Ethics category: 8196 books
Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System
A Critical Analysis from Law, Ethics, and Catholic Social Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The child protective system (CPS), shaped by federal law forty years ago and run on the state and county levels in the United States, offered in utopian fashion the hope of preventing all possible child abuse or neglect. In response, legislators enacted a spate of vague laws that poorly defined such...
Law, Lawyering and Legal Education
Building an Ethical Profession in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Once a highly cosmopolitan profession, law was largely domesticated by the demands of the Westphalian state. But as the walls between sovereign states are lowered, law is globalizing in a way that is likely to change law, lawyering and legal education as much over the next 30 years – when the students...
The Law and Ethics of Medical Research
International Bioethics and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The growing globalization of medical research and the application of new biotechnologies in morally contested areas has forced a revision of international ethical guidelines.
This book examines the controversies surrounding biomedical research in the twenty-first century from a human rights...
Way Too Cool
Selling Out Race and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't always a popular commodity. Cool began as a...
Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
A New Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent...
True Freedom
Spinoza's Practical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy is a straightforward presentation of Spinoza's philosophy focused on the issue of how one might live. The book is unique among recent Spinoza scholarship in the way in which it centers on the ethical component in Spinoza's work. In order to bring Spinoza's...
God, Ethics and the Secular Society
Does the Church Have a Future?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
After 2000 years of ascendency the Christian churches are in decline.This book is a brilliant analysis of the many questions for which thoughtful Christians and non-Christians are seeking answers in a secular scientific world.What do we mean by “God”? Is there a soul ? What is consciousness ? ...
Choosing the Good
Christian Ethics in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
An intelligent discussion of the foundations and methods in ethics and ways to apply a Christian worldview to our secular culture.
The Geography of Morals
Varieties of Moral Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology, empirical moral psychology, behavioral economics, and cross-cultural philosophy, and a deep exploration of the opportunities for self,...
Ethical Life
Its Natural and Social Histories
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product...
The Cosmic Common Good
Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before. In this book, Daniel Scheid draws on Catholic social thought to construct what he calls the "cosmic...
by Clare Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions...
Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A new collection offering provocative and often counterintuitive conclusions on the ethics of meat eating In a world of industralized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice? Is eating organic or free range sufficient to change the moral equation? Is there a moral cost...