Ethics category: 8196 books
Ethics, Humans and Other Animals
An Introduction with Readings
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This introductory textbook is ideally suited to newcomers to philosophy and ethical problems.
Rosalind Hursthouse carefully introduces the three standard approaches in current ethical theory: utilitarianism, rights, and virtue ethics. She links each chapter to readings from key exponents such as Peter...
Labor and Global Justice
Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Labor and Global Justice: Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice. Through its multidisciplinary,...
Christian Ethics
Where Life and Faith Meet
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Within the Christian community at large there is often little correlation between scriptural guidelines for Christian living and the lifestyle practices and behavior of believers. Christian social scientist, George Barna, has done extensive research in this area that reveals alarming data. For example,...
by Harry J Gensler
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
It is commonly accepted that the golden rule—most often formulated as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"—is a unifying element between many diverse religious traditions, both Eastern and Western. Its influence also extends beyond such traditions, since many non-religious...
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the Best Way of Life
A New Method of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche revive an ancient approach to ethics that evaluates different ways of life considered as a whole. Comparing and contrasting their respective ideals of faith and individual sovereignty, this work reveals a valuable new path for contemporary ethics.
The Ethics of Suicide
Historical Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a...
Ethics
Approaching Moral Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Ethics
by Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
One of the most significant factors underlying the success and failure of societies, their triumph and defeat, is the moral factor, whose decisive role in the lives of nations is so evident and conspicuous that no one can deny it.In this book we have tried to address some of the fundamental questions in ethics and moral systems, so that we can choose our moral way easier.
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...
Giving Well
The Ethics of Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
So long as large segments of humanity are suffering chronic poverty and are dying from treatable diseases, organized giving can save or enhance millions of lives. With the law providing little guidance, ethics has a crucial role to play in ensuring that the philanthropic practices of individuals,...
Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that...
Reformed Ethics : Volume 1
Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. Leading Bavinck expert John Bolt edited that work, which has received wide acclaim. Now Bolt brings forth a recently discovered manuscript from Bavinck, in print for the first time,...
The Ethics of Climate Change
Right and Wrong in a Warming World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
"Open this book and James Garvey is right there making real sense to you... in a necessary conversation, capturing you to the very end."*-*Ted Honderich, Grote Professor Emeritus of The Philosophy of Mind & Logic, University College London, UK.
James Garvey argues that the ultimate...
Varieties of Empathy
Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency. Yet, its precise meaning is often left unexplored, together with the various obstacles and challenges met by an empathy-based ethic, such as those concerning...