Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Kant and Education
Interpretations and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world today....
Kant's Theory of Virtue
The Value of Autocracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of...
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities?...
How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed
Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions.
“A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.”
—Jimmy Carter
An essential guide to ethical action updated...
Distant Strangers
Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook....
Caring
A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child.
In Caring—now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance...
The Ethics of Risk
Ethical Analysis in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
When is it morally acceptable to expose others to risk? Most moral philosophers have had very little to say in answer to that question, but here is a moral philosopher who puts it at the centre of his investigations.
by Tatjana Višak
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Is it acceptable to kill an animal that has been granted a pleasant life? This book rigorously explores the moral basis of the ideal of animal-friendly animal husbandry and sheds new light on utilitarian moral theory by pointing out the assumptions and implications of two different versions of utilitarianism, with surprising conclusions.
Spinoza
Basic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Spinoza is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. He has had a deep and enduring influence on a wide range of philosophical subjects, and his work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy. His Ethics is one of the seminal works of metaphysical, moral, religious...
Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy
On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book is the first collection of essays in English devoted solely to the relationship between Aristotle’s ethics and politics. Are ethics and politics two separate spheres of action or are they unified? Those who support the unity-thesis emphasize the centrality for Aristotle of questions...
Ethical Habits
A Peircean Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Previous attempts to set up an Ethics based on the writings of Charles S. Peirce have generally begun and ended with the 1898 lecture, Philosophy and the Conduct of Life. It was in that lecture that Peirce famously argued that Theory and Practice should be kept distinct. In this book, Aaron Massecar...
The Myth of the Moral Brain
The Limits of Moral Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it.
Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden...
The Ethics and Politics of Immigration
Core Issues and Emerging Trends
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The Ethics and Politics of Immigration provides an overview of the central topics in the ethics of immigration with contributions from scholars who have shaped the terms of debate and who are moving the discussion forward in exciting directions. This book is unique in providing an overview of how...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
To what extent are we responsible for our actions? Philosophical theorizing about this question has recently taken a social turn, marking a shift in focus from traditional metaphysical concerns about free will and determinism. Recent theories have attended to the interpersonal dynamics at the heart...