Ethics and moral philosophy

This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms, especially song.

In A Child Sees God, Howard Worsley explores how we can all learn from a child's perspective of the world and shows how a child's eye view of the Bible reveals many interesting ideas about ethics and morality, and provides new ways of understanding these ancient stories.

This book examines the origins of communal and institutional almsgiving in rabbinic Judaism.

Der Film ist eine ethische Erzählung.

Der Begriff des habitus zielt auf die Integration der Affektivität in der Ethik: Um richtig zu handeln, bedarf es nicht nur der richtigen Einsicht, sondern auch der richtigen affektiven Disposition.

In the debate leading up to the EU referendum in the United Kingdom, the British politician Michael Gove declared that "e;people in this country have had enough of experts"e;.

Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience.

Augustine's dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio, which signifies at once a journey to the homeland (a pilgrimage) and the condition of exile from the homeland.

Released in 1999, Fight Club is David Fincher's popular adaption of Chuck Palahniuk's cult novel, and one of the most philosophically rich films of recent years.

A comprehensive and accessible guide to one of the most intensively discussed and controversial puzzles in contemporary moral philosophy.

This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers.

For decades now, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have been expressing a deep dissatisfaction with the process of research-ethics review in academia.

Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies.

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This conceptually rich and empirically grounded book draws upon expertise from a panel of emerging and established international scholars to explore the institutionalization and effect of multicultural education on a global scale.

Gideon Yaffe presents a ground-breaking work which demonstrates the importance of philosophy of action for the law.

In the context of conducting research on the consequences of scientific and tech- nological advance, the Europaische Akademie is also concerned with the support of scientists in the doctoral or post-doctoral phase who are working on topics or methods within its research spectrum.

This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective.

This book uses the framework of care ethics to articulate a novel theory of our epistemic obligations to one another.

Korruption ist ein faszinierendes Thema, das sich für Kriminalgeschichten eignet und den Blick in den furchterregenden Abgrund von Gesellschaften richtet.

Limited force is different than war: different in scope, strategic purpose, and ethical permissions and restraints.

This book, first published in 1968, examines the complicated issues which surround the problem of freewill.

Given the pain, discomfort, anxiety, heartbreak, and boredom that most humans experience in their lives, is it morally permissible to create them?

Die "Vorlesung über Moralphilosophie" aus den 1770er Jahren ist eine wichtige Erläuterung und Ergänzung zur "Grundlegung der Metaphysik der Sitten" von 1785.

Originally published in 1927, this book was written as a reaction to the First World War, hoping to try and analyse the causes leading up to it.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

A popular model of human action treats it as universally explicable by appeal to what we want.

Gives readers the opportunity to reflect on two of the most important topics of human existence: happiness and human welfare.

Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass innovatives Handeln in der Gegenwart eine große Wertschätzung erfährt, unternimmt das Buch eine Untersuchung des Begriffs, des Ursprungs, des Werts und der Spielarten der Kreativität.

This book is an easy to read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in research ethics and scientific integrity.

For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex philosophical text.

This volume is devoted to exploring a subject which,on the surface, might appear to be just a trending topic.

Trusting Others, Trusting God is an investigation of the concepts of moral and religious trust.

The relationship between the Austrian tradition and Bloomington institutionalism has been part of a larger intellectual evolution of a family of schools of thought that coevolved in multiple streams over the last 100 years or so.

In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds.

Ethics underpin all aspects of nursing activity but the concepts can often seem remote or inaccessible.

The increasing capacity of medicine to intervene to save lives demands that we ask more and more questions about what death is, and why it matters.

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The acclaimed social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving discusses the nature of evil and humanity’s capacity for it.

It is possible to increase cost-effectiveness and lower the risk of lawsuits while improving patient care and office morale.

Pornography has long proven a polarizing and vexing subject in legal and feminist debates.

An original interpretation of the connection between idealism, history and nationalism in Fichte''s general philosophical, educational and moral project.

This book became an immediate best-seller.

Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self.

No theory is more passionately and widely defined, or decried, than is liberalism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity.

John Kultgen explores the ways morality and professional ideals are connected.