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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
As asymmetric ’wars among the people’ replace state-on-state wars in modern armed conflict, the growing role of military medicine and medical technology in contemporary war fighting has brought an urgent need to critically reassess the theory and practice of military medical ethics. Military Medical...
The Patient's Wish to Die
Research, Ethics, and Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Wish to die statements are becoming a frequent phenomenon in terminally ill patients. Those confronted by these statments need to understand the complexity of such wishes, so they can respond competently and compassionately to the requests. If misunderstood, the statements can be taken at face-value...
Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics
Reimagining the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise,...
Zur Begründung einer Übernahme ethischer Verantwortung in Unternehmen
Moralische, ökonomische und institutionelle Einsichten
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 2,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, course: Unternehmensethik, 42 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the past few years, business ethics has...
Chinese Just War Ethics
Origin, Development, and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of warfare ethics in early China as well as its subsequent development.
Chinese attitudes toward war are rich and nuanced, ranging across amoral realism, defensive just war, humanitarian intervention, and mournful skepticism. Covering the five...
Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics
On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics offers a comparative discussion of the challenges of living a moral religious life. This is illustrated with a study of two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa, who influenced the development of moral thinking in Christianity and Buddhism respectively.
Provides...
by Thomas A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Work in philosophy of religion is still strongly marked by an excessive focus on Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism — almost to the exclusion of other religious traditions. Moreover, in many cases it has been confined to a narrow set of intellectual problems, without embedding these in...
Finite and Infinite Goods
A Framework for Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
Renowned scholar Robert Adams explores the relation between religion and ethics through a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. Adams' framework begins with the good rather than the right, and with excellence rather than usefulness. He argues that loving...
by Mark Devenney
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
In addressing the political and theoretical debates between critical and post-Marxist theorists, this book discusses the politics of communication and rationality, subjectivity, sovereignty, ethics and deliberative democracy, considering questions such as:
* Does the theory of communicative...
World and Life as One
Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein’s Early Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first book-length...
by Duncan Richter
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
G.E.M. Anscombe (1919-2001) was one of the most important, outspoken, and misunderstood philosophers of the twentieth century. More than anyone else she revived virtue ethics and the philosophy of action. She was also almost alone in publicly opposing Oxford University's decision to award an honorary...
by William H. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book offers a detailed utilitarian analysis of the ethical issues involved in war.
Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War addresses the two basic ethical questions posed by war: when, if ever, are we morally justified in waging war, and if recourse to arms is warranted, how are we permitted...
Kantian Ethics
Value, Agency, and Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about value. Stern then considers where this places Kant...
Sports, Virtues and Vices
Morality Plays
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport.
The primary...