Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Wanted: Everyday Ethics
Ruminations from an Ethics Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Phyllis Kaes voice captures the energy of ethics. She provides us with the essential tools to start building the foundation of a world wherein people will look to each other for help without the fear of being left helpless. Phyllis challenges us to do what we all know is right, but she does so in...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The Genealogy of Morals” traces the episodes in the evolution of moral concepts with a view to confront "moral prejudices", specifically those of Christianity and...
Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing...
Lives of Moral Leadership
Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston...
Pursuits of Wisdom
Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Aristotle's Politics (Greek: Πολιτικά; Latin: Politica or De Civitate) is a work of political philosophy. The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise,...
by Rudolf Steiner, Malcolm Gardener
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Moral teaching and moral preaching cannot establish morality. It is only by delving into the hidden secrets of life that we can advance not just to moral doctrines but to the moral sources of life, true moral impulses. At different times, humanity has manifested moral life in different ways. To understand...
Faith in a Hard Ground
Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Elizabeth Anscombe’s forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005.
Philosophy of Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Philosophy of Law: An Introduction provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law. Setting it clearly against the historical background, Mark Tebbit quickly leads readers into the heart of the philosophical questions that dominate philosophy of law today. He provides an exceptionally...
Moral Contract Theory and Social Cognition
An Empirical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
This interdisciplinary work draws on research from psychology and behavioral economics to evaluate the plausibility of moral contract theory. In a compelling manner with implications for moral theory more broadly, the author’s novel approach resolves a number of key contingencies in contractarianism...
by Mary Midgley
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the ever popular stance in society...
Yuck!
The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
An exploration of the character and evolution of disgust and the role this emotion plays in our social and moral lives.
People can be disgusted by the concrete and by the abstract—by an object they find physically repellent or by an ideology or value system they find morally abhorrent. Different...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The...
Liberty and Community
The Political Philosophy of William Ernest Hocking
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This study of the political philosophy of William Ernest Hocking be gan as a doctoral dissertation at Tulane University. Hocking (1873- 1966) was for many years Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University. Although he is relatively well-known among...