Stan Van Hooft: 5 books

Book cover of Hope
by Stan van Hooft
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

From the now iconic Barack Obama 'Hope' poster of the 2008 presidential campaign to the pit-head 'Camp Hope' of the families of the trapped Chilean miners, the language of hope can be hugely powerful as it draws on resources that are uniquely human and universal. We are beings who hope. But what does...
Book cover of Caring About Health
by Stan van Hooft
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

Presenting a philosophical exploration of the ideas central to health care practice this book explores such concepts as caring, health, disease, suffering and pain from a phenomenological perspective. With deep philosophical insight this book draws out, not only the ethical demands that arise when...
Book cover of The Handbook of Virtue Ethics
by Stan van Hooft
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

Virtue ethics has emerged as a distinct field within moral theory - whether as an alternative account of right action or as a conception of normativity which departs entirely from the obligatoriness of morality - and has proved itself invaluable to many aspects of contemporary applied ethics. Virtue...
Book cover of Understanding Virtue Ethics
by Stan van Hooft
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given situations. Virtue ethics, which focuses upon the character of moral agents more than on the moral...
Book cover of Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism

A Philosophy for Global Ethics

by Stan van Hooft
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral position. It urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality and equity across boundaries of nationality, race, religion or gender in a way that would have been unheard of even fifty years ago....
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