Ethics category: 8196 books
by David Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
This book consists of a number of philosophical arguments about ethics that I find interesting and that I think that some other people may find interesting.
May you be struck by philosophical lightning.
by Adam Richard
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
A unique ethical system is defended here. Commonly, the moral sense is thought to arise from evolution, as a sense of duty to one’s clan. It is here argued that this sense is in fact a red herring, and that there is a true ethics less sought after which natural selection in fact selects against....
José Martí, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and Global Development Ethics
The Battle for Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
This book argues that the overlooked ideas of José Martí and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara explain recent politics in Latin America and the Caribbean but also, even more significantly, offer a defensible alternative direction for global development ethics.
by Alan McManus
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
From the no-man's-land of the continuing conflict over abortion, "Life Choice" listens to women and makes a plea for women on differing sides to respect the integrity of the motivation of their sisters - even when they totally disagree - and suggests that questioning the automatic link between...
by Louis E. Wolcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibility of a good conscience for those who undertake, in good faith, to make the world a better place...
Religious Ethics and Migration
Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
What does it mean to provide justice for undocumented workers who have been living among us without proper legal documentation? How can we do justice to the undocumented migrants who have been doing the low-skilled, low-paid jobs unwanted by citizens? Why should we even try to do justice for people...
Prophets of the Posthuman
American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Prophets of the Posthuman provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement technologies. Christina Bieber Lake argues that works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor,...
Ethical Security Studies
A New Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies.
In this volume, working from a diverse range of perspectives—poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism,...
The Enchantment of Modern Life
Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder,...
The Self-Emptying Subject
Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The result is an elaboration of a theory of ethics different from the two dominant modern conceptions: Foucault's ethics of the self and Levinas's ethics of the other.
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
An Introduction to Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong...
Complexity, Difference and Identity
An Ethical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
"Complexity" has been part of the academic discourse for a decade or two. Texts on Complexity fall mainly in two categories: fairly technical and mathematical on the one hand, and fairly broad, vague and general on the other. Paul Cilliers’ book Complexity and Postmodernism. Understanding...
'Deficient in Commercial Morality'?
Japan in Global Debates on Business Ethics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of 'commercial morality', despite a major political and economic transformation. As Britain industrialised during the...
The Death of the Animal
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding...