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 New To The 5th Edition
New readings - over 20 readings are new to this edition.
Now includes coverage of recent court decisions on flag burning and undergraduate and graduate university admissions.
New chapters on Gay Marriage and War treat the issues of sexual orientation and ethics of war.
The Racial Equality chapter has been thoroughly revised and chapters on the environment, offensive speech and behavior, abortion, and capital punishment have been updated.
New section headings for theoretical readings provide students with an informal outline of what they are reading.
 Online Texts
FindLaw: Supreme Court Opinions
Plato, The Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Hobbes, Leviathan
Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Hume, Treatise of Human Nature
Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Mill, On Liberty
Mill, Utilitarianism
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto
 Writing Philosophy
My UT site
Jim Pryor's Princeton site
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill site
Dartmouth College site

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Today's Moral Issues

FOR OVER A DECADE, DANIEL BONEVAC'S TODAY'S MORAL ISSUES HAS SET HIGH STANDARDS FOR STUDENTS IN CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS COURSES.



"I chose Today's Moral Issues because it strikes an excellent balance between grounding students in classical and contemporary philosophy/ethics, offering them a variety of frameworks from which they can analyze the various current issues covered in the text." -Wendy A. Ritch, Raritan Valley Community College

"First, the range of topics is impressive and gives the text a flexibility and adaptability that insures a broad coverage of moral issues. Second, the inclusion of classical readings from major philosophers throughout the history of philosophy, which are conveniently placed at the beginning of each major section, is a crucial dimension of the text." -Joseph Pappin III, University of South Carolina





 Proven Features

Covers all of the "hot button" issues of interest to today's students, such as the environment, abortion, drug legalization, and euthanasia.

The introductions and study questions stress the links between theoretical approaches and contemporary moral problems.

The introduction features a substantive section on identifying arguments and a critical examination of ethical relativism as a case study.

"Theoretical Approaches" at the beginning of each Part includes classic texts and contemporary readings.

 The Editor

Daniel Bonevac is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He has been teaching courses in contemporary moral problems for more than twenty-five years. His book Reduction in the Abstract Sciences (1982) received the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy. The author of five books and editor or co-editor of three others, Professor Bonevac's recent articles include "Against Conditional Obligation" (Noûs, 1998), "Sellars v. the Given" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002), "Reflection Without Equilibrium," Journal of Philosophy (July 2004), "Free Choice Permission Is Strong Permission" (Synthese, 2005, with Nicholas Asher), and "The Conditional Fallacy," (Philosophical Review, forthcoming, with Josh Dever and David Sosa).