Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
On What Matters
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination...
by Francis J. Schweigert
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book is an extended argument for the critical importance which justice and ethical leadership should have in business ethics education. The book examines the history of ideas and purposes in education, the contemporary role of business schools, and the social foundations of moral education to...
Friends and Other Strangers
Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Friends and Other Strangers argues for expanding the field of religious ethics to address the normative dimensions of culture, interpersonal desires, friendships and family, and institutional and political relationships. Richard B. Miller urges religious ethicists to turn to cultural studies to broaden...
The Quest for a Moral Compass
A Global History of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The story of the global search for moral truths
In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great...
The Failures of Ethics
Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilization's keystone. The Failures of Ethics concentrates on the multiple shortfalls...
Values and Virtues
Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound even when subterranean. Typical members of our society can often be made to see that their moral thought and action are, in crucial ways, unwittingly Aristotelian. No one in contemporary philosophical ethics...
by Peter L. P. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In this follow up to The Eudemian Ethics of Aristotle, Peter L. P. Simpson centres his attention on the basics of Aristotelian moral doctrine as found in the Great Ethics: the definition of happiness, the nature and kind of the virtues, pleasure, and friendship. This work's authenticity is disputed,...
From Reasons to Norms
On the Basic Question in Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2009
Metaethics is the inquiry into the nature of morality (or ethics, I use the words ‘morality’, ‘morals’, and ‘ethics’ as synonyms). When we pass moral judgements, what kind of claims are we then making? I speak of this as the semantic metaethical question. a re there moral facts, to be...
Kantian Ethics
Value, Agency, and Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about value. Stern then considers where this places Kant...
The Contextual Character of Moral Integrity
Transcultural Psychological Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book discusses outcomes of a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic, examining moral integrity in the post-communist Czech-speaking environment. Chapters map the history of the Euro-Atlantic ethical disciplines from moral philosophy and psychology to evolutionary neuroscience...
The Limits of Moral Obligation
Moral Demandingness and Ought Implies Can
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle "ought implies can." Though both of these...
Shooting to Kill
The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Terrorism, the use of military force in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and the fatal police shootings of unarmed persons have all contributed to renewed interest in the ethics of police and military use of lethal force and its moral justification. In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the...
Practicing Medicine and Ethics
Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
To practice medicine and ethics, physicians need wisdom and integrity to integrate scientific knowledge, patient preferences, their own moral commitments, and society's expectations. This work of integration requires a physician to pursue certain goals of care, determine moral priorities, and understand...
by Mathew Coakley
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This is a book about a particular moral theory – motivation ethics – and why we should accept it. But it is also a book about moral theorizing, about how we might compare different structures of moral theory.
In principle we might morally evaluate a range of objects: we might, for example,...