Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
by Benjamin De Mesel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This book shows that Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methods can be fruitfully applied to several problems in contemporary moral philosophy. The author considers Wittgenstein’s ethical views and addresses such topics as meta-ethics, objectivity in ethics and moral perception. Readers...
Ethics 101
From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics.
Ethics 101 offers an exciting look into the...
Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy
Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how government contracts are handed out. Yet for as deep...
by Aurel Kolnai
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Ethics, Value, and Reality is a collection of essays written after Kolnai settled in England in 1955. These essays from Kolnai's mature years sit atop a remarkable gestation of moral and political thinking. At the heart of his thought is the special role of privilege in a good social order. Kolnai...
Memoir Ethics
Good Lives and the Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues is a philosophical study of moral themes in memoirs, exploring how memoirists present and defend perspectives on good lives. It pays particular attention to the interplay of the virtues, including their interplay with additional (non-moral) types of values...
Animal Ethics and Philosophy
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing. To date, philosophers have focused on a relatively limited number of specific themes whilst leaving metaphilosophical issues that require urgent attention largely unexamined.
This timely collection of essays brings together new theory and critical...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
by W. J. Mander
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
W. J. Mander examines the nature of idealist ethics, that is to say, the form and content of ethical belief most typically adopted by philosophical idealists. While there exist many studies of the ethical views of individual idealist philosophers there has been no literature at all on the notion of...
by Halla Kim
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Halla Kim explores the leading themes in Kant’s philosophical ethics from a structural-methodological point of view to highlight the activities of reason vis-à-vis the blind forces of brute nature. Basing the study on Kant's short, but monumental, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kim also...
Buddhist Moral Philosophy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The first book of its kind, Buddhist Moral Philosophy: An Introduction introduces the reader to contemporary philosophical interpretations and analyses of Buddhist ethics. It begins with a survey of traditional Buddhist ethical thought and practice, mainly in the Pali Canon and early Mahāyāna schools,...
Ethics and Attachment
How We Make Moral Judgments
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Why are we disgusted when an elderly woman is robbed but sympathize with the actions of a Robin Hood? Why do acts of cruelty against a helpless kitten bother us more than does the trampling of ants?* *
In Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments, psychoanalyst and philosopher Aner...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book reproduces five valuable monographs and documents about military ethics, including the 2015 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium (The Professional Ethic and the State Symposium Report), the book Army Professionalism,...
Morality and the Human Goods
An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
A concise and accessible introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral philosophy. Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas to John Finnis, Alfonso Gómez-Lobo links morality to the protection of basic human goods — life, family,...
Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination
Rethinking Business Ethics with Patricia Werhane
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This volume brings together a selection of papers written by Patricia Werhane during the most recent quarter century. The book critically explicates the direction and development of Werhane’s thinking based on her erudite and eclectic sampling of orthodox philosophical theories. It starts out with...