Ethics category: 8196 books
Ethics
An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
Ethics
Inventing Right and Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1990
An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity.
Child Rights
The Movement, International Law, and Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International...
by Reynolds Price
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
When renowned novelist and poet Reynolds Price, one of Christianity's most eloquent outlaws, was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at Harvard University Memorial Church in 2001, he chose to explore a subject of fierce debate and timeless relevance: the ethics of Jesus.
In two succeeding...
by Daniel Innerarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The source of hospitality lies in the fundamental ethical experiences that make up the fabric of the social lives of people. Therein lies a primary form of humanity. Whether we are guests or hosts, this reveals our situation in a world made up of receiving and meeting, leaving room for the liberty...
by Christian B. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Philosophers and psychologists have been hard at work trying to unlock the mysteries of our characters. Unfortunately, their answers have been all over the map. According to one position, every single person has all of the moral virtues, such as modesty and compassion, although to varying degrees....
The Riddle of the World
A Reconsideration of Schopenhauer's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style. Hannan emphasizes the peculiar inconsistencies and tensions in Schopenhauer's thought--he was torn between idealism and realism, and between denial and affirmation of the individual will. In...
Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do
The Ethics of Ambivalence
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a...
Between Two Rivers
A Memoir of Christian Social Action and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Between Two Rivers chronicles the life of noted scholar of religion, politics, and philosophy, Ronald H. Stone. From his childhood between the East and West banks of the Des Moines River through graduate work in New York between the Hudson and the East Rivers through his scholarly career and retirement...
by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to design a baby? What would you do? Would you always do the right thing? Is there a right thing? In this second edition of his thought-provoking and highly engaging introduction to ethics, Martin Cohen brings us eleven brand...
The Meaning of Sex
Christian Ethics and the Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Our culture is not only sex-crazed but also deeply confused about sex and sexual ethics. Unfortunately, Christians seem equally confused, and the church has tended to respond with simplistic answers. The reason for this confusion is that the meaning of sex has been largely lost.
Dennis Hollinger...
Constructing Authorities
Reason, Politics and Interpretation in Kant's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This collection of essays brings together the central lines of thought in Onora O'Neill's work on Kant's philosophy, developed over many years. Challenging the claim that Kant's attempt to provide a critique of reason fails because it collapses into a dogmatic argument from authority, O'Neill shows...
Ethics and Information Technology
A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and...
Metabioethics and Biomedicine
Synthesis of principles and applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A diligent pastor and ever meticulous scholar, the President of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care offers us, in this work, a further demonstration of his catechetic talent and theological depth. The book is an important contribution to the cause for the proclamation and defence of the...