Ethics and moral philosophy

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept.

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics.

Information we use to structure our lives is increasingly stored digitally, rather than in biomemory.

Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten aus dem Jahr 1785 stellt einen der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Texte der gesamten Philosophiegeschichte dar.

This book delves into the pressing issue of energy justice as it relates to SDG 7 and its far-reaching implications for society.

The philosophical study of well-being concerns what makes lives good for their subjects.

Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still remains fairly low profile in the Anglophone academic world.

Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention.

This collection of essays presents Jeffrie G.

This exciting new book is the first comprehensive and critical study of the relationship between the Pragmatist tradition and political theory.

Ecological crisis is being widely discussed in society today and therefore, the subject of religious naturalism has emerged as a major topic in religion.

This book explores the associative duties we owe to our children, parents, friends, colleagues, associates and compatriots and defends a novel account which justifies such duties through the realization of values that are produced in these various kinds of social relationships.

In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible to the illiterate in ways that print was not, specialists in the history of the major European countries trace the use of censorship by the authorities to implement their fears of the visual arts, from caricature to cinema.

Supposition is frequently invoked in many fields within philosophy, including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and epistemology.

People backslide.

Trust is central to our social lives.

The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in years.

Virtue, as a Renaissance ideal, was largely conceived as a rational governing of unruly passions.

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?

In this global approach to climate change and freshwater access, Cameron Fioret explores the harmful effects of water commodification.

Victim's Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights takes on a set of questions suggested by the worldwide persistence of human rights abuse and the prevalence of victims' stories in human rights campaigns, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals: What conceptions of victims are presumed in contemporary human rights discourse?

This title was first published in 2002.

This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and considers the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in the context of a changing understanding of subjectivity.

Whilst he broaches the theme of the difference between the sexes, Hegel does not go deep enough into the question of their mutual desire as a crucial stage in our becoming truly human.

This book provides an analysis of the two concepts of power and crime and posits that criminologists can learn more about these concepts by incorporating ideas from disciplines outside of criminology.

What should be the Christian's attitude toward society?

In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity.

Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history.

This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged.

Today, six out of ten Americans describe themselves as "e;active"e; environmentalists or as "e;sympathetic"e; to the movement's concerns.

Does objectivity exist in the news media?

Since the early 1960s, the internationally acclaimed and highly distinguished Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson has made substantial contributions to his own discipline.

This collection, first published in 1994, contains thirteen critical essays by established scholars from the fields of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory, politics, and sociology, and a new essay by Deleuze himself.

This book provides an account of the development of ideas about nature from the Early German Romantics into the philosophies of nature of Schelling and Hegel.

Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St.

A study of Plato''s ethics, focusing on the concept of virtue.

The concept of community is increasingly the focus of political argument in Britain, the United States and elsewhere around the world.

In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue.

El iusnaturalismo egoísta de Thomas Hobbes es una interpretación general de la teoría jurídica de Hobbes, y muestra la dependencia de dicha teoría respecto de la filosofía moral y epistemológica del filósofo inglés.

Through original case studies and analyses of real-life media experiences, Media Ethics challenges readers to think analytically and critically about ethical situations in mediated communication.

Angst begleitet uns überallhin und jederzeit.

Moral diversity is a fundamental reality of today's world, but moral theorists have difficulty responding to it.