Roy - Ethics & Moral Philosophy 1

Petites pensées en passant – Tome II propose une suite de réflexions personnelles. nourries par les échanges avec des lecteurs intéressés par les précédents écrits de l’auteur. Ce dernier partage se……続きを見る

Our species, Homo sapiens, is the first and, so far, still the only species to possess the capability to think rationally. All of the amazing progress that we enjoy could not have happened without r……続きを見る

Episode #5 Transcript - "His Trial….in Her Court" - Presented here in English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, and French. 続きを見る

Oppressive Praise examines the expressions we often use to elevate others, esteem them, and celebrate the things they do. These expressions are a pervasive feature of social life: within families, b……続きを見る

We Homo sapiens are the first and, for the moment, still the only species that has the capacity for rational thought. Clearly, rational thinking has helped us tremendously in many ways, but equally ……続きを見る

When many people are involved in an activity, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint who is morally responsible for what, a phenomenon known as the ‘problem of many hands.’ This term ……続きを見る

The problem of determinism arises in all the major areas of philosophy. The first part of this book, first published in 1991, is a critical and historical exposition of the problem and the most impo……続きを見る

This is the first book of a two-part series designed to provide valuable moral lessons to children everywhere as they experience various situations while traversing life's pathway. Children always n……続きを見る

Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Ra……続きを見る

In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centur……続きを見る

Ein Lob der Freundschaft als Lebensform: Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Didier Eribon und Édouard Louis Freundschaft lässt sich weder beschließen noch vertraglich regeln. Sie entzieht sich der gesellschaft……続きを見る

Henri-Louis Bergson was a French scholar and philosopher who would eventually come to be recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume served as one of the……続きを見る

Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosop……続きを見る

Here is a thinker whose name is today on everybody's lips, who is deemed by acknowledged philosophers worthy of comparison with the greatest, and who, with his pen as well as his brain, has overleap……続きを見る

A memoir of Shah Rukh Khan - the global megastar, the smile of many lives and days of nostalgia! The book entails social, spiritual and cultural effects of 'SRK phenomenon' that led a nation transfo……続きを見る

অভিজিৎ রায় এবং রায়হান আবীরের সুলিখিত-জনবোধ্য ভাষায় লেখা 'অবিশ্বাসের দর্শন' বইটি বাংলাভাষী ঈশ্বরবিশ্বাসী থেকে শুরু করে সংশয়বাদী, অজ্ঞেয়বাদী, নিরিশ্বরবাদী কিংবা মানবতাবাদী এবং সর্বোপরি বিজ্ঞানমনস……続きを見る

This book defends the thesis that Kant’s normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage.……続きを見る

Genetic counselors translate the findings of scientific investigation into meaningful accounts that enable individuals and families to make decisions about their lives. This collection of original p……続きを見る

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often not the case. Paternalism is waning and it is increas……続きを見る

Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing v……続きを見る

Extrait : "Qu'est-ce que le bien ? Une pareille question peut paraître oiseuse. Il semble, tout d'abord, qu'elle soit aisée à résoudre ; que tout le monde doive tomber d'accord sur sa solution ; que……続きを見る

When I was holding the sword in my hand again, I could only guess where it had been. Its faded, cracked sheath and rusty blade told a story of neglect, but beyond that was another tale of how it had……続きを見る

Modern coverage of world events suggest that war and violence are key to contemporary society. History can convince us that it has ever been so, and many theorist of international relations argue th……続きを見る

The fight to eliminate world poverty is being severely hampered by corrupt leaders in developing countries. According to the African Union, some $150 billion is lost every year to corruption in Afri……続きを見る

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Discover Plato is a short, si……続きを見る

IN PLAIN SIGHT SEARCHING FOR A MORE EXCELLENT WAY, addresses the ongoing exodus from western churches. Census records remind us there are two to three times more Christians than go to church. Intere……続きを見る

Arrian Epictetus' 'Enchiridion' is a philosophical discourse that serves as a handbook for living a virtuous life based on Stoic principles. Written in a concise and straightforward style, the book ……続きを見る

The proximity of many different religions, each with its own unique metaphysics and ethics, did not exist in the ancient world when those religions came into existence. Many went uncontested for cen……続きを見る

Extrait : "C'est un recueil d'images, les unes surannées, les autres nouvelles : des aspects de foules; des silhouettes d'individus, portraits en pied ou expressions de visages; des apparitions de f……続きを見る

Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creat……続きを見る