Ethics and the Autonomy of Philosophy: Breaking Ties with Traditional Christian Praxis and Theory
Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A Deconstruction of Pop Ethics: A Discussion of the Ethical Views of the Man on the Streets (MOTS) -- Chapter 2: Ethics and Epistemic Myopia: Its Nature, Its Sources, and Its Cures -- Chapter 3: A Construction of Formal Ethics: Reflections on the Phrases Moral Facts, Good, Right, Bad, Wrong, Inappropriate, Rude, and Offensive -- and Reflection on the Implications of the Word Ought -- Chapter 4: Reflections on the Varieties of Normative Ethics: Discerning What We Ought to Do and How We Ought to Be -- Chapter 5: Swimming through the Murky Waters of Ethics Mixed with Religion: A Discussion of the Ways Religion Does and Does Not Import an Influence on Ethics -- Chapter 6: Taking Sides on Some Polemic Social Issues in Applied Ethics: Affirmative Action, the Death Penalty, and Abortion -- Appendix -- Bibliography.