A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox

Preface
PART ONE: Embracing Ethics
1. What is Ethics?
Reading 1.1: Weston & Fischer, “Ethics after Covid-19”
2. Ethical Short-Circuits and How to Avoid Them
Reading 2.1: Reni Eddo-Lodge, “Color-Blindness and Other Illusions”
3. Ethics and Religion
Reading 3.1: Luke Timothy Johnson, “Homosexuality and the Church”

PART TWO: Moral Values
4. Taking Values Seriously
Reading 4.1 Alice Walker, “Am I Blue?” (with commentary)
Reading 4.2: Bertha Alvarez Manninen, “The Replaceable Fetus”
5. The Ethics of the Person
Reading 5.1: Philip Hallie, from “Le Chambon”
Reading 5.2: Immanuel Kant, from Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Reading 5.3: from The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
6. The Ethics of Happiness
Reading 6.1: J. S. Mill, from Utilitarianism
Reading 6.2: Esperanza Guisán, “An Ethic of Liberty and Solidarity”
7. The Ethics of Virtue
Reading 7.1: Alyse Spiehler, “Living Virtue”
Reading 7.2: Aristotle, from Nichomachean Ethics
Reading 7.3: Lao Tzu, from the Tao Te Ching
Reading 7.4: John Sullivan, from Living Large
8. The Ethics of Relationship
Reading 8.1: Nel Noddings, from Caring
Reading 8.2: Margaret Urban Walker, “Toward an inter-personal ethics”
Reading 8.3: Aldo Leopold, “The Land Ethic”

PART THREE: Skills for Ethical Practice
9. Minding the Evidence
Reading 9.1: Martin Fowler, The Ethical Practice of Critical Thinking
10. Judging Like Cases Alike
Reading 10.1: from Harry Gensler, Ethics and the Golden Rule
Reading 10.2: Amy Glaser, “Beyond Adultism”
11. Dialogue
Reading 11.1: Mary Jacksteit and Adrienne Kaufmann, “The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice”
Reading 11.2: Sophie-Grace Chappell, “How (Not) to Talk About, and To, Trans Women”
12. When Values Conflict
Reading 12.1: Roger Gottlieb, “Can We Talk? Understanding the 'Other Side' in the Animal-Rights Debate”
13. Opening Up Problems
Reading 13.1: Fran Peavey, “Strategic Questioning”
14. Moral Vision
Reading 14.1: William McDonough, “Design for a New World”
End Matter: Resources
Eight Maxims for Making a Moral Difference
1. You Can Do It
Reading M1: Danusha Goska, “Living Ideals”
2. There Are Many Ways
Reading M2.1: Ian Frazier, “On the Rez”
Reading M2.2: Mariam Duindam-Kazanjian, “The Sins of the Father”
3. Making a Difference... as a Student
Reading M3.1: Ramona Ilea and Monica Janzen, “This Means You!”
4. Becoming an Ally
Reading M4.1: Amelie Lamont, “Guide to Allyship”
5. Creative Leveraging
Box: The Good Banker
6. It's Probably Complicated
Reading M6.1: Gina Crosley-Corcoran, “How to explain white privilege to a broke white person”
7. There is No Way to Ethics; Ethics is the Way
Reading M7.1: Charles Eisenstein, from “Standing Rock: A Change of Heart”
8. Bring Your Whole Toolbox
Some Whole-Course Projects
A. Framing a Student Code of Ethics
B. Class Ethical Commitments
C. Personal Ethical Mission Statements
D. Ethical Change Projects
Some Notes for Teachers: Teaching Like a Pragmatist
Index