Ethics and moral philosophy

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.

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

Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes' conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures.

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality - moral acting, feeling, and thinking - that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification.

This volume examines the views of seven prominent ethical traditions on the making and unmaking of boundaries.

This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role.

This book is about how best to respond to existential global threats posed by war and global heating.

In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe.

Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy.

A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism is a thoroughly researched interdisciplinary exploration of the critical role metaethical beliefs play in the way morality functions.

Examining inequality through the lenses of moral traditionsRising inequality has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years from scholars and politicians, but the moral dimensions of inequality tend to be ignored.

This book explores illegal forms of corruption and, more widely, moral and legal forms of corruption.

Gang Yi legt eine neue Perspektive dar, aus der das Problem des so genannten Konflikts zwischen Platons Ablehnung der Akrasia im Protagoras und seiner Anerkennung der Akrasia in der Politeia betrachtet wird.

Myriad works discuss forgiveness, but few address it in the prison context.

This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory.

This book is about the interaction between biomedical engineering and ethics during emergencies, such as low-resource settings and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Falk argues that the failure to achieve what he terms "e;humane global governance"e; is partially due to the exclusion of religious and spiritual dimensions of human experience from the study and practice of government.

Die Philosophieprofessorin Susanne Boshammer diskutiert anregend und anschaulich, was es bedeutet, zu verzeihen.

Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory.

Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs.

Questions of complicity emerge within a range of academic disciplines and everyday practices.

This book is about happiness and about how the supremely happy life - the life blessed with what Aristotle refers to as eudaimonia - is the life of an ethical individual living in a healthy community.

The vast majority of studies of Hannah Arendt's thought are concerned with her as a political theorist.

This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics.

This Brief sheds light on the motivation of humanitarian intervention from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

Do good and evil exist?

This book develops a new contractualist foundation for just war theory, which defends the traditional view of the moral equality of combatants and associated egalitarian moral norms.

Digital Stimulation explores the subject of intimacy, including romantic and sexual intimacy, between human and nonhuman entities, particularly technological entities.

Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980's.

In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to evaluative commitments (science and philosophy) or to involve non-moral values (aesthetics) are in fact deeply informed by ethico-religious commitments, for better and for worse.

This volume offers original essays exploring what 'fictive narrative philosophy' might mean in the research and teaching of philosophy.

This book deals with the thorny issue of human rights in different cultures and religions, especially in the light of bioethical issues.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

Aquinas''s moral philosophy - the intrinsic connection between happiness and human good, human virtue, and the precepts of practical reason.

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture.

This book points to a necessary relationship between ethics and business; the success of such an alliance depends directly on sound business leadership.

The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems.

This diverse, global, and interdisciplinary volume explores the existing research, practice, and ethical issues pertinent to the field of human-animal interactions (HAIs), interventions, and anthrozoology, focusing on the perceived physical and mental health benefits to humans and the challenges derived from these relationships.

In the course of more than twenty works François Laruelle has developed one of the most singular and unique ways of thinking within contemporary philosophy.

In a world riddled with disappointment, malice, and tragedy, what rationale do we have for believing in a benevolent God?

Fenelon was a nuanced and influential diagnostician of the ills of European society, one who carefully analysed phenomena as wide-ranging and complex as egocentrism, authoritarianism, and imperialism.

This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "e;How ought we to live?

Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions.

Calls for a "e;consilient"e; or "e;vertically integrated"e; approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility.