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Long Table of Contents

Chapter One   Moral Arguments and Morality

1. Moral Discussions

2. Thinking about Morality

3. The Burden of Proof

4. ‘Moral’, ‘Amoral’, ‘Ethical’ and some Related Terms

Chapter Two   Doubts about Morality

1. The Retreat to Relativism

Naïve Moral Relativism

Subjective Moral Relativism

Situational Moral Relativism

2. Moral Skepticism

3. Moral Realism and Moral Anti-realism

4. Non-Cognitivism

5. The Moral Error Theory

The Argument from Relativity

The Argument from Queerness

6. An Argument from Agreement?

Chapter Three   Divine Commands and Attitudes: Religious Morality

1. Religion and Morality

2. Enforcement and Revelation

3. What to Believe?

4. Divine Commands and Moral Obligation

God’s Power

God’s Ownership and Creation of Everything

God as a Parent

For the Love of God

God’s Goodness and Perfection

5. Another Argument—Intelligible and Unintelligible Beings

6. Conclusion

Chapter Four   Reason and Experience: Secular Morality

1. Secular Moralists

2. Three Empiricist Attempts to Develop a Secular Morality

3. The Projection of Moral Sentiments—Hume and Mackie

4. Immanuel Kant

5. Intuitionism

6. Making Moralism True by Definition

Subjective Definitions

Non-subjective Definitions

7. Conclusion

Chapter Five   A Survey of Moral Theories

1. Metaethics

2. Normative Ethics

3. Non-moral Uses of Evaluative Language

4. Value

5. Obligation

Consequentialism

Objections to Utilitarianism

Deontology

6. Rights

Chapter Six   From Impasse to Abolition

1. The Moral Error Theory, Its Rival and its Critics

2. What can be said to the moral error theorist?

3. Can we persuade someone who rejects morality to behave?

4. Can someone who rejects morality be controlled by force?

5. Is the moral error theorist attacking a straw man?

6. Is the moral error theorist really a moral realist who either doesn’t know  it or won’t admit it?

7. Two Alleged Enemies of Morality

Callicles

Nietzsche

8. Moral Abolitionism

Chapter   Seven Desires and Emotions

1. Desires and emotions–Extreme Solutions

2. Desires and emotions–some muiddle wayseaker ones

The Epicureans

The Stoics

Greek and Roman Techniques

Buddhism

Karma Yog

Wu-wei

3. Conclusion

Chapter Eight   Decisions and Socialization

1. Making Decisions

2. Our Decider

3. Snap Decisions

4. Mindfulness

5. Socialization

Punishment and Reward

Alleged Natural Consequences

Supernatural Involvement

Lies and Deception

World-views

Slogans and Aphorisms

Guilt and Shame

RitualMoral Fiction

Humor

Music

Morality and Language

Chapter Nine Language and a Clear View

1.  Language

2.  Cleaning our Tools

Vagueness

Ambiguity

Emotive Meaning

Grumbling and Muttering

Catastrophizing

3.  Searching for the Cure

Sextus Empiricus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Buddha and the Buddhists

4. Tools for Clarity and Health

Chapter Ten The Ways of Harmony and Control

1.  Repriae

2.  Control and Harmony

3. The Way of Control

The Legalists

Confucius and the Confucians

Plato

4. The Way of Harmony

Hemispheric Specialization

Smashing Hemispheric Imperialism

Reprogramming for Harmony

5. Exercises in Harmony

Weather

Bees and other Alarming Animals

Eat your Vegetables

Driving a Car

Crossing Broadway

Looking at things from a Different Point of View

Listening

Yielding and Compromising

Giving

Forgiving

Saying “Joy to the World” and Meaning it

6. Conclusion

Chapter Eleven Applied Ethics–Part One

1. Applied Ethics

The Interest in Applied Ethics

Applying Ethics

2. Abolishing Morality

3. Thought Experiments and Actual Decisions

4. Moral Problems can become Ethical Questions

5. Reproductive Issues

Abortion

Stem Cell Research

Contraception

6. Crime and Punishment

7. The Death Penalty

8. Conclusion

Chapter Twelve Applied Ethics—Part Two  (Unfinished)

1. People

2. War

3 Animals

4. The Environment

5. Censorship

6. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll

7. Last Conclusion

 

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