A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
Michael Quante befasst sich in diesem Buch mit allen Aspekten der modernen Biotechnologien von der Stammzellforschung bis zur Sterbehilfe und fragt nach den Folgen, die sich aus ihnen für den Erhalt der demokratischen Werte ergeben (Autonomie, Freiheit, Gleichheit, etc.
Este libro intenta dilucidar lo que Tomás de Aquino pensó sobre la belleza, acudiendo para ello al «Index Thomisticus» del sacerdote jesuita Roberto Bussa.
Britain s best philosopher he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order Telegraph, Books of the YearEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world.
Recording the history of the belief in the existence of Satan, this book draws from the Bible, the poetry of Dante and Milton, the legend of Faust, and from modern novels and plays such as the works of Mark Twain and G.
Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities.
Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.
Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.
Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities.
Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Wolodzko urges us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and other organisms.
Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Wolodzko urges us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and other organisms.
This volume brings together accounts from facilitating or 'brokering' researchers in three settings afflicted by armed conflict, including DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Jharkhand, India.
Ethics Lost in Modernity: Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics turns to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a guide to understand the immense success--yet great danger--of bioethics.
Die Grundlage und der Ausgangspunkt für diese Untersuchung ist eine kurze Textpassage in Immanuel Kants moralphilosophischer Schrift "Die Metaphysik der Sitten".
In diesem umfangreichen Werk wird an der humanistischen Philosophie und Psychologie das Thema des Mobbing kontrastiert und besonders die Täter des Mobbing vielfältig betrachtet.
Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy provides crucial insights for assessing the post-neoliberal era in this cutting-edge volume of anti-capitalist scholarship.
Esta obra es un análisis, una búsqueda por los sentidos más profundos de las afirmaciones de Byung-Chul Han, con toques críticos, que le otorgan al libro un valor propio, autónomo si se quiere, en relación con los textos del filósofo coreano.
In face of historical injustices such as war, colonialism, slavery, and genocides, what responsibilities, if any, do the present generations owe - and to whom are such responsibilities owed?
Originally published in 1980, this book introduces students of social studies to ideas in moral, social and political philosophy which are useful for assessing social policy.
Animals, Ethics, and Engineering: Intersections and Implications is a seminal work that explores the intricate relationship between technology, ethics, and the welfare of nonhuman animals.
Animals, Ethics, and Engineering: Intersections and Implications is a seminal work that explores the intricate relationship between technology, ethics, and the welfare of nonhuman animals.
