BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 NORMATIVE ETHICS: EUDAEMONISM AND CONSEQUENTIALISM -- EUDAEMONISM -- THE ETHICS OF PLATO -- THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE -- STOICISM -- CONSEQUENTIALISM -- EPICUREANISM -- UTILITARIANISM -- CHAPTER 2 NORMATIVE ETHICS: CONTRACTUALISM, DEONTOLOGY, FEMINISM, AND EGOISM -- CONTRACTUALISM -- THOMAS HOBBES -- JOHN LOCKE -- JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -- JOHN RAWLS -- DEONTOLOGY -- THE ETHICS OF IMMANUEL KANT -- NATURAL-RIGHTS THEORY -- FEMINISM -- THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF PHILOSOPHICAL FEMINISM -- FEMINIST ETHICS -- FEMINIST SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- ETHICAL EGOISM -- EGOIST DOCTRINES -- AYN RAND -- CHAPTER 3 METAETHICS -- MORAL REALISM AND ANTIREALISM -- ETHICAL RELATIVISM -- ARGUMENTS FOR ETHICAL RELATIVISM -- ETHICAL RELATIVISM AND POSTMODERNISM -- CRITICISMS OF ETHICAL RELATIVISM -- THE PROBLEM OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY -- FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY -- DETERMINISM -- LIBERTARIANISM -- COMPATIBILISM -- CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS -- CHAPTER 4 APPLIED ETHICS -- BIOETHICS -- DEFINITION AND DEVELOPMENT -- ISSUES IN BIOETHICS -- APPROACHES -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES -- POLICY MAKING -- GLOBAL BIOETHICS -- ANIMAL RIGHTS -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: VEGETARIANISM FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT -- PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND -- ANIMALS AND THE LAW -- THE MODERN ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- ANTHROPOCENTRIC SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT -- BIOCENTRIC SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT -- PACIFISM -- EARLY RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL MOVEMENTS -- POLITICAL INFLUENCES -- ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST PACIFISM -- TYPES OF PACIFISM -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- EUDAEMONISM AND CONSEQUENTIALISM -- CONTRACTUALISM AND DEONTOLOGY -- FEMINISM AND EGOISM -- METAETHICS -- APPLIED ETHICS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.