Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
by Michael LeBuffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
In his work on metaphysics, Spinoza associates reasons with causes or explanations. He contends that there is a reason for whatever exists and whatever does not exist. In his account of the human mind, Spinoza makes reason a peculiarly powerful kind of idea and the only source of our knowledge of...
Pursuing Moral Faithfulness
Ethics and Christian Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Pursuing Moral Faithfulness
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology brings together leading scholars in the field to provide fresh theoretical perspectives on research in philosophy and psychology.
Reflecting a diverse and active field of study, contributors are drawn from across both subjects to pursue central questions...
Vladimir Solov’ëv's Justification of the Moral Good
Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This new English translation of Solov’ëv’s principal ethical treatise, written in his later years, presents Solov’ëv’s mature views on a host of topics ranging from a critique of individualistic ethical systems to the death penalty, the meaning of war, animal rights, and environmentalism....
Water Ethics
A Values Approach to Solving the Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Water Ethics continues to consolidate water ethics as a key dimension of water-related decisions.
The book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics...
Knowing Moral Truth
A Theory of Metaethics and Moral Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This is a book on metaethics and moral epistemology. It asks two fundamental questions: (i) Is there any such thing as (non-relative) moral truth?; and (ii) If there is such truth, how do we come into epistemic contact with it? Roughly the first half of the book is aimed at answering the first question....
Recovering Integrity
Moral Thought in American Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The world of moral theory finds no place for the idea of integrity. The natural intellectual home of the idea of integrity is the American pragmatist tradition. Pragmatism makes possible an account of integrity that enables it to become philosophically central in thinking about morality. The idea...
by Peter Brian Barry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology—the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides both...
Action Reconceptualized
Human Agency and Its Sources
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
The concept of action that requires philosophical analysis is one that concerns behavior characteristically found in humans. In Action Reconceptualized: Human Agency and Its Sources, David K. Chan examines the sources of human agency that are proposed in causal theories of action—namely desire,...
African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics
Interpreting Ubuntu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and inclusive than is usually...
From Morality to Mental Health
Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Morality and mental health are now inseparably linked in our view of character. Alcoholics are sick, yet they are punished for drunk driving. Drug addicts are criminals, but their punishment can be court ordered therapy. The line between character flaws and personality disorders has become fuzzy,...
by Douglas W. Portmore
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Douglas W. Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with our commonsense moral intuitions and shares with other consequentialist theories the same compelling...
Morality and the Regulation of Social Behavior
Groups as Moral Anchors
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Morality indicates what is the ‘right’ and what is the ‘wrong’ way to behave. It is one of the most popular areas of research in contemporary social psychology, driven in part by recent political-economic crises and the behavioral patterns they exposed. In the past, work on morality tended...
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
“Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston Globe
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group...