Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
by Walter Osika, Barbro Fröding
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through...
The Ethics of Animal Re-creation and Modification
Reviving, Rewilding, Restoring
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic technologies to reverse extinction and to help in conservation has been sparked. This volume studies the question philosophically.
The Moral Dimensions of Empathy
Limits and Applications in Ethical Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Does empathy help us to be moral? The author argues that empathy is often instrumental to meeting the demands of morality as defined by various ethical theories. This multi-faceted work links psychological research on empathy with ethical theory and contemporary trends in moral education.
War and Individual Rights
The Foundations of Just War Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Kai Draper begins his book with the assumption that individual rights exist and stand as moral obstacles to the pursuit of national no less than personal interests. That assumption might seem to demand a pacifist rejection of war, for any sustained war effort requires military operations that predictably...
Family-Oriented Informed Consent
East Asian and American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. The goal is critically to explore the current individually oriented approach to informed consent which grew out of the dominant bioethics movement that arose in the United States in the...
The Fall of the Wild
Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger—the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, wildlife advocates have become captivated by a narrative of heroic conservation...
The Risk of a Lifetime
How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible. Rivka Weinberg begins with an analysis of the kind of act procreativity...
by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Harry S. Silverstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;"...
Hermeneutics of Human-Animal Relations in the Wake of Rewilding
The Ethical Guide to Ecological Discomforts
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe. While this is rightly hailed as a success of the environmental movement, the return of wildlife brings its own issues. As the animals...
Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Recent scientific developments, in particular advances in pharmacogenetics and molecular genetics, have given rise to numerous predictive procedures for detecting predispositions to diseases in patients. This knowledge, however, does not necessarily promise benign results for either patients or health...
Health Care Systems
Moral Conflicts in European and American Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nietzsche's Psychology of Ressentiment
Revenge and Justice in "On the Genealogy of Morals"
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Ressentiment—the hateful desire for revenge—plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality’s values....
The Normative and the Evaluative
The Buck-Passing Account of Value
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Many have been attracted to the idea that for something to be good there just have to be reasons to favour it. This view has come to be known as the buck-passing account of value. According to this account, for pleasure to be good there need to be reasons for us to desire and pursue it. Likewise for...