This book raises awareness about environmental issues that result from energy production, extraction and conversion, and examines the attitudes people have about these issues.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat othersand ourselvesmore fairly and mercifully There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deservethat we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal.
This book draws a connection between ethics and research across social sciences, philosophy, medical sciences and legal sciences, and demonstrates that any research activity needs to be conducted by means of rules deriving from the field of ethics.
Research is defined by the Australian Research Council as "e;the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies, inventions and understandings"e;.
In a deeply unequal world, our economic status shapes our pursuit of virtue whether we have enough resources to live comfortably or struggle to surviveOur understanding of inequality as a moral problem is incomplete.
The first book to argue for the concept of tragic dilemmas in Christian ethicsMoral dilemmas arise when individuals are unable to fulfill all of their ethical obligations.
This book introduces important reflections on understanding the meaning of cultural-religious heritage in an international context and their relationship with issues of sustainability at the local community level.
Diesem Buch liegt die These zugrunde, dass sich ein Verständnis der Macht der öffentlichen Verwaltung nicht allein auf die Befugnisse beschränkt, mit denen deren Mitarbeiter*innen ausgestattet sind.
This book aspires to face the challenge of analyzing with due academic rigor, always in the paradigm of security and advanced sciences, but without forgetting the ethical questions that our world raises every day.
The idea of moral evil has always held a special place in philosophy and theology because the existence of evil has implications for the dignity of the human and the limits of human action.
This book offers a vision of politics that govern the womb; from antiquity ('be fertile and replenish the earth'), through the ages (hysterectomy, to extirpate women's 'hysteria'), up to the present time (abortion wars; assisted reproduction), and into the future (reprogenetics; the artificial womb).
This volume examines the breadth and depth of virtue ethics and aims to counter the virtue ethics amnesia that both afflicts general moral philosophy and affects business and management ethics.
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (19422017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of.
