PART I: ETHICS AND LAW
1 The Black-Box Problem
METHODS
OUTLINE
2 Ethics, Applied Ethics, and Law
TERMINOLOGY: ETHICS AND MORALITY
ETHICS, APPLIED ETHICS, BIOETHICS
ETHICS AND LAW
CONCLUSION
PART II: METHODS IN LEGAL THEORY
3 Norms
ABSTRACT AND GENERAL NORMS
PRINCIPLES AND RULES
Dworkin on Principles
Principles as Optimization Requirements
4 Norm Application
DEDUCTIVE STRUCTURE
INTERPRETATION
RULES OF INTERPRETATION
Some Intricacies
REASONING WITH PRECEDENTS
Precedents
What is binding?
Strict binding force?
ANALOGICAL REASONING
Brewer's Theory of Analogical Reasoning
The sequence of processes
CONCLUSION
5 Norm Development
EXPANSIONS
Supplementation
Conflict of principles: proportionality test
The four steps
Critique
Gap-Filling
Distinguishing
REVISIONS
Overruling
Correction of Mistakes
NEW LEGISLATION
CONCLUSION
PART III: METHODS IN CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL THEORIES
6 Principlism
THE STRUCTURE OF PRINCIPLISM
Clusters of Principles and the Common Morality
Principles and Rules
Ideals, Virtues, and Rights
PRINCIPLISM's NORMATIVE CONTENT
Respect for Autonomy
Nonmaleficence
Beneficence, Impartiality, and Moral Status
Justice
Relationship
THEORY OF JUSTIFICATION
METHODS
Specification
The importance of revisions and expansions
Richardson's definition
Interpretation
Abandoning specification
Balancing
The constraining conditions and proportionality
Critique and alternatives
CONCLUSION
7 Casuistry
THE BASICS
THE STRUCTURE OF CASUISTRY
Morphology
Taxonomy
Kinetics
CRITIQUE
Cases do not speak for themselves
What rules the case?
Importance of the Taxonomy
The Role of Paradigms
Arbitrary Kinetics
Casuistry's Conventionality
A BETTER STRUCTURE FOR CAUSISTRY
Rules: Maxims and Paradigms
Application of Paradigms
Overruling and Distinguishing Paradigms
Analogical Reasoning
CONCLUSION
8 Consequentialism
PETER SINGER's PREFERENCE UTILITARIANISM
The Practice of Singer's Theory
BRAD HOOKER's RULE-CONSEQUENTIALISM
The Basic Theory
Structure
Impartiality, Reflective Equilibrium, and Pluralism
Prima Facie Rules, Interpretation, and Conflicts
Hooker on Euthanasia
CONCLUSION
9 The Morisprudence Model for Applied Ethics
DEDUCTIVE NORM APPLICATION
APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT
WHY THE MORISPRIDENCE MODEL?
Notes
Bibliography
Index.