Author: Smilansky, Saul Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality.Explores what these p...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly gras...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a series of articles specifically commossioned for this volume, some of today's most distinguished business ethicists survey the main areas of interest and concern in the field of business ethics.S...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Environmental Philosophy is a pioneering work in the burgeoning field of environmental philosophy. This ground-breaking volume contains thirty-six original articles exemplifying the ric...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Genethics is the first substantial study of the multifaceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social and political significance.Brings together the b...
Author: Sell, Colleen Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In A Cup of Comfort Stories for Courage, you'll find the heroines and heroes who have transformed the lives of everyone who knows them. These three stories will kindle your spirit and offer you hope w...
Author: Boonin, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every hum...
Author: Johnson, Lawrence Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Approaches bioethics on the basis of a conception of life and what is needed for the affirmation of its quality in the most encompassing sense. Johnson applies this conception to discussions of contro...
Author: Rolston III, Holmes Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ...
Author: Rolston III, Holmes Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ...
Author: Becker, Lawrence C. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Philosopher Lawrence Becker applies modern knowledge and psychology to the ancient stoic ethic system. In keeping with the ancients, Becker argues that virtue, not happiness, is the proper end of all ...
Author: Conwell, Russell Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Where is success? Is it far away, or could it be right under your nose? Russell Conwell's motivational classic will help you find it, and it may be much closer than you ever imagined. The diamonds of ...
Author: Krishnamurti, Jidda Publisher: M-Y Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The passages in this Study Book have been taken directly from Krishnamurti's talks and books from 1933 through 1967. The compilers began by reading all the passages from this period which contained ...
Author: Otteson, James Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Actual Ethics offers a moral defense of the 'classical liberal' political tradition and applies it to several of today's vexing moral and political issues. James Otteson argues that a Kantian concept...
Author: Smith, Adam Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) lays the foundation for a general system of morals, and is a text of central importance in the history of moral and political thought. It presents a theo...
Author: Alford,C.Fred Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtf...
Author: Deigh, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of theories of right and wrong that are found in the great ethical works of Western philosophy. It focuses on theories that continue ...
Author: James, Scott M. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 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 a...
Author: Kazez, Jean Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By exploring the ethical differences between humans and animals, Animalkind establishes a middle ground between egalitarianism and outright dismissal of animal rights.A thought-provoking foray into ou...
Author: Schuster, John Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This spiritual how-to book helps readers discern what they are called to do, find the courage to respond to that call, and stay on course to make that vision a reality. Schuster first explains what it...
Author: Tenenbaum,Sergio Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'We desire all and only those things we conceive to be good; we avoid what we conceive to be bad.' This slogan was once the standard view of the relationship between desire or motivation and rational ...
Author: Kristiansen, Kristjana Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Disability is a thorny and muddled concept and philosophical issues have often been overlooked in favour of the sociological amongst the controversy. Arguing about Disability fills that gap by offerin...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text gives great insight to the history of philosophy, and changes the way you think about ethics and morals. Excellent philosophical reading. A very important book for anyone who takes interes...
Author: Allen, James Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanator...
Author: Allen, James Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanator...
Author: Paterson, Craig Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Robert Nozick sharply distinguished his vision of the free society from egalitarian liberals such as John Rawls. Less remarked upon is the distinction he drew between the free society governed by a st...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts. "Awe for th...
Author: Smith, Tara Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand's view, actually demands...
Author: Peterson, Anna L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna Peterson proposes an "ethical anthropology" that examines how ideas ...
Author: Hill, Jason D. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beyond Blood Identities uncovers the social psychology of those who hold strong blood identities. In this highly original work, Jason D. Hill argues that strong racial, ethnic and national identities,...
Author: Baofu, Peter Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Is moral goodness really so desirable in the way that its proponents through the ages would like us to believe? For instance, in our time, there is even this latest version of the popular moral idea s...
Author: Newton, Lisa H. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Business Ethics and the Natural Environment examines the present status of relations between corporate enterprise and the natural environment in the world today. •Discusses such questions as: Wh...
Author: Sandler, Ronald L. Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applie...
Description: The passages in this Study Book have been taken directly from Krishnamurti's talks and books from 1933 through 1967. The compilers began by reading all the passages from this period which contained th...
Author: Krishnamurti, Jidda Publisher: M-Y Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The passages in this Study Book have been taken directly from Krishnamurti's talks and books from 1933 through 1967. The compilers began by reading all the passages from this period which contained th...
Author: Rosen, Frederick Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians. The writings of Adam Smith, William Paley and Jer...
Author: Krishnamurti, Jidda Publisher: M-Y Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simp...
Author: Krishnamurti, Jidda Publisher: M-Y Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simp...
Author: Krishnamurti, Jidda Publisher: M-Y Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simp...
Author: Card, Claudia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this new contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrat...
Author: Wicclair, Mark R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Historically associated with military service, conscientious objection has become a significant phenomenon in health care. Mark Wicclair offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious object...
