn't looking ahead -- A goal to be achieved after death? -- Questions for review and discussion -- CHAPTER 4: FULFILLMENT IS BEiNG A COMPLETE PERSON -- A Whole Life -- The Question of Commitment -- How Self-Determination Works -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 5: PERSONS COMPLETE ONE ANOTHER -- Others As Objects -- Others As Community -- Individual, Society, and Societies -- Community and Human Purposes -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 6: WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR US -- Cultural Relativism -- Individualistic Subjectivism -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- |
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CHAPTER 7: HUMAN GOODS: REASONS FOR CHOICES -- Purposes -- Eight Categories of Basic Human Goods -- Human Goods: Aspects of Our Personhood -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 8: "OuGHT" POINTS TOWARD FULLNESS OF BEING -- Good and Ought, Bad and Ought Not -- Being and Being More -- What about Morality? -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 9: THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY -- A Matter of Choice -- Two Ways of Choosing -- The First Principle of Morality -- The Meaning of Immorality -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 10: THE ETHICS OF LOVE -- Relatives and Absolutes -- Utilitarianism -- Love Is/Isn't Everything -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- |
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CHAPTER 11: GUIDELINES FOR LOVE -- The Golden Rule -- Patience and Readiness to Forgive -- Sharing and Cooperation -- Readiness to Act -- Fortitude -- Self-control -- Reality vs. Illusion -- In General -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 12: PERSONS, MEANS, AND ENDS -- Respecting Human Goods -- Are There Inalienable Rights? -- Ethical Absolutes and Consequentialist Solutions -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 13: WHEN ACTION IS AMBIGUOUS -- Not Either/Or but Both/And -- Two Kinds of Ambiguity -- Killing the Unborn -- Other Examples -- War -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 14: DUTIES: RESPONSIBILITIES IN COMMUNITY -- Contractual Duty -- Communities and Duties -- Authority -- In Search of Community -- The Moral Limits of Duties -- When Duties Conflict -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- |
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CHAPTER 15: OUR DEVELOPMENT AS PERSONS DEPENDS ON US -- Freedom's Power and Limits -- Moral Ideals -- Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 16: SHAPING THE FUTURE -- What Education Cannot Do -- What Education Can Do -- Rules for Children -- Religious Training -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 17: PROGRESS IN PERSPECTIVE -- Is Progress Possible? -- Progress vs. Freedom -- The Search for Panaceas -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 18: REVOLUTION AND REFORM -- Realistic Limits -- Social Relationships -- Reform of Community -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- CHAPTER 19: THE ROLE OF RELIGION -- Religion: Evasion of Responsibility? -- Religion and Freedom -- Religion and Evil -- Religion and Hope -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- |
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CHAPTER 20: WE MUST DECIDE WHO WE SHALL BE -- Religion and the Religious Quest -- Making Commitments to Organize One's Life -- Making Commitments: Right Ways and Wrong -- Character and Virtue -- Finally -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING AND RESEARCH -- INDEX. |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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| Added Author |
Shaw, Russell B.
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| ISBN |
0268006784 |
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9780268006785 |
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0268006792 paperback |
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9780268006792 paperback |
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