"Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments explores long-standing ethical and moral issues in light of our most urgent dilemmas. Divided into twelve sections, the book opens with a series of broad arguments on existence, human nature and morality. Indeed, "big" questions of the human condition are explored by some of our best-known and most accomplished living philosophers: What is the meaning of our existence? Should we really "do what we love"? How should we respond to evil? Is pure altruism possible?" -- From book jacket.
Item details
ISBN:9781631492983
ISBN:1631492985
Physical Description:print xi, 435 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher:New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note:
ON EXISTENCE -- The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May -- There is no theory of everything / Simon Critchley -- The light at the end of suffering / Peg O'Connor -- Being there: Heidegger on why our presence matters / Lawrence Berger -- Against invulnerability / Todd May -- Why life is absurd / Rivka Weinberg -- A life beyond "do what you love" / Gordon Marino -- ON HUMAN NATURE -- Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson -- Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton -- Is pure altruism possible? / Judith Lichtenberg -- Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton -- How should we respond to "evil"? / Steven Paulikas -- The moral logic of survivor guilt / Nancy Sherman -- How to live without irony / Christy Wampole -- Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander -- ON MORALITY -- The dangers of happiness / Carl Cederström -- Are we ready for a "morality pill"? / Peter Singer and Agata Sagan -- Why our children don't think there are moral facts / Justin P. McBrayer -- Morals without God? / Frans de Waal -- The dangers of certainty: a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley -- Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks -- The maze of moral relativism / Paul Boghossian -- Can moral disputes be resolved? / Alex Rosenberg -- Moral dispute or cultural difference? / Carol Rovane -- ON RELIGION -- Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly -- Does it matter whether God exists? / Gary Gutting -- Good minus God / Louise M. Antony -- Pascal's wager 2.0 / Gary Gutting -- The sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki -- Why God is a moral issue / Michael Ruse -- The rigor of love / Simon Critchley -- God is a question, not an answer / William Irwin -- What's wrong with blasphemy? / Andrew F. March -- ON GOVERNMENT -- Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan -- Is our patriotism moral? / Gary Gutting -- The irrationality of natural life sentences / Jennifer Lackey -- Spinoza's vision of freedom, and ours / Steven Nadler -- If war can have ethics, Wall Street can, too / Nathaniel B. Davis -- The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps -- Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch -- ON CITIZENSHIP -- The morality of migration / Seyla Benhabib -- What do we owe each other? / Aaron James Wendland -- Can refugees have human rights? / Omri Boehm -- Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan -- Is voting out of self-interest wrong? / Gary Gutting
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