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A Philosopher Reads... Marvel Comics' Civil War
Exploring the Moral Judgment of Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
We love to see superheroes fight, whether to protect innocent people from supervillains or to save the world. But superheroes also fight each other, and if we can look past the energy blasts and earth-shattering punches, we can find serious disagreements over principles and ethics. This was certainly...
The Role Ethics of Epictetus
Stoicism in Ordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life offers an original interpretation of Epictetus’s ethics and how he bases his ethics on an appeal to our roles in life. Epictetus believes that every individual is the bearer of many roles from sibling to citizen and that individuals are morally...
by Julian H. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities. But their right to life and to be free of exploitation is no less fundamental than the corresponding right of humans, writes Julian H. Franklin. This theoretically rigorous book will...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance?
What are the key ethical issues in sports coaching practice?
Despite the increasing sophistication of our understanding of the player-sport-coach relationship, the dominant perspective of the sports coach is still an instrumental...
Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction
Novel Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late realist...
by Voula Tsouna
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
Voula Tsouna presents a comprehensive study of the ethics of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, who taught Virgil, influenced Horace, and was praised by Cicero. His works have only recently become available to modern readers, through the decipherment of a papyrus carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius...
Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered
Phenomenological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and...
On What Matters
Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination...
Doing without Free Will
Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the contemporary discussion on free will and on moral problems surrounding this discussion. Traditional Western moral philosophy, for the most part, has been built on the assumption of free will as a special human...
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...
Varieties of Empathy
Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency. Yet, its precise meaning is often left unexplored, together with the various obstacles and challenges met by an empathy-based ethic, such as those concerning...
Ethics and Finitude
Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2000
This book explores what anyone interested in ethics can draw from Heidegger's thinking. Heidegger argues for the radical finitude of being. But finitude is not only an ontological matter; it is also located in ethical life. Moral matters are responses to finite limit-conditions, and ethics itself...
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....
Ethics Vindicated
Kant's Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Can we regard ourselves as having free will? What is the place of values in a world of facts? What grounds the authority of moral injunctions, and why should we care about them? Unless we provide satisfactory answers to these questions, ethics has no credible status and is likely to be subsumed by...