Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Revival: Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life (1908)
Volume I: Introduction: The Facts of Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.
Concern for the Other
Perspectives on the Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
In Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup, eleven scholars examine the structure, intention, and originality of Løgstrup's ethics as a whole. This collection of essays is a companion to Beyond the Ethical Demand, as well as to The Ethical Demand. The essays examine Løgstrup's crucial...
Global Ethics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications...
Religious Ethics in a Time of Globalism
Shaping a Third Wave of Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This book contains essays on current projects from several rising figures in religious ethics, collected into a field-shaping anthology of new work. As a whole, the book argues that religious ethics should make cultural and moral diversity central to its analysis. This can include three main aspects,...
The Ethics of Need
Agency, Dignity, and Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care ethics...
by Shaun Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
Sentimental Rules is an ambitious and highly interdisciplinary work, which proposes and defends a new theory about the nature and evolution of moral judgment. In it, philosopher Shaun Nichols develops the theory that emotions play a critical role in both the psychological and the cultural underpinnings...
Dialectic and Difference
Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice.
That philosophy has three aims: a dialecticisation of original critical realism, a ‘critical realisation’ of dialectic, and a metacritique...
How Terrorism Is Wrong
Morality and Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge when the use of violence is morally acceptable? It is often thought that using violence to uphold and enforce...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D. Pellegrino, a renowned physician educator and philosopher. Pellegrino's thinking about the philosophy of medicine centers on the importance of illness in the life of the patient, and the professional relationship established...
Moore on Right and Wrong
The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
G.E. Moore's work shaped twentieth century ethics. But while his metaethical doctrines have seen decades of debate, little attention has been paid to his normative theory. Yet Moore broke fresh and important ground in elaborating an indirect, sophisticated, and non-hedonistic form of utilitarianism....
Kant and Applied Ethics
The Uses and Limits of Kant's Practical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates.
Offers a critical analysis of Kant’s ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses
Examines...
by Hanno Sauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
In this crisply written book, Hanno Sauer offers the first book-length treatment of debunking arguments in ethics, developing an empirically informed and philosophically sophisticated account of genealogical arguments and their significance for the reliability of moral cognition. He breaks new ground...
The Logic of Love
Discovering Paul’s “Implicit Ethics” through 1 Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The goal of the present study unfolds in the following four ways. First, in analyzing Pauline writings (primarily Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians) it can be demonstrated that the Apostle can be described as an ethicist. The hypothesis operative here is that in the sources, despite their occasional...
by Christopher Arroyo
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book defends the thesis that Kant’s normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage. It does so by first developing a reading of Kant’s normative ethics that explains the way in...