Ethics and moral philosophy

A compelling account of politics and social philosophy in Levinas's Talmudic commentariesEmmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a French philosopher known for his radical ethics and for his contribution to Jewish thought in his commentaries on Talmudic sources.

As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values in their kids.

In this book, David Jarrett argues that the influential Lockean thesis of justice in property, which traces back to John Locke, seems to entail much egalitarian property redistribution.

In answering the question of life's meaning, the African perspective is only just beginning to emerge.

What can a 19th-century philosopher teach us about navigating the complexities of the 21st century?

A wide-ranging treatment of fundamental rotordynamics in order to serve engineers with the necessary knowledge to eliminate various vibration problems.

What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family.

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This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health.

Philosophy for AS and A Level is an accessible textbook for the new 2017 AQA Philosophy syllabus.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

In this innovative comparison of Gadamer and Wittgenstein, the author explores their common concern with the relation of language to reality.

The simple premise of this book is that the purpose of education is to serve the well-being of students.

The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development.

This book deals with the ethics of technology and addresses specific ethical problems related to some emerging technologies, mainly in the field of computer science (from machine learning models to extracting value from data to human-robot interaction).

This collection of specially commissioned new essays explores the philosophical issues and subjects of Aquinas''s major work.

Consciousness Mattering presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness.

Disability raises profound and fundamental issues: questions about human embodiment and well-being; dignity, respect, justice and equality; personal and social identity.

Theologians and theologically educated participants in discussions of bioethics have been placed on the defensive during recent years.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen here poses the question: "e;Is affirmative action morally (un)justifiable?

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources from the third millennium BCE through to the consolidation of the biblical literature in the first millennium BCE.

Seit über 30 Jahren steht nachhaltige Entwicklung im Zentrum umweltethischer Debatten.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought.

This book brings together agricultural ethics scholars from the US, Japan and Taiwan to discuss crucial issues in agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics in comparative context.

The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an international reference work that offers scientists and students a balanced overview of current research in the field of comparative psychology and animal behavior.

Despite the increasing number of gamers worldwide, the moral classification of computer gaming marks an as yet unsolved riddle of philosophical ethics.

Salience is both central to human life and relatively underexplored as a philosophical topic.

Some people are worse off than others.

George Berkeley's doctrine of notions is often disparaged or dismissed.

Firms, the most significant nucleus of modern economic activity, are very special social organisations with economic purposes and also a responsibility for pursuing the welfare of all ranks of society.

Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature.

In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas's The Treatise on Law, R.

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories.

Philosophy offers a means of unpacking and grappling with important questions and issues relevant to nursing practice, research, scholarship, and education.

Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans.

First published in 1989, Punishment examines the practice of punishment, not simply as a typical sanction employed by the state but as a pervasive feature of social organisation in both past and contemporary societies.

This is the fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

Der Begriff „BIONIK“ wird gerne als Kunstwort gekennzeichnet, zusammengesetzt aus BIOlogie und TechNIK.

This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees: some philosophers argue states are not necessarily obligated to admit a single refugee, others argue states should continually admit refugees until the point of societal collapse.

This book sets out a new and distinctive means of conceptualising research in the field of Education: 'Freedom Research'.

This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally.

Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras.

Originally published in 1991.

The subject of personal identity is one of the most central and most contested and exciting in philosophy.

This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which honor the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and Great Britain.

This book analyses five forms of transnational evils and offers cosmopolitan recommendations for reducing their occurrence.

Die 1990 gegründete Reihe, die auf eine Anregung von Mazzino Montinari zurückgeht, publiziert Quellenmaterialien zu Nietzsches Leben, seinem Umkreis und seiner Wirkung.