CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction | Is It Good to Be Good?

PART 1 | ON AMORALITY

1 | The Moral Fool

2 | Negative Ethics

PART 2 | A PATHOLOGY OF ETHICS

3 | The Redundancy of Ethics

4 | The “Morality of Anger”

5 | Ethics and Aesthetics

6 | The Presumptions of Philosophical Ethics

7 | The Myth of Moral Progress

PART 3 | ETHICS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

8 | For the Separation of Morality and Law

9 | Morality and Civil Rights

10 | How to Get a Death Verdict

11 | Masters of War

12 | Ethics and the Mass Media

Conclusion | Applied Amorality

Notes

Index