Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This edited volume of new essays explores the principles that govern moral responsibility and legal liability for omissive conduct--behavior that did not occur. Many contributors here try to make sense of the possibility of moral responsibility for omissions, including those that occur unwittingly....
Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare
Policy, Practice and Moral Formation
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,...
Doing Clinical Ethics
A Hands-on Guide for Clinicians and Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In this Brief, Daniel Sokol interprets ‘doing medical ethics’ broadly to capture the application of ethical knowledge to a concrete situation, rather than just resolving a moral dilemma contained within a case. It instructs clinicians on how to identify and analyse a clinical ethics case,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
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...
The Metaphysics of Kindness
Comparative Studies in Religious Meta-Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Religious world-views reserve a central and prominent place for human moral action, yet they must also contend with the reality of human moral failings. Is it possible to anchor moral knowledge and practice in the framework of a moral universe? If so, how do you explain why things go wrong? Must the...
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil
A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1997
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
by Raymond Geuss
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound by a shared skepticism about a particular way...
by Philippa Foot
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also...
Kant's Human Being
Essays on His Theory of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's...
The Good, the Bad & the Difference
How to Tell the Right From Wrong in Everyday Situations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
The man behind the New York Times Magazine’s immensely popular column “The Ethicist”–syndicated in newspapers across the United States and Canada as “Everyday Ethics”–casts an eye on today’s manners and mores with a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the...
by Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Don't miss His Holiness the Dalai Lama's classic book, The Art of Happiness, or his newest, The Book of Joy, named one of Oprah's Favorite Things.
In a difficult, uncertain time, it takes a person of great courage, such as the Dalai Lama, to give us hope. Regardless of the violence and cynicism...
The Ethics of Business
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In a field dominated by books that focus exclusively on the perspective of business in large corporations or that assume that business has a moral deficiency in need of reform, Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux offers students and business people alike a concise guide to
what everyone ought to do when doing...
Citation Classics from the Journal of Business Ethics
Celebrating the First Thirty Years of Publication
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Journal of Business Ethics was founded by Alex C. Michalos and Deborah C. Poff and published its first issue in March 1982. It is the most frequently cited business ethics journal in the world. The Journal has always offered a multi-disciplinary and international public forum for the discussion...
by Peter L. P. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Among the works on ethics in the Aristotelian corpus, there is no serious dispute among scholars that the Eudemian Ethics is authentic. The Eudemian Ethics isincreasingly read and used by scholars as a useful support and confirmation and sometimes contrast to the Nicomachean Ethics. Yet, it remains...