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Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat. This book examines why ……続きを見る

Starting from concrete legal issues, Alan Norrie develops a critical vision of law in its relation to morality and socio-historical context. Traced historically, the conflicts he describes can be re……続きを見る

Apes, monkeys, and other nonhuman primates have a dual role in modern society. They are revered for their intelligence, uncanny mimicry, and biological relation to humans, yet are often forced to sp……続きを見る

The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus Translation by John Everard "Hermes Trismegistus ("thrice-great Hermes"; Latin: Mercurius ter Maximus) is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes ……続きを見る

The book offers new interpretations of Nietzsche's thinking -- considering especially his ideas regarding power, values, nature, contrariety, sexuality and sexual politics -- that could offer new an……続きを見る

Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the second millenium. The End of the Wor……続きを見る

Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the gravity of the battlefield and the grand……続きを見る

What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorist……続きを見る

How much can we reasonably expect from education? This book, written by a philosopher of education, casts new light on this question by seeing values education, not as a separate activity within sch……続きを見る

This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an……続きを見る

Paradoxes from A to Z, Third edition is the essential guide to paradoxes, and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo, and Lewis Carroll to Bertran……続きを見る

The recent global financial crisis raises pressing issues that are not exclusively economic. The health of the economy, Kevin T. Jackson contends, reflects the moral health of the wider culture: eth……続きを見る

Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialog……続きを見る

This volume gives an overview on the currently debated ethical issues regarding advance directives from an international perspective. It focuses on a wider understanding of the known and widely acce……続きを見る

Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and ami……続きを見る

Offering the first general introductory text to this subject, the timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics reflects the most up-to-date research and current issues being debated in both psychology……続きを見る

The Elimination of Morality strikes at the root of the dominant conception of what medical ethics involves. It addresses the fundamental and timely question of the kind of contribution philosophers ……続きを見る

This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics. It begins with the idea that we often respond to ethical theories according to how principled or pragmatic they are. It clarifies this c……続きを見る

William Edward Hartpole Lecky was a well known Irish historian who wrote at length about the history of the European continent, spanning from antiquity to the 19th century. In 1860 he published anon……続きを見る

In ENLIGHTENMENT FROM THE QURAN you will learn: * The purpose of life. * That you should question your faith. * What happens after death. * That Jesus had no father. * What advice a parent can give ……続きを見る

Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integr……続きを見る

Have you ever met a professional musician? Have you ever flown in something other than an airplane? Have you ever blown a tire while driving? Have you ever gone on a blind date? Have you ever dreame……続きを見る

Now a major film: HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. 'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.’……続きを見る

Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory. 続きを見る

This is my 2nd book, my follow up to “Testimonies: Diary of a Christian”, and the biggest difference between that and this is that this is a book of ideas, thoughts, and philosophies submitted on th……続きを見る

Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of ……続きを見る

A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social cont……続きを見る

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that,……続きを見る

Phronesys è una silloge di note, aforismi e riflessioni di carattere filosofico. Nella Phronesi l'intenzionalità del pensiero esce fuori dalla sua matrice teoretica per eventuarsi, reclamando la sua……続きを見る

John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the arti……続きを見る