Ethics and moral philosophy

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities-places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die.

Where does the notion of free will come from?

In Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust, David H.

The description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming.

An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warmingClimate change is the supreme challenge of our time.

Wall Street Journal BestsellerHave you ever wondered why we spend so much time and energy thinking about the big challenges in our lives when all the evidence proves it's actually the little things that change everything?

Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity.

Bioethics asks fundamental questions.

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world.

A comprehensive introduction to contemporary political ethicsWhat is the relationship between politics and morality?

This book presents the argument that health has special moral importance because of the disadvantage one suffers when subjected to impairment or disabling barriers.

Fully revised and updated throughout, this fourth edition of Lena Dominelli's influential book retains its reputation as the go-to text on anti-racist social work practice.

This fully updated new edition of Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of a range of ethical challenges facing youth workers in their everyday practice.

In this awaited follow up to his book Faithful Reason, the well-known philosopher and Catholic thinker John Haldane brings his unrivalled insight to bear on questions of the existence of God and the nature and destiny of the human soul.

This volume explores the construction of an ethics for news media that is global in reach and impact.

This authoritative book explores cases of whistleblowing from around the world, with a focus on cases in South Africa.

This bookexplores the economic institutions that determine the nature of animal lives assystematically exploited objects traded in a market economy.

This book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television.

This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically.

This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to, and analysis of, the issues relating to the implementation of the recent Responsibility to Protect principle in international relationsThe Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has come a long way in a short space of time.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

The contributions in this volume suggest that "e;the ethics project in legal education"e; is increasingly an international one.

Food - what we eat, how much we eat, how it is produced and prepared, and its cultural and ecological significance- is an increasingly significant topic not only for scholars but for all of us.

This book explores philosophical ethics in Arabo-Islamic thought.

Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional.

A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral.

Prefaces was the last of four books by Soren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844.

"e;Without authority,"e; a phrase Kierkegaard repeatedly applied to himself and his writings, is an appropriate title for this volume of five short works that in various ways deal with the concept and practice of authority.

Early Polemical Writings covers the young Kierkegaard's works from 1834 through 1838.

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A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally.

In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor.

Nothing is more integral to democracy than voting.

"e;The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark.

A searching examination of the moral limits of political compromiseWhen is political compromise acceptable-and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may?

Kierkegaard was driven to write The Book on Adler after news spread that a Danish pastor, Adolph P.

First published in 1848, Christian Discourses is a quartet of pieces written and arranged in contrasting styles.

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we loveIn The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love.

Why the human and natural world is not as intelligible to us as we think it isWishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking.

Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions was the last of seven works signed by Kierkegaard and published simultaneously with an anonymously authored companion piece.

Why the West must overcome its guilty conscience to foster a better global futureFascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism-the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt.

Why the battle between superstition and science is far from overFrom uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture?

When is clinical research in developing countries exploitation?

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, a fascinating tour through the history of moral philosophyA runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track.

Kierkegaard, a poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, also had a direct and polemical side.

This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice.

What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "e;feels right"e;?

Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel.

In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of Americas most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times.