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Virtues in Action
New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In recent decades, many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety...
by Francesco Belfiore
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The revised edition of The Ontological Foundation of Ethics, Politics, and Law adds new concepts and discusses the views of additional thinkers. The author refers to his basic ontological conception of the human “mind” or “spirit” as an evolving, conscious, triadic entity composed of intellect,...
Ethics and Governance of Biomedical Research
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
In this book, scholars with different disciplinary and national backgrounds argue for possible answers and analyse case studies on current issues of governance in biomedical research. These issues comprise among others the research-care distinction, risk evaluation in early human trials, handling...
Passionate Deliberation
Emotion, Temperance, and the Care Ethic in Clinical Moral Deliberation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I find...
Pagan Ethics
Paganism as a World Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
This book is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical parameters of paganism when considered as a world religion alongside Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. The issues of evil, value and idolatry from a pagan perspective are analyzed as part of the Western ethical tradition...
Virtuosity in Business
Invisible Law Guiding the Invisible Hand
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The recent global financial crisis raises pressing issues that are not exclusively economic. The health of the economy, Kevin T. Jackson contends, reflects the moral health of the wider culture: ethics must be considered along with economics to understand world markets, especially now that globalization...
by Michael Slote
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and contrasts among different views. Arranged in chronological order of the philosopher under discussion, the...
Philosophy of Communication Ethics
Alterity and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Philosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely contribution to the study of communication ethics. This series of essays articulates unequivocally the intimate connection between philosophy of communication and communication ethics. This scholarly volume assumes that there is a multiplicity...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by interrogating some vital questions about this so-called...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Focusing on early Chinese ethical and political thought across multiple schools and thinkers, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the research being done in Chinese comparative ethics and political philosophy.
In addition to chapters on Chinese comparative and interpretative thought,...
Pursuing Moral Warfare
Ethics in American, British, and Israeli Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
During combat, soldiers make life-and-death choices dozens of times a day. These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars. This work examines the theory and practice of military ethics in counterinsurgency operations. Marcus Schulzke surveys the ethical traditions that militaries...
by Dr Olli Lagerspetz
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The variety of approaches to the concept of trust in philosophy reflects the fact that our worries are diverse, from the Hobbesian concern for the possibility of rational cooperation to Wittgenstein's treatment of the place of trust in knowledge. To speak of trust is not only to describe human action...
Virtues of the Mind
An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1996
Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model...
Reflective Equilibrium
Essays in Honour of Robert Heeger
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Robert Heeger has been professor of ethics at Utrecht University since 1977, both at the Faculty of Theology and at the Faculty of Philosophy. Since 1985, he has also been teaching at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Before he came to Utrecht, he had worked at Uppsala University for many years....