Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Fellow Creatures
Our Obligations to the Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers...
In Our Best Interest
A Defense of Paternalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
When, if ever, is it permissible to intervene in a person's affairs for his or her own good? This, in essence, is the moral problem of paternalism. Many consider paternalism morally objectionable. In this book, Jason Hannaargues boldly for an alternative pro-paternalist view: that intervention is...
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Now in a new, affordable edition with updated notes, a superbly readable translation of Kant’s classic work
This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant’s conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy...
Choosing Children
Genes, Disability, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this: we may be at a turning-point in the history of...
Justice and Health Care
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In this volume Allen Buchanan collects ten of his most influential essays on justice and healthcare and connects the concerns of bioethicists with those of political philosophers, focusing not just on the question of which principles of justice in healthcare ought to be implemented, but also on the...
Ethics
An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.
by Erik J. Wielenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2005
Suppose there is no God. This might imply that human life is meaningless, that there are no moral obligations and hence people can do whatever they want, and that the notions of virtue and vice and good and evil have no place. Erik J. Wielenberg believes this view to be mistaken and in this book he...
Artless Integrity
Moral Imagination, Agency, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
This book considers the nature and exercise of moral imagination in situations in which our ability to act and choose meaningfully is limited by unarticulated expectations. Moral imagination is a cognitive attitude, in which we regard propositions as true. But it also involves orientation. In moral...
by Dorothea E. Olkowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness: “Beautifully written, engaging throughout, and captivating” (Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University).
What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed...
The Triadic Structure of the Mind
Outlines of a Philosophical System
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
In The Triadic Structure of the Mind, Francesco Belfiore begins from the basic ontological conception of the structure and functioning of the “mind” or “spirit” as an evolving, conscious triad composed of intellect, sensitiveness, and power, each exerting a selfish or moral activity. Based...
Ignorance of Law
A Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
This book argues that ignorance of law should usually be a complete excuse from criminal liability. It defends this conclusion by invoking two presumptions: first, the content of criminal law should conform to morality; second, mistakes of fact and mistakes of law should be treated symmetrically....
Emmanuel Levinas
Ethics, Justice, and the Human Beyond Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century
Responsible Genetics
The Moral Responsibility of Geneticists for the Consequences of Human Genetics Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book addresses well-known issues - the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genetics - but does so from an unusual perspective: the perspective of the scientific community itself. In distinction to what is common in the ELSI literature, the book also discusses bioethical method. A...
by Claire Colebrook
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
'The best introduction to Deleuze, and to the collective writings of Deleuze and Guattari, available yet! Claire Colebrook has produced a truly accessible pathway into the labyrinthine enchantments offered for contemporary thought by Deleuzianism, making concepts clear, showing their political and...