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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Over the last few years, the O.J. Simpson case, then the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, and scores of minor scandals have dominated the US press, often taking precedence over important domestic and international issues. This tabloidization of the news media, both here and abroad, has proved that "the...
Equality and Tradition
Questions of Value in Moral and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human...
by Richard Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Religious violence may trigger feelings of repulsion and indignation, especially in a society that encourages toleration and respect, but rejection contradicts the principles of inclusion that define a democracy and its core moral values. How can we think ethically about religious violence and terrorism,...
Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World
Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual social ethics. His abiding interest in social ethics and in religious engagement with public issues...
Ethical Life
Its Natural and Social Histories
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product...
by Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until publication of this book, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we draw from the apparent absence of normativity...
The Ethics of Resistance
Tyranny of the Absolute
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to...
Sportsmanship
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Sportsmanship is a broad concept: ethics, fairness, honor and self-control. Some people find it difficult to define what makes a “good sport,” but state “I know one when I see one.” This collection of new essays brings together the work of more than two dozen contributors from around the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available.
Since 2010, The Stone— an enormously popular column in the New York Times— has interpreted and reinterpreted age-old inquires that speak to our contemporary...
Ethics and the Media
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This book is a comprehensive introduction to media ethics and an exploration of how it must change to adapt to today's media revolution. Using an ethical framework for the new 'mixed media' ethics – taking in the global, interactive media produced by both citizens and professionals – Stephen J....
Moral Aims
Essays on the Importance of Getting It Right and Practicing Morality with Others
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
We rely on two different conceptions of morality. On the one hand, we think of morality as a correct action guide. Morality is accessed by taking up a critical, reflective point of view where our concern is with identifying the moral rules that would be the focus of the requiring activities of persons...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This volume addresses a range of philosophical and ethical issues in adapted physical activity and disability sports participation more broadly. It is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars whose backgrounds embrace different traditions of philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical...
Buddhism and Postmodernity
Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Buddhism and Postmodernity is a response to some of the questions that have emerged in the process of Buddhism's encounters with modernity and the West. Jin Y. Park broadly outlines these questions as follows: first, why are the interpretations and evaluations of Buddhism so different in Europe (in...