Ethics and moral philosophy

Business Ethics: Japan and the Global Economy presents a multicultural perspective of global business ethics with special emphasis on Japanese viewpoints.

Queen Belacane is dying.

This volume is an update to Weed Science- A Plea for Thought-Revisited published by Springer in 2012.

Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien.

These ten original essays examine the moral and philosophical implications of developments in the science of ethics, the growing movement that seeks to use recent empirical findings to answer long-standing ethical questions.

Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears.

In the 21st century, the concept of ethics may seem outdated or obsolete.

Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality's essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense.

This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people in the military, with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting VIP's and state dignitaries.

Modern Freemasonry in the United States and Great Britain celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2017 tracing its direct history from the Grand Lodge of England founded in 1717.

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

This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.

We live today surrounded by countless digital gadgets and navigate through cyberspace as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Epistemological theories of knowledge and justification draw a crucial distinction between one's simply having good reasons for some belief and one's actually basing one's belief on good reasons.

Vinciane Despret is a Belgian philosopher whose work proposes new questions and approaches to human-animal relations.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought a broad range of ethical problems to the forefront, raising fundamental questions about the role of government in response to such outbreaks, the scarcity and allocation of health care resources, the unequal distribution of health risks and economic impacts, and the extent to which individual freedom can be restricted.

Wie werden Arzneimittel im Korper verteilt?

Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns.

First published in 1952, Reflections on Life and Religion is a collection of selected entries made by Sir James Baillie from 1893 to his death.

Existing human beings stand in a unique relationship of asymmetrical influence over future generations.

A `slippery slope' argument in medical ethics is one that opposes itself to a new proposal on the grounds that it is not per se intolerable but will lead to a situation that is.

A defense of moral contractarianism as a distinct approach to the social contract, with particular relevance for morally diverse societies.

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless.

In Gesundheitsberufen ist Ethik allgegenwärtig und erhält in der Ausbildung zunehmend mehr Gewicht.

The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of medical technology.

The essays collected in this volume provide students of ethics with essential tools for making sense of emerging biotechnical capacities and the turbulent power relations these capacities are bringing into the world.

During the 1980s, those of us who were involved in forensic psychiatry have seen an increase in the interest in our subspecialty.

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy.

This book describes the "e;naturalistic fallacy"e;, as attributed to Hume, that non-moral premises cannot logically entail a moral conclusion, and distinguishes it from the similarly named though subtly different fallacy identified by Moore in Principia Ethica by comparing and contrasting its presence in a range of ethical or moral systems.

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility.

Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method.

This book is an outcome of an international symposium: Sustainability -Can We Design the Future of Human Life and the Environment?

Knowing that we are finite, how can we live to the fullest?

Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems.

This handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and theoretical issues within the emerging field of animal ethics.

Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St.

This book is dedicated to the research of the "e;pleasure phenomenon"e; as the most important factor in individual and socio-cultural development.

John Mikhail explores whether moral psychology is usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar.

The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor.

In this book, Coady brings a philosophical and ethical perspective to the subject of political violence.

Originally published between 1921 and 1950 the volumes in this collection showcase many of the most important philosophical, political and literary works of Benedetto Croce.

This book deeply analyzes the theoretical roots of the development of global artificial intelligence ethics and AI governance, the ethical issues in AI application scenarios, and the discussion of artificial intelligence governance issues from a global perspective.

This volume explores the development of post-Kantian practical philosophy through the themes of freedom, right, and revolution.

Practical Reality is about the relation between the reason why we do things and the reasons why we should.