Aims to provide a history that encompasses both classical and modern perspective. It includes: commentary on the writings of great thinkers; discussions of Greek, biblical, and Stoic ethics; Augustine, Aquinas and medieval views; the Renaissance, the Reformation, and ethics in the age of science; and, the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
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.
The morality of our distant ancestors bears a remarkable resemblance to the moral experiences of modern athletes. This book brings together stories from today's sports world and the moral practices of hunter-gatherers to shed new light on both sports and morality and offer a unique interpretation of America's love affair with sports.
What would any rational person believe to be worth wanting or working for? This book argues that rational people would choose a utilitarian moral code that the purpose of living should be to strive for the greatest good for the largest number of people.
Focuses on five general issues of health care for elderly population: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care.
Today's wholesale lack of trust in our institutions is a problem with deep roots in liberalism, and it cannot be solved by tweaking a liberal paradigm in which different conceptions of the good create conflict that is resolved by a sovereign state without reference to a nonexclusive common good. Ultimately, the essence of liberalism is contained ......
This book employs Heidegger's work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger's thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts.
This book argues that politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Combining private property rights with an ethics of responsibility and drawing from the ideas of Immanuel Kant, the book opens the doors to a nonpartisan analysis of income inequality, inheritance, race relations, abortion and governance.
Helping vets address ethical issues and make ethically informed judgments
Veterinarians serve on the front lines working to prevent animal suffering and abuse. For centuries, their compassion and expertise have improved the quality of life and death for animals in their care. However, modern interest in animal ......
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.
Gives sensitive yet honest and forthright approach to the many disquieting questions surrounding the emotional debate over animal rights. This work includes a chapter on animal agriculture, and discusses animal law, companion animal issues, genetic engineering, animal pain, animal research, and other topics.
Entangled in misrecognition, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived people are socially and politically vulnerable throughout the colonized world. Anti-Colonial relational existence is possible through careful social labor, and cases of MENA communities prove that such normative praxis is not merely wishful thinking.
Anti-Colonial Solidarity: Race, Reconciliation, and MENA Liberation confronts the racialization of Middle-Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived peoples from a global perspective. George Fourlas critiques the ways that orientalism, racism, and colonialism cooperatively emerged and afforded the imaginary landscapes of the recently recategorized ......
Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely under-represented, Jewish ethical perspectives.
Applying the ethical concepts of Thomas Aquinas to contemporary moral problems, this book both presents fresh interpretations of Thomist theology and offers fresh insights into perplexing moral dilemmas. It illustrates how Thomistic ethics can encourage and empower people in moral struggles.
Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.
Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.
To dismiss the work of philosophers and theologians of the past because of their limited perceptions of the whole of humankind is tantamount to tossing the tot out with the tub water. Such is the case when feminist scholars of religion and ethics confront Thomas Aquinas, whose views of women can only be described as misogynistic.
Unbelief is often associated with lack of morality and meanigless existence. Here, the author sets out to refute this notion thorough defence of atheism as a both moral and meaningful philosophy of life. He shows that the predominantly Christian world view of American society is seriously flawed as the basis of morality and meaning.
Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this volume includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For ......
The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics
Focuses on health care in the United States. This title redefines the moral obligations of both physicians and patients, traces the specific effects of these redefined obligations on clinical practice, and explores the implications for patients as individuals and for national health policy.
End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy
In an era of short-termism that has produced disastrous long-term consequences for the planet, this book returns the concept of time to a philosophical reflection on pressing concerns facing us today. The book proposes a critique of scientific determinism that demands an urgent rethinking of causality and proposes a new ethical paradigm.
Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects
Their responses constitute a broad overview of the development of the Belmont Report and the extent of its influence, especially on governmental commissions, as well as an assessment of its virtues and shortcomings.
Bridging Some Buddhist-Christian-Muslim-Secularist Misunderstandings w
The book relies on Bernard Lonergan's method. It addresses today's religious conflicts in the Middle East which have led to migrations of millions of persons. It systematically explores possible breakthroughs that might help people open their hearts to one another.
Bridging Some Buddhist-Christian-Muslim-Secularist Misunderstandings w
The book relies on Bernard Lonergan's method. It addresses today's religious conflicts in the Middle East which have led to migrations of millions of persons. It systematically explores possible breakthroughs that might help people open their hearts to one another.
This book offers an in-depth account of the most important moral debates surrounding human rights today. They are the basis of legitimacy for modern Western civilisation, yet there still exists differences between our common view on the importance of rights and our profound disagreement on their meaning and content.
Rethinking Rawls from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
This book explores the three foundational topics in Rawls's theories of justice (social justice, multiculturalism, and global justice) while deconstructing ideas of democratic citizenship, public reason, and liberal individualism latent in his treatment of these subjects in order to uncover their cultural and historical underpinnings.
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.
Emphasising on human goods such as life, health, friendship, and knowledge and the wrongness of intentionally turning against them, the book provides a valuable approach to controversial bioethical questions at the beginning and end of life. Its approach contrasts with that of the dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and principlism.
Emphasising on human goods such as life, health, friendship, and knowledge and the wrongness of intentionally turning against them, the book provides a valuable approach to controversial bioethical questions at the beginning and end of life. Its approach contrasts with that of the dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and principlism.
Biomedical ethics raises a host of humanistic issues. Among these are human dignity, personal autonomy, quality of life, and access to care for all. This collection of articles explores a number of critical issues in bioethics. It is suitable for students of ethics, healthcare practitioners and policy makers.
In this book, Richard A. Jones highlights the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work for contemporary African American and Africana philosophy. The Black Book investigates the epistemic, linguistic, and political grounds from which inspiration might be drawn.
Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials
Examines whether the body and materials derived from it - such as human organs and DNA - should be thought of as market commodities and subject to property law. This title explores whether the language and assumptions of property law can help society determine who has rights to human biological materials.
