Ethics and moral philosophy

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This handbook consists of essays on contemporary issues in criminal law and their theoretical underpinnings.

This book offers a unique method for teaching ethics and social/political philosophy by combining primary texts and resource material along with three philosophical novels so that students can apply the abstract principles to real-life situations.

This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily).

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law.

This book addresses how Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch (each in different ways) view the connection aesthetic experience has to morality.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning.

The book is a collection of essays written since 2010, and dealing, in one way or another, with the place of values in economic analysis.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy-the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves-has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom.

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights.

Are our identities attached to our faces?

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms.

One of the world’s most influential philosophers here considers the ethical issues surrounding globalization.

In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (172390), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.

It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor.

This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserl's articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizoin 1923.

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it?

Michael Walzer is one of the world’s most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics.

We humans value a great variety of plant and animal species for their usefulness to us.

An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama.

According to the US Constitution, if a bill is not returned to Congress by the president within ten days of receiving it and Congress has adjourned, the bill is effectively vetoed.

By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina's Lowcountry for nearly two hundred years.

What does faith look like when cynicism seems more plausible?

Die Beiträge des Bandes thematisieren den Zusammenhang von Medien, Demokratie und Bildung im Dreischritt „Information” als Basis politischer Öffentlichkeit, „Partizipation” als anzustrebende demokratische Praxis sowie „Reflexion” auf die grundlegenden Wertvoraussetzungen gelingender gesellschaftlicher Organisation die digitale Kommunikation.

This book surveys the distinctions that underlie the unbound potential and existential risks of life expansion and radical modifications posed by a transhuman world.

This revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman's right to decide the future of her pregnancy.

This comprehensive collection brings out the rich and deep philosophical resources of the Zhuangzi.

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A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth?

This book is dedicated to Edith Stein (1891-1942), who is known widely for her contributions to metaphysics.

This book raises awareness about environmental issues that result from energy production, extraction and conversion, and examines the attitudes people have about these issues.

Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States.

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity.

Ecological restoration integrates the science and art of repairing ecosystems damaged by human activities.

This book is a continuation and deepening of Sovereign Blockchain 1.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the field's leading scholars.

This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature.

Is intelligence heritable?

How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious societyWe live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous.

This book reflects on the significance of duties in creating an egalitarian society by collating and contextualizing the relevant literature.

This book presents a collection of exclusively selected manuscripts on current ethical controversies related to professional practices from an interprofessional perspective.

Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life.

An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English.

This book reveals the entanglement of ethics, rights and justice in education.

The Future of Ethics interprets the big questions of sustainability and social justice through the practical problems arising from humanitys increasing power over basic systems of life.