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The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics, 5/e

Nina Rosenstand, San Diego Mesa College

ISBN: 0072963352
Copyright year: 2006

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  • Coverage of current issues has been thoroughly updated to reflect the post 9/11 social and political climate: Chapter 1 now includes more discussion of logical fallacies; utilitarianism (chapter 5) has been applied to the highly controversial issue of wartime torture; updated examples are included throughout, including the discussion of stem cell research (chapter 7); a new section in Chapter 12 discusses women in combat and a section reflecting the debate about same-sex marriage is also included; in light of both the CBS scandal of 2004 and the terrorist beheadings in Iraq a section on media ethics has been expanded in chapter 13; also an expanded section on terrorism and just war, and updates on the death penalty debate.

  • New film summaries and readings have been added throughout, including Big Fish, Lord of the Rings, Runaway Jury, Minority Report, Pay it Forward, Tom Horn, Band of Brothers episode 3, Mona Lisa Smile, and the Life of David Gale, , and the novels the Poisonwood Bible and How to Be Good.

  • New primary readings include an excerpt from Dwight Furrow's critique of ethical relativism and absolution in "Of Cave Dwellers and Spirits: The Trouble with Moral Absolutes"; an excerpt from "The Rings of Tolkien and Plato: Lessons in Power, Choice, and Morality,' by Erik Katz, from the book The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule them All; an excerpt from Senator John McCain's Why Courage Matters; an excerpt from Harriet Taylor Mill's "Enfranchisement of Women"; an excerpt from Ethics as a Vehicle for Media Quality' by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick; and an excerpt from the Ethics July 2004 Symposium on Terrorism, War, and Justice: David Rodlin's "Terrorism Without Intention." In addition, you will find excerpts from Tom Sorell's retentionist paper, "Two Ideals and the Death Penalty," and Mark Fuhrman's abolitionist argument in Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine.

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