Stephen Kershnar

Sex, Discrimination, and Violence (eBook, PDF)

Surprising and Unpopular Results in Applied Ethics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sex, Discrimination, and Violence is about how the systematic application of some basic principles of applied ethics yields some surprising and very unpopular results. In particular, Stephen Kershnar investigates three areas: sex, discrimination, and violence. In his discussion of sex, he concludes that adult-child sex is not always wrong and that it is not clear that watching rape pornography is bad for the viewer. When discussing discrimination, Kershnar argues for the following startling conclusions: persons of different races on average differ in their value, professional schools may and probably should discriminate against women, and equal opportunity is not worth pursuing. In his discussion of violence, he contends that in some cases governments are morally permitted to use torture in order to interrogate suspected terrorists and may assassinate foreign leaders. These controversial conclusions will no doubt spur animated and thoughtful discussion amongst readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761879336
• Artikelnr.: 75139519

Autorenporträt

Stephen Kershnar is a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia and also an attorney. His research focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy. He has written on such diverse topics as affirmative action, abortion, punishment, pornography, God, interrogational torture, the most valuable player in professional sports, hell, discrimination against women, and Batman.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part One: Sex
Chapter 4 1. The Moral Status of Harmless Adult-Child Sex
Chapter 5 2. Is Violation Pornography Bad for Your Soul?
Part 6 Part Two: Discrimination
Chapter 7 3. Intrinsic Moral Value and Racial Differences
Chapter 8 4. For Discrimination Against Women
Chapter 9 5. Why Equal Opportunity is not a Valuable Goal
Chapter 10 6. Immigrants and Welfare
Part 11 Part Three: Violence
Chapter 12 7. For Interrogational Torture
Chapter 13 8. The Moral Argument for a Policy of Assassination
Chapter 14 Index