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Reasonable Disagreement

A Theory of Political Morality

by Christopher McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

This book examines the ways in which reasonable people can disagree about the requirements of political morality. Christopher McMahon argues that there will be a 'zone of reasonable disagreement' surrounding most questions of political morality. Moral notions of right and wrong evolve over time as...
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The Philosophy of Recognition

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

by Frederick Neuhouser, Michael Quante, Ludwig Siep
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009

The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates...
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Grounds for Respect

Particularism, Universalism, and Communal Accountability

by Kristi Giselsson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012

In recent years traditional foundations of respect for others have been challenged on the basis that universal grounds — the assumption that we share a common humanity — have resulted in the exclusion of particular others from full moral consideration or respect. This current questioning of the...
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by Robert Talisse
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

In this book, Robert Talisse critically examines the moral and political implications of pluralism, the view that our best moral thinking is indeterminate and that moral conflict is an inescapable feature of the human condition. Through a careful engagement with the work of William James, Isaiah Berlin,...
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Being White, Being Good

White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy

by Barbara Applebaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010

Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and epistemological assumptions that white complicity...
Cover of Principles of Ethical Economy
by P. Koslowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there­ fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction...
Cover of Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization
by Daniel E. Lee, Elizabeth J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010

Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization provides a balanced, thoughtful discussion of the globalization of the economy and the ethical considerations inherent in the many changes it has prompted. The book's introduction maps out the philosophical foundations for constructing an ethic of globalization,...
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Binary Bullets

The Ethics of Cyberwarfare

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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016

Philosophical and ethical discussions of warfare are often tied to emerging technologies and techniques. Today we are presented with what many believe is a radical shift in the nature of war-the realization of conflict in the cyber-realm, the so-called "fifth domain" of warfare. Does an aggressive...
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by Ken Binmore
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005

This book lays out foundations for a "science of morals." Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. He reinterprets classical social contract ideas within a game-theory framework and generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by the impact of globalization, the escalating...
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Natural Law

The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Law

by G. W. F. Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011

One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of natural law, which for many centuries was used to describe...
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by Charles W. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of...
Cover of Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015

Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be truly ethical both the undertaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016

This book aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value (including the ultimate value of space-related activities) which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society. Although a recurring feature of discussions about space in the humanities, the...
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