The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics / Edition 7 available in Paperback
The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics / Edition 7
- ISBN-10:
- 0078038421
- ISBN-13:
- 9780078038426
- Pub. Date:
- 04/13/2012
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Higher Education
- ISBN-10:
- 0078038421
- ISBN-13:
- 9780078038426
- Pub. Date:
- 04/13/2012
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Higher Education
The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics / Edition 7
Buy New
$213.00Buy Used
$61.56-
SHIP THIS ITEM— This item is available online through Marketplace sellers.
-
PICK UP IN STORECheck Availability at Nearby Stores
Available within 2 business hours
This item is available online through Marketplace sellers.
-
SHIP THIS ITEM
Temporarily Out of Stock Online
Please check back later for updated availability.
This item is available online through Marketplace sellers.
Overview
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.
Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following:
• SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content.
• Access to your instructor’s homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course.
• Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement.
• The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping.
Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780078038426 |
---|---|
Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Higher Education |
Publication date: | 04/13/2012 |
Edition description: | List |
Pages: | 816 |
Product dimensions: | 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
Table of Contents
Preface x
Acknowledgments xv
Part 1 The Story as a Tool of Ethics
Chapter 1 Thinking About Values 1
Do We Need a Code of Ethics? 1
Values, Morals, and Ethics 3
Good and Evil 7
Debating Moral Issues from Religion to Neurobiology and Storytelling 14
Martha Nussbaum: Stories, Ethics, and Emotions 24
A Philosophical Example, a Real-Life Event, and Two Fictional Stories about Lying 27
Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge 31
Primary Reading: Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect 33
Narrative: Smoke Signals 36
Narrative: Big Fish 39
Narrative: East of Eden 43
Chapter 2 Learning Moral Lessons from Stories 50
Didactic Stories 50
The New Interest in Stories Across the Professions 51
The Value of Stories Across Time and Space 54
Are Stories Harmful? A New and Ancient Debate 88
Primary Reading: Plato, Republic, Book X 97
Primary Reading: Aristode, Poetics 101
Primary Reading: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose 103
Primary Reading: Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder" 105
Narrative: Medea 107
Narrative: The Sorrows of Young Weather 111
Narrative: The Education of Mingo 112
Narrative: Pulp Fiction 116
Part 2 What Should I Do? Ethics of Conduct
Chapter 3 Ethical Relativism 119
How to Deal with Moral Differences 119
The Lessons of Anthropology 124
Problems with Ethical Relativism 129
Refuting Ethical Relativism 139
James Rachels and Soft Universalism 141
Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism 146
Primary Reading: Ruth Benedict, "Anthropology and the Abnormal" 151
Primary Reading: James Rachels, "Is Ethics Just a Matter of Social Conventions?" 154
Primary Reading: John Steinbeck, "Paradox and Dream" 158
Narrative: The Poisonwood Bible 159
Narrative: Possessing the Secret of Joy 165
Narrative: Avatar 168
Chapter 4 Myself or Others? 171
Psychological Egoism: What About the Heroes? 171
Psychological Egoism: From Glaucon to Hobbes 174
Three Major Problems With Psychological Egoism 183
The Selfish-Gene Theory and Its Critics 188
Ethical Egoism and Ayn Rand's Objectivism 192
Being Selfless: Levinas's Ideal Altruism Versus Singer's Reciprocal Altruism 200
A Natural Fellow-Feeling? Hume and de Waal 204
Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic 210
Primary Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 214
Primary Reading: Ayn Rand, "The Ethics of Emergencies" 215
Primary Reading: Frans De Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved 218
Narrative: Friends episode: "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS" 220
Narrative: Return to Paradise 223
Narrative: Atlas Shrugged 226
Chapter 5 Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism 231
Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus 232
Advantages and Problems of Sheer Numbers: From Animal Welfare to the Question of Torture 241
John Stuart Mill: Higher and Lower Pleasures 247
Mill's Harm Principle 254
Act and Rule Utilitarianism 260
Primary Reading: Jeremy Bentham, "Of the Principle of Utility" 263
Primary Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism 265
Primary Reading: Peter Singer, "A Convenient Truth" 268
Narrative: "The Blacksmith and the Baker" 271
Narrative: The Brothers Karamazov 272
Narrative: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" 274
Narrative: Extreme Measures 275
Narrative: The Invention of Lying 278
Chapter 6 Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology 282
Consequences Don't Count-Having a Good Will Does 282
The Categorical Imperative 285
Rational Beings Are Ends in Themselves 295
Beings Who Are Things 298
The Kingdom of Ends 302
Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals 304
Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals 305
Narrative: High Noon 308
Narrative: 3:10 to Yuma 310
Narrative: Abandon Ship! 314
Narrative: Match Point 316
Chapter 7 Personhood, Rights, and justice 320
What Is a Human Being? 320
The Expansion of the Concept "Human" 321
Personhood: The Key to Rights 321
Science and Moral Responsibility: Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell Research, and Cloning 327
Questions of Rights and Equality 337
Distributive Justice: From Rawls to Affirmative Action 348
Forward- and Backward-Looking Justice and Affirmative Action 352
Criminal Justice: Restorative Versus Retributive Justice 355
Primary Reading: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 363
Primary Reading: Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature 366
Primary Reading: John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness" 368
Primary Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Letter from Birmingham Jail" 371
Primary Reading: John Berteaux, "Defining Racism in the 21st Century" 373
Primary Reading: John Berteaux, "Unseen, Unheard, Unchosen" 375
Narrative: The Island 376
Narrative: Gattaca 380
Narrative: Mississippi Burning 383
Narrative: Hotel Rwanda 386
Part 3 How Should I Be? Virtue Ethics
Chapter 8 Virtue Ethics from Tribal Philosophy to Socrates and Plato 391
What Is Virtue? What Is Character? 391
Non-Western Virtue Ethics: Africa and Indigenous America 392
Virtue Ethics in the West 396
The Good Teacher: Socrates' Legacy, Plato's Works 398
The Good Life 406
The Virtuous Person: The Tripartite Soul 408
Plato's Theory of Forms 412
Plato's Influence on Christianity 417
Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic 418
Primary Reading: Plato, Apology 421
Primary Reading: Ronald Dworkin, What Is a GoodLife? 425
Narrative: A Man for All Seasons 428
Narrative: "The Myth of the Cave" 431
Narrative: The Truman Show 434
Narrative: The Store of the Worlds 437
Chapter 9 Aristotle's Virtue Theory: Everything in Moderation 440
Empirical Knowledge and the Realm of the Senses 440
Aristode the Scientist 441
Aristode's Virtue Theory: Teleology and the Golden Mean 444
Aristode's Influence on Aquinas 459
Some Objections to Greek Virtue Theory 460
Primary Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 463
Primary Reading: Aristode, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 466
Narrative: "The Flight of Icarus" 468
Narrative: Njal's Saga 470
Narrative: Lord Jim 472
Narrative: "A Piece of Advice" 474
Chapter 10 Contemporary Perspectives 477
Ethics and the Morality of Virtue as Political Concepts 477
Have Virtue, and Then Go Ahead: Mayo, Foot, and Sommers 481
The Quest for Authenticity: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas 490
Primary Reading: Søren Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus 519
Primary Reading: Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or 520
Primary Reading: Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism Is a Humanism" 521
Primary Reading: "The Paradox of Morality: An Interview with Emmanuel Levinas" 523
Primary Reading: Dwight Furrow, A Culture of Care 526
Narrative: Groundhog Day 529
Narrative: No Exit 531
Narrative: Good Will Hunting 533
Narrative: The Searchers 537
Chapter 11 Case Studies in Virtue 541
Courage of the Physical and Moral Kind 541
Compassion: From Hume to Huck Finn 549
Gratitude: Asian Tradition and Western Modernity 559
Virtue and Conduct: The Option of Soft Universalism 575
Diversity, Politics, and Common Ground? 578
Primary Reading: John McCain, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life 581
Primary Reading: Philip Hallie, Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm 584
Primary Reading: Jesse Prinz, Js Empathy Necessary for Morality? 585
Primary Reading: Lin Yutang, "On Growing Old Gracefully" 589
Narrative: Courage: Band of Brothers, Third Episode, "Carentan" 590
Narrative: Courage: True Grit 592
Narrative: Compassion: "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" 596
Narrative: Compassion: Schindler's List 598
Narrative: Gratitude: Eat Drink Man Woman 601
Narrative: Gratitude: Pay It Forward 604
Chapter 12 Different Gender, Different Ethics? 608
Feminism and Virtue Theory 608
What Is Gender Equality? 610
Women's Historical Role in the Public Sphere 613
The Rise of Modern Feminism 619
Classical, Difference, and Radical Feminism 625
Primary Reading: Harriet Taylor Mill, "Enfranchisement of Women" 642
Primary Reading: Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex 645
Primary Reading: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice 648
Narrative: A Doll's House 650
Narrative: Maids of Misfortune 655
Narrative: "The Woman Destroyed" 658
Narrative: A Thousand Splendid Suns 661
Chapter 13 Applied Ethics: A Sampler 665
The Question of Abortion and Personhood 665
Euthanasia as a Right to Choose? 668
Media Ethics and Media Bias 671
Business Ethics: The Rules of the Game 681
Just War Theory 688
Animal Welfare and Animal Rights 694
Ethics of the Environment: Think Globally, Act Locally 701
The Death Penalty 707
The Ethics of Self-Improvement: Narrative Identity 716
A Final Word 724
Primary Reading: Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick, "Ethics as a Vehicle for Media Quality" 726
Primary Reading: Amber Levanon Seligson and Laurie Choi, "Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture" 728
Primary Reading: Scott Gottlieb, "How Safe Is Our Food? FDA Could Do Better" 729
Primary Reading: John Rawls, The Law of Peoples 731
Primary Reading: Great Ape Project, "The Declaration on Great Apes" 734
Primary Reading: Lee Hall and Anthony Jon Waters, "From Property to Person: The Case of Evelyn Hart" 735
Primary Reading: Severin Carrell, "Al Gore: Clear Proof That Climate Change Causes Extreme Weather" 737
Primary Reading: Myles Allen, "Al Gore is Doing a Disservice to Science by Overplaying the Link Between Climate Change and Weather" 739
Primary Reading: Tom Sorell, "Two Ideals and the Death Penalty" 741
Primary Reading: Mark Fuhrman, Death and Justice: An Exposé of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine 744
Narrative: Media Ethics/Business Ethics: State of Play 748
Narrative: Business Ethics: The Insider 750
Narrative: Business Ethics/Environmental Ethics: Cold Wind 753
Narrative: The Death Penalty: "The Jigsaw Man" 756
Narrative: The Death Penalty: The Life of David Gale 758
Credits C-1
Bibliography B-1
Glossary G-1
Index I-1