Table of Contents
Introduction
PART 1: THE MORAL STATUS OF NON-HUMAN ANIMALS
- Animal Cruelty Legislation
- Bill S-203
- Act Now in Support of Good Animal Cruelty Legislation! (excerpt)
(Canadian Federation of Humane Societies) - Bill C-373 (excerpt)
- The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations
- Joel Feinberg
- Animal Liberation
- Peter Singer
- Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism
- Roger Crisp
- Do Animals Feel Pain?
- Peter Harrison
- The Prospects for Consensus and Convergence in the Animal Rights Debate
- Gary E. Varner
- Trapped
- J. Barber
PART 2: ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Crimes Against the Environment (excerpts)
- Law Reform Commission of Canada
- Identification as a Source of Deep Ecological Attitudes
- Arne Naess
- The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
- Karen J. Warren
- Legal Rights for Nature: The Wrong Answer to the Right(s) Question
- P.S. Elder
- Resources and Environmental Policy (excerpts)
- Jan Narveson
- Rich and Poor (excerpts)
- Peter Singer
- Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code
- John Arthur
- A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption
- Stephen M. Gardiner
- New and Future People: What Should We Do About Future People?
- Trudy Govier
PART 3: ABORTION
- Abortion, the Criminal Code, and the Morgentaler Decision
- Section S.287
- Morgentaler, Smoling and Scott v. The Queen (excerpt)
- Supreme Court of Canada (1988) 44 D.L.R. (4th) 385
- Canada Bill C-43 — Proposed Legislation: An Act Respecting Abortion
- On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
- Mary Anne Warren
- Why Abortion is Immoral (excerpts)
- Don Marquis
- A Defense of Abortion
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens (excerpt from No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care)
- Susan Sherwin
- Virtue Theory and Abortion (excerpt)
- Rosalind Hursthouse
- Life’s Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (excerpt)
- Ronald Dworkin
PART 4: ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND COMMODIFICATION
- Proceed with Care (excerpts)
- Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
- The Right to Have Children (excerpt from New Human Reproductive Technologies: Preliminary Perspectives of the Canadian Medical Association)
- Canadian Medical Association
- The Ethics of In Vitro Fertilization
- Arthur L. Caplan
- Is Women’s Labor a Commodity?
- Elizabeth S. Anderson
- Exploitation or Empowerment? Debating Surrogate Motherhood (excerpts)
- Felicia Daunt
- What’s Wrong with Prostitution?
- Igor Primoratz
- Prostitution
- Alison M. Jaggar
PART 5: EUTHANASIA
- Voluntary Active Euthanasia
- Dan W. Brock
- When Self-Determination Runs Amok
- Daniel Callahan
- Rodriguez v. Canada (A.G.) (excerpts)
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Assisted Suicide, Causality and the Supreme Court of Canada
- Edward W. Keyserlingk
- The Case of Robert and Tracy Latimer
- Rudy Krutzen
Part 6: FREE EXPRESSION, CENSORSHIP, AND PORNOGRAPHY
- R. v. Keegstra (excerpts)
- Supreme Court of Canada, Chief Justice Dickson
- The Tobacco Control Act (S.S. 2001, c. T-14.1) (excerpt)
- Province of Saskatchewan
- Diversity and Creativity (excerpts from Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada)
- Neil Bissoondath
- The Myth of Community Standards (excerpt from The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression)
- L.W. Sumner
- Whose Body? Whose Self?: Beyond Pornography
- Myrna Kostash
- Pornography: The Other Side (excerpts)
- Ferrel Christensen
- Pornography is a Civil Rights Issue (excerpt)
- Andrea Dworkin
- Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography
- Ellen Willis
- Is Violation Pornography Bad for Your Soul?
- Stephen Kershnar
- The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry (excerpts)
- Gordon Graham
PART 7: MULTICULTURALISM, NATIONALISM, AND ABORIGINAL RIGHTS
- The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
- Partners in Confederation: Aboriginal Peoples, Self-Government, and the Constitution (excerpt) (The Royal Commission)
- Briefing Note on the Report of the Royal Commission (Library of Parliament)
- Report Card on Action (excerpt) (Assembly of First Nations)
- Multiculturalism and Objectivity
- Susan Haack
- The Limits of Diversity (excerpt from Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada)
- Neil Bissoondath
- Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition” (excerpts)
- Charles Taylor
- Liberalism in Culturally Plural Societies (excerpt from Liberalism, Community, and Culture)
- Will Kymlicka
- Justice in Our Time (excerpt)
- Pierre E. Trudeau
- Indian Women and the Law in Canada: Citizens Minus (excerpts)
- Kathleen Jamieson
- Aboriginal Rights
- Michael McDonald
- Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter (excerpt)
- Mary Ellen Turpel
- Canadian Nationalism and the Distinctiveness Fetish
- Thomas Hurka
- Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation (excerpts)
- Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor
PART 8: ETHICS AND THE USE OF VIOLENCE
- Limits of the Criminal Law: Obscenity: A Test Case (excerpt)
- Law Reform Commission of Canada
- Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists
- James P. Sterba
- From Maternal Thinking to Peace Politics
- Sara Ruddick
- War, Innocence, and Theories of Sovereignty
- Michael Green
- Challenging the Domestic Analogy: A Critique of Killing in Self-Defense
- Joseph Kunkel
- What Is Terrorism?
- Igor Primoratz
- Terrorism, Self-Defense, and Whistleblowing
- Laura Westra
- Human Security Brief 2007 (excerpt)
- Human Security Report Project
- Is the War Against Terrorism Unjust? (excerpt)
- Jean Bethke Elshtain
- Terrorism and the New Forms of War
- Joseph Margolis
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