Ethics and Experience

Lloyd Steffen is professor of religious studies and university chaplain at Lehigh University, where he also is the director of the Center for Dialogue, Ethics, and Spirituality and director of the Lehigh Prison Project.

Steffen (Lehigh Univ.) seeks to develop a general moral theory whose application to particular issues will do full justice to people's lived moral experience, as he claims utilitarianism, Kantianism, and virtue theory, each in its own way, do not. Rather than begin by directly discussing his own "common agreement" theory, a variant of natural law theory, he has it emerge from one of its particular applications, just war theory, and then applies it to other issues....Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates.

• Preface IntroductionPart I. Ethics – The Ethic Behind Just WarChapter One: Just War as an EthicChapter Two: Non-Violent Resistance as a Use of ForceChapter Three: The Hybrid Ethic and Its ApplicationChapter Four: Using the “Common Agreement” Ethic: A Critical EvaluationPart II. Experience – The Ethic beyond Just WarChapter Five: The Ethics of Physician Assisted SuicideChapter Six: The Ethics of Patient NontreatmentChapter Seven: The Ethics of Execution and Just Punishment Chapter Eight: The Ethics of Abortion: The Question of Innocence Chapter Nine:The Ethics of War: The Question of InnocenceNotesBibliographyIndex