Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Striving To Be Human
How can we be moral in the modern world?
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Striving To be Humanexamines what our moral values are, how we came to have them, and how we can add a spiritual dimension to them.
Westerners live in liberal, secular democracies. The religious and moral certainties of the past have lost their influence on us, replaced by liberal freedoms...
Mind, Language and Morality
Essays in Honor of Mark Platts
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a generation of philosophers on to the Davidsonian program. He is also a pioneer in discussions of moral realism, and has made important contributions to bioethics, the philosophy of human...
by Soran Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.
by Robert C. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Robert C. Roberts first presented his vivid account of emotions as 'concern-based construals' in his book Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology (Cambridge, 2003). In this new book he extends that account to the moral life. He explores the ways in which emotions can be a basis for moral judgments,...
Praise and Blame
Moral Realism and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
How should a prize be awarded after a horse race? Should it go to the best rider, the best person, or the one who finishes first? To what extent are bystanders blameworthy when they do nothing to prevent harm? Are there any objective standards of moral responsibility with which to address such perennial...
by Vincent Icheku
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
This book has been about ethics and ethical decision making. As ethical refl ection permeates every decision made in practice, the book discussed the importance of developing moral reasoning ability, which is crucial for handling ethical dilemma and making ethical decisions in nursing and social work...
Communicating Moral Concern
An Ethics of Critical Responsiveness
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
A novel reframing of moral agency, emphasizing the responsive habits and skills by which we engage one another's attention to moral concerns.
Modern moral theories have crystallized around the logic of individual choices, abstracted from social and historical context. Yet most action, including...
Nature in Common?
Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being?...
Strange Bedfellows
How Medical Jurisprudence Has Influenced Medical Ethics and Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation. Physicians and non-physician bioethicists, generally speaking, consider the willingness of courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies to insinuate themselves...
Emergency Ethics
Public Health Preparedness and Response
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice. The book fills a gap in the existing public...
Ethics and Communication
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
How can ethics be communicated in an age of globalisation? Is it possible to overcome cultural differences and agree on common values and principles that cross cultural borders? How does globalisation challenge ethics and established moral traditions? How are human rights justified in a global context?
This...
by Kelly Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless?
In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a...
Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology
Singularity, Responsibility, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Paul Ricœur’s Moral Anthropology is a guide for readers who are interested in Paul Ricœur’s thoughts on morals in general, bringing together the different aspects of what Geoffrey Dierckxsens understands as Ricœur’s moral anthropology. This anthropology addresses the question what it means...
by John Basl
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the Ethic of Life has been clarified, developed, and rigorously defended; yet it has also found its harshest critics. Between biocentrists, those that endorse...