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Now in its seventh edition, The Moral of the Story continues to bring understanding to difficult concepts in moral philosophy through storytelling and story analysis. Students will study ethical relativism by examining the film Avatar, explore utilitarianism through The Invention of Lying, and discuss Kant's deontology by examining Woody Allen's Match Point. They will consider virtue ethics by juxtaposing Plato's “Myth of the Cave” with the themes in The Truman Show. Rosenstand's work is lively and relatable, and students will enjoy discussing examples from contemporary film, fiction narratives, and even popular comic strips.
| Preface | p. x |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| The Story as a Tool of Ethics | |
| Thinking About Values | p. 1 |
| Do We Need a Code of Ethics? | p. 1 |
| Values, Morals, and Ethics | p. 3 |
| Good and Evil | p. 7 |
| Debating Moral Issues from Religion to Neurobiology and Storytelling | p. 14 |
| Martha Nussbaum: Stories, Ethics, and Emotions | p. 24 |
| A Philosophical Example, a Real-Life Event, and Two Fictional Stories about Lying | p. 27 |
| Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge | p. 31 |
| Primary Reading: Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect | p. 33 |
| Narrative: Smoke Signals | p. 36 |
| Narrative: Big Fish | p. 39 |
| Narrative: East of Eden | p. 43 |
| Learning Moral Lessons from Stories | p. 50 |
| Didactic Stories | p. 50 |
| The New Interest in Stories Across the Professions | p. 51 |
| The Value of Stories Across Time and Space | p. 54 |
| Are Stories Harmful? A New and Ancient Debate | p. 88 |
| Primary Reading: Plato, Republic, Book X | p. 97 |
| Primary Reading: Aristode, Poetics | p. 101 |
| Primary Reading: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose | p. 103 |
| Primary Reading: Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder" | p. 105 |
| Narrative: Medea | p. 107 |
| Narrative: The Sorrows of Young Weather | p. 111 |
| Narrative: The Education of Mingo | p. 112 |
| Narrative: Pulp Fiction | p. 116 |
| What Should I Do? Ethics of Conduct | |
| Ethical Relativism | p. 119 |
| How to Deal with Moral Differences | p. 119 |
| The Lessons of Anthropology | p. 124 |
| Problems with Ethical Relativism | p. 129 |
| Refuting Ethical Relativism | p. 139 |
| James Rachels and Soft Universalism | p. 141 |
| Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism | p. 146 |
| Primary Reading: Ruth Benedict, "Anthropology and the Abnormal" | p. 151 |
| Primary Reading: James Rachels, "Is Ethics Just a Matter of Social Conventions?" | p. 154 |
| Primary Reading: John Steinbeck, "Paradox and Dream" | p. 158 |
| Narrative: The Poisonwood Bible | p. 159 |
| Narrative: Possessing the Secret of Joy | p. 165 |
| Narrative: Avatar | p. 168 |
| Myself or Others? | p. 171 |
| Psychological Egoism: What About the Heroes? | p. 171 |
| Psychological Egoism: From Glaucon to Hobbes | p. 174 |
| Three Major Problems With Psychological Egoism | p. 183 |
| The Selfish-Gene Theory and Its Critics | p. 188 |
| Ethical Egoism and Ayn Rand's Objectivism | p. 192 |
| Being Selfless: Levinas's Ideal Altruism Versus Singer's Reciprocal Altruism | p. 200 |
| A Natural Fellow-Feeling? Hume and de Waal | p. 204 |
| Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic | p. 210 |
| Primary Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | p. 214 |
| Primary Reading: Ayn Rand, "The Ethics of Emergencies" | p. 215 |
| Primary Reading: Frans De Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved | p. 218 |
| Narrative: Friends episode: "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS" | p. 220 |
| Narrative: Return to Paradise | p. 223 |
| Narrative: Atlas Shrugged | p. 226 |
| Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism | p. 231 |
| Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus | p. 232 |
| Advantages and Problems of Sheer Numbers: From Animal Welfare to the Question of Torture | p. 241 |
| John Stuart Mill: Higher and Lower Pleasures | p. 247 |
| Mill's Harm Principle | p. 254 |
| Act and Rule Utilitarianism | p. 260 |
| Primary Reading: Jeremy Bentham, "Of the Principle of Utility" | p. 263 |
| Primary Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism | p. 265 |
| Primary Reading: Peter Singer, "A Convenient Truth" | p. 268 |
| Narrative: "The Blacksmith and the Baker" | p. 271 |
| Narrative: The Brothers Karamazov | p. 272 |
| Narrative: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | p. 274 |
| Narrative: Extreme Measures | p. 275 |
| Narrative: The Invention of Lying | p. 278 |
| Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology | p. 282 |
| Consequences Don't Count-Having a Good Will Does | p. 282 |
| The Categorical Imperative | p. 285 |
| Rational Beings Are Ends in Themselves | p. 295 |
| Beings Who Are Things | p. 298 |
| The Kingdom of Ends | p. 302 |
| Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals | p. 304 |
| Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals | p. 305 |
| Narrative: High Noon | p. 308 |
| Narrative: 3:10 to Yuma | p. 310 |
| Narrative: Abandon Ship! | p. 314 |
| Narrative: Match Point | p. 316 |
| Personhood, Rights, and justice | p. 320 |
| What Is a Human Being? | p. 320 |
| The Expansion of the Concept "Human" | p. 321 |
| Personhood: The Key to Rights | p. 321 |
| Science and Moral Responsibility: Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell Research, and Cloning | p. 327 |
| Questions of Rights and Equality | p. 337 |
| Distributive Justice: From Rawls to Affirmative Action | p. 348 |
| Forward- and Backward-Looking Justice and Affirmative Action | p. 352 |
| Criminal Justice: Restorative Versus Retributive Justice | p. 355 |
| Primary Reading: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | p. 363 |
| Primary Reading: Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature | p. 366 |
| Primary Reading: John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness" | p. 368 |
| Primary Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Letter from Birmingham Jail" | p. 371 |
| Primary Reading: John Berteaux, "Defining Racism in the 21st Century" | p. 373 |
| Primary Reading: John Berteaux, "Unseen, Unheard, Unchosen" | p. 375 |
| Narrative: The Island | p. 376 |
| Narrative: Gattaca | p. 380 |
| Narrative: Mississippi Burning | p. 383 |
| Narrative: Hotel Rwanda | p. 386 |
| How Should I Be? Virtue Ethics | |
| Virtue Ethics from Tribal Philosophy to Socrates and Plato | p. 391 |
| What Is Virtue? What Is Character? | p. 391 |
| Non-Western Virtue Ethics: Africa and Indigenous America | p. 392 |
| Virtue Ethics in the West | p. 396 |
| The Good Teacher: Socrates' Legacy, Plato's Works | p. 398 |
| The Good Life | p. 406 |
| The Virtuous Person: The Tripartite Soul | p. 408 |
| Plato's Theory of Forms | p. 412 |
| Plato's Influence on Christianity | p. 417 |
| Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic | p. 418 |
| Primary Reading: Plato, Apology | p. 421 |
| Primary Reading: Ronald Dworkin, What Is a GoodLife? | p. 425 |
| Narrative: A Man for All Seasons | p. 428 |
| Narrative: "The Myth of the Cave" | p. 431 |
| Narrative: The Truman Show | p. 434 |
| Narrative: The Store of the Worlds | p. 437 |
| Aristotle's Virtue Theory: Everything in Moderation | p. 440 |
| Empirical Knowledge and the Realm of the Senses | p. 440 |
| Aristode the Scientist | p. 441 |
| Aristode's Virtue Theory: Teleology and the Golden Mean | p. 444 |
| Aristode's Influence on Aquinas | p. 459 |
| Some Objections to Greek Virtue Theory | p. 460 |
| Primary Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II | p. 463 |
| Primary Reading: Aristode, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III | p. 466 |
| Narrative: "The Flight of Icarus" | p. 468 |
| Narrative: Njal's Saga | p. 470 |
| Narrative: Lord Jim | p. 472 |
| Narrative: "A Piece of Advice" | p. 474 |
| Contemporary Perspectives | p. 477 |
| Ethics and the Morality of Virtue as Political Concepts | p. 477 |
| Have Virtue, and Then Go Ahead: Mayo, Foot, and Sommers | p. 481 |
| The Quest for Authenticity: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas | p. 490 |
| Primary Reading: Søren Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus | p. 519 |
| Primary Reading: Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or | p. 520 |
| Primary Reading: Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism Is a Humanism" | p. 521 |
| Primary Reading: "The Paradox of Morality: An Interview with Emmanuel Levinas" | p. 523 |
| Primary Reading: Dwight Furrow, A Culture of Care | p. 526 |
| Narrative: Groundhog Day | p. 529 |
| Narrative: No Exit | p. 531 |
| Narrative: Good Will Hunting | p. 533 |
| Narrative: The Searchers | p. 537 |
| Case Studies in Virtue | p. 541 |
| Courage of the Physical and Moral Kind | p. 541 |
| Compassion: From Hume to Huck Finn | p. 549 |
| Gratitude: Asian Tradition and Western Modernity | p. 559 |
| Virtue and Conduct: The Option of Soft Universalism | p. 575 |
| Diversity, Politics, and Common Ground? | p. 578 |
| Primary Reading: John McCain, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life | p. 581 |
| Primary Reading: Philip Hallie, Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm | p. 584 |
| Primary Reading: Jesse Prinz, Js Empathy Necessary for Morality? | p. 585 |
| Primary Reading: Lin Yutang, "On Growing Old Gracefully" | p. 589 |
| Narrative: Courage: Band of Brothers, Third Episode, "Carentan" | p. 590 |
| Narrative: Courage: True Grit | p. 592 |
| Narrative: Compassion: "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" | p. 596 |
| Narrative: Compassion: Schindler's List | p. 598 |
| Narrative: Gratitude: Eat Drink Man Woman | p. 601 |
| Narrative: Gratitude: Pay It Forward | p. 604 |
| Different Gender, Different Ethics? | p. 608 |
| Feminism and Virtue Theory | p. 608 |
| What Is Gender Equality? | p. 610 |
| Women's Historical Role in the Public Sphere | p. 613 |
| The Rise of Modern Feminism | p. 619 |
| Classical, Difference, and Radical Feminism | p. 625 |
| Primary Reading: Harriet Taylor Mill, "Enfranchisement of Women" | p. 642 |
| Primary Reading: Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex | p. 645 |
| Primary Reading: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice | p. 648 |
| Narrative: A Doll's House | p. 650 |
| Narrative: Maids of Misfortune | p. 655 |
| Narrative: "The Woman Destroyed" | p. 658 |
| Narrative: A Thousand Splendid Suns | p. 661 |
| Applied Ethics: A Sampler | p. 665 |
| The Question of Abortion and Personhood | p. 665 |
| Euthanasia as a Right to Choose? | p. 668 |
| Media Ethics and Media Bias | p. 671 |
| Business Ethics: The Rules of the Game | p. 681 |
| Just War Theory | p. 688 |
| Animal Welfare and Animal Rights | p. 694 |
| Ethics of the Environment: Think Globally, Act Locally | p. 701 |
| The Death Penalty | p. 707 |
| The Ethics of Self-Improvement: Narrative Identity | p. 716 |
| A Final Word | p. 724 |
| Primary Reading: Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick, "Ethics as a Vehicle for Media Quality" | p. 726 |
| Primary Reading: Amber Levanon Seligson and Laurie Choi, "Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture" | p. 728 |
| Primary Reading: Scott Gottlieb, "How Safe Is Our Food? FDA Could Do Better" | p. 729 |
| Primary Reading: John Rawls, The Law of Peoples | p. 731 |
| Primary Reading: Great Ape Project, "The Declaration on Great Apes" | p. 734 |
| Primary Reading: Lee Hall and Anthony Jon Waters, "From Property to Person: The Case of Evelyn Hart" | p. 735 |
| Primary Reading: Severin Carrell, "Al Gore: Clear Proof That Climate Change Causes Extreme Weather" | p. 737 |
| Primary Reading: Myles Allen, "Al Gore is Doing a Disservice to Science by Overplaying the Link Between Climate Change and Weather" | p. 739 |
| Primary Reading: Tom Sorell, "Two Ideals and the Death Penalty" | p. 741 |
| Primary Reading: Mark Fuhrman, Death and Justice: An Exposé of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine | p. 744 |
| Narrative: Media Ethics/Business Ethics: State of Play | p. 748 |
| Narrative: Business Ethics: The Insider | p. 750 |
| Narrative: Business Ethics/Environmental Ethics: Cold Wind | p. 753 |
| Narrative: The Death Penalty: "The Jigsaw Man" | p. 756 |
| Narrative: The Death Penalty: The Life of David Gale | p. 758 |
| Credits | p. C-1 |
| Bibliography | p. B-1 |
| Glossary | p. G-1 |
| Index | p. I-1 |
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ISBN: 9780078038426
ISBN-10: 0078038421
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 816
Published: 5th April 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.11 x 18.54
x 3.05
Weight (kg): 1.152
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