Ethics & Moral Philosophy 94

In this Brief, Daniel Sokol interprets ‘doing medical ethics’ broadly to capture the application of ethical knowledge to a concrete situation, rather than just resolving a moral dilemma contained wi……続きを見る

2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them. Other people may coherently judge that I am incapable of figuring out correctly what I rationally ought……続きを見る

THE SENSE OF BEAUTY: A FIRST APPROXIMATION It is generally acknowledged that during the first half of the eighteenth century a profound change was wrought in the theory of art and natural beauty. To……続きを見る

Highly skilled athletes are produced by technologies of training which seek to create the athlete as a singular identity. Yet the disciplinary model of modern sport is consistently disrupted by the ……続きを見る

Par-delà le Bien et le Mal est un ouvrage majeur de Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophe allemand du XIXe siècle. Publié en 1886, ce livre incisif et provocateur explore les notions de morale, de vérité ……続きを見る

Comprendre la liberté, l’égalité et la souveraineté : explorez les principes du droit naturel et les fondements du républicanisme selon Rousseau. Plongez au cœur des idées qui ont façonné la pensée ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l'état de certaines grandes et importantes ques……続きを見る

Extrait : "Tous les hommes distinguent le bien et le mal, les actions bonnes et les actions mauvaises : par exemple, aimer ses parents, respecter le bien d'autrui, être fidèle à sa parole, etc., – v……続きを見る

Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival. However, new challenges to conceptions of virtue have also arisen. In Current Controversies in Virtu……続きを見る

This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected……続きを見る

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 24 European nations, examining the state of the development and practice of CSR and sustainability for organizations ……続きを見る

What is morality? How do we define what is right and wrong? How does moral theory help us deal with ethical issues in the world around us? This second edition provides an engaging and stimulating in……続きを見る

Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power. Domination has aga……続きを見る

Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute free……続きを見る

Whether you’re new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Medical Law is all about, Beginning Medical Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ……続きを見る

Children’s Rights and Moral Parenting offers systematic treatment of a variety of issues involving the intersection of the rights of children and the moral responsibility of parents. Mark C. Vopat o……続きを見る

Money has always represented power. For Aristotle, this power was inseparable from the exercise of justice within a community. This is why issuance of money was the prerogative of the lawful authori……続きを見る

This book examines the moral dilemmas of nuclear dissemination, and the justifications of both nuclear pursuit and avoidance by contemporary states. Applying Constructivist methodologies and moral t……続きを見る

Here, Erich H. Loewy expands on his earlier book Textbook of Medical Ethics (1989) offering healthcare workers and students a new perspective on ethical practice. Textbook of Healthcare Ethics focus……続きを見る

In this book two ethical systems are described in the language of mathematics. Ordinarily mathematics is thought to be a science of quantity. Indeed, manipulation of quantities constitutes much of m……続きを見る

When von Neumann's and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior appeared in 1944, one thought that a complete theory of strategic social behavior had appeared out of nowhere. However, gam……続きを見る

A definitive collection of writings by the theologian and public intellectual who was the conscience of the American Century “One of my favorite philosophers,” remarked Barack Obama about the theolo……続きを見る

Cuando una persona da su consentimiento se expone en primera persona. Pero, ¿es siempre ella quien decide voluntariamente? ¿Somos siempre libres de escoger? ¿Cómo asegurar que, cuando damos nuestro ……続きを見る

Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamenta……続きを見る

The thirteen essays by Allen Buchanan collected here are arranged in such a way as to make evident their thematic interconnections: the important and hitherto unappreciated relationships among the n……続きを見る

That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom. The essays in this volume……続きを見る

This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by invited speakers selected by the most prestigious international organization in the fie……続きを見る

"Ensayo sobre la vida humana" nos plantea la cuestión esencial de la vida: cuál es el sentido de cuanto hacemos. A lo largo de la Historia y del Pensamiento han sido numerosas las alternativas ofrec……続きを見る

It is crucial for the quality of care of people with mental retardation that care providers experience their work as meaningful. A complexity, however, is the fact that this care is divided amongst ……続きを見る

This vintage book contains T. S. Arthur’s 1854 novel, "10 Nights in a Bar-Room - And What I Saw There". A seminal American Temperance novel, on its initial publication, "10 Nights in a Bar-Room" mat……続きを見る