Ethical Issues for a New Millennium

John Howie, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of Perspectives for Moral Decisions, the editor of Ethical Principles for Social Policy and Ethical Principles and Practice, and the coeditor of Contemporary Society and The Wisdom of William Ernest Hocking.

• John Howie, Introduction Beth J. Singer, ""Human Rights: Some Current Issues"" Nancy Fraser, ""After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment"" Mary Briody Mahowald, ""Gender Equality? Gender, Class, and Ability"" Max Oelschlaeger, ""What Is Environmental Ethics?"" Richard M. Zaner, ""Surprise, You're Just Like Me! Some Reflections on Cloning, Eugenics, and Other Utopias"" Carl Bradley Becker, ""Bang! Bang! You're Dead? Rethinking Brain Death and Organ Transplantation in Japan and China"" John J. McDermott, ""Turning Backward: The Erosion of Moral Sensibility"" Leonard Harris, ""Insurrectionist Ethics: Advocacy, Moral Psychology, and Pragmatism

Wise ethicists require from us an individual accounting for the choices we make lest we erode the moral sensitivity we have struggled to enliven. Still other voices insist upon the human right to rebel against governments or societies that would crush such a right or seek to deny its importance as a key to the self-governance indispensable for the moral character of humankind. - John Howie, from the Introduction