Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Philosophy Comes to Dinner
Arguments About the Ethics of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Everyone is talking about food. Chefs are celebrities. "Locavore" and "freegan" have earned spots in the dictionary. Popular books and films about food production and consumption are exposing the unintended consequences of the standard American diet. Questions about the principles...
by Vlad Zeit
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
To solve a dilemma between unescapable selfishness of human nature and “the absence of all egoistical motivation” as “a criterion for an action of moral worth”, the concept is proposed to distinguish Ethics and Morality, ethical behavior and moral actions. Code of ethical behavior, Ethical...
Anthropologists in Arms
The Ethics of Military Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates surrounding the recent development of 'military anthropology'—particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lucas traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Does disgust guide moral behavior, or does it hamper it? Does disgust play a critical role in ordinary moral judgments, or almost no role at all? In this volume, experts in the field come together to explore fundamental questions about the role that disgust plays (and ought to play) in our moral lives....
Global Water Ethics
Towards a global ethics charter
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable...
A Casebook in Interprofessional Ethics
A Succinct Introduction to Ethics for the Health Professions
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
The first ethics casebook that integrates clinical ethics (medical, nursing, and dental) and research ethics with public health and informatics. The book opens with five chapters on ethics, the development of interprofessional ethics, and brief instructional materials for students on how to analyze...
Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
This collection breaks new ground in four key areas of feminist social thought: the sex/gender debates; challenges to liberalism/equality; feminist ethics; and feminist perspectives on global ethics and politics in the 21st century. Altogether, the essays provide an innovative look at feminist philosophy...
Ethics in the First Person
A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2006
Ethics in the First Person is the first comprehensive guide to teaching and learning practical ethics to be published in more than 25 years. This book provides the historical context for the study of practical ethics in the Twenty-First Century, but focuses on the teaching and learning of practical...
by Benedict de Spinoza
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Baruch Spinoza places freedom as the ultimate aim and central value of the life well lived. His philosophy is marked by the most thorough going naturalism of any of its period, so much so that a number of its central...
Gadamer's Ethics of Play
Hermeneutics and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Gadamer's Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other examines the ethical dimensions of understanding by focusing on Gadamer's concept of 'play' as it is developed in his magnum opus Truth and Method. Monica Vilhauer argues for the global relevance of play in Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics by...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
The Handbook of Communication Ethics serves as a comprehensive guide to the study of communication and ethics. It brings together analyses and applications based on recognized ethical theories as well as those outside the traditional domain of ethics but which engage important questions of power,...
Foundations for Moral Relativism
Second Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding....
Community and Loyalty in American Philosophy
Royce, Sellars, and Rorty
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three thinkers influenced by the pragmatist tradition: Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty. These thinkers’ work spanned the range of twentieth-century...
by Andrew Michael Flescher
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The idea of moral evil has always held a special place in philosophy and theology because the existence of evil has implications for the dignity of the human and the limits of human action. Andrew Michael Flescher proposes four interpretations of evil, drawing on philosophical and theological sources...