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Ibero-American Bioethics
History and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas Stepke’s work has succeeded well. It has...
by Ian A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing...
Moral Strata
Another Approach to Reflective Equilibrium
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium. It reconfigures reflective equilibrium as both a cognitive ideal and a method for approximating this ideal. The ideal of reflective equilibrium is restructured using the concept of discursive strata, which are formed by sentences...
Lying and Deception
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception. Part I addresses conceptual questions and offers definitions of lying, deception, and related concepts such as withholding information, "keeping someone in the...
Libre de Deudas, la moral de la administración del dinero
¿Cómo vivir dentro de sus medios y ser feliz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Libre de Deuda de la Moral de la Administración del Dinero
¿Cómo vivir dentro de sus medios y ser feliz
Desesperada por que traje nuevo , sino que tenga una tarjeta de crédito al tope ? ¿Necesita un coche pero no puede obtener un préstamo ? Esta podría ser la mejor ayuda para...
Reason, Democracy, Society
A Treatise on the Basis of Legal Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Reason, Democracy, Society deals with basic points of legal theory and philosophy of law. The main contention of the book relates to the insufficiencies of the legal positivistic approach. Some of its claims are that we must sharply separate what the law is from, what the law ought to be, and that...
Moral Engines
Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring...
Talk With Your Kids
Conversations About Ethics -- Honesty, Friendship, Sensitivity, Fairness, Dedication, Individuality -- and 103 Other Things That Really Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues
Many families and almost all schools...
Naked
The Dark Side of Shame and Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
We know shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps us to realize when we fail to be the kinds of people we aspire to be. We feel shame when we fail to live up to the norms, standards, and ideals that we value as part of a virtuous life. But the lived reality of shame is far more complex and...
Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel's Logic
The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism.
The Code of the Warrior
Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This revised and expanded second edition of The Code of the Warrior—a book George R. Lucas has described as "groundbreaking" and "now part of the Military Ethics canon"—takes the reader on a tour of warrior cultures and their values, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the...
by Alison Stone
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This book provides an account of the development of ideas about nature from the Early German Romantics into the philosophies of nature of Schelling and Hegel. In clear and accessible language, Alison Stone explains how the project of philosophy of nature took shape and made sense in the post-Kantian...
The Bioethics of Pain Management
Beyond Opioids
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. The book begins from the position...
by Karen Stohr
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Many otherwise enlightened people often dismiss etiquette as a trivial subject or—worse yet—as nothing but a disguise for moral hypocrisy or unjust social hierarchies. Such sentiments either mistakenly assume that most manners merely frame the “real issues” of any interpersonal exchange or...