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 at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. When do you have to sacrifice life and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-12-13

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This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-07

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Is my dog, with his joyful and carefree life, better off than I am? Do hens in battery cages have worse lives than cows at pasture? Will my money improve welfare more if I spend it on helping people or if I benefit chickens? How can we assess the harm of climate change...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-11-24

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Muss man eine Situation verstanden haben, um in ihr moralisch handeln zu können? Dieser Frage widmet sich der Autor mit Bezug auf Maschinen, die mit Künstlicher Intelligenz betrieben werden, jedoch die Probleme, die sie lösen, nicht verstehen:...

Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2022-11-14

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Is my dog, with his joyful and carefree life, better off than I am? Do hens in battery cages have worse lives than cows at pasture? Will my money improve welfare more if I spend it on helping people or if I benefit chickens? How can we assess the harm of climate change...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-11-10

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The study of public health aims to protect and promote the wellbeing of the public as well as reduce health inequalities. Public health ethics asks how far we should go to achieve these goals, balancing the rights and needs of individuals against those of the community....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-11-08

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Haben wir eine moralische Pflicht, unsere Organe postmortal zu spenden? Oder handelt es sich dabei lediglich um einen Akt, der zwar wünschenswert, aber nicht gefordert ist? Und wie soll die Organspende geregelt werden? Soll man sich an der Zustimmungs- oder an der...

Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2022-10-07

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Die Idee, dass Moral eine bestimmte Form hat, ist eine alte Idee.Die Mächtigkeit dieser Idee zeigt sich unter anderem darin, dass auch Autoren sich auf diese Idee beschränkt haben, deren Werk man unter anderem dazu verwenden kann, dass man mit Verweis auf dieses Werk...

Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2022-10-01

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This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-09-29

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Philosophy has provided us with a wealth of moral and ethical theories. Applied ethics is the study of practical moral issues and our best philosophical theories, and how each can inform the other. Acclaimed philosopher and textbook author Robin Attfield invites...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-22

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Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-09-15

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Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-09-01

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How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether those social arrangements (e.g. our family structures) reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If they do,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-04

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How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether those social arrangements (e.g. our family structures) reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If they do,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-04

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Michael J. Zimmerman investigates the relation between ignorance and moral responsibility. He begins with the presentation of a case in which a tragedy occurs, one to which many people have unwittingly contributed, and addresses the question of whether their ignorance...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-01

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How should we decide a single employee's accountability in a corporation that commits egregious wrongs? What about a single solider fighting in an unjust war? Or a single participant in a lynching? We need a way to make sense of individual moral accountability in cases...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-28

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How should we decide a single employee's accountability in a corporation that commits egregious wrongs? What about a single solider fighting in an unjust war? Or a single participant in a lynching? We need a way to make sense of individual moral accountability in cases...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-28

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HOW NATURE MATTERS presents an original theory of nature's value based on part—whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts of valuable wholes —...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-28

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HOW NATURE MATTERS presents an original theory of nature's value based on part—whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts of valuable wholes —...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-28

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Provides students and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental philosophy and ethics Mitigating the effects of climate change will require global cooperation and lasting commitment. Of the many disciplines addressing the...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2022-07-18
Collection : This is Philosophy
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