Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Plant Ethics
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Large parts of our world are filled with plants, and human life depends on, interacts with, affects and is affected by plant life in various ways. Yet plants have not received nearly as much attention from philosophers and ethicists as they deserve. In environmental philosophy, plants are often swiftly...
The Moral Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas
An Introduction to Ragamuffin Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Through a radical reinterpretation of classical philosophy as an organizational psychology, The Moral Psychology of St. Thomas: An Introduction to Ragamuffin Ethics just as radically reinterprets St. Thomas Aquinas’s moral teaching to be a behavioristic psychology chiefly designed to synthesize...
Moral Machines
Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in...
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
A Short Introduction to Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in...
Ethics
The Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter...
Do No Evil
Ethics with Applications to Economic Theory and Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
"An effective integration of ethics, morality and business practices including extensive discussions of social justice, animal rights and the environment the author elucidates the many layers of the managerial and corporate environment, deftly analyzing the fiduciary, social and moral relationships...
Media Ethics
Cases and Moral Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning challenges readers to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication through original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical principles of ethical...
by Ayn Rand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1964
A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy.
Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and *Atlas Shrugged—*have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The...
Ethics and Cyber Warfare
The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
From North Korea's recent attacks on Sony to perpetual news reports of successful hackings and criminal theft, cyber conflict has emerged as a major topic of public concern. Yet even as attacks on military, civilian, and commercial targets have escalated, there is not yet a clear set of ethical guidelines...
Military Ethics
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
What significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations, along with "just war theory,"...
Ethics and the Future of Spying
Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.
Intelligence officers, whether gatherers, analysts or some combination thereof, are operating...
by Luciano Floridi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, industrial production...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities"...