Ethics and moral philosophy

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The nature of environmental human rights and their relation to larger rights theories has been a frequent topic of discussion in law, environmental ethics and political theory.

A timely overview of ethics, emphasizing applications to biomedical researchers, health providers, and administratorsThere are no simple rules to guide ethical conduct in daily practice, health professionals must have a basic understanding of several topics including ethical theories; ethical scandals; laws, regulations, and institutional policies; and public perceptions.

May you sell your spare kidney?

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A serious biblical and philosophical investigation of theological determinism: the idea that everything that happens has already been decided by God, including who will and won't be saved.

Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.

This book offers a practical guide to the most pressing ethical issues faced by those working in food manufacturing and associated industries.

To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit.

A 96 page guide to the background, program, uses for and contact time needed with the CD-ROM A Right to Die?

What is self-control?

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently.

Philosophical interest in disability is rapidly expanding.

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Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases for the 21st Century explores the major ethical dilemmas facing journalists in the digital age.

This handbook is one of the first comprehensive research and teaching tools for the developing area of global media ethics.

The Animal Ethics Reader is an acclaimed anthology containing both classic and contemporary readings, making it ideal for anyone coming to the subject for the first time.

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy.

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Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and the management of scarce recourses.

Growing numbers of human beings live with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities.

This vitally important book attempts to move beyond the current death-denying culture.

In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time.

This book advances an interdisciplinary understanding of moral injury by analyzing the stories of military veterans of combat and peace missions.

God for an Old Man blends elements of careful academic thought about God with elements of personal autobiography and memoir.

Do you believe you think independently?

Provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce''s thought and analyses his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning.

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness.

This Element explores one of the major ethical theories, deontology, and the challenges its chief rival, consequentialism, poses to it.

Surprising, humourous and thought-provoking, Much Like Us invites us on a journey to explore the inner lives of animals.

What is it to be modern?

This book describes and analyzes important moral theories as they pertain to international politics and the study of international relations, examining the role that moral thinking actually played in specific cases in American foreign policy.

This book explores Edith Stein's phenomenology of the state.

The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy.

This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship.

Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "e;naturalistic"e; style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant.

In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E.

This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.

Intellectual property has rapidly become one of the most important, as well as most controversial, subjects in recent years amongst productive thinkers of many kinds all over the world.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

This book represents the cutting edge of theoretical works on Confucianism.

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This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in the 1960s.

First published in 1900, this philosophical essay on Evolution questions how the acceptance of Evolution as scientific should influence the thoughts and actions of humankind from the perspective of morality and moral conduct.