Ethics and moral philosophy

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework.

This book summarizes the author's extensive research on Confucian morality issues and focuses on elaborating the extremely important and unique role of moral thought in Confucian ideology.

This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures.

This book answers the question of how soft factors such as corporate cultures and individual and corporate values can be transparently steered.

This book provides occupational health (OH) professionals with a theoretical basis for addressing the ethical issues that they confront in their practice.

This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects of veganism offer to critical theory.

This book is a critical examination of the philosophical and moral issues in relation to human enhancement and the various related medical developments that are now rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical realm.

This book explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning in general, aiming to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of education.

This book disassembles the moral assessment of business practices into its constituent parts to identify and clarify the four key concepts that form the basis of important moral disagreements in business: 'personhood,' 'ownership,' 'harm,' and 'consent.

What is a right?

The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality.

This book is about religion, pacifism, and the nonviolence that informs pacifism in its most coherent form.

Fascinating and compelling in equal measure this volume presents a critical examination of the multilayered relationships between engineering and business.

A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis.

This book comprises 30 chapters representing certain new trends in reconcenptualizing Confucian ideas, ideals, values and ways of thinking by scholars from China and abroad.

In this book, author Svein Olaf Thorbjornsen probes the question: What is at stake for human beings in a society dominated by competition, particularly economic competition?

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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.

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.

What does faith look like when cynicism seems more plausible?

This handbook is a 'one-stop shop' for current information, issues and challenges in the fields of research ethics and scientific integrity.

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the legal concept and the meaning of human dignity for each European state and the European Union.

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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