Ethics & Moral Philosophy 17

Synopsis - Patchouli finds herself in an abusive relationship and reaches out to a friend for help. How far will you go to support a friend when is seems they aren't ready to help themselves? After ……続きを見る

It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life fo……続きを見る

Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recita……続きを見る

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the ……続きを見る

"A Christmas Sermon" is an essay written by Robert Louis Stevenson while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In the short text he meditates on the questions of d……続きを見る

Two loose currents appear to be in opposition in today's culture. One is animated by a strong insistence on empathy and compassion as core values, the other by a strong insistence on free speech as ……続きを見る

What is it to be morally responsible for something? Recent philosophical work reveals considerable disagreement on the question. Indeed, some theorists claim to distinguish several varieties of mora……続きを見る

This is a brief mental digression covering the essential struggle of life and the importance of wisdom, often to be found within a spiritual framework. The key to life is setting the right mental di……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Über die v……続きを見る

The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this volume, Emerson sets out to answer "the question of the times:" "How shall I live?". It is composed of nine essays, each……続きを見る

The Foundation for the Study of Cycles reports that they have identified over 4000 separate cycles that affect nature, culture, business and productivity. My book examines a few very long-term cycle……続きを見る

Bioethics is a field of inquiry and as such is fundamentally an epistemic discipline. Knowing how we make moral judgments can bring into relief why certain arguments on various bioethical issues app……続きを見る

This essay looks at the decline of tradition as an unfortunate ongoing event that affects heart, mind and soul on a fundamental level. Nevertheless we have achieved great advancements, especially in……続きを見る

Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibili……続きを見る

Wie in mehreren seiner letzten Werke philosophiert Nietzsche auch hier "mit dem Hammer" und will alte Werte "umwerten". Unter Rückgriff auf einige seiner früheren Schriften bündelt er seine Kritik a……続きを見る

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Ethics for Robots describes and defends a method for designing and evaluating ethics algorithms for autonomous machines, such as self-driving cars and search and rescue drones. Derek Leben argues th……続きを見る

What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact of today’s environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human rights issue and exa……続きを見る

Rousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress……続きを見る

This introductory textbook is ideally suited to newcomers to philosophy and ethical problems. Rosalind Hursthouse carefully introduces the three standard approaches in current ethical theory: utilit……続きを見る

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s world The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has……続きを見る

Il pensiero di Epicuro è una miniera di saggezza che può aiutare anche l'uomo di oggi a raggiungere la felicità. Ma era davvero necessaria una nuova edizione della Lettera sulla Felicità di Epicuro?……続きを見る

Philosophy of Mind is a work that presents an abbreviated version of Hegel's systematic philosophy in its entirety. In Philosophy of Mind Hegel pays more attention to the concept of freedom. Much of……続きを見る

Volume II This collection brings together work on the relevance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Over two volumes, our contributors cover a wide range of to……続きを見る

The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originall……続きを見る

Nesta obra, Juliana realiza um estudo sólido sobre o problema da educação do desejo em Aristóteles, que pode ser ilustrado com a seguinte pergunta: como é possível educar uma parte em nós que não é ……続きを見る

Seneca’s complete Dialogues include the classic Aubrey Stewart translations and Damian Stevenson's version of On the Shortness of Life: On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitae) Of a Happy Life ……続きを見る

This edited collection sets forth a new understanding of aesthetic-moral judgment organized around three key concepts: pleasure, reflection, and accountability. The overarching theme is that art is ……続きを見る

Previously unpublished writings from one of the most important political philosophers of recent times G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide……続きを見る

In "The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Art of Controversy," Schopenhauer presents a rigorous exploration of argumentative discourse, emphasizing the nuances of rhetoric and the psychological und……続きを見る