Ethics & Moral Philosophy

The far reaching changes in man's social and personal life taking place in our lifetime underline the need for a sound ethical evaluation of our rights and duties and of human behaviour both on the individual level and in the political society. On many...

This work will draw upon the expertise of the editors as authors and various contributors in order to present several different perspectives with the goal of approaching and understanding when ethical lines are crossed. In order to achieve this goal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985994280Author Denis RancourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Stairway PressPublisher Stairway PressWeight(grams) 236g

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of...

We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996674782Author Glenn Alan CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint New London LibrariumPublisher New London LibrariumWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973817Author William PaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 475Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 838g

This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translations of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue includes his new translation of Kant's essay On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973862Author Francis HutchesonFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 598g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680921960Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797215808Author Wendy SyfretFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Chronicle PrismPublisher Chronicle Prism

An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief-and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us growExperiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us-as universal as it is painful-is central to the human condition...

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742889Author Karen ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604032Author William MacaskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063314825Author Brigid DelaneyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 413g

Autonomous weapons systems, often referred to as 'killer robots', have been a hallmark of popular imagination for decades. However, with the inexorable advance of artificial intelligence systems (AI) and robotics, killer robots are quickly becoming a...

Roderick Firth's writings on epistemology amount to an exceptionally careful and cogent defense of an account of perceptual knowledge in the tradition Firth called 'radical empiricism.' This important book collects all of Firth's major works on...

First Published in 1939 The Philosophy of Courage talks about Philip Leon’s personal experience of God in the language of philosophy. It is a book on philosophy but also a book based on personal experience. Leon was the first philosopher to attempt to...

This book applies the concept of moral ordering to urban affairs. It demonstrates how multi-stakeholder engagement can enhance the quality of city life while supporting ambitions such as ethical urban sustainability and human flourishing. While there is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367509019Author David Daiches RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint RoutledgePublisher RoutledgeWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125429Author Derek TruscottFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Alberta Press (CA)Publisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams)...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

The description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming.Reviews"A complex and subtle depiction of a highly irregular conceptual terrain... Sher's discussion is sure to play an important part in future thinking about desert. It has many virtues,...

The central issue is that of identifying and understanding the fundamental principles of morality but the book also discusses the place of rules in moral thought, the nature of obligation, the relation between morality and religion and that of being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814877701Author Armin GrunwaldFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Jenny Stanford PublishingPublisher Jenny Stanford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Much discussion of morality presupposes that moral judgments are always, at bottom, arbitrary. Moral scepticism, or at least moral relativism, has become common currency among the liberally educated. This remains the case even while political crises...

Building on the editors’ previous publication, Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research, this new book brings together a fresh collection of leading international scholars tackling ethical dilemmas in criminological research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786303813Author HagègeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ISTE LtdPublisher ISTE LtdWeight(grams) 514g

The various social roles we occupy, such as teacher, parent, or friend, shape our ethical lives and colour our perceptions of each other and ourselves. Social roles have long been a central topic in sociology, and specific social roles frequently feature...

This book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves. An invitation to appreciate the peculiar role of animals in telling important if...

This original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates about good lives-the disagreements caused by conflicts between scientific, religious, moral, historical, aesthetic, and subjective modes of...

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant 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...

Originally published in 1969, this book provides a sustained examination of the idea of the individual person as of supreme worth in the language of analytical philosophy. An important contribution to debates in moral philosophy, it will be of use to...

Originally published in 1983, this book maintains that the content and character of morality can be understood if it is regarded as a useful societal tool, whose central purposes include the prevention of harm and promotion of security for members of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587310683Author D Q McInernyFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's Press

From Descartes to Spinoza, Western philosophers have attempted to propose an axiomatic systemization of ethics. However, without consensus on the contents and objects of ethics, the system remains incomplete. This fourvolume set presents a model that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136835Author Arianne ShahvisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227g

A definitive debunking of the "Nietzsche as Nazi" caricature. The caricature of Friedrich Nietzsche as a proto-Nazi is still with us, having originated with his own Nazi sister, Elisabeth Foerster, who curated Nietzsche's disparate texts to suit her...

Originally published in 2003, this book examines moral relativism and the author discusses the main arguments for Appraiser Relativism and Agent Relativism. The final chapter of the book discusses the implication of some recent developments in metaethics...