Ethics and Experience

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Ethics – The Ethic Behind Just War
Chapter One: Just War as an Ethic
Chapter Two: Non-Violent Resistance as a Use of Force
Chapter Three: The Hybrid Ethic and Its Application
Chapter Four: Using the “Common Agreement” Ethic: A Critical Evaluation

Part II. Experience – The Ethic beyond Just War
Chapter Five: The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide
Chapter Six: The Ethics of Patient Nontreatment
Chapter Seven: The Ethics of Execution and Just Punishment
Chapter Eight: The Ethics of Abortion: The Question of Innocence
Chapter Nine:The Ethics of War: The Question of Innocence

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Steffen (Lehigh Univ.) seeks to develop a general moral theory whose application to particular issues will do full justice to people's lived moral experience, as he claims utilitarianism, Kantianism, and virtue theory, each in its own way, do not. Rather than begin by directly discussing his own "common agreement" theory, a variant of natural law theory, he has it emerge from one of its particular applications, just war theory, and then applies it to other issues....Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates.