Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Axios Press’s Essence of . . . series takes the greatest works ever written in the field of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. We select the best passages—the ones that are immediately relevant to us today, full of timeless wisdom and advice about the world and how best...
by Michael Brulotte
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Upon weighing various moral theories of beneficence, a spectrum of demandingness emerges from the highly permissive to the extremely taxing. Thus, as moral agents, it is incumbent upon us to determine which theory, if any, yield the correct conclusion about our obligation to aid fellow humans in times...
Art and Ethics in a Material World
Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is...
by Wouter Floris Kalf
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book provides a novel formulation and defence of moral error theory. It also provides a novel solution to the so-called now what question; viz., the question what we should do with our moral thought and talk after moral error theory. The novel formulation of moral error theory uses pragmatic...
Ethics and Time
Ethos of Temporal Orientation in Politics and Religion of the Niger Delta
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Ethics and Time attempts to locate ethical thinking within the response to the questions raised by temporal orientation. Time is the matrix and Moloch of social life and, for the purpose of this book, the starting point for ethical reflection. Nimi Wariboko boldly attempts to reconceptualize temporal...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998. It contains a selection of the revised versions of the papers discussed at the conference. The theme is in need of some clarification....
The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects
Protecting People, Advancing Science, Promoting Trust
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book provides a framework for approaching ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects from the perspective of trust. It explains how trust is important not only between investigators and subjects but also between and among other stakeholders involved in the research enterprise,...
Robot Ethics 2.0
From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical....
by Bashir Jiwani
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This workbook is a companion to Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Practical Guide to Changing Culture, Building Capacity and Solving Problems Case by Case. The Toolkit lays out the process for clinical ethics consultation in a series of steps within five phases: Pre-Consult, Interviews, Mid-Consult,...
Evil in Modern Thought
An Alternative History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition...
Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War
Just War Theory in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.
The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor,...
Moral Psychology
Virtue and Character
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.
Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent...
Animal Rights Without Liberation
Applied Ethics and Human Obligations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other...
An Ethics of Improvisation
Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a politically just society. The investigation of what politics can learn from the people who perform and listen to musical improvisation begins with an examination of current...