Ethics and moral philosophy

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.

Huxley's classic lecture on evolution, human nature, and the way to true happinessThomas Henry Huxley (18251895) was one of the most prominent evolutionists of the late nineteenth century.

This book deals with the role of international standards for corporate governance in the context of corporate social responsibility.

The purpose of public and community health is to improve the health of populations or groups rather than concentrating on individuals.

This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician relationships in healthcare.

This volume brings together van Inwagen''s most significant essays in this major field, addressing key topics and including two entirely new chapters.

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting.

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A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both for reasons of prestige and stupidity.

Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurde eine Debatte um Bedeutung und Stellenwert des Demokratiegedankens ausgetragen, die die wilhelminische Ära des politischen Denkens abschloß und die Demokratiediskussion in der Weimarer Republik einleitete.

How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy?

The natural world has been "e;humanized"e;: even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact.

Crippled Grace combines disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved.

Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths.

People, as Aristotle said, are political animals.

Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument.

In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office.

This book offers new readings of Kant's "e;universal law"e; and "e;humanity"e; formulations of the categorical imperative.

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.

Shows that virtue ethics offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles.

Warum handelt der Mensch überhaupt moralisch, was sind seine Beweggründe dafür und was bedeutet das für eine freie bürgerliche Gesellschaft?

From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will beIn this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history.

Offering an overall insight into the French tradition of philosophy of technology, this volume is meant to make French-speaking contributions more accessible to the international philosophical community.

Violence and Nonviolence: an Introduction critiques five dominant societal views about violence and nonviolence.

Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two.

Considers why humans consider themselves superior to all other animals, and whether they are right to do so.

Parents in the US and other societies are increasingly refusing to vaccinate their children, even though popular anti-vaccine myths - e.

This book presents the building blocks of Islamic economics as meso-science, offering an in-depth study of the Qur'anic worldview of the monotheistic unity of knowledge, which is the universal and unique message of Tawhid in the Qur'an.

This book, first published 1931, examines the attitudes surrounding the natural sciences at the time of writing, and contends that an unreflective belief in the power of science, and especially in humanity's capacity to turn such knowledge to noble ends, could lead to catastrophic results for human civilisation.

In a world in which individuals will undergo multiple career changes, is it possible any longer to conceive of a job as a meaningful vocation?

This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophy of religion-a vibrant and growing field of academic philosophy.

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.

Originally published in 1965 and written by one of the world's leading experts in animal behaviour, this book was written just as the impact of DNA on biology, genetics ethology and biophysics was being felt.

The terrorist threat remains a disturbing issue for the early 1990s.

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Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and social psychology).

Conscience in Reproductive Health Care responds to the growing worldwide trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide abortions and similar reproductive health services in countries where these services are legal and professionally accepted.

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

Published in 1999.

Strokes of Luck provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the role of luck in moral and political philosophy.

Offers a new approach to understanding the concept of desert and its relationship to justice.

This book asserts that gratitude for God's gift of creation grounds the insight of positive psychology that grateful persons act pro-socially.

How aesthetic religious experiences can create solidarity in marginalized communitiesLatine Catholics have used Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol in democratic campaigns ranging from the Chicano movement and United Farm Workers movements to contemporary calls for just immigration reform.