- Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-05-24

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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-04-26

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Autonomy is a fundamental though contested concept. For instance, most of us place great value on the opportunity to make our own decisions and to be able to lead a life of our own choosing. Yet there is stark disagreement on what is involved in being able to decide...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-04-19

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People differ in terms of how morally deserving they are. And it is a good thing if people get what they deserve. Accordingly, it is important to work out an adequate theory of moral desert. But while certain aspects of such a theory have been frequently discussed in...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-04-01

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Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics--a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly attention. Yet Aristotle's accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most contemporary commentators of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have focused upon other matters....

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-03-01

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Developing Deontology consists of six new essays in ethical theory by leading contemporary moral philosophers. Each essay considers concepts prominent in the development of deontological approaches to ethics, and these essays offer an invaluable contribution to that...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-02-21
Collection : Ratio Special Issues
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Professor Simon Lee explores five acute moral dilemmas of the new millennium, each of which has caused un-ease among liberals and conservatives alike. His variation on the old adage that hard cases make bad law is to say that hard cases make for un-easy ethics. If you...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-12-31

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What are our duties or rights? How should we act?What are we responsible for? How do we determine the answers to these questions? Joseph Raz examines and explains the philosophical issues underlying these everyday quandaries. He explores the nature of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-12-08

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Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-11-19

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The first comprehensive treatment of environmental philosophy, going beyond ethics to address the philosophical concepts that underlie environmental thinking and policy-making today Encompasses all of environmental philosophy, including conservation biology,...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-11-18

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The first comprehensive treatment of environmental philosophy, going beyond ethics to address the philosophical concepts that underlie environmental thinking and policy-making today Encompasses all of environmental philosophy, including conservation biology,...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-11-18

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Emotions shape our mental and social lives. Their relation to morality is, however, problematic. Since ancient times, philosophers have disagreed about the place of emotions in morality. One the one hand, some hold that emotions are disorderly and unpredictable animal...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-10-27

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Is there any moral obligation to improve oneself, to foster and develop various capacities in oneself? From a broadly Kantian point of view, Self-Improvement defends the view that there is such an obligation and that it is an obligation that each person owes to him or...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-10-06

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TROUBLE WITH STRANGERS ‘Written in Eagleton’s very readable, clear and witty style, this book may achieve the unthinkable: bridging the gap between academic High Thought and popular philosophy manuals.’Slavoj Ži?ek ‘This is a fine book. It is hugely ambitious in its...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-09-23

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Our self-understanding as human agents includes a commitment to three crucial claims about human agency: that agents must be active, that actions are part of the natural order of the universe, and that intentional actions can be explained by the agent's reasons for...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-09-15

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'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors' Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-09-14
Collection : Great Philosophers
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Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-09-13
Collection : Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
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Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution toKant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant’s ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-08-26

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Open this book and you will Understand morals Discover freedom Meet key figures Apply ethics

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2011-08-26

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In Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity more broadly. This view--according to which there are perfectly objective, universal, moral and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-07-28

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