Moral Soundings

Dwight Furrow is assistant professor of philosophy at San Diego Mesa College.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 IntroductionPart 3 I Morals and MoneyChapter 4 The Spirit of Capitalism 2000Chapter 5 Interventions: Autonomy, Humility, and Self DirectionChapter 6 Markets and the Social Structure of MoralityChapter 7 Interventions: Autonomy as Self-SufficiencyChapter 8 Two Cheers for CapitalismChapter 9 Interventions: Does Capitalism Subvert or Support Autonomy?Part 10 II The Promise of EqualityChapter 11 Nihilism in Black AmericaChapter 12 Life, Liberty, PropertyChapter 13 Still the Land of Opportunity?Chapter 14 Interventions: Are We Equal in Our Capacity to Make our Own Decisions?Chapter 15 The Moral Demands of Global JusticeChapter 16 Interventions: Is Personal Autonomy Compatible with Justice for All?Part 17 III Where Love Meets Obligation: The Family in TurmoilChapter 18 Philosophical Reflections on the Family at Millennium's BeginningChapter 19 Why Marriage?Chapter 20 Reconcilable Differences: What It Would Take for Marriage and Feminism to Say "I Do."Chapter 21 Interventions: Negotiating Dependence and IndependencePart 22 IV Coping With Hi-Tech CowboysChapter 23 The Age of Genetic Technology ArrivesChapter 24 What's at the Bottom of the Slippery Slope: A Post-Human Future?Chapter 25 Interventions: Can We Control Technology?Part 26 V In God We Trust—or Do We?Chapter 27 Can We Be Good Without Hell?Chapter 28 Everything I Like About Religion I Learned From an AthiestChapter 29 Interventions: Is Obedience to God Compatible With Making My Own Decisions?Part 30 VI Global ConflictChapter 31 The Future of "History": Francis Fukuyama vs. Samuel P. HuntingtonChapter 32 The Clash of IgnoranceChapter 33 Interventions: Hybrid Identities and AutonomyPart 34 VII It's All Good: Life Among the RelativistsChapter 35 Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age?Chapter 36 Of Cave Dwellers and Spirits: The Trouble with Moral AbsolutesChapter 37 Interventions: Autonomy and ObjectivityPart 38 VIII RenewalsChapter 39 Ecological Humanism: A Moral Image for Our Emotive CultureChapter 40 American National PrideChapter 41 Society in the Postmodern EraChapter 42 Interventions: How to Reconcile Moral Freedom and Moral Responsiveness

While the readings in Moral Soundings raise specific issues about capitalism, family life, biotechnology, religion, and global conflict, the editor's introductions and 'interventions' relate the readings to different conceptions of autonomy and different evaluations of those conceptions. This unity-in-diversity format should work very well in the classroom.