导读 英语思辨，攻错他山 朱绩崧 v
Preface xv
Topic Guide xvii
Introduction xix
Issue 1. Is Moral Relativism Correct? 1
YES: Torbjon Tansjo?, from “Moral Relativism,” Philosophical Studies (2007)
NO: Louis P. Pojman, from “The Case Against Moral Relativism,” in The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Issue 2. Must Sex Involve Commitment? 37
YES: Steven E. Rhoads, from “Hookup Culture: The High Costs of a Low ‘Price’ for Sex,” Society (December 2012)
NO: Raja Halwani, from “Casual Sex,” in Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 2005)
Issue 3. Is It Morally Right to Prohibit Same-Sex Marriage? 65
YES: Helen M. Alvaré, from “Brief of Amicus Curiae Helen M. Alvaré in Support of Hollingsworth and Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group” in Hollingsworth v. Perry, U.S. v. Windsor, Supreme Court of the United States (January 2013)
NO: David Boonin, from “Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument from Public Disagreement,” Journal of Social Philosophy (Summer 1999)
Issue 4. Should Human Cloning Be Banned? 109
YES: Michael J. Sandel, from “The Ethical Implications of Human Cloning,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Spring 2005)
NO: John A. Robertson, from “Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation,” The New England Journal of Medicine ( July 9, 1998)
Issue 5. Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished? 134
YES: Michael Welch, from “The Machinery of Death: Capital Punishment and the Ironies of Social Control,” in Punishment in America: Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment (Sage, 1999)
NO: Ernest van den Haag, from “The Death Penalty Once More,” U.C. Davis Law Review (Summer 1985)
Issue 6. Is Torture Ever Justified? 177
YES: Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, from “Not Enough Official Torture in the World? The Circumstances in Which Torture Is Morally Justifiable,” University of San Francisco Law Review (Spring 2005)
NO: Christopher Kutz, from “Torture, Necessity, and Existential Politics,” California Law Review (February 2007)
Issue 7. Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Wrong? 216
YES: Richard Doerflinger, from “Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life?” The Hastings Center Report ( January/February 1989)
NO: Anthony Back, Robert Baker, et al., from “Appellate Brief of Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondents in Vacco v. Quill,” WL 709337, Supreme Court of the United States (1996)
Issue 8. Does Morality Require Vegetarianism? 257
YES: Nathan Nobis, from “Vegetarianism and Virtue: Does Consequentialism Demand Too Little?” Social Theory & Practice (January 2002)
NO: Beth K. Haile, from “Virtuous Meat Consumption: A Virtue Ethics Defense of an Omnivorous Way of Life,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (Winter 2013)
Issue 9. Is It Right to Produce Genetically Modified Food? 292
YES: Ronald Bailey, from “Dr. Strangelunch—Or: Why We Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Genetically Modified Food,” Reason (January 2001)
NO: Michael W. Fox, from Killer Foods: When Scientists Manipulate Genes, Better Is Not Always Best (Lyons Press, 2004)
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