Developing moral imagination : case studies in practical morality
The issues may change with the passing of the years, but the categories of concern change very little: sexuality and the sexes; medical decision-making; justice for the poor, the powerless, the underclass; reproductive decision-making; moral decision-making in business; and personal moral choices. Stevens attempts to present alternative positions on hotly debated new moral issues from a different standpoint, using an ethical pluralism approach. In doing this, he hopes to help readers arrive at their own non-polarized positions by learning from and respecting all parties in the discussion
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction Pluralism v. Absolutism and Relativism; Sex; 2. Sex: Who Makes the Rules? Natural Law, Social Custom, Personal Choice; 3. Gay Sex: Human Right or Moral Wrong? Dilemma for Gays: Celibacy or Sin?; 4. Play of the Sexes: When Flirting becomes Harassment Workplace Taboos, Embodied Workers, Virtual Rape; Medicine; 5. Infant Organ Donors: Anencephalics as Organ Banks Brain-absent Babies, Surrogate Altruism and the Slippery Slope; 6. Fetal Tissue Transplants and Research: Use or Abuse? Where Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Agree. 7. Assisted Suicide: Whose Life is it? Choosing and Helping a Good DeathJustice; 8. Children's Rights: Are Kids Different? The Caretaker Approach and Children's Liberation; 9. The Elderly Disabled: Who Cares? A Bill of Rights for Adult Daughter Caregivers; 10. The Poor Need Us: or Do we Need them? What Do the Undeserving Poor Deserve?; 11. Racial Justice: Color Blind or Group-Conscious? Diversity Ethics, Equal Treatment, and Assimilation; Gender; 12. Pregnancy in the Hazardous Workplace Gender Equality and the Perpetually Pregnant Woman. 13. Right Wing Women: the Enemy is Us? Can Feminism Afford to Include Women with Conservative Values?14. Abortion's Middle Ground: Sell-Out or Compromise? A Moral Alternative to Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Extremism?; Business; 15. When Does an Economic Plus Become a Human Minus? Marketplace rationality, humanistic rationality, what is your price?; 16. Global Business: Ethical Idealism or Ethical Imperialism? How to Behave When in Rome ..
17. Right Livelihood: Work as Calling or Career? Money and the New Professional Ethics. 18. Product Liability: Caveat Emptor? Caveat Vendor, Due Care, Must Products Be Fail-Safe?Self; 19. Alcoholism: Disease or Moral Choice? ""don't Drink!""
a Cure for Alcoholism; 20. Free Speech: the Right to be Wrong Politically Incorrect, Evil, Indecent, Erroneous, and Hateful Speech; 21. When Does an Ecological Plus Become a Human Minus? Bo-centrist, CEO-centrist, Deep Ecology, and CEO-feminism; 22. Ethical Pluralism: Zero Sum Game or Win Win? Competition, Cooperation, Co-Opetition; Bibliography of Cited Books; Bibliography of Cited Articles
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