Instructors Manual and Test Bank to Accompany

Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank to Accompany The Ethical Life, Fifth Edition By Russ Shafer-Landau Prepared by Justin Horn, Ben Schwan, and Emma Prendergast Oxford University Press New York 2020 © 2021 Oxford University Press 1 / 4

Contents Instructor’s Guide Summaries and Essay Questions Preface A Note on the Companion Volume Introduction PART I The Good Life

• John Stuart Mill Hedonism
• Robert Nozick The Experience Machine
• Chris Heathwood Faring Well and Getting What You Want
• Brad Hooker The Elements of Well-Being

5. Susan Wolf Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the Good Life

PART II Normative Ethics: Theories of Right Conduct

• Plato Euthyphro
• Thomas Aquinas Natural Law
• John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism
• Immanuel Kant The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative
• Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
• W. D. Ross What Makes Right Acts Right?
• Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
• Hilde Lindemann What Is Feminist Ethics?

PART III Metaethics: The Status of Morality

• David Hume Moral Distinctions Not Derived from Reason
• J. L. Mackie The Subjectivity of Values
• Gilbert Harman Ethics and Observation
• Mary Midgley Trying out One’s New Sword
• David Enoch Why I Am an Objectivist About Ethics (And Why You Are, Too)
• Sarah McGrath Moral Knowledge

PART IV Moral Problems

• Kwame Anthony Appiah What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For?

POVERTY AND HUNGER

• Peter Singer The Singer Solution to World Poverty
• Onora O’Neill A Kantian Approach to Famine Relief

EUTHANASIA AND A MODEST PROPOSAL

• James Rachels The Morality of Euthanasia
• John Harris The Survival Lottery

IMMIGRATION

• Christopher Heath Wellman Refugees and the Right to Control Immigration
• Michael Huemer Is There a Right to Immigrate?

ANIMALS

• Peter Carruthers Against the Moral Standing of Animals

THE MORAL STATUS OF ANIMALS

28. Alastair Norcross Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases

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THE ENVIRONMENT

• John Broome The Public and Private Morality of Climate Change
• Thomas Hill, Jr. Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments

ABORTION

• Judith Jarvis Thomson A Defense of Abortion
• Don Marquis Why Abortion Is Immoral
• Philippa Foot Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect

THE DEATH PENALTY

• Igor Primoratz Justifying Legal Punishment
• Stephen Nathanson An Eye for an Eye?

GUNS

• Jeff McMahan Why Gun ‘Control’ Is Not Enough
• Michael Huemer Is There a Right to Own a Gun?

THE LEGACY OF RACISM

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham City Jail

39. Daniel Hausman Affirmative Action: Bad Arguments and Some Good Ones

• Elizabeth Anderson The Future of Racial Integration

DRUGS

• Douglas Husak In Favor of Drug Decriminalization
• Peter de Marneffe Against the Legalization of Drugs

Test Bank: Multiple Choice and Essay Questions

Weblinks Suggestions for Further Reading © 2021 Oxford University Press 3 / 4

Instructor’s Guide

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book provides a selection of work that ranges across each of the four major areas of moral philosophy. It starts with a part on value theory and the nature of the good life, proceeds to issues within normative ethics, then presents essays in metaethics, and concludes with a very substantial selection of work on specific moral problems. The Web materials that follow are designed to help students work their way through this sometimes difficult material. There are comprehension and critical thinking questions, introductions to each of the pieces included in the book, essay questions, weblinks, and PowerPoint slides that reconstruct the central theses and arguments for each of the readings in the book.The Ethical Life can serve as a stand-alone survey of moral philosophy, but it also has a companion text, The Fundamentals of Ethics (Oxford University Press), which is an accessible introduction to many of the central issues that arise when thinking about the good life, normative ethics, and the status of morality (metaethics). This website provides a good starting point for further exploration of the readings presented in The Ethical Life. But for those who seek more philosophical background for the views offered in The Ethical Life, the companion text and the materials described in the section of Suggestions for Further Reading would be good resources to rely on.General Features of the Instructor’s Manual

For each part of the anthology, this instructor's manual contains:

A short introduction to the part.Essay questions on the main themes of the part.Suggestions for further reading.Links to relevant websites.

For each entry in the anthology, this instructor’s manual contains:

A summary of the entry, explaining the main arguments of the piece.Essay questions on each entry.

The Test Bank section of this instructor's manual contains:

Broad essay questions for the first three parts of the work.Multiple choice questions for each entry.Essay questions for each entry.Table of Contents 1.Part I materials 2.Part II materials 3.Part III materials 4.Part IV materials © 2021 Oxford University Press

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