Contemporary Moral Issues

Contemporary Moral Issues is an anthology that provides a selection of readings on contemporary social issues revolving around three general themes: Matters of Life and Death, Matters of Equality and Diversity, and Expanding the Circle, which includes duties beyond borders, living together with animals, and environmental ethics. The text contains a number of distinctive, high-profile readings and powerful narratives, including Jonathan Foer's "e;Eating Animals,"e; Eva Feder Kittay's "e;On the Ethics of Selective Abortion for Disability,"e; and Susan M. Wolf's "e;Confronting Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: My Father's Death."e; Each set of readings is accompanied by an extensive introduction, a bibliographical essay, pre-reading questions, and discussion questions.