Ethics and moral philosophy

En estas lecciones hace Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) una exposición crítica de la historia de la ética, especialmente, moderna, que le permite defender la validez de los principios éticos rechazando las diferentes formas de hedonismo y describir los modos pasivo y activo de la motivación en cuanto legalidad del devenir espiritual.

In Marxism's uneasy relationship with ethics a small number of prominent theorists considered it imperative to highlight the moral principles implicit in Marx's social theory and to develop these ethics in the light of changing conditions.

Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror.

A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most influential moral philosophers alive todaySuppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one.

The epistemology and the phenomenology of perception are closely related insofar as both depend on experiences of self-evident objectivity-experiences in which the objectivity of a state of affairs is evident from within our experience of that state of affairs.

We rely on two different conceptions of morality.

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Exploring the controversy surrounding therapeutic human cloning, this book draws upon data collected from news articles and interviews with journalists to examine the role of mass media in shaping biomedical controversies.

This book considers the nature and exercise of moral imagination in situations in which our ability to act and choose meaningfully is limited by unarticulated expectations.

Klugheit ist die Kompetenz, sich selbst im Handeln und Leben zu orientieren.

In this revised edition with a new preface from the editor, leading scientists explain the nature and goals of `test tube' reproduction and genetic engineering, and their eugenic implications.

The Anthropocene presents theology, and especially theological anthropology, with unprecedented challenges.

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.

This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action.

Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory.

Philosophy and the advances in cosmology, neurology, molecular biology, and the social sciences have made the convincing and converging arguments for God's existence more probable than ever in history.

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research.

Ownership-based economics has led to the rapid development and apparent universal success of the market economy.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior.

This textbook presents an overview of the critically important ethical and legal issues that arise in the computing field and provides a professional perspective from software engineering.

For a time of peril, world-renowned theologian Jurgen Moltmann offers an ethical framework for the future.

Karl Jaspers, who died in 1969, had a profound impact on 20th-century theology and philosophy.

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them.

Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology.

John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years.

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Previously unpublished writings from one of the most important political philosophers of recent timesG.

By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the eternal-feminine and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas.

Discusses constructivist responses to fundamental issues such as why be moral, why be rational, and why be an agent.

This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians.

Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent.

A comprehensive defense of the principle of double effect and the importance of intentions for normative ethics.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the potential conflict between a government's duty to protect children and a parent(s)' right to raise children in a manner they see fit.

Short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensure that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practise that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care.

Moral Motivation presents a history of the concept of moral motivation.

Is it acceptable to kill an animal that has been granted a pleasant life?

What is the appropriate balance between privacy, security, and accountability?

In the following essays discussing clinical ethics consultation, three sorts of reflective writing are presented.

The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts.

Comparisons between morality and other 'companion' disciplines - such as mathematics, religion, or aesthetics - are commonly used in philosophy, often in the context of arguing for the objectivity of morality.

This title was first published in 2002.

Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.

Brentano behauptet in seiner kleinen Schrift "Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis" (1874), dass es im Bewußtsein des Menschen einen unmittelbaren Maßstab für richtiges Fühlen, Wollen, Vorziehen und Fürguthalten gibt.

Truth, Trust and Medicine investigates trust and honesty in medicine.

This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity.

Articulating an Augustinian treatment of the nature, limits, meaning, and end of work, this volume will push Augustinian studies toward a more-detailed engagement with issues of political economy.

The Soviet collapse of 1991 - the Great August liberation - demonstrated the total exhaustion of Marxist-Leninist agitation and propaganda.