Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Just Babies
The Origins of Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is...
A Hedonist Manifesto
The Power to Exist
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, ethical,...
Elements of Moral Cognition
Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Is the science of moral cognition usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate 'moral grammar' that causes them to analyse human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as they analyse human speech in terms of its grammatical...
Stain Removal
Ethics and Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one day not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." In his vision, a person's ethical qualities would be understood in spite of his or her body rather than through it. In general,...
by Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
ETHICS FOR RASCALS spotlights the romantic adventures, provocative ethics, and playful philosophy of the prince of storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson, quixotic wanderer and prototype for Sir James M. Barries Peter Pan. This unique introduction to RLS and his spirited mate, Fanny Osbourne -- who...
Humanitarian Ethics
A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to...
Citizen Killings
Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private...
by Mark Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food if doing so gave another monkey an electric shock, there is much evidence of animals displaying what seem to be moral feelings. But despite...
University Ethics
How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Stories about ethical issues at universities make headlines every day. From sexual violence to racial conflict, from the treatment of adjuncts to cheating, students, professors, and administrators face countless ethical trials. And yet, very few resources exist to assist universities in developing...
Art, Spirituality and Economics
Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This volume celebrates the work of Laszlo Zsolnai, a leading researcher and scholar in the field of the ethical and spiritual aspects of economic life, who has made significant contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics and economic theory. The book offers a selection...
by Stephen T. Asma
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
From the school yard to the workplace, there’s no charge more damning than “You’re being unfair!” Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics—Lady Justice—wears a blindfold as she weighs the law on...
Bodies for Sale
Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade explores the philosophical and practical issues raised by activities such as surrogacy and organ trafficking. Stephen Wilkinson asks what is it that makes some commercial uses of the body controversial, whether the arguments against...
by Harry J. Gensler, Earl W. Spurgin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The A to Z of Ethics covers a very broad range of ethical topics, including ethical theories, historical periods, historical figures, applied ethics, ethical issues, ethical concepts, non-Western approaches, and related disciplines. Harry J. Gensler and Earl W. Spurgin tackle such issues as abortion,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues, from the amusing to the shocking, in short, engaging,...