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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility
The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw.
“Human dignity” has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association...
by William Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The British idealists of the late 19th and early 20th century are best known for their contributions to metaphysics, logic, and political philosophy. Yet they also made important contributions to social and public policy, social and moral philosophy and moral education, as shown by this volume. Their...
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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...
The Future of Ethics
Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The Future of Ethics interprets the big questions of sustainability and social justice through the practical problems arising from humanity’s increasing power over basic systems of life. What does climate change mean for our obligations to future generations? How can the sciences work with pluralist...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being put...
Desiring the Good
Ancient Proposals and Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate answer: "what is the good for human beings?"--"a well-going human life." Ethics thus conceived is broader...
Ethics and the Laws of War
The Moral Justification of Legal Norms
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war.
Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral...
by Laura Papish
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Throughout his writings, and particularly in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason,Kant alludes to the idea that evil is connected to self-deceit, and while numerous commentators regard this as a highly attractive thesis, none have seriously explored it. Laura Papish's Kant on Evil, Self-Deception,...
The Birth of Ethics
Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related...
The Dimensions of Consequentialism
Ethics, Equality and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Consequentialism, one of the major theories of normative ethics, maintains that the moral rightness of an act is determined solely by the act's consequences. The traditional form of consequentialism is one-dimensional, in that the rightness of an act is a function of a single moral aspect, such as...
Moral Obligations
Action, Intention, and Valuation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There are many ways of writing about the moral life; Moral Obligations follows the way of what philosophers call ""meta-ethics"": the analysis, not of particular moral problems, but of how the concepts used in formulating and solving them, concepts like ""right""...
Significance and System
Essays on Kant's Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Significance and System: Essays on Kant's Ethics brings together central lines of thought in Mark Timmons's work on Kant's moral theory. The first part of the book concerns the interpretation and justification of the categorical imperative in which Timmons argues for a "differential roles" interpretation...
Morality Truly Christian, Truly African
Foundational, Methodological, and Theological Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Given the largely Eurocentric nature of moral theology in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, what will it take to invest the theological community in the history and moral challenges of the Church in other parts of the world, especially Africa? What is to be gained for the whole Church when...