Introduction to Ethics 3600:120-013 (Ramos)

Ethical Theory

• Consequentialism
• Deontology
• Rights
• Virtue Theory

Abortion

• A Defense of Abortion
• On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
• An Argument that Abortion is Wrong
• The Moral Permissibility of Abortion
• Virtue Theory and Abortion

Affirmative Action

• The Case against Affirmative Action
• The Rights of Allan Bakke
• Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment”

Animals

• All Animals are Equal
• Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism
• The Case for Animal Rights
• The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
• Why Cohen is Mistaken

Biomedical Technologies

• Artificial Means of Reproduction and Our Understanding of the Family
• Is Women’s Labor a Commodity?
• “Goodbye Dolly?” The Ethics of Human Cloning
• The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans
• Cognitive Enhancement

Economic Justice

• A Theory of Justice
• The Entitlement Theory of Justice
• Displacing the Distributive Paradigm
• Economic Competition: Should We Care about the Losers?

Environment

• The Value of Nature
• A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments
• A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption

Euthanasia

• Rule-Utilitarianism and Euthanasia
• Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths
• Against the Right to Die
• Dying at the Right Time: Reflections on (Un)Assisted Suicide
• A Duty to Care Revisited

Family & Sexuality

• What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?
• Morality, Parents, and Children
• Missing Staircases and the Marriage Debate: Is Same-Sex Marriage Bad for Children?
• What Is Marriage For? Children Need Mothers and Fathers

Free Speech

• Freedom of Thought and Discussion
• “The Price We Pay?” Pornography and Harm
• The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality
• Sticks and Stones
• Speech Codes and Expressive Harm

Paternalism & Risk

• Freedom of Action
• On Improving People by Political Means
• Against the Legalization of Drugs
• Why We Should Decriminalize Drug Use
• The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms
• Gun Control

Punishment

• Punishment and Desert
• Out of Character: On the Psychology of Excuses in the Criminal Law
• Does Punishment Work?
• In Defense of the Death Penalty
• Against the Death Penalty

Sexual & Racial Discrimination

• Racism
• Servility and Self-Respect
• Sexual Harassment
• Date Rape
• Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape

War, Terrorism, & Reconciliation

• Is the War on Terrorism a Defense of Civilization?
• Just War Doctrine and the Military Response to Terrorism
• Nipping Evil in the Bud: The Questionable Ethics of Preventive Force
• The Justifiability of Humanitarian Intervention
• Pacifism: Reclaiming the Moral Presumption
• Political Reconciliation

World Hunger

• Famine, Affluence, and Morality
• Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code
• Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend
• Feeding People versus Saving Nature

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Animals

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Euthanasia

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