mai - Ethics & Moral Philosophy 1

Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games, or to cheat on one's tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts, or is morality ……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

Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering……続きを見る

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The history of moral philosophy has been dominated by attempts to find and defend the correct moral principle or set of principles. However, over the last two decades the assumption that morality ca……続きを見る

There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's. However, this book is entirely unique in its treatment of the topic. It is unique in its meticulo……続きを見る

Die Erfahrungen des Holocaust haben Emmanuel Levinas (1906- 1995) das Verhältnis des Menschen zum Anderen auf radikal neue Weise denken lassen. An die Stelle von abstrakten, übergreifenden ethischen……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

Das Lehrbuch greift den gesamten Kanon der für die Soziale Arbeit relevanten philosophischen Themen auf und vermittelt diese auf einem für Studierende angemessenen Level. Die Einzelkapitel zu Erkenn……続きを見る

Dalla lontana Cina, dove trascorre lunghi periodi per impegni di lavoro, un padre scrive delle lettere alla propria figlia che vive in Italia, animato dal desiderio di esserle, in qualche modo, vici……続きを見る

Der Band vereinigt 20 Studien zu Nietzsche von Werner Stegmaier, der in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten der internationalen Nietzsche-Forschung starke Impulse gegeben und zuletzt achtzehn Jahre lan……続きを見る

Empathy is one of the most talked about and widely studied concepts of recent years. Some argue it can help create a more just society, improve medical care and even avert global catastrophe. Others……続きを見る

Recently, the salient idea of personhood in the tradition of African philosophy has been objected to on various grounds. Two such objections stand out � the book deals with a lot more. The first cri……続きを見る

This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures. The idea of personhood embodies a moral system for evaluating h……続きを見る

Esta es la Sagrada Enseñanza que el Ascendido Maestro Saint Germain ha dispuesto para su Era de Oro, y que forma el Tercer Ciclo de Enseñanza de la Hermandad Saint Germain, después de lo cual el dis……続きを見る

When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments that a judge should have "the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy……続きを見る

Represents some of the best, cutting-edge thinking available on multiple forms of social upheaval and related grassroots movements. From the January 2017 Women’s March to the August 2017 events in C……続きを見る

Joseph Imagines God is a story of a man who is visited by someone claiming to be God. Joseph is an agnostic, the son of a Holocaust survivor. He receives a visitor at work who invites him to partici……続きを見る

This book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and tha……続きを見る

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity. To do so, it employs two strategies. In the first instance, it considers African the……続きを見る

CARILEUM is an acronym with two meanings. First, the scientific acronym is “conscious aura regenerating infinite life, energy-uniting matter.” The second is for the practice of Carileum: “conscious ……続きを見る

The Catholic Church teaches that all forms of artificial birth control are intrinsically evil ー wrong in all circumstances! Only practices that make use of natural methods of avoiding pregnancy are……続きを見る

This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death. The book first challenges the criticism and reje……続きを見る

La filosofía de la redención es la obra capital de Philipp Mainländer, autodidacta, pensador y mitopoeta alemán del siglo xix. A lo largo de seis capítulos (Analítica de la facultad cognoscitiva, Fí……続きを見る

Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An ……続きを見る

This book deals with the limitations of economic and financial accounting as an appropriate instrument to reflect the real value created or destroyed by an organization. The authors present a sustai……続きを見る

From the local level to international politics, deliberation helps to increase mutual understanding and trust, in order to arrive at political decisions of high epistemic value and legitimacy. This ……続きを見る

This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general ……続きを見る

For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume col……続きを見る

Three essential philosophers on the nature of reality, the health of the human body, and the meaning of history. Science and Philosophy: An essential introduction to Alfred North Whitehead’s life an……続きを見る