Ethics category: 8196 books
Killing in self-defence
The question of whether it is morally permissible to kill in self-defence
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Ethics, University of Manchester (Political Theory), language: English, abstract: This paper will investigate what implications this new position poses to Quong's rejection of Otsukas stance on the moral impermissibility of killing the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series of essays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer the latest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion.
Cuts across two fields of philosophical...
by James Stacey Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory. James Stacey Taylor’s account is unique...
The Importance of Being Understood
Folk Psychology as Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
The Importance of Being Understood is an innovative and thought-provoking exploration of the links between the way we think about each other's mental states and the fundamentally cooperative nature of everyday life.
Adam Morton begins with a consideration of 'folk psychology', the tendency...
Earth and World
Philosophy After the Apollo Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that...
by C. Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacan's thinking. This book argues that a rethinking of the subject necessitates a rethinking of our relation to law, tradition and morality, as well as our understanding of guilt, responsibility and desire.
The Smile of Tragedy
Nietzsche and the Art of Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In The Smile of Tragedy, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche’s attitude toward what he called “the tragic age of the Greeks,” showing it to be the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the Socratic era but also for his overall critique of Western culture. Through...
by Christopher O. Tollefsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book defends the controversial 'absolute view' of lying, which maintains that an assertion contrary to the speaker's mind is always wrong, regardless of the speaker's intentions. Whereas most people believe that a lie told for a good cause, such as protecting Jews from discovery by Nazis, is...
Renewing Moral Theology
Christian Ethics as Action, Character and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
While ethical issues are being raised with new urgency, Christians are increasingly unfamiliar with the moral grammar of their faith. The need to reengage the deep-down things of the Christian moral tradition has seldom been more urgent. Moral theology has a long history in the Catholic and Anglican...
Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 10
Decision-Making Capacity and Older Persons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Although the topic of decision making capacity and older persons has been discussed in the literature, there still is much to be learned about it theoretically and practically. Experts continue to disagree about which standards are important for assessing decision making capacity. Questions such as:...
Elephant in the Room
How The Return of Personal Ethics is Rewriting The Rules of Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
“The elephant in the room” is a common idiom defined as “to avoid an obvious truth.” The “elephant” is the glaring reality that everyone sees and is aware of, but is shunned and avoided at all cost. That elephant is ETHICS. In this book, you will learn the extent to which we, as a society,...
Dependent Rational Animals
Why Human Beings Need the Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1999
"MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Simone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education. This collection of essays situates Simone Weil’s thought alongside prominent Continental thinkers and their philosophical concerns...
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection
Suffering and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental...