Being good: an introduction to ethics

Seven threats to ethics: Death of God

Relativism

Egoism

Evolutionary theory

Determinism and futility

Unreasonable demands

False consciousness

Some ethical ideas: Birth

Death

Desire and the meaning of life

Pleasure

Greatest happiness of the greatest number

Freedom from the bad

Freedom and paternalism

Rights and natural rights

Foundations: Reasons and foundations

Being good and living well

Categorical imperative

Contracts and discourse

Common point of view

Confidence restored

Appendix: United Nations' universal declaration of human rights.