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What's Good on TV?: Understanding Ethics Through Television

ISBN: 978-1-4443-4301-4

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224 pages

July 2011, Wiley-Blackwell

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Preface.

The Pilot Episode: Ethics and Popular Culture.

Series I. Is anything “good” on television? The Nature of Moral Value.

Episode 1: Truth and Nihilism in Ethics.

Episode 2: Normativity—Social, Legal, and Moral.

Episode 3: God and Ethics.

Series II. What’s right and wrong? Ethical Theory.

Episode 4: Relativism.

Episode 5: Deontology.

Episode 6: Consequentialism.

Episode 7: Virtue Ethics.

Series III. But what’s right when…? Practical Ethics.

Episode 8: Environmental Ethics.

Episode 9: Animal Welfare.

Episode 10: Abortion.

Episode 11: Homosexuality.

Episode 12: Punishment and Capital Punishment.

Episode 13: Assisted Suicide .

The Epilogue: Does TV Erode Our Values?