The moral of the story : an introduction to ethics / Nina Rosenstand.

Author/creator Rosenstand, Nina
Format Book
Edition5th ed.
Publication InfoBoston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, ©2006.
Descriptionxvi, 726 pages : illustrations (map) ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Ethics--Textbooks.

Contents Pt. 1. The story as a tool of ethics. Thinking about values (The best of times, the worst of times? -- Good and evil -- Morals, ethics, and values -- Why be moral? -- Debating moral issues -- Martha Nussbaum : stories have value -- Love's knowledge / Martha Nussbaum -- How to be good -- Smoke Signals -- Big Fish) -- Learning moral lessons from stories (Didactic stories -- The new interest in stories -- The value of stories -- Stories past and present -- Stories to live and die by -- Seeing your life as a story -- Living in the narrative zone -- Republic / Plato -- Poetics / Aristotle -- The name of the rose / Umberto Eco -- Your life as a story / Tristine Rainer -- Medea -- The sorrows of Young Werther -- Pulp Fiction).
Contents Pt. 2. What should I do? theories of conduct. Ethical relativism (How to deal with moral differences -- The lessons of anthropology -- Problems with ethical relativism -- Refuting ethical relativism -- Ethical relativism and multiculturalism -- "Anthropology and the abnormal" / Ruth Benedict -- "Of cave dwellers and spirits" / Dwight Furrow -- "The concept of multicultural education" / Bhikhu Parekh -- The Poisonwood Bible -- Possessing the secret of joy -- Sideshow -- Do the right thing) -- Myself or others? (Psychological egoism -- Ethical egoism -- Altruism : ideal and reciprocal -- Republic / Plato -- "The rings of Tolkien and Plato" / Erik Katz -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- "The ethics of emergencies" / Ayn Rand -- Friends -- Return to Paradise -- Madame Bovary -- Atlas Shrugged -- "The gift of the magi" -- The Lord of the Rings) -- Using your reason, pt. 1. : utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham and the hedonistic calculus -- John Stewart Mill : another utilitarian version -- Act and rule utilitarianism -- "Of the principle of utility" / Jeremy Bentham -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- "The blacksmith and the baker" -- The Brothers Karamazov -- "The ones who walk away from Omelas" -- Saving Private Ryan -- Extreme Measures -- Runaway Jury) -- Using your reason, pt. 2. : Kant's deontology (The good will -- The categorical imperative -- Rational beings are ends in themselves -- Grounding for the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- The metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- High Noon -- Outland -- Cop Land -- Abandon Ship! -- The insider) -- Personhood, rights, and justice (What is a human being? -- Persons and rights -- Questions of rights -- Distributive justice -- Criminal justice -- The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- "Justice as fairness" / John Rawls -- "A letter from Birmingham Jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "The victim and the justification of punishment" / Diane Whiteley -- Blade Runner -- Gattaca -- Mississippi Burning -- Outbreak -- Minority Report).
Contents Pt. 3. How should I be? theories of virtue. Socrates, Plato, and the good life (What is virtue? -- The good teacher -- The good life -- The virtuous person -- Plato's theory of forms -- Euthyphro / Plato -- Apology / Plato -- A Man for All Seasons -- "The myth of the cave" -- The Truman Show -- "The store of the worlds" -- Shrek) -- Aristotle's virtue theory (Aristotle the scientist -- Aristotle and virtue -- Aristotle's influence on Aquinas -- Some objections to Greek virtue theory -- Nicomachaen ethics book 2 / Aristotle -- Nicomachean ethics book 3 / Aristotle -- "The flight of Icarus" -- Njal's Saga -- Lord Jim -- "A piece of advice" -- As Good as it Gets) -- Contemporary perspectives (Ethics and the morality of virtue -- Have virtue, and then go ahead : Mayo, Food, and Sommers -- The quest for authenticity : Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas -- Johannes Climacus / Søren Kierkegaard -- Either/or / Søren Kierkegaard -- "The paradox of mortality : an interview with Emmanuel Levinas" / Emmanuel Levinas -- Hannah and her Sisters -- No Exit -- A Few Good Men) -- Case studies in virtue (Courage : what is it? and who has it? -- Compassion : are we born with it? -- Gratitude : how much and when? -- Virtue and conduct : a combination? -- Why courage matters : the way to a braver life / John McCain -- Tales of good and evil, help and harm / Philip Hallie -- "On growing old gracefully" / Lin Yutang -- Band of Brothers -- The Life of Tom Horn -- "The parable of the good Samaritan" -- "King Yudisthira and the dog" -- Schindler's List -- Eat Drink Man Woman -- Pay it Forward -- Grand Canyon) -- Different gender, different ethics? (Feminism and virtue theory -- What is gender equality -- Women's historical role in the public sphere -- First-, second-, and third-wave feminism -- Facets of feminism today -- "Enfranchisement of women" / Harriet Taylor Mill -- The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- In a different voice / Carol Gilligan -- Talking from 9 to 5 / Deborah Tannen -- A Doll's House -- Like Water for Chocolate -- "The woman destroyed" -- Mona Lisa Smile) -- Applied ethics : a sampler (Media ethics -- Theory of a just war -- Animal welfare and animal rights -- The death penalty -- Stories and issues : a final world -- "Ethics as a vehicle for media quality" / Andrew Belsey -- The law of peoples / John Rawls -- "Morality and violence : war, revolution, terrorism" / Jan Narveson -- "Terrorism without intention" / David Rodin -- Kanzi : the ape at the brink of the human mind / Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin -- An eye for an eye? the morality of punishing by death / Stephen Nathanson -- Journey into darkness / John Douglas and Mark Olshaker -- "Two ideals and the death penalty" / Tom Sorell -- Death and justice : an expoa of Oklahoma's death row machine -- 15 Minutes -- "The jigsaw man" -- The Life of David Gale).
Abstract "Through storytelling and story analysis, using examples from fiction and film, Rosenstand clearly shows how ethical theories are applied to real life. This edition encapsulates and reflects on the present social and political climate by expanding the concept of courage and the timely issues of terrorism and just war."-- From book jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 693-699) and index.
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LCCN 2005040885
ISBN0072963352 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780072963359 (alk. paper)

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