Can Ethics Provide Answers?

James Rachels is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism, The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality, and The Elements of Moral Philosophy.

• Chapter 1 Moral Philosophy as a Subversive ActivityChapter 2 Can Ethics Provide Answers?Chapter 3 John Dewey and the Truth about EthicsChapter 4 Active and Passive EuthanasiaChapter 5 Killing, Letting Die, and the Value of LifeChapter 6 Do Animals Have Rights?Chapter 7 The Moral Argument for VegetarianismChapter 8 God and Moral AutonomyChapter 9 Lying and the Ethics of Absolute RulesChapter 10 Why Privacy Is ImportantChapter 11 Reflections on the Idea of EqualityChapter 12 What People DeserveChapter 13 Coping with PrejudiceChapter 14 Morality, Parents, and ChildrenChapter 15 When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip

...An excellent collection of articles...Rachels is among the very best applied ethicists around...In a prose style that makes the volume both very accessible and enormously readable, Rachels carefully presents and sifts arguments in the best philosophical manner.