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- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy
- 2 Some Basic Points about Arguments
- IS MORALITY OBJECTIVE?
- 3 The Subjectivity of Values
- 4 Our Sense of Right and Wrong
- THEORETICAL ESSAYS
- 5 Utilitarianism
- 6 Utilitarianism and Integrity
- 7 The Experience Machine
- 8 The Categorical Imperative
- 9 The Virtues
- 10 Master Morality and Slave Morality
- WOMEN
- 11 Caring Relations and Principles of Justice
- 12 Homeward Bound
- SEX, DATE RAPE, AND HAZING
- 13 Our Sexual Ethics
- 14 Alcohol and Rape
- 15 A Death at Penn State
- ILLICIT DRUGS
- 16 America’s Unjust Drug War
- 17 The Opioid Crisis, as Lived in West Virginia
- 18 Is Doping Wrong?
- POVERTY
- 19 Famine, Affluence, and Morality
- 20 Poverty and Parenthood
- RACE
- 21 The Case for Reparations
- 22 Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary?
- 23 In Defense of Quotas
- GUNS, IMMIGRATION, AND TAXES
- 24 Why Guns Shouldn’t Be Outlawed
- 25 The Case for Open Immigration
- 26 Is Taxation Theft?
- ANIMALS
- 27 All Animals Are Equal
- 28 Torturing Puppies and Eating Meat: It’s All in Good Taste
- 29 Do Animals Have Rights?
- ABORTION
- 30 On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion and Postscript on Infanticide
- 31 Why Abortion Is Immoral
- 32 A Defense of Abortion
- BIOETHICS: EUTHANASIA, HEALTHCARE, AND CLONING
- 33 The Morality of Euthanasia
- 34 The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia
- 35 Letting Go: What Should Medicine Do When It Can’t Save Your Life?
- 36 Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation
- THE DEATH PENALTY
- 37 A Defense of the Death Penalty
- 38 Why the United States Will Join the Rest of the World in Abandoning Capital Punishment
- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND TORTURE
- 39 Hellhole
- 40 Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb
- WAR AND TERRORISM
- 41 Fifty Years after Hiroshima
- 42 What Is Wrong with Terrorism?
- THE MEANING OF LIFE
- 43 The Meaning of Life
- About the Authors




