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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Posted on October 29, 2015