Ethical theory: a concise anthology / edited by Heimir Geirsson & Margaret R. Holmgren

Includes bibliographical references

Chapter 1: Ethical relativism
• Selections from Folkways, William Graham Sumner
• Relativism and objectivity in Ethics, William H. Shaw
Chapter 2: Devine command theory
• Euthyphro, Plato
• The story of Abraham, The Bible
Chapter 3: Egoism
• The myth of Gyges, Plato
• Egoism and moral scepticism, James Rachels
Chapter 4: consequentialism
• Selection from Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill
• An outline of a system of Utilitarian ethics, J.J.C. Smart
• The experience machine, Robert Nozick
Chapter 5: Deontology
• Selection from the foundations of the metaphysics of morals, Immanuel Kant
• A simplified version of Kant’s ethics: perplexities of famine and world hunger, Onora O’Neill
• What makes right acts right? , W.D. Ross
Chapter 6: Justice
• Selection from A theory of justice, John Rawls
• The entitlement theory, Robert Nozick
Chapter 7: Virtue ethics
• Selection from Nichomachean ethics, Aristotle
• On some vices of virtue ethics, Robert B. Louden
• Virtue theory and abortion, Rosalind Hursthouse
Chapter 8: Feminist ethics
• Selection from in a different voice, Carol Gilligan
• Women and caring, Nel Noddings
Chapter 9: Theories in Practice
• The message of affirmative action, Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
• Rich and poor, Peter Singer
• Perspectives on World Hunger and the Extent of our positive duties, Robert N. Van Wyk
• Why abortion is immoral, Donald Marquis
• Abortion through a feminist ethics Lens, Susan Sherwin