Ethics and moral philosophy

This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination.

Heroes are often admired for their ability to act without having "e;one thought too many,"e; as Bernard Williams put it.

Kant, Duty and Moral Worth is a fascinating and original examination of Kant's account of moral worth.

This collection of essays on Jacques Derrida, first published in 2004, spans nearly thirty years of critical thinking about Derrida's work.

With a novel approach to Aristotle's zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals' bodies, empowering them to sense the world and live.

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This book turns to virtue language as an important resource for understanding moral injury, a form of subjectivity where one feels they can no longer strive to be good as a result of wartime experience.

This book is an exploration of what it takes for an event to count as an action.

This book investigates the claim that there can only be one principle of morality, the categorical imperative.

What is it to be morally responsible for something?

Even if Peirce were well understood and there existed* general agreement among Peirce scholars on what he meant by his semiotics, or philosophy of signs, the undertaking of this book-wliich intends to establish a theoretical foundation for a new approach to understanding the interrelations of law, economics, and politics against referent systems of value-would be a risky venture.

Hermeneutics can loosely be defined as the theory or philosophy of the interpretation of menaing.

Explains the fundamental virtues that Rand considers vital for a person to achieve his objective well-being.

Practical Reality is about the relation between the reason why we do things and the reasons why we should.

This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the 'Responsibility to Protect'.

Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language.

Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time.

Moral skepticism is the denial that there is any such thing as moral knowledge.

Who has access, and who is denied access, to food, and why?

A radically theological-political account of religious liberty, challenging secularisation narratives and liberal egalitarian arguments.

On Goodness attempts to answer the question "e;What is goodness?

The most accessible expression of Fran ois Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims.

Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.

Kirk Ludwig presents a philosophical account of institutional action, such as action by corporations and nation states, arguing that it can be understood exhaustively in terms of the agency of individuals and concepts constructed out of materials that are already at play in our understanding of individual action.

This book argues that managers must be stewards of workplace objects, from coffee to nitrogen oxides, to run sustainable and responsible businesses.

What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science?

What is the root cause of ethical failure?

A philosophical commentary on a section of the Enneads written by the last great Neoplatonist thinker, Plotinus.

This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics.

Life is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena.

This book explores medicine, ethics and the challenge of moral diversity in health care.

Change is inevitable, we are told.

This book places vice and vice regulation in their global social and cultural contexts at the turn of the twentieth century.

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children's literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions.

Very diverse societies pose real problems for Rawlsian models of public reason.

Our capacity to reshape the future has never been more powerful.

This book explores a central question of moral philosophy, addressing whether we are morally responsible for certain kinds of actions, intentional omissions, and the consequences deriving therefrom.

Offering fresh interpretations of Aristotle''s key work, this collection opens new paths for students and scholars to explore.

Kolonisation: Brückenkopf in eine Zivilisation der Barbarei, aus der jederzeit die schiere Negation der Zivilisation hervorbrechen kann.

Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

Integrity in the Private and Public Domains explores the issue of public and private integrity in politics, the media, health, science, fund-raising, the economy and the public sector.

This book offers an original perspective on food supply chains.

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we loveIn The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love.

A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism.

This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics.

This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes.