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This volume not only explores Ross's moral philosophy and ethical theories, but also his aesthetics, intuitionist epistemology, metaphysics, and applied ethics. W. D. Ross is a major figure in the history of moral philosophy and his work has been increasingly discussed...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-17
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The idea that improving our character requires modelling ourselves on another will seem natural to many. But what might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? This book investigates how Muslim thinkers developed this idea against a rich backdrop of historical...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-15
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Philosophy strives to give us a firmer hold on our concepts. But what about their hold on us? Why place ourselves under the sway of a concept and grant it the authority to shape our thought and conduct? Another conceptualization would carry different implications. What...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-12
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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, between friends or colleagues, in institutional settings such as...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-11
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The idea of a reason for acting is ubiquitous in philosophy, social science, the law, and in our everyday lives. Just about everyone understands the idea of a reason for acting, at least on an intuitive level. When someone does something intentionally, we often want to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-04
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We often invoke broad ideas of reason, rationality, reasonableness, reasons, reasoning, and related concepts in commonsense and express their apparent authority through ordinary language and social practices. Despite what many philosophers, economists, psychologists,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-01
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Independence for Children presents an alternative conception of parenting to those that have dominated our thinking about children and the family to date. It offers an elaboration and defence of anti-perfectionist parenting. The central argument of this book is that, as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-01
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Philosophy strives to give us a firmer hold on our concepts. But what about their hold on us? Why place ourselves under the sway of a concept and grant it the authority to shape our thought and conduct? Another conceptualization would carry different implications. What...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-31
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Advising is a common way in which we try to help others, but there is no doubt that it can be fraught and even risky. Advice can provoke complex and sometimes baffling responses, from gratitude or polite indifference through to vociferous resentment. As friends, family...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-27
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We often invoke broad ideas of reason, rationality, reasonableness, reasons, reasoning, and related concepts in commonsense and express their apparent authority through ordinary language and social practices. Despite what many philosophers, economists, psychologists,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-27
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Independence for Children presents an alternative conception of parenting to those that have dominated our thinking about children and the family to date. It offers an elaboration and defence of anti-perfectionist parenting. The central argument of this book is that, as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-27
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Advising is a common way in which we try to help others, but there is no doubt that it can be fraught and even risky. Advice can provoke complex and sometimes baffling responses, from gratitude or polite indifference through to vociferous resentment. As friends, family...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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Stephen J. White (1983-2021) was developing a comprehensive view of responsibility and its limits when his life was tragically cut short. This volume contains his collected papers. White's view of responsibility spans across ethics, action theory, and interpersonal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-30
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-26
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Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is socially constructed in and through discourse, and the implications of this for the empirical analysis and theorization of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-17
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Stephen J. White (1983-2021) was developing a comprehensive view of responsibility and its limits when his life was tragically cut short. This volume contains his collected papers. White's view of responsibility spans across ethics, action theory, and interpersonal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-17
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Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language....
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-10
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Dieses Buch begibt sich auf eine wissenschaftliche Suche, um die Eckwerte und Grundlagen einer Ethik der strategischen Führung zu finden und auszuarbeiten. Ausgehend vom Phänomen der Macht und des Machtmissbrauchs und seiner Beziehung zum Problem der Leadership...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-06
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Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-06
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