Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
The Ethics of Species
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
We are causing species to go extinct at extraordinary rates, altering existing species in unprecedented ways and creating entirely new species. More than ever before, we require an ethic of species to guide our interactions with them. In this book, Ronald L. Sandler examines the value of species and...
The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping
Redeeming the Soul of Sport?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Møller argues that the fight against doping – promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats – is...
by St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough and incisive accounts of virtue in the history...
Animal Lessons
How They Teach Us to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Many of our interactions in the twenty-first century - both good and bad - take place by means of institutions, technology, and artefacts. We inhabit a world of implements, instruments, devices, systems, gadgets, and infrastructures. Technology is not only something that we make, but is also something...
by Russell Blackford
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.L. Mackie.
Time and Ethics
Essays at the Intersection
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
There is a pressing need for an investigation into how time and ethics impact on each other. This book leads the way in addressing that need. The essays in this collection raise and investigate some of the key issues that arise at the intersection between these two areas of philosophy. It is for undergraduates, postgraduates and professional philosophers.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, “Ethics is aesthetics.” It is unclear what such a claim might mean and whether it is true. This book explores contentious issues arising at the interface of ethics and aesthetics. The contributions reflect on the status of aesthetic en ethical judgments, the...
Ethical Security Studies
A New Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies.
In this volume, working from a diverse range of perspectives—poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism,...
The Riddle of the World
A Reconsideration of Schopenhauer's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style. Hannan emphasizes the peculiar inconsistencies and tensions in Schopenhauer's thought--he was torn between idealism and realism, and between denial and affirmation of the individual will. In...
Hegel's Social Ethics
Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Hegel’s Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel’s theory of knowledge, Molly Farneth shows how his account of how we know rests on his account...
The Fragility of Goodness
Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made...
Constructing Authorities
Reason, Politics and Interpretation in Kant's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This collection of essays brings together the central lines of thought in Onora O'Neill's work on Kant's philosophy, developed over many years. Challenging the claim that Kant's attempt to provide a critique of reason fails because it collapses into a dogmatic argument from authority, O'Neill shows...
Human Rights and Ethics
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In today’s increasingly interconnected and global society, the protection of basic liberties is an important consideration in public policy and international relations. Profitable social interactions can begin only when a foundation of trust has been laid between two parties. Human Rights and Ethics:...