Ethics category: 8196 books
by Julian H. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities. But their right to life and to be free of exploitation is no less fundamental than the corresponding right of humans, writes Julian H. Franklin. This theoretically rigorous book will...
The Speaking Animal
Ethics, Language and the Human-Animal Divide
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? Not only does it inform us of who we are, it also tells us how we should relate to the larger non-human world. The Speaking Animal interrogates the human-animal...
Human Life, Action and Ethics
Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
Consuming Choices
Ethics in a Global Consumer Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices considers...
Consuming Choices
Ethics in a Global Consumer Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices considers...
Stem Cell Dialogues
A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in the future, damaged tissue and organs might be repaired through personalized cell therapy as easily as the body repairs itself, revolutionizing the...
Mother Time
Women, Aging, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life....
by Judith P. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What does it mean to lead a moral life?
In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.
Butler takes as her starting...
The Ethics of Resistance
Tyranny of the Absolute
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to...
The Poverty of Television
The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Based on an extensive ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. Arguing for an anthropological ethics of media,...
Sportsmanship
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Sportsmanship is a broad concept: ethics, fairness, honor and self-control. Some people find it difficult to define what makes a “good sport,” but state “I know one when I see one.” This collection of new essays brings together the work of more than two dozen contributors from around the world...
Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity
Philosophy + Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
While writing a chapter on contemporary animal rights for an ethics book, philosophy professor James Brusseau began asking how the animal studies could reflect back to reveal human truths. Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity pursues that question as it ranges from an accessible look at today's philosophy...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Utilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes, and applications. First, it traces the origins and development...