Ethics & Moral Philosophy

What does it mean to be sad? What difference does it make whether, how, and why we experience our own, and other people's, sadness? Is sadness always appropriate and can it be a way of seeing more clearly into ourselves and others? In this volume, a...

The Phenomenology of Gravidity explores the particularity of women's engagements with gestation, linking the denial of certain embodied experiences of pregnancy to gender oppression. Employing the term 'gravidity' to name the metaphysical condition of...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define and assess the specific meaning of life itself. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732285651Author Brynne VanhettingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Brynne VanhettingaPublisher Brynne VanhettingaWeight(grams) 152g

This vitally important book attempts to move beyond the current death-denying culture. The use of euphemistic and defiant phrases when dealing with terminal disease such as "She lost her battle with cancer" was more appropriate when medical...

The Bright and the Good examines the connection between intellectual and moral virtues both through the history of philosophy and as it can be illustrated in comprehensive examinations of specific virtues. The first part of the book investigates the...

Health justice concerns the justified use of publicly funded resources in medicine, health care, and public health. Theories of Health Justice explores the philosophical implications of the assumption that we should use such resources for the purposes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532655456Author Mark CoppengerFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951429003Author Ryan JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint SD Publishing LLCPublisher SD Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 372g

People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable...

Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem a stake from a...

The focus of this book is the normativity of global ethic. Over the years, different cultures and civilizations have been brought closer than never before by globalization. This trend has both its negative and positive dimensions. Overall, the main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498051231Author Francis HutchesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498170086Author ConfuciusFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648506376Author Ramakrishna BiswalFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 195g

The seven provocative essays that comprise Beyond Individualism reflect on the American religious tradition in order to discover in it an ethical alternative to the ideology of individualism. The contributors include Donald L. Gelpi, Stephen C. Rowntree,...

Children born today in the Maldives may someday have to abandon their homeland. Rising seas, caused by climate change, could swallow most of their tiny island nation within their lifetime. Their fate symbolizes the double inequity at the heart of climate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932080186Author B ComegysFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Ross & PerryPublisher Ross & PerryWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473580Author Robert ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666754193Author James D MaddenFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733123211Author Jean WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Watson Caring Science InstitutePublisher Watson Caring Science InstituteWeight(grams)...

Given the pain, discomfort, anxiety, heartbreak, and boredom that most humans experience in their lives, is it morally permissible to create them? Some philosophers lately have answered ‘No’, contending that it is wrong to create a new human life when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547987Author Margaret Pabst BattinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789935936301Author David CadmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Spirit of Humanity PressPublisher Spirit of Humanity PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869052087Author Inga VermeulenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ShakeelPublisher ShakeelWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532659737Author Innocent GentilletFormat HardbackPage Count 542Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 152g

If values conflict and rival human interests clash we often have to weigh them against each other. However, under particular conditions incommensurability prevents the assignment of determinable and impartial weights. In those cases an objective balance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805243465Author Jennifer Leigh GosnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint HrithikPublisher HrithikWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999188382Author Kevin RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Charlie PiperPublisher Charlie PiperWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781794733640Author Jay EdsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 272g

In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity. What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy...

Why, in this supposedly rational, early twenty-first century, do large groups of people hate other groups of people and murder them wholesale? Pick up the paper any day of the week: Terrorists, torturers, mass murderers in and out of uniform, extremists...

The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596055483Author Jean Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013295140Author Sami PihlstroemFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385384028Author Ashish DalelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Shabda PressPublisher Shabda PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946293015Author Carole Claire RamsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AtypicalPublisher AtypicalWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355223739Author Marcus AureliusFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Classy PublishingPublisher Classy PublishingWeight(grams) 494g

This cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance and incivility History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, excessive individualism follows. A person who lacks humility is at risk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622734863Author Anna CastriotaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 152g