| PART I: The Story as a Tool of Ethics |
| Chapter 1: Thinking About Values |
| The Best of Times, the Worst of Times |
| Good and Evil |
| Morals, Ethics, and Values |
| Why Be Moral? |
| Debating Moral Issues |
| Martha Nussbaum, Stories Have Value |
| Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge |
| Narrative: How to Be Good |
| Narrative: Smoke Signals |
| Narrative: Big Fish |
| Chapter 2: Learning Moral Lessons from Stories |
| Didactic Stories |
| The New Interest in Stories |
| The Value of Stories |
| Stories Past and Present |
| Stories to Live and Die By |
| Seeing Your Life as a Story |
| Living in the Narrative Zone |
| Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic |
| Primary Reading: Aristotle, Poetics |
| Primary Reading: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose |
| Primary Reading: Tristine Rainer, Your Life as Story |
| Narrative: Medea |
| Narrative: The Sorrows of Young Werther |
| Narrative: Pulp Fiction |
| PART II: What Should I Do? Theories of Conduct |
| Chapter 3: Ethical Relativism |
| How to Deal with Moral Differences |
| The Lessons of Anthropology |
| Problems with Ethical Relativism |
| Refuting Ethical Relativism |
| Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism |
| Primary Reading: Ruth Benedict, "Anthropology and the Abnormal" |
| Primary Reading: Dwight Furrow, "Of Cave Dwellers and Spirits" |
| Primary Reading: Bhikhu Parekh, "The Concept of Multicultural Education" |
| Narrative: The Poisonwood Bible |
| Narrative: Possessing the Secret of Joy |
| Narrative: Sideshow |
| Narrative: Do the Right Thing |
| Chapter 4: Myself or Others? |
| Psychological Egoism |
| Ethical Egoism |
| Altruism: Ideal and Reciprocal |
| Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic |
| Primary Reading: Erik Katz, "The Rings of Tolkien and Plato" |
| Primary Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan |
| Primary Reading: Ayn Rand, "The Ethics of Emergencies" |
| Narrative: Friends |
| Narrative: Return to Paradise |
| Narrative: Madame Bovary |
| Narrative: Atlas Shrugged |
| Narrative: "The Gift of the Magi" |
| Narrative: The Lord of the Rings |
| Chapter 5: Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism |
| Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus |
| John Stuart Mill: Another Utilitarian Vision |
| Act and Rule Utilitarianism |
| Primary Reading: Jeremy Bentham, "Of the Principle of Utility" |
| Primary Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism |
| Narrative: "The Blacksmith and the Baker" |
| Narrative: The Brothers Karamazov |
| Narrative: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" |
| Narrative: Saving Private Ryan |
| Narrative: Extreme Measures |
| Narrative: Runaway Jury |
| Chapter 6: Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology |
| The Good Will |
| The Categorical Imperative |
| Rational Beings Are Ends in Themselves |
| Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals |
| Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals |
| Narrative: High Noon |
| Narrative: Outland |
| Narrative: Cop Land |
| Narrative: Abandon Ship! |
| Narrative: The Insider |
| Chapter 7: Personhood, Rights, and Justice |
| What Is a Human Being? |
| Persons and Rights |
| Questions of Rights |
| Distributive Justice |
| Criminal Justice |
| Primary Reading: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Rights |
| Primary Reading: John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness" |
| Primary Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Letter from Birmingham Jail" |
| Primary Reading: Diane Whitely, "The Victim and the Justification of Punishment" |
| Narrative: Blade Runner |
| Narrative: Gattaca |
| Narrative: Losing Isaiah |
| Narrative: Outbreak |
| Narrative: Minority Report |
| PART III: How Should I Be? Theories of Virtue |
| Chapter 8: Socrates, Plato, and the Good Life |
| What Is Virtue? |
| The Good Teacher |
| The Good Life |
| The Virtuous Person |
| Plato's Theory of Forms |
| Primary Reading: Plato, Euthyphro |
| Primary Reading: Plato, Apology |
| Narrative: A Man for All Seasons |
| Narrative: "The Myth of the Cave" |
| Narrative: The Truman Show |
| Narrative: "The Store of the Worlds" |
| Narrative: Shrek |
| Chapter 9: Aristotle's Virtue Theory |
| Aristotle the Scientist |
| Aristotle and Virtue |
| Aristotle's Influence on Aquinas |
| Some Objections to Greek Virtue Theory |
| Primary Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II |
| Primary Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III |
| Narrative: "The Flight of Icarus" |
| Narrative: Njal's Saga |
| Narrative: Lord Jim |
| Narrative: "A Piece of Advice" |
| Narrative: As Good as it Gets |
| Chapter 10: Contemporary Perspectives |
| Ethics and the Morality of Virtue |
| Have Virtue, and Then Go Ahead: Mayo, Foot, and Sommers |
| The Quest for Authenticity: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas |
| Primary Reading: Soren Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus |
| Primary Reading: Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or |
| Primary Reading: Emmanuel Levinas, "The Paradox of Morality: An Interview with Emmanuel Levinas" |
| Narrative: Hannah and her Sisters |
| Narrative: No Exit |
| Narrative: A Few Good Men |
| Chapter 11: Case Studies in Virtues |
| Courage: What Is It, and Who Has It? |
| Compassion: Are We Born with It? |
| Gratitude: How Much and When? |
| Virtue and Conduct: A Combination? |
| Primary Reading: John McCain, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life |
| Primary Reading: Philip Hallie, Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm |
| Primary Reading: Lin Yutang, "On Growing Old Gracefully" |
| Narrative: Band of Brothers |
| Narrative: The Life of Tom Horn |
| Narrative: "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" |
| Narrative: "King Yudisthira and the Dog" |
| Narrative: Schindler's List |
| Narrative: Eat Drink Man Woman |
| Narrative: Pay It Forward |
| Narrative: Grand Canyon |
| Chapter 12: Different Gender, Different Ethic? |
| Feminism and Virtue Theory |
| What Is Gender Equality? |
| Women's Historical Role in the Public Sphere |
| First-, Second-, and Third-Wave Feminism |
| Facets of Feminism Today |
| Primary Reading: Harriet Taylor Mill, "Enfranchisement of Women" |
| Primary Reading: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex |
| Primary Reading: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice |
| Primary Reading: Deborah Tannen, Talking from 9 to 5 |
| Narrative: A Doll's House |
| Narrative: Like Water for Chocolate |
| Narrative: "The Woman Destroyed" |
| Narrative: Mona Lisa Smile |
| Chapter 13: Applied Ethics: A Sampler |
| Media Ethics |
| Theory of a Just War |
| Animal Welfare and Animal Rights |
| The Death Penalty |
| Stories and Issues: A Final Word |
| Primary Reading: Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick, "Ethics as a Vehicle for Media Quality" |
| Primary Reading: John Rawls, The Law of Peoples |
| Primary Reading: Jan Narveson, "Morality and Violence: War, Revolution, Terrorism" |
| Primary Reading: David Rodin, "Terrorism Without Intention" |
| Primary Reading: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind |
| Primary Reading: John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Journey into Darkness |
| Primary Reading: Tom Sorell, "Two Ideals and the Death Penalty" |
| Primary Reading: Mark Fuhrman, Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine |
| Narrative: 15 Minutes |
| Narrative: "The Jigsaw Man" |
| Narrative: The Life of David Gale |
| Bibliography |
| Glossary |
2006 McGraw-Hill Higher Education