Shows how social values impact elders in the US and how older persons, and those who advocate on their behalf, may respond to the attitudes and actions of others. This book offers a look at the challenges of ageing. It includes chapters on stereotypes, human rights, ageism, the ethics of survival, elder abuse, fear of ageing, dementia and more.
Argues that higher education is a moral enterprise and that, as such, it must be guided by a commitments to what is morally right and fundamentally good, not just by what is necessary in intellectual or financial endeavors.
A collection of fifty essays, it is presented to 'elicit the joy of reflection', to provoke argument and intimacy, and to encourage understanding. It aims to make philosophy accessible and fun for everyone. It contains essays including: "Becoming a Philosopher"; "What's Wrong with Sentimentality?"; "The Game of Love"; and, "The Politics of Sleep".
Offering a discussion of laws, customs, and agencies, this book examines the underlying political, cultural, and ethical structures that bind a society and define its character.
Expands the concept of morality by assigning it a scientific base in biology. This book reveals "property" as one moral factor that pervades all moral and immoral behaviour.
Moral Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National Security
Revolutions and aborted revolutions and bitter civil and 'local' wars in the 1980s and since have raised questions about national security, its definition, and its implementation. This title asks the fundamental and perduring questions of pacifism, war, intervention, and political negotiation.
A Christian Approach to Personal and Social Ethics
The question "What am I to do?" needs the balance and completion of "What are we to do?" With clarity and insight Jersild addresses the particular need of our time: a great awareness of our interdependence as a world community. The relationship between private and public morality is clarified by exploring such questions as: "What prompts ......
The direct mail campaigns of powerful animal rights lobbies and their tactics against animal laboratories demonstrate where they stand. Equally compelling are those who argue that medical progress and consumer safety are enhanced by research using animals. This book focuses on the clash of opposing positions in this national debate.
Seeks to raise the consciousness of counsellors regarding the ethical dimensions of their professional behaviour. This book provides helping professionals with an opportunity to explore their own ethical values within the context of problematic situations and, in doing so, become better prepared to serve their clients.
Offers a plea for freedom of conscience and religious expression. This book outlines the limits of social and political incursion into the realm of personal belief or non-belief, discusses the dangers of mixing church and state, and strikes hard at those who would use the power of the state to fulfil religious or political goals.
Is it possible to build a world community for the next century that avoids economic upheaval, war, ecological devastation, and racial and religious enmity? This and other questions were addressed by international leaders during the Tenth Humanist World Congress. This title presents the papers delivered at the Congress.
These essays from a variety of authors address issues of sexuality in modern lives, including the roles of men and women, friendship, the single life, temporary relationships, and marriage.
In the genre of Christian philosophers, Spinoza presents a geometric argument for the necessary existence of God as the one absolute substance underlying all other substance. From the necessity of God's existance, he derives the laws of existence, those of nature, and the ethical principles animating human conduct. In this sweeping volume that ......
Why be moral? This book offers an answer to this question - a question that reaches in to grasp at the very heart of ethics itself. It also shows us that skirmishes among supporters of specific moral principles require a different sort of resolution than those that occur between groups of ethical principles.
The long history of ethics has had as its driving force the goal of establishing basic principles to govern human behavior and against which our actions can be judged and determinations of responsibility made. But as the twentieth century began, Moore believed that it was time to get back to basics and to ask the relevant questions once again. ......
Proceeding from the assumption that human beings desire pleasure (and avoid pain), this title uses the utilitarianism perspective to construct a calculus for determining which action to perform when confronted with situations requiring moral decision-making the goal of which is to arrive at the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number'.
What constitutes a biblical ethic? Should the Bible be construed as the only basis for moral teaching? Is morality dependent upon God and "revealed truths" found in scripture? This work features essays that demonstrate a diversity of perspective and breadth of insight that can shed much needed light on the nature of ethics.
Argues that it is possible to live the good life and be morally responsible, without belief in religion. This book contains chapters on privacy and human rights, and presents ethical recommendations as alternatives to various orthodoxies.
Showing the writings of European moral theologians and the writings of their American colleagues, this title uncovers various confusions that have bedeviled the argument while revealing how important the issues are for establishing in coherent Christian ethics in the twentieth century.
Attempts to offer a systematic treatment of ethics and the principles upon which it rests and seeks to give substance and meaning to human action, and to the manner in which we judge our own behaviour and that of others. This book offers a discussion of morality and an analysis of political life.
Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics
There may be no more urgent cry today than that of "justice" -- and no more frequent accusation than that of "injustice." But what is meant when these terms are used? Six Theories of Justice clarifies that question and offers major alternative answers. Dr. Lebacqz surveys three philosophical approaches to justice: John Stuart Mill's ......
Beginning with John Courtney Murray's first forays into the public arena in the 1940s, this title plots Murray's movement away from the classical concepts of conscience and rights toward a historical understanding of moral agency and of the church's necessary engagement with a pluralistic world.
Are we entitled to be confident that our moral judgements can be objective? Can they express insights into aspects of reality, rather than mere feelings, tastes, desires, decisions, upbringing, or conventions? This book develops a sustained philosophical argument about many of the central questions of ethics.
Offers an introduction to ethics and values and attempts to place the human search for ethical values into historical perspective. This book features philosophers including: Aristotle; Marcus Aurelius; Bentham; Cicero; Dewey; Hartman; Hume; James; Kant; Kierkegaard; Moore; Nietzsche; Plato; Sartre; Scheler; Schopenhauer; Spencer; and, Spinoza.
