Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled...
Adam Ferguson and Ethical Integrity
The Man and His Prescriptions for the Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This book is about learning how to live the good life. Part biography and part philosophical inquiry, it is a fresh, original interpretation of the intellectual world of the largely forgotten, eighteenth-century professor, Adam Ferguson. Although less well-known today than his famous Scottish contemporaries,...
by H.J. MacCloskey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this work is to develop a general theory of ethics which ex plains the logical status of moral judgments and the nature of the general principles which we should adopt and on the basis of which we should act. The enquiry into the logical function of moral judgments is entered into...
Means, Ends, and Persons
The Meaning and Psychological Dimensions of Kant's Humanity Formula
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
No one wants to be treated merely as a means-"used," in a sense. But just what is this repugnant treatment? Audi's point of departure is Kant's famous principle that we must treat persons as ends in themselves and never merely as means. Treatment of these kinds is conduct, a complex three-dimensional...
Moral Dilemmas, Identity, and Our Moral Condition
A Guide for the Ethically Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
For readers engaged in intellectual struggle, ethical thinking, and trying to figure out how to live a purposeful, fulfilling life, here is a critical and accessible approach to ethics. Moral dilemmas challenge us to think through sticky situations and lead us to look for moral grounding. Following...
Building the Moral Community
Radical Naturalism and Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Building the Moral Community: Radical Naturalism and Emergence demonstrates how very simple models of moral engagements based on natural, incomplete, value-laden frames of the world can lead to general moral progress for the human community. All moral behavior affects more than one person, which means...
The Ethics of War
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts. To this day, Just War theory informs the judgments of ethicists, government officials, international lawyers,...
Aristotle's Ethics
Writings from the Complete Works - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally motivated action as a mean between extremes. Its influence was felt well beyond antiquity into the Middle Ages,...
by Sabina Lovibond
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Essays on Ethics and Feminism is a selection of the shorter writings of Sabina Lovibond, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary philosophy since the 1980s. This work lays claim to a broad thematic unity based on its affiliation to the realist or rationalist traditions in moral philosophy....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This volume examines a variety of philosophical approaches that seek to formulate practical guidelines or norms for human actions and behavior in different areas of society, including politics, cultural traditions, the environment, business management, architecture, and medicine.
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Leadership Ethics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Are leaders morally special? Is there something ethically distinctive about the relationship between leaders and followers? Should leaders do whatever it takes to achieve group goals? Leadership Ethics uses moral theory, as well as empirical research in psychology, to evaluate the reasons everyday...
Creativity
Ethics and Excellence in Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Creativity explores the moral dimensions of creativity in science in a systematic and comprehensive way. A work of applied philosophy, professional ethics, and philosophy of science, the book argues that scientific creativity often constitutes moral creativity_the production of new and morally variable...
The Death of the Animal
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him ‘as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation’. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and...