Contending that we must stop excluding science from the moral process, this work offers the radical view that only an interdisciplinary approach grounded in scientific method can hope to develop moral norms appropriate to modern world. It outlines a set of hypotheses that challenges traditional notions of how moral behaviour is determined.
This bioethics handbook offers concise, up-to-date, and easy to read chapters on a broad range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational concepts, theory and method, healthcare ethics, research ethics, public health, technology, and the environment. The volume provides a snapshot of current bioethics, taking into account ......
This book investigates how Homo sapiens thrived in and nurtured a certain social condition that happened to abet our continual survival. This condition of individual autonomy shaped our species and led humans to demand social equality to this day.
What do repair and reparation tell us about human beings? They speak to our (natural) vulnerability, our (moral) fallibility, and our (social) incompleteness, but also about the many capabilities we draw upon to mitigate these shortcomings. It is from the heart of human finitude that repair and reparation draw meaning.
An introduction to the field of ethics that offers a systematic study of the foundations of moral responsibility. It guides the reader on an examination of a range of ethical positions, including relativism, emotivism, egoism, utilitarianism, Kantian formalism, and natural law.
This book argues that we can find the resources to build a public perspective if we make two commitments: to respect people as autonomous agents and to endorse a shared ethics of beliefs.
Empirical Contributions and Normative Commentaries
This cross-disciplinary book investigates how morality translates into action by presenting original psychological research on our understanding of rights and duties. This topical focus is especially timely in the post 9/11 world, where relative rights and duties of citizens and our government are foremost in our minds.
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'.
Protest is a critical part of the contemporary political landscape. Despite the prevalence of protest as a real-world practice, most liberal political theory limits its focus on protest to ideal conditions. This book takes up the question of how to think about protest, from within the context of liberal political theory, in the face of serious, ......
William Remley traces the ascent of the alt-right movement to its prominent place in American politics. Social Dominance Theory and the philosophical work of Sartre and Nietzsche are used to look at how group formation and hierarchies have given rise to the authoritarian leade...
Presents an analysis of the origins of Catholic moral theology in the United States. This title traces the historical development of moral theology which offers a legal model of morality including an emphasis on canon law.
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.
The Ongoing Debate Over The Origin Of Human Goodness
In this book, contributors who are atheists, believers, and anything in between debate the origins and nature of morality and the human impulse for good.
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.
John Dewey (1859-1952), renowned educator and philosopher, has been called the national philosopher of American civilisation. This book featuers a collection of Dewey's writings that presents the many aspects of Dewey's ethical thought.
This edited volume features discussions by leading scholars on the topic of trust and its place in moral psychology. The contributors cover theoretical and applied issues relating to trust, including trust and distrust in conditions of oppression, trust and technology, and trust in medical ethics.
This collection presents the latest research on one of the most controversial moral emotions: shame. Twelve original essays reveal that complexities in the connections between self, other, and morality span millennia and cultures and currently animate important debates at the core of feminism and disability studies.
The Moral Psychology of Regret assembles scholars from several disciplines, including philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, law and neuroscience, to present regret not merely as a feeling or affect but as an emotion of great moral significance that underwrites how we understand ourselves and each other.
The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.
A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title The Moral Psychology of Hate provides the first systematic introduction to the moral psychology of hate compiling specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars with a wide range of disciplinary orientations. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in academic ......
Provides the first systematic introduction to the moral psychology of hate compiling specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars.
Philosophers and psychologists come together to think systematically about the nature and value of guilt, looking at the biological origins and psychological nature of guilt, and then discussing the culturally enriched conceptions of this vital moral emotion.
This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen never-before published articles on the emotion by leading voices in philosophy and the sciences of the mind.
Whether we like it or not, boredom is a major part of human life. It permeates and affects our personal, social, practical, and moral existence. In this volume, world-renowned researchers come together to explore a neglected but crucially important aspect of boredom: it's relationship to morality.
Edited by David Rondel and Samir Chopra, The Moral Psychology of Anxiety presents new work on the causes, consequences, and value of anxiety. Straddling philosophy, psychology, clinical medicine, history, and other disciplines, the chapters in this volume explore anxiety from an impressively wide range of perspectives. The first part is more ......
This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.
This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of admiration, examining the nature of this emotion, how it relates to other emotions, and what role it plays in our moral lives.
Offers a selection of essays that explores relationships between the media and its diverse audiences, its sponsors, stockholders, governments, and others. This book attempts to define the obligations of the media in these relationships as well as the risks, benefits, and limits.
If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connected, dying is still a part of life-unlike death. The Meaning of Death: A Philosophical Investigation analyzes death and dying, the biotechnical quest for immortality, the afterlife, and the rationality ......
Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our being that it always was and always will be? This title says that "Early Christians" were unanimous in opposing this view. It argues that later Christians succumbed to the supposed "normalcy" of war and developed what later became known as the "just-war theory".
This book is a detailed study of how, according to Thomas Aquinas and his works, God's Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through human moral activity.
The Heart is the meeting place of the individual and the divine--the inner ground of morality, authenticity, and integrity. The process of coming to the Heart and realizing the person we were meant to be is what Carl Jung called "Individuation." This path is full of moral challenges for anyone with the courage to take it up. Using Jung's ......
What ends should designers pursue? To what extent should they care about the societal and environmental impact of their work? And why should they care at all? Given the key influence design has on the way people live their lives, designing is fraught with ethical issues. Yet, unlike education or nursing, it lacks widespread professional principles ......
The theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits of great scholars. The author inquires into the true nature of morality. Rejecting the results of action as the foundation of moral judgements, he denies that good or bad effects have any relevance in the moral evaluation of human behaviour.
