Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
How to Keep Your Cool
An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca
In his essay “On Anger” (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has cost the human...
Reverence for Life
The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This book has a collection of Schweitzer’s quotations on ethics and the human spirit. The emphasis is on the importance of the reverence for life and how following that ethic leads us to what is essential for civilization.
The table of contents:
Introductory Note; Feeling for Animal...
Listening, Thinking, Being
Toward an Ethics of Attunement
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Although listening is central to human interaction, its importance is often ignored. In the rush to speak and be heard, it is easy to neglect listening and disregard its significance as a way of being with others and the world. Drawing upon insights from phenomenology, linguistics, philosophy of communication,...
by Trudy Govier
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Forgiveness and Revenge is a powerful exploration of our attitudes to serious wrongdoings and a careful examination of the values that underlie our thinking about revenge and forgiveness.
From adulterous spouses to terrorist factions, we are surrounded by wrongdoing, yet we rarely agree which response...
An Eye for An I
Philosophies of Personal Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
How can we gain insight into and mastery of ourselves? Entering the world of the great philosophers and engaging with them, we become aware of what we are capable of becoming. They speak to us of themselves and the good life and thereby offer the possibility for self-development.
While this...
by Raymond Geuss
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to...
Relative Justice
Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
When can we be morally responsible for our behavior? Is it fair to blame people for actions that are determined by heredity and environment? Can we be responsible for the actions of relatives or members of our community? In this provocative book, Tamler Sommers concludes that there are no objectively...
Braintrust
What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified...
by S. Matthew Liao
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is...
by Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media. The book is written from the perspective of two social scientists--a...
J. M. Coetzee and Ethics
Philosophical Perspectives on Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthless...
Does Anything Really Matter?
Essays on Parfit on Objectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely...
Moral Exemplars in the Analects
The Good Person is That
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus...
by Mark Richard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true? Is the truth of a belief or assertion absolute, or is it only relative to human interests? Most philosophers think it incoherent to profess to believe something but not think it true, or to say that some of the things...