Ethics and moral philosophy

This ground-breaking handbook provides multi-disciplinary insight into Chinese morality, cognition and emotion by collecting in one place a comprehensive collection of essays focused on Chinese morality by world-leading experts from more than a dozen different academic fields of study.

John Locke's political theory has been the subject of many detailed treatments by philosophers and political scientists.

Nietzsche is one of the most subversive thinkers of the western philosophical canon.

Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory.

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy's thought: sense, experience, existence, and Christianity.

This book analyzes the political economy governing energy regulation across the African continent.

In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate.

The first full-length study of animals in Jane Austen, Barbara K.

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

Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory.

This new edition of Eva Feder Kittay's feminist classic, Love's Labor, explores how theories of justice and morality must be reconfigured when intersecting with care and dependency, and the failure of policy towards women who engage in care work.

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities.

This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.

A translation of Schopenhauer''s major and influential work which contains his entire philosophical system.

Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war?

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level.

Humanbiotechnology has progressed immensely, and humanbiotechnological research has entered a crucial stage.

This ground-breaking book uses organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to explore the ethical accountability of leadership in healthcare organizations to their distinct vulnerable stakeholder communities.

Written by a noted expert in criminal law, this book explores the philosophical underpinnings of the law's major doctrines concerning actus reus, mens rea, and defences, showing that they are not always driven by culpability.

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa.

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history.

The ethical treatment of animals has become an issue of serious moral concern.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

This is one of the most respected books on Marx's philosophical thought.

Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition.

Political protests, debates on college campuses, and social media tirades make it seem like everyone is speaking their minds today.

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy.

Why the human and natural world is not as intelligible to us as we think it isWishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking.

This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the Danish cartoons controversy, to argue that the human right of free speech is by no means so secure that it can be taken for granted.

This book discusses the concept of desire as a positive factor in human growth and flourishing.

Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world (31 BCE).

This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel enquiry into how judges might respond to the formidable and planetary-scaled challenges of the Anthropocene.

Vermutlich sind sich Technik und Mensch nirgendwo so nahe, sind auf intime und verbindliche Weise miteinander verschränkt, wie in den Bereichen von Medizin, Therapie und Pflege.

In a deeply unequal world, our economic status shapes our pursuit of virtue whether we have enough resources to live comfortably or struggle to surviveOur understanding of inequality as a moral problem is incomplete.

Das bewährte Studienbuch von Svend Andersen, das jetzt in einer überarbeiteten und erweiterten Neuauflage vorliegt, gibt Studierenden und anderen interessierten Lesern eine grundlegende und konzentrierte Einführung in die theologische und philosophische Ethik.

This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century.

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy.

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species.

Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith's Moral Rights and Political Freedom offers a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights.

The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell.

What is a human being?

Although the arts of incense and perfume making are among the oldest of human cultural practices, it is only in the last two decades that the use of odors in the creation of art has begun to attract attention under the rubrics of 'olfactory art' or 'scent art.

Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology: An Integrative Approach is a pioneering book which provides a comprehensive exploration of the ethical challenges in contemporary healthcare.

Many otherwise enlightened people often dismiss etiquette as a trivial subject or-worse yet-as nothing but a disguise for moral hypocrisy or unjust social hierarchies.

This book examines the importance of "e;military ethics"e; in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy.