Ethics and moral philosophy

Both Perelman's collaborators, Professors Haarscher and Ingber, shared with me their deep personal insights about origins, birth and phases of the develop- ment of the New Rhetoric.

Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants.

Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

Public controversies - such as those about the distribution of goods between rich and poor, trade and population policies, allocation of medical resources, and the tradeoff between environment al protection and economic efficiency - often hinge on fundamental views about how we ought to make decisions tImt affect each other, that is, what principles we ought to follow.

Business Ethics: Japan and the Global Economy presents a multicultural perspective of global business ethics with special emphasis on Japanese viewpoints.

On 5-6 April 1991, there was a conference on Kant at Florida State University; this volume collects the (revised versions ofthe) papers presented on that occasion.

Paul M.

The collapse of socialism across Eastern Europe - as manifested most dramatically by the events of the forever memorable November 9, 1989, when the Germans of East and West reunited, moved and overjoyed, on top of the Berlin Wall - has added more support and urgency to the central thesis of this volume than I had ever hoped for.

Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality.

Substantial efforts have recently been made to reform the physician-patient relationship, particularly toward replacing the `silent world of doctor and patient' with informed patient participation in medical decision-making.

During the last half of the twentieth century, legal philosophy (or legal theory or jurisprudence) has grown significantly.

What follows attempts to synthesize Husserl's social ethics and to integrate the themes of this topic into his larger philosophical concerns.

Ethical Problems in Dialysis and Transplantation presents an overview of issues with which nephrologists and decision makers are confronted in their daily practice.

We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism.

This Festschrift seeks to honor three highly distinguished scholars in the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan: William K.

Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion is not a book to leave one indifferent.

It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and was possibly a mistake.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

No man can live without ideas, for every human action, internal or external, is of necessity enacted by virtue of certain ideas.

This work is primarily concerned with Hume's arguments concerning the respective roles of reason and passion in moral decisions.

No statement, except one, can be made with which all philosophers would agree.

As its title indicates, this book is concerned with two different fields of philosophy, ethics and epistemology.

The Conference on "e;Ethical values in international decision- making"e; was held by the Grotius Seminarium in the period June 16-20, 1958 at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague.

The purpose of this work is to develop a general theory of ethics which ex- plains the logical status of moral judgments and the nature of the general principles which we should adopt and on the basis of which we should act.

Society is a nexus of individual perceptions.

This book contains some of the papers which were presented at the NATO Science, Environmental Security, Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health"e; held in Budapest from June 26 to July 1, 1999.

During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming increasingly difficult to survey it.

Phenomenology, in its traditional encounters with ethics, has commonly aimed at a more descriptive rather than prescriptive goal.

In contemporary ethical discussion widespread concern about the potential risks of genetic engineering is raising new and fundamental questions about our responsibilities towards unborn generations.

How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend?

Although women now represent over forty percent of the workforce in most countries, organizations have been slow to capitalize on the potential of their women employees.

Patients have personal strategies in solving the problems concerning their illness.

Husserl's phenomenology has often been criticized for its Cartesian, fundamentalistic, idealistic and solipsistic nature.

Why is ethics important to organizations?

Is membership of our species important in itself, or is it just important to have the properties that a normal grown-up human being has?

Robert Heeger has been professor of ethics at Utrecht University since 1977, both at the Faculty of Theology and at the Faculty of Philosophy.

That concern about human genetics is at the top of many lists of issues requiring intense discussion from scientific, political, social, and ethical points of view is today no surprise.

As we move forward into the Third Millennium AD the perennial problem of unmanageable debt is still with us.

This volume does not aim at merely adding to the vast and increasing number of individual publications on `biodiversity'.

It would seem that modern humanity has unthroned the human spirit, undercutting the very foundation of the validity of truth, moral values and principles.

Increasingly companies' stakeholders require organisations to observe international standards prescribed by international laws, treaties, conventions, recommendations, and/or codes of conduct.

This book advances a new kind of compatibilist account of free will: indirect compatibilism.