Applied Ethics - Non-Consequentialist Approach
David S. OderbergPart I: Abortion
1. The Problem of Abortion Today
2. The Basic Argument & Some Responses
3. Sentience: A Bad Argument Against Abortion
4. A Return to the Basic Argument
Objection from Brain Activity
Objection from Sorites Paradoxes
Objection from Begging the Question
Objection from Sperm & Egg
Objection from Fission & Totipotency
Objection from Cloning & Parthenogenesis
5. A Feminist Argument for Abortion
6. The Foetus, the Person & the Person
7. Abortion, the Law & the Public Good - a Concluding Note
'I Personally Disapprove of Abortion But Would Not Impose my Opinion on Other People'
'It is Not the Business of the Law to Interfere with Such a Difficult Decision'
The 'Backstreet' Objection
8. Conclusion
Part II: Euthanasia
9. Introduction
10. Varieties of Euthanasia
11. Voluntary Euthanasia & Autonomy
12. Non-Voluntary Euthanasia and 'Quality of Life'
13. Active & Passive Euthanasia
14. Ordinary and Extraordinary Means
15. Euthanasia, Death and 'Brain Death'
16. Euthanasia and Nazism
Part III: Animals
17. The Problem
18. The Conditions for Rights - What They Are Not
Consciousness
Beliefs & Desires
Language
Self-Consciousness
Action in Pursuit of Desires & Goals
19. The Conditions for Rights - What They Are
Knowledge of Purpose
Free Will
20. Two Dilemmas for the View that Animals Have Rights
21. So How Should We Treat Animals?
Part IV: Capital Punishment
22. A Conflict?
23. Punishment - General Principles
24. Capital Punishment - the Argument
25. Objections
What if an Innocent Person is Executed?
Capital Punishment is Irreversible
Capital Punishment is not a Deterrent
Capital Punishment is Just State-Sanctioned Murder
Capital Punishment is Cruel and Inhuman
What about Mercy & Compassion?
Capital Punishment Fails to Respect Persons
26. Concluding Remarks on Hypocrisy
Part V: War
27. Some Questions
28. War, Pacifism & Self-Defence
Self-Defence - Basic Principles
29. Going to War
Questions about the Justice of the Cause
Conduct During War
30. Globalism