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by Stanley Vodraska
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In Philosophical Essays concerning Human Families, Stanley Vodraska describes a principle of moral practice that he calls “the principle of familial preference.” In ordinary circumstances, a moral agent should persistently provide preferential treatment to members of his or her family and should...
An Introduction to Biblical Ethics
Walking in the Way of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
ethical alternatives such as relativism, social contract, utilitarianism and evolutionary ethics
the seven deadly sins as well as the cardinal virtues vs. theological virtues
end-of-life ethics, stem-cell research, animal rights, sexuality, genetics and technology, and other bioethical issues such as...
On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice
A Wittgensteinian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality. It offers an account of moral certainty, which it links with a view of moral competence. Drawing on everyday examples, it is shown how morality is grounded in action, not in reasoning.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. Environmental issues challenge contemporary ethical theorists to account for topics that traditional ethical theories do not address to any significant extent. This book articulates and...
Moral Materialism
A Semantic Theory of Ethical Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Modern science describes the physical effects of material causes, but not the moral consequences of conscious choices. Is nature merely a rational place, or is it also a moral place? The question of morality has always been important for economists, sociologists, political theorists, and lawmakers....
Bird on an Ethics Wire
Battles about Values in the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret...
The Ethics of Energy Sustainability
An energy ethics workbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This book is an easy to use instructional aide. Explore sustainability issues in contemporary society through a transdisciplinary approach. Chapters include ethics, public resources, public policy, combustion, heat exchangers, nuclear, solar, water, and wind energy. A short summary is presented for...
The Ethics of Silence
An Interdisciplinary Case Analysis Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse. How is silence treated in different cultures? In a globalized world, how is silence managed between and across cultures?
Co-authored by a philosopher and an...
Towards the Ethics of a Green Future (Open Access)
The Theory and Practice of Human Rights for Future People
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact of today’s environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human rights issue and examines what our long-term responsibilities might be.
This interdisciplinary collection of chapters...
by A. Reis Monteiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This volume focuses on the ethical significance of human rights, aiming at contributing to a universal culture of human rights with deep roots and wide horizons. Its purpose, scope and rationale are reflected in the three-part structure of the manuscript. Part I has a broad introductory historical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features are necessary in order to achieve this, philosophical and practical questions concerning justice, rights,...
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas:...
Inconceivable Effects
Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Inconceivable Effects, Martin Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world—including Hannah Arendt,...
Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology
Obligations and Requirements
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Inspired by the work of world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, this collection of essays features contributions from a range of internationally recognized scholars – including Strathern herself – which examine a range of methodologies and approaches to the anthropology of knowledge.
The...