Introduction: A Few Moral Dilemmas Part 1: The Status of Ethics Section one / Morality and Self-Interest SELF-INTEREST AND MORALITY. -- Kurt Baier SELF-INTEREST AND SOCIAL WELFARE. -- Robert G. Olson SELFISHNESS, SELF-LOVE, AND SELF-INTEREST. -- Erich Fromm Section two / Ethical and Cultural Relativism INHUMANITY AS A WAY OF LIFE. -- Maitland Edey ON CULTURAL RELATIVISM. -- Ija Lazari-Pawlowska ETHICAL ABSOLUTISM AND ETHICAL RELATIVISM. -- Walter Stace Section three / Ethics and Religion THE VANITY OF HUMANISM. -- Ronald Sampson GOD AND THE GOOD: DOES MORALITY NEED RELIGION?. -- Kai Nielsen Section four / Utility and Deontology A GOOD WILL. -- Immanuel Kant UTILITARIANISM. -- John Stuart Mill THE RIGHT AND THE GOOD. -- W. D. Ross RULE-UTILITARIANISM. -- John Hospers AGAINST MORAL CONSERVATIVISM. -- Kai Nielsen Section five / The Language of Ethics THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF ETHICS. -- G. E. Moore EMOTIVISM. -- A. J. Ayer YOU OUGHT TO DERIVE "OUGHT" FROM "IS". -- Robert V. Hannaford MASTER AND LAVE MORALITY. -- Friedrich Nietzsche MORALITY AS CLASS INTEREST. -- Frederick Engels MORALITY AND IDEOLOGY. -- Henry David Aiken Part 2: Contemporary Moral Problems Section one / Oppression and Liberation POWERLESSNESS. -- Michael Lerner VISCERAL RACISM. -- Irving Thalberg THE NATURE OF FREEDOM. -- Angela Davis HOMOGENIZING THE AMERICAN WOMAN: THE POWER OF AN UNCONSCIOUS IDEOLOGY. -- Sandra L. Bem, Daryl J. Bem THE OPPRESSION OF CHILDREN.-- Shulamith Firestone ANIMAL LIBERATION. -- Peter Singer Section two / Killing and Murder a. Abortion ABORTION: PARAMETERS FOR DECISION. -- R. J. Gerber ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE. -- Michael Tooley b. Political Violence and Terrorism THE FORCE OF NONVIOLENCE. -- Howard Zinn VIOLENCE AND REVOLUTION. -- Michael Lerner Section three / Work and Play and the Protestant Ethic Report of Special Task Force to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, WORK IN AMERICA ALIENATED LABOR. -- Karl Marx "WORK" AND "PLAY". -- Richard Burke Section four / Sexual Morality RATIONALITY IN SEXUAL MORALITY. -- Albert Ellis MONOGAMY: A CRITIQUE. -- John McMurtry Carl Rogers, COMMUNES AS EXPERIMENTS IN HUMAN AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS Section five / Medical and Psychiatric Ethics PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIMENTING WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS. -- Hans Jonas ON THE BIRTH OF A SEVERELY HANDICAPPED INFANT. -- Warren T. Reich, Harmon Smith PSYCHOSURGERY. -- Vernon L. Mark PRISON PSYCHIATRY: THE CLOCKWORK CURE. -- Bernard Weiner THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS. -- Thomas S. Szas Section six / Business Ethics and Social Responsibility ADVERTISING AS A PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM. -- Jules Henry COMPETITION AND PLANNING. -- Friedrich A. Hayek PROFIT VERSUS SOCIAL UTILITY. -- André Gorz DETERRING CORPORATE CRIME. -- Gilbert Gei Section seven / Just Distribution and the Social Good JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS. -- John Rawls ECONOMIC JUSTICE. -- Joel Feinberg THE ETHICS OF DISTRIBUTION. -- Milton Friedman TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS. -- Karl Marx ON JUSTICE UNDER SOCIALISM. -- Edward, Onora Nell