Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust
Making Ethics "First Philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
For many, the Holocaust made thinking about ethics in traditional ways impossible. It called into question the predominance of speculative ontology in Western thought, and left many arguing that Western political, cultural and philosophical inattention to universal ethics were both a cause and an...
Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for...
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
A Critical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics and moral psychology. This collection of essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and close...
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals isone of the most important texts in the history of ethics. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of...
The Ethics of Sport
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
We encourage children to play sports from an early age in order to instill in them such virtues as teamwork, perseverance, respect, fairness, and discipline, but, as perennial scandals in the headlines show us, sports also give rise to thorny ethical problems. Can the ugly, corrupt side of sports...
Kantian Ethics and Economics
Autonomy, Dignity, and Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This book introduces the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant—in particular, the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character—to economic theory, explaining the importance of integrating these two streams of intellectual thought. Mainstream economics is rooted in classical utilitarianism, recommending...
by Xiaoxi Wang
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book captures the quintessence of the author’s 20-year career, presenting both unique perspectives and logical arguments. Guided by the Marxist concept of historical materialism, it reveals the function and effect of morality by analyzing and defining the moral domain. Further, it argues that...
by Allen Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Institutionalizing the Just War offers a new approach to thinking about the ethics of large-scale armed conflict. Allen Buchanan takes a unique approach to just war theory, arguing that theories that are content with articulating abstract moral norms specifying right acts of war-making, provide too...
Evolutionary Intuitionism
A Theory of the Origin and Nature of Moral Facts
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Evolutionary Intuitionism presents a new evolutionary theory of human morality. Zamulinski explains the evolution of foundational attitudes, whose relationships to acts constitute moral facts. With foundational attitudes and the resulting moral facts in place, he shows how they ground a plausible...
European Business Ethics Casebook
The Morality of Corporate Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers...
What's Good on TV?
Understanding Ethics Through Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
What's Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television presents an introduction to the basic theories and concepts of moral philosophy using concrete examples from classic and contemporary television shows.
Utilizes clear examples from popular contemporary and classic television shows, such...
Ethics Embodied
Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
While the body has been largely neglected in much of traditional Western philosophy, there is a rich tradition of Japanese philosophy in which this is not the case. Ethics Embodied explains how Japanese philosophy includes the body as an integral part of selfhood and ethics and shows how it provides...
by T. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that have profound theoretical and practical implications for the discipline and its practitioners.
The Moral Fool
A Case for Amorality
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Justice, equality, and righteousness-these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as pathology-a rhetorical, psychological, and social...