This book is a comprehensive survey and a sustained treatment of the major topics in contemporary medical ethics from within the Roman Catholic tradition.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein und Susan Sontag beschäftigten sich intensiv mit Fragen der Selbstsorge und Lebenskunst – teils im direkten Bezug aufeinander.
A travers une vision unique et inedite de l'ego et de Dieu, selon un regard neuf et isole de la religion, Dualite ici et au-dela desarticule les fondements memes de notre existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein und Susan Sontag beschäftigten sich intensiv mit Fragen der Selbstsorge und Lebenskunst – teils im direkten Bezug aufeinander.
Menschenrechte – auf diesen Begriff stößt man überall, in den Re-den von Politikern ebenso wie in den Kommentaren der Journalisten und in den Forderungen prominenter Kirchenvertreter.
Je inflationärer die Rede von den Menschenrechten - desto dringlicher eine Vergewisserung, wofür die für Ethik wie Recht und Politik zentrale Kategorie sinnvollerweise steht.
Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible.
Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible.
This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.
Directly challenging the prevailing interpretation, Corey Beals explores the ideas of twentieth-century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's concept of love, love's relation to wisdom, and how love makes the Other visible to us.
This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author Tom Regan is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement.
Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions.
Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions.
From the fashion label Dior being accused of cultural appropriation after using American Indian imagery in an ad campaign for its "e;Sauvage"e; fragrance, to the backlash against Kendall Jenner's afro-esque hairstyle in Vogue, debates about cultural appropriation have reached a fever pitch.
First published in 1983, in The Crown, the Sages and Supreme Morality the first account of the universal science of Supreme Morality, or Moralogy, to be published in the West, Robert Ball shows how it is based on the moral teaching of Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, and is influenced by ancient Chinese thought.
