Practice of Ethics

Hugh LaFollette is Marie and Leslie E. Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He is author of Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (Blackwell, 1995), co-author of Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (1996), and editor of several other volumes, including The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (Blackwell, 1999) and Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (third edition, Blackwell, 2007).

• Acknowledgements. Introduction.Part I: Learning to Theorize:.1. The Ethical Impulse.2. A Tale of Two Theories.3. Using and Sharpening the Theoretical Tools.4. Relativism.Part II: The Moral Status of Groups:.5. Racism.6. Affirmative Action.Part III: Life and Death:.7. Religion and Morality.8. Death, Dying, and Physician-assisted Suicide.9. Slippery Slope Arguments.Part IV: Autonomy, Responsibility, and Risk:.10. Autonomy, Children, and Paternalism.11. Punishment.12. Gun Control.Part V: Living Morally:.13. Everyday Morality.14. Character, Virtue Ethics, and Pragmatism.15. Animals.Part VI: The Demands of Morality:.16. World Hunger.17. Is Morality Demanding?.18. Egoism: Psychological and Moral.Part VII: Thinking Ahead:.19. Moral Speculations.Index