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歐文·M. 史密斯，美國斯蒂夫奧斯丁州立大學哲學與古典研究學副教授；安妮·柯林斯·史密斯美國斯蒂夫奧斯丁州立大學哲學與古典研究學副教授。
導讀 英語思辨，攻錯他山 朱績崧 v
Preface xv
Topic Guide xvii
Introduction xix
Issue 1. Is Moral Relativism Correct? 1
YES: Torbjon Tansjo?, from 「Moral Relativism,」 Philosophical Studies (2007)
NO: Louis P. Pojman, from 「The Case Against Moral Relativism,」 in The Moral Life: An Introductory
Reader in Ethics and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Issue 2. Must Sex Involve Commitment? 37
YES: Steven E. Rhoads, from 「Hookup Culture: The High Costs of a Low 『Price』 for Sex,」 Society
(December 2012)
NO: Raja Halwani, from 「Casual Sex,」 in Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia
(Greenwood Press, 2005)
Issue 3. Is It Morally Right to Prohibit Same-Sex Marriage? 65
YES: Helen M. Alvaré, from 「Brief of Amicus Curiae Helen M. Alvaré in Support of Hollingsworth and
Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group」 in Hollingsworth v. Perry, U.S. v. Windsor, Supreme Court of the
United States (January 2013)
NO: David Boonin, from 「Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument from Public Disagreement,」 Journal of
Social Philosophy (Summer 1999)
Issue 4. Should Human Cloning Be Banned? 109
YES: Michael J. Sandel, from 「The Ethical Implications of Human Cloning,」 Perspectives in Biology
and Medicine (Spring 2005)
NO: John A. Robertson, from 「Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation,」 The New England
Journal of Medicine ( July 9, 1998)
Issue 5. Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished? 134
YES: Michael Welch, from 「The Machinery of Death: Capital Punishment and the Ironies of Social
Control,」 in Punishment in America: Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment (Sage, 1999)
NO: Ernest van den Haag, from 「The Death Penalty Once More,」 U.C. Davis Law Review (Summer 1985)
Issue 6. Is Torture Ever Justified? 177
YES: Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, from 「Not Enough Official Torture in the World? The
Circumstances in Which Torture Is Morally Justifiable,」 University of San Francisco Law Review
(Spring 2
