Ethics category: 8196 books
Ethics in the First Person
A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2006
Ethics in the First Person is the first comprehensive guide to teaching and learning practical ethics to be published in more than 25 years. This book provides the historical context for the study of practical ethics in the Twenty-First Century, but focuses on the teaching and learning of practical...
New Dimensions in Bioethics
Science, Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last three decades, bioethics has matured into a field of study with several areas of concentration, including medical ethics, environmental ethics and more recently, genetic ethics. For reasons related to both the developmental history of the subject and to the poignancy of the problems presented,...
Practical Ethics
A Collection of Addresses and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1998
A classic work in the field of practical and professional ethics, this collection of nine essays by English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was first published in 1898 and forms a vital complement to Sidgwick's major treatise on moral theory, The Methods of Ethics. Reissued here...
by Laurence B. McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Medical ethics is the disciplined study of medical morality, with two goals: critically appraising current medical morality and identifying how it should be improved. Medical morality has three components. Physicians, patients, communities, and policy makers have beliefs about what is good and bad...
by Anya Daly
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty’s unwritten ethics. Daly contends that though Merleau-Ponty never developed an ethics per se, there is significant textual evidence that clearly indicates he had the intention...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Featuring leading scholars from philosophy and religious studies, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics dispels the myth that Indian thinkers and philosophers were uninterested in ethics.
This comprehensive research handbook traces Indian moral philosophy through classical, scholastic...
Intricate Ethics
Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissable Harm
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
"Reading F.M. Kamm's latest book is like watching a brilliant astronomer map an uncharted galaxy--the meticulousness and the display of mental stamina must inspire awe. There is a kind of beauty in the performance alone. Intricate Ethics is a major event in normative ethical theory by a living master...
The Ethics of Care
Personal, Political, and Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevant to...
Stoic Virtues
Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Like its ancient rivals, Stoic ethics was a form of virtue ethics, yet while the concept of virtue was clearly central to Stoic ethics, the concept of Stoic virtue has not yet been fully explored. Instead, the existing literature tends to impose on the Stoic material philosophically quite alien non-Aristotelian...
by Campbell Jones, Martin Parker, Rene ten Bos
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines. It is ground-breaking in the sense that it invites a distinctively critical approach to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics....
Business Ethics
A stakeholder, governance and risk approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Traditionally, books on business ethics focus on CSR, companies’ relations with their stakeholders, and corporate citizenship. More recently, green credentials and sustainability have been added to that agenda. Unconventionally, this book argues that business ethics are basic to running business,...
Cosmopolitan Business Ethics
Towards a Global Ethos of Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
In Cosmopolitan Business Ethics: Towards a Global Ethos of Management, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff maps the concept of global business ethics, related to sustainability and corporate governance, via an examination of the major theories of business ethics and the philosophy of management.
The book...
by Gregory P. Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
A detailed examination and homage to Milton Bennion’s exceptional treatise on social ethics and citizenship, first published in the early twentieth century, rewritten in part and edited in part by Gregory P. Hawkins, who makes the case that "Aspirational Ethics" should and may become the new mantra...