Ethics and moral philosophy

Welcome to the Drone Age.

The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.

Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work.

Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us-a view still dominant in philosophy now.

The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age.

Art and Morality is a collection of groundbreaking new papers on the theme of aesthetics and ethics, and the link between the two subjects.

In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for?

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions.

How far should our realism extend?

These are challenging times, and perhaps it is here that humans are viewed at their best and their worst.

Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many.

Recovering Bookchinholds social ecologist Murray Bookchin's ideas and legacy alive.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

What is the difference between civil and uncivil disobedience?

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This textbook introduces students to the various arguments for and against the prohibition of recreational drugs.

Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years.

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

Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius' Psychomachia, written in the fifth century.

This book explores why animals, at some point, disappeared from the realm and scope of sociology.

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge.

Originally published in 1973, this volume documents Bertrand Russell's travels in America covering the period 1896-1945.

A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square.

This book argues that the science of reasoning will prove most useful if focused on studying what human reasoning does best - understanding people.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

Gadamer's Path to Plato investigates the formative years of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Plato studies, while studying with Martin Heidegger at Marburg University.

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy.

At the same time that the pace of science and technology has greatly accelerated in recent decades, our legal and ethical oversight mechanisms have become bogged down and slower.

This book offers a solution to the ancient philosophical problem regarding the nature and the justification of morality.

Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed God of Abraham (Oxford, 1996), Lenn E.

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films.

We are all guilty of it.

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

A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

This book, an essential tool for anyone studying the state of feminist thought in particular or ethical theory in general, shows the outlines of an ethic of care in the distinctive practices of African American communities and considers how the values of care and justice can be reformulated.

In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: leather, wool, silk, feathers, pearls, and fur.

This book explores forgiveness as a philosophical matter.

This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory.

Current patterns of global economic activity are not only unsustainable, but unethical - this claim is central to Materialist Ethics and Life-Value.

This book describes how the theological virtue of hope contributes to happiness in this life and not just the next.

Während Weltarmut und Welthunger in der Ethik häufig nur als Probleme der Gerechtigkeit behandelt werden, bringt Julia Müller die globalen Probleme von Armut und Hunger mit dem normativen Fundament unseres universalen Moralverständnisses, der Menschenwürde, zusammen.

Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.