Ethics category: 8196 books
The Trust Future
How to Use Business Ethics to Create Your Commercial Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Want greater productivity from your staff. Want to be happier at work. Want to know why smart businesses are doing better. The Trust Future holds the key. It has been described as “a breath of fresh air in current business literature!” Uncover the future of business, as it shifts to transparency,...
Man for Himself
An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.” —Erich Fromm
Are we primarily determined by nature or nurture? What are the best ways that people can live productively? In Man for Himself, renowned social philosopher Erich Fromm posits:...
Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us
(about life, philosophy and everything)
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?
If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?
These sound like questions from a philosophy class, but in fact they're...
Taking Stock of Bonhoeffer
Studies in Biblical Interpretation and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Bonhoeffer's theology continues to prove richly fruitful in the 21st century. This book gathers together Stephen Plant's scholarly engagement with Bonhoeffer's life and theology over two decades. This collection makes accessible Plant's distinctive perspective on Bonhoeffer's theology, in particular...
On Human Nature
Essays in Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
A devout believer in the supremacy of will over intellect, Arthur Schopenhauer developed a metaphysical theory that influenced such thinkers as Nietzsche, Wagner, Wittgenstein, and Freud. These six essays are drawn from the chapters entitled Zur Ethik and Zur Rechtslehre und Politik, which originated...
Spinoza
The Ethics of an Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th century, his work has aroused some of the fiercest and most intense polemics in the discipline. From his expulsion from the synagogue and onwards, Spinoza has...
Stain Removal
Ethics and Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one day not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." In his vision, a person's ethical qualities would be understood in spite of his or her body rather than through it. In general,...
Animal Rights
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Complete Works of Aristotle "The Ancient Great Philosopher"! 31 Complete Works!
Fully Interactive Table of Contents For Easy Navigation!
Works Included:
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On the Generation and Corruption
On Dreams
THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE
Metaphysics
Meteorology
Nicomachean Ethics
On...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Aristotle's Politics (Greek: Πολιτικά; Latin: Politica or De Civitate) is a work of political philosophy. The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise,...
Kant's Theory of Virtue
The Value of Autocracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of...
The Invention of Autonomy
A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1997
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for...
by Anya Topolski
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt’s ideas intersect in an important...
Ethics without Morals
In Defence of Amorality
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence...