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WHAT'S RIGHT?
SOCIAL ETHICS CHOICES AND APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 1. WHAT IS ETHICS
INTRODUCTION
ETHICS AND MORALITY
OUGHT, UT, OR GUT?
CHAPTER 2. WHAT ISN'T ETHICS
"ETHICAL EGOISM"
RELATIVISM
ENLIGHTENED SELF INTEREST: GOOD WORKS WITHOUT "ETHICS"?
CHAPTER 3. DO'S AND DON'TS - RULE ETHICS
INTRODUCTION
PROBLEMS WITH RULE ETHICS
MUST RULE ETHICS BE ALL OR NOTHING?
GROW-YOUR-OWN RULES: KANT'S CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
FINAL QUOTE
CHAPTER 4. CONSEQUENCES AND UTILITY
A DIALECTIC?
CONSEQUENTIALISM
CLASSIC "ACT" UTILITARIANISM - BENTHAM
RULE UTILITARIANISM
ECONOMIC UTILITY
SUMMARY
*CHAPTER 5. GRAY AREA ETHICS
PRIORITY: A HIERARCHY OF RULES
WHEN IN DOUBT: PROBABILISM
INTENT: DOUBLE EFFECT
NET BENEFIT: PROPORTIONALITY
LESSER EVIL
THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
UTOPIAN REALISM
*ARE GRAY AREA ETHICS ETHICAL?
CHAPTER 6. ETHICS FROM WITHIN
ANOTHER DIALECTIC
ANTINOMIANISM
INWARD GUIDANCE
LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO 'ROUND
CONTEXTUALISM: SITUATION ETHICS
CHAPTER 7. HUMAN RIGHTS
NATURAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE RIGHTS
OPPORTUNITY RIGHTS
AN EXPANDABLE FRAMEWORK
CHAPTER 8 LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN
WHAT IS JUSTICE
*JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS
*JUSTICE AS EQUALITY
JUSTICE AS EQUITY
PROCEDURAL JUSTICE
LEGAL JUSTICE
LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN
CHAPTER 9. VIRTUE AND VIRTUES
VIRTUE AS AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK
CLASSICAL VIRTUES
SEVEN VIRTUES
AN AMERICAN LIST OF VIRTUES; GETTING DOWN TO BRASS TACKS
OBSERVATIONS
CHAPTER 10. A JUST WAR OR JUST A WAR
AN OXYMORON?
THE EVOLUTION OF JUST WAR
JUST WAR THEORY: JUS AD BELLUM
JUS IN BELLO
JUS POST BELLUM
*PREEMPTIVE JUST WAR?
*IS HOLY WAR A JUST WAR?
"REALISM"
CHAPTER 11. PACIFISM AND HUMANITARIANISM
CHRISTIAN PACIFISM
HUMANIST PACIFISM
AN ATHEIST PACIFIST MAKES HIS CASE
*CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
PRACTICAL PACIFISM
HUMANITARIAN MILITARY INTERVENTION
IS PACIFISM ESSENTIAL?
CHAPTER 12. A LIFE FOR A LIFE
ARGUMENTS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
ARGUMENTS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 13. A GOOD DEATH
WHAT EUTHANASIA IS
WHAT EUTHANASIA IS NOT
THESIS: GOOD DEATH
ANTITHESIS : EUTHANASIA IS WRONG
*PASSIVE EUTHANASIA: A HALFWAY COVENANT?
ACTIVE EUTHANASIA
A SLIPPERY SLOPE?
PALLIATIVE CARE: CONSENSUS?
A SYNTHESIS?
CHAPTER 14. ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
IS ECONOMICS ETHICALLY NEUTRAL?
ETHICS BELONG IN ECONOMICS
FOCUSED AREAS
BUSINESS ETHICS: SHAREHOLDERS AND STAKEHOLDERS
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
CHAPTER 15. ECONOMICS AND JUSTICE
THE COMMON GOOD
LIBERATION THEOLOGY
PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR: A MIDDLE GROUND?
THE BOTTOM LINE?
EPILOGUE. WHAT'S RIGHT WHEN?
A SUPER ETHIC?
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