Ethics category: 8196 books
by Allen Morris Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
In this landmark work, Allen Morris Jones spends a year exploring one of the wildest ecosystems in North America, hunting and examining the philosophical issues of blood sport. In the process, he creates both a compelling defense for the hunt as well as one of the tradition's first formal ethics....
Dialectic and Difference
Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice.
That philosophy has three aims: a dialecticisation of original critical realism, a ‘critical realisation’ of dialectic, and a metacritique...
How Terrorism Is Wrong
Morality and Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge when the use of violence is morally acceptable? It is often thought that using violence to uphold and enforce...
by Olinda Timms, MBBS ; DA ; PGDMLE ; PGD Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Bio-Medical Ethics - E-Book
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D. Pellegrino, a renowned physician educator and philosopher. Pellegrino's thinking about the philosophy of medicine centers on the importance of illness in the life of the patient, and the professional relationship established...
Virtues of the Mind
An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1996
Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model...
by Simon Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. In this 'sparklingly clear' (Guardian)...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflict archaeology. By bringing together sophisticated analyses and pertinent case studies from around the world it aims to address the problems facing archaeologists working in areas of violent conflict, past...
Moore on Right and Wrong
The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
G.E. Moore's work shaped twentieth century ethics. But while his metaethical doctrines have seen decades of debate, little attention has been paid to his normative theory. Yet Moore broke fresh and important ground in elaborating an indirect, sophisticated, and non-hedonistic form of utilitarianism....
by Martijn Boot
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
If values conflict and rival human interests clash we often have to weigh them against each other. However, under particular conditions incommensurability prevents the assignment of determinable and impartial weights. In those cases an objective balance does not exist.
The original thesis of...
by James A. Dunson III
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
In this book, James Dunson explores end-of-life ethics including physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and continuous sedation until death. He argues that ethical debates currently ignore the experience of the dying patient in an effort to focus on policy creation, and proposes that the dying experience...
Ethics, Medical Research, and Medicine
Commercialism versus Environmentalism and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple We humans are an extraordinary species. One of our finest achievements is the development of morality, of a sense of right and wrong. We articulate and then impose this sensitivity upon ourselves in the form of ethical guidelines, rules, regulations, and laws. We...
The Ethics of Nuclear Weapons Dissemination
Moral Dilemmas of Aspiration, Avoidance and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book examines the moral dilemmas of nuclear dissemination, and the justifications of both nuclear pursuit and avoidance by contemporary states.
Applying Constructivist methodologies and moral theory, the author analyses a core set of moral dilemmas that ensnare decision-makers amongst...
AthleticEnhancement, Human Nature and Ethics
Threats and Opportunities of Doping Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
The book provides an in-depth discussion on the human nature concept from different perspectives and from different disciplines, analyzing its use in the doping debate and researching its normative overtones. The relation between natural talent and enhanced abilities is scrutinized within a proper...