Each chapter ends with For Review and Exercises and Notes sections. Preface: PART I. EMBRACING ETHICS 1. Re-Introducing Ethics What Is Ethics? Ethics as a Learning Experience Readings:: Alice Walker, Am I Blue? Ted Kerasote, from Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt 2. Ethics-Avoidance Disorders Flying by Instinct Offhand Self-Justification Dogmatism Relativism Using Your Tools #1: Is Food the New Sex? Readings:: Mary Eberstadt, Is Food the New Sex? Maggie Castor, Food and Sex Reconsidered 3. Ethics and Religion An Approach to Religious Ethics Let the Stories Be Stories Thinking for Yourself Reading: Jamal Rahman, Making Peace with the Sword Verse PART II. MORAL VALUES 4. Taking Values Seriously Varieties of Values Families of Moral Values Attending to Values Reading: Rayna Rapp, XYLO Using Your Tools #2: Values on the Edge Reading: Edward Abbey, The Great American Desert 5. The Ethics of the Person Valuing Persons Reading: Philip Hallie, Le Chambon Kant's Categorical Imperative Reading: Immanuel Kant, from Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Rights, Equality, Justice Reading: from The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 6. The Ethics of Happiness Happiness Reading: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Utilitarianism Readings:: John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism Bertrand Russell, from The Harm That Good Men Do Can Utility Be the Single Measure of Value? Using Your Tools #3: A Utilitarian Approach to Poverty 7. The Ethics of Virtue An Abundance of Virtues A Greek View of Virtue Reading: Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics Chinese Views of Virtue Reading: Lao Tsu, from the Tao Te Ching Cultivating Virtue Reading: John Sullivan, from Living Large 8. The Ethics of Relationship Care Ethics Reading: Nel Noddings, from Caring Ethics and Community Reading: Kwasi Wiredu, from The Moral Foundations of an African Culture The Expanding Circle Reading: Aldo Leopold, from The Land Ethic Using Your Tools #4: Building a Student Code of Ethics PART III. SKILLS FOR ETHICAL PRACTICE 9. Critical Thinking Facts and Sources Inferences Definitions Quick Reference: Critical-Thinking Basics: 10. Judging Like Cases Alike Consistency Is a Challenge How to Restore Consistency Invented Cases Reading: Colin McGinn, Speciesism Quick Reference: Judging Like Cases Alike: Using Your Tools #5: Exploring the Welfare Question 11. Dialogue How to Have a Fruitless Debate How to Have a Useful Discussion Readings:: Mary Jacksteit and Adrienne Kaufmann, The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice, Common Ground Rules Spoma Jovanovic, Deepening Ethical Dialogue Quick Reference: Ethical Dialogue: 12. When Values Clash Right Versus Right Integrating Values Big Decisions Reading: Roger Gottlieb, Can We Talk? Understanding the 'Other Side' in the Animal Rights Debates Quick Reference: When Values Clash: Using Your Tools #6: Can We Talk . . . About Marriage? by Martin Fowler 13. Creative Problem Solving The Need for Inventiveness in Ethics Creative Explorations Creative Provocations Quick Reference: Creative Problem Solving in Ethics: 14. Reframing Problems Opening Up a Problem Reading: Fran Peavey, Strategic Questioning Three Methods Reframing the Abortion Debate Quick Reference: Ways to Reframe Problems: Using Your Tools #7: Reframing Bioethical Issues: Or, Where Ethics Meets Politics 15. Moral Vision Working from a Vision Environmental Visions Reading: Bill Thomas, from What Are Old People For? Quick Reference: Working from a Vision: PART IV. CHALLENGES 16. Response-ability Self-Possession Sexual Choices Readings:: Keith Clark, from Being Sexual . . . and Celibate Carol Queen, from Real Live Nude Girl Eating Using Your Tools #8: Personal Ethical Mission Statements by Nim Batchelor 17. Making a Difference The Power of One Reading: Ian Frazier, from On the Rez Becoming a Change-Maker Communities Making Change Joining a Change-Making Community 18. The Future of Ethics Three Doubts About Ethics Ethics Is Inescapable Turning Critical Reading: William McDonough, Design for a New World Using Your Tools #9: Ethical Change Projects Appendix 1: The Toolbox in the Classroom Appendix 2: Experiential Teaching in Ethics by Sharon Hartline Index: