Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Rationality and Moral Theory
How Intimacy Generates Reasons
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a complete theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions. It offers an account of the nature...
The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making
Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept...
The Kantian Imperative
Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2005
Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy is almost universally understood as the attempt to analyse and defend a morality based on individual autonomy. In The Kantian Imperative, Paul Saurette challenges this interpretation by arguing that Kant's 'imperative' is actually based on a problematic appeal to 'common...
by Joseph Millum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children. These rights and responsibilities undergird the nuclear family and are essential to the flourishing of its members. However, their basis and contents are hotly contested. Do a child's genetic parents...
The Genealogy of Morals
Including Ecce Homo Autobiography & Nietzsche's Personal Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
"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 Judaism. Some Nietzsche scholars consider Genealogy to be a work of sustained brilliance and power as well as his...
Robot Sex
Social and Ethical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.
Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification...
by Robert Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
If it is your desire to have your great grand children see all the richness of the centuries to follow. You will need an all embracing, philosophic, moral and economic understanding that you and your fellows can muster. You'll need these arguments especially the moral courage as a basis for your thoughts....
by Adam Smith, Ryan Patrick Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good. Smith's classic...
What Have We Done
The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**Winner of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars.**
Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence...
"I'm Not a Racist, But . . ."
The Moral Quandary of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of...
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus
A Roman Slave
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
The philosophy of the ancient Syrian-Roman Publius Syrus defies easy categorization. Part Stoic, part Epicurean, and even part Sceptic and Cynic, the wit and wisdom of this former slave turned playwright transcends doctrine and embraces humanism. His celebrated dramatic works are all but lost –...
by Immanuel Kant, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Regarded as the central figure of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant produced comprehensive and systematic work in the theory of knowledge, ethics and aesthetics, which greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy. In his major work, ‘The Critique of Pure Reason’, Kant analyses the relationship...
Marcus Aurelius Complete Works – World’s Best Collection
All Works – Meditations, Teachings, Stoic Philosophy Plus Biography, Bonus Interpretation & Stoicism Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Marcus Aurelius Complete Works – World’s Best World's Best Collection
This is the world’s best Marcus Aurelius collection, including the most complete set of Aurelius’s works available plus many free bonus materials.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor...
Collected Wisdom
The Art of Worldly Wisdom; Reflections: Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims; and Maxims and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Wisdom for today’s world from three great thinkers of the Renaissance era.
This collection of three philosophical works by Renaissance men offers timeless advice on how to prosper and live morally in business, romance, religion, and society. Although written in the Renaissance era, these...