Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the United States roughly 2 million people are incarcerated; billions of animals are held captive (and then killed) in the food industry every year; hundreds of thousands of animals are kept in laboratories; thousands are in zoos and aquaria; millions of "pets" are captive in our homes. Surprisingly,...
by Jonathan Wolff, G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead...
On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics
Critical Complexity, Deconstruction, and Implications for Understanding the Ethics of Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Corporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively. A central premise of this study is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and an engagement with, the ethical complexities...
by Jane Duran
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and occasionally deontological) lines in applied ethics. Drawing on core concepts in feminist philosophy, Feminist Analyses of Applied Ethics investigates five major issues: immigration,...
In the Beginning Was the Deed
Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions...
by Harry J Gensler
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
It is commonly accepted that the golden rule—most often formulated as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"—is a unifying element between many diverse religious traditions, both Eastern and Western. Its influence also extends beyond such traditions, since many non-religious...
The Importance of Being Understood
Folk Psychology as Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
The Importance of Being Understood is an innovative and thought-provoking exploration of the links between the way we think about each other's mental states and the fundamentally cooperative nature of everyday life.
Adam Morton begins with a consideration of 'folk psychology', the tendency...
Ethics
Approaching Moral Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Ethics
Morality and Objectivity (Routledge Revivals)
A Tribute to J. L. Mackie
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The late J. L. Mackie and his work were a focus for much of the best philosophical thinking in the Oxford tradition. His moral thought centres on that most fundamental issue in moral philosophy – the issue of whether our moral judgements are in some way objective. The contributors to this volume,...
Conscience
Phenomena and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Conscience: Phenomena and Theories was first published in German in 1925 as a dissertation by Hendrik G. Stoker under the title Das Gewissen: Erscheinungsformen und Theorien. It was received with acclaim by philosophers at the time, including Stoker’s dissertation mentor Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger,...
by J.D. Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Are all of the commonly accepted aims of the use of law justifiable? Which kinds of behavior are justifiably prohibited, which kinds justifiably required? What uses of law are not defensible? How can the legitimacy or the ille gitimacy of various uses of law be explained or accounted for? These...
Philosophy and Political Engagement
Reflection in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Do philosophers have a responsibility to their society that is distinct from their responsibility to it as citizens? This edited volume explores both what type of contribution philosophy can make and what type of reasoning is appropriate when addressing public matters now. These questions are posed...
Harmful Thoughts
Essays on Law, Self, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In these writings by one of our most creative legal philosophers, Meir Dan-Cohen explores the nature of the self and its response to legal commands and mounts a challenge to some prevailing tenets of legal theory and the neighboring moral, political, and economic thought. The result is an insider's...
From Principles to Practice
Normativity and Judgement in Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Knowledge aims to fit the world, and action to change it. In this collection of essays, Onora O'Neill explores the relationship between these concepts and shows that principles are not enough for ethical thought or action: we also need to understand how practical judgement identifies ways of enacting...