Ethics and moral philosophy

What is death?

There is widespread agreement that something must be done to combat anthropogenic climate change.

Much of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions.

Most philosophers and political scientists readily admit that Thomas Hobbes is a significant figure in the history of political thought.

Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.

Marchetti offers a revisionist account of James's contribution to moral thought in the light of his pragmatic conception of philosophical activity.

This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue.

If a competent adult refuses medical treatment, physicians and public officials must respect her decision.

Der Bedarf an ethischer Orientierung ist durch den enormen wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritt im 20.

'China, by her resources and her population, is capable of being the greatest power in the world after the United States.

This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas.

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities.

Fred Beiser, renowned as one of the world's leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention.

This book addresses a growing need in apologetic literature.

Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy’s denial of art’s morality.

Living with Animals brings a pragmatist ecofeminist perspective to discussions around animal rights, animal welfare, and animal ethics to move the conversation beyond simple use or non-use decisions.

Empowering Bernard Lonergan's Legacy offers an interdisciplinary approach to Lonergan's work.

The divide in our societies between those who are religious and those who are not is becoming increasingly apparent in many areas of contemporary life.

E-mail and Ethics explores the ways in which interpersonal relations are affected by being conducted via computer-mediated communication.

Anlass für dieses Buchs sind die zunehmende Kälte im Umgang der Bürger miteinander und ihre mangelnde Empathie: normenverletzendes Handeln zulasten der Mitmenschen, Hassausbrüche in sozialen Netzen, Übergriffigkeiten jeder Art.

A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense.

In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering.

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness.

This book claims that artificial intelligence (AI) may affect our freedom at work, in our daily life, and in the political sphere.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

Die Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens sieht aus wie eine ganz normale Frage, nur ihr Gegenstand scheint von besonderer Wichtigkeit zu sein.

Dieses Buch dokumentiert den Stand der Diskussion um wissenschaftliche Konzepte im Umgang mit Technikfolgen.

The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in an electronically shrinking globe comes to be increasingly characterised by this phenomenon.

This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design.

Drink, 'the curse of Britain', was sweeping the land, or so it seemed to many Englishmen in the early decades of the nineteenth century.

What role does ethics play in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy?

Mental health professionals face many complex questions in the course of their work with clients and patients.

This book explores interpretations of alienation from nature in relation to a broad range of environmental issues.

Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with "e;thick"e; descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism.

Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born.

This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being.

Boldly reconfigures Walden for contemporary ethics and politics by recovering Thoreau''s theological vision of environmental justice.

This illuminating work on one of today's most provocative issues provides all the necessary information for careful, critical thinking about the concept of sexual harassment.

Ethics appears early in the life of a culture.

Despite the continuing dominance of market relations and market forces in contemporary society, there remain fundamental questions about the ethical acceptability of markets and their effects.

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.

What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another?

As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict.

In beautifully simple language, Gregory Baum discusses the writings of four men whose nationalism was shaped by their religion and their time: Martin Buber's speeches on Zionism before the creation of Israel; Mahatma Gandhi's influential incitement to peaceful resistance against British imperialism; Paul Tillich's book on socialism and nationalism which was banned by the Nazis; and Jacques Grand'Maison's defence of Quebecois nationalism in the wake of the province's Quiet Revolution.

Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning challenges readers to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication through original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences.