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Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics

New Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology

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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an outstanding 20th-century philosopher whose influence has reverberated throughout not only philosophy but also numerous other areas of inquiry, including theology and the study of religions. Exemplifying how Wittgenstein's thought can be engaged with both sympathetically...
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Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare

Policy, Practice and Moral Formation

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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

How does the market affect and redefine healthcare? The marketisation of Western healthcare systems has now proceeded well into its fourth decade. But the nature and meaning of the phenomenon has become increasingly opaque amidst changing discourses, policies and institutional structures. Moreover,...
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The Ethics of Nonviolence

Essays by Robert L. Holmes

by Professor Robert L. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013

Robert Holmes is one of the leading proponents of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world. However, he has never presented his views on nonviolence in full-length book form. The Ethics of Nonviolence brings together his best essays on the topic, both classic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

What form, or forms, might ethical knowledge take? In particular, can ethical knowledge take the form either of moral theory, or of moral intuition? If it can, should it? These are central questions for ethics today, and they are the central questions for the philosophical essays collected in this...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019

This bookbrings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein’s later philosophical work. The essays in this volume make the argument that Wittgenstein’s relevance...
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Grounded Ethics

The Empirical Bases of Normative Judgements

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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

Scientific naturalism--basing beliefs on empirical evidence--has now triumphed in every field of inquiry except moral philosophy. There it is still thought appropriate to cite otherworldly standards known by divine revelation or moral intuition. In Grounded Ethics Max Hocutt argues that, since there...
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Ethics and Attachment

How We Make Moral Judgments

by Aner Govrin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018

Why are we disgusted when an elderly woman is robbed but sympathize with the actions of a Robin Hood? Why do acts of cruelty against a helpless kitten bother us more than does the trampling of ants?* * In Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments, psychoanalyst and philosopher Aner...
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Kant and Applied Ethics

The Uses and Limits of Kant's Practical Philosophy

by Matthew C. Altman
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant’s ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses Examines...
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by Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019

Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics.  The authors argue that morality, and more specifically, moral progress, is a product of inquiry, imagination, and confronting new experiences. Engaging poetry, therefore, can contribute...
Cover of African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent
by Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014

This book focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM). ATM forms a large portion of the healthcare systems in Africa. WHO statistics show that as much as 80% of the population in Africa uses traditional medicine for primary health care. With such a large constituency, it follows...
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Borders, Territories, and Ethics

Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada

by Adia Mendelson-Maoz
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018

This book presents a variety of discussions from different countries about regulations and applications of ethics in business practice. It demonstrates how Ethics, both in the world of business and in academic life, is consistently a central and unavoidable issue that institutions must devise new...
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by Herbert Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

In this amazingly prophetic work, done late in his career, Herbert Spencer offers an approach to ethics that anticipates developments throughout the twentieth century. He moves away from the twin evils of ethical doctrines bequeathed to us by an ancient past that are simply no longer feasible but...
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by Ruiquan Gao, Guanjun Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018

New Waves of China's Philosophical Studies collects important research findings of China's philosophical studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including Confucian ethics and virtue ethics, true value semantics vs. commonsensible...
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