Ethics category: 8196 books
by H.J. MacCloskey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this work is to develop a general theory of ethics which ex plains the logical status of moral judgments and the nature of the general principles which we should adopt and on the basis of which we should act. The enquiry into the logical function of moral judgments is entered into...
Acting on Principle
An Essay on Kantian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
'Two things', wrote Kant, 'fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within'. Many would argue that since Kant's day, the study of the starry heavens has advanced while ethics has stagnated, and in particular that Kant's ethics offers...
Ethics and Self-Cultivation
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been...
French Philosophy and Social Theory
A Perspective for Ethics and Philosophy of Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This book demonstrates how the conceptual resources of contemporary French philosophy from the early 20thCentury to the present day can be applied to give us new perspectives on business ethics and the ethics of organizations. In providing an overview of possible applications, the book covers a wide...
Ethics in Context
The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
In this clear and accessible book, Gernot Böhme places philosophical ethics in the context of our individual and social lives. Arguing against the conception of ethics as a body of knowledge, Böhme defines morality as a matter of ‘serious questions'. In the case of an individual, a serious question...
Means, Ends, and Persons
The Meaning and Psychological Dimensions of Kant's Humanity Formula
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
No one wants to be treated merely as a means-"used," in a sense. But just what is this repugnant treatment? Audi's point of departure is Kant's famous principle that we must treat persons as ends in themselves and never merely as means. Treatment of these kinds is conduct, a complex three-dimensional...
by Michael Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
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. Boylan provides a preface to introduce instructors...
Biomedical Research and Beyond
Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
What is the relationship between scientific research and ethics? Some think that science should be free from ethical and political considerations. Biomedical Research and Beyond argues that ethical guidance is essential for all forms of inquiry, including biomedical and scientific research. By addressing...
by Chris Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Balance has no meaning for a politics that is merely the continuation of war by other means. Both religious zealots and defenders of scientific fact declare a monopoly on truth and the moral law, while radicals are powerless to resist since they have lost faith that ethics can be anything but arbitrary....
The Birth of Ethics
Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related...
by Francesco Belfiore
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The revised edition of The Ontological Foundation of Ethics, Politics, and Law adds new concepts and discusses the views of additional thinkers. The author refers to his basic ontological conception of the human “mind” or “spirit” as an evolving, conscious, triadic entity composed of intellect,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Academic food ethics incorporates work from philosophy but also anthropology, economics, the environmental sciences and other natural sciences, geography, law, and sociology. Scholars from these fields have been producing work for decades on the food system, and on ethical, social, and policy issues...
An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals
Practical Approaches to Everyday Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1999
This collection of thirty-one cases and commentaries addresses ethical problems commonly encountered by the average health care professional, not just those working on such high-tech specialties as organ transplants or genetic engineering. It deals with familiar issues that are rarely considered in ethics...
by Laurence B. McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 's, research assistant at the Institute for the Medical Humanities in the University of Texas Medi cal Branch...