'The Big Questions' series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy.
Proof This is evident; for in so far as we conceive the mind to be capable of understanding things by the third kind of knowledge, to that extent we conceive it as determined to understand things by that same kind of knowledge.
This unique collection includes writings of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the Western tradition, from Plato to John Rawls.
Western tradition, from Plato to John Rawls and other contemporary writers. Chronologically oriented, the book's unbiased and comprehensive coverage fosters a firm grasp of many seminal ideas and thinkers in...
Ethics: Beyond the Rules : Report of the Ethics--Beyond the Rules Task Force
Ethics: The Heart of Health Care — a classic ethics text in medical, health and nursing studies — is recommended around the globe for its straightforward introduction to ethical analysis....
Volume 1 in the ESSENTIAL WORKS OF FOUCAULT series and originally published by Allen Lane in 1997, a collection of articles, interviews and lectures on the subject of ethics, written by the twentieth century French philosopher, Michel ...
Step by step, this reader-friendly text guides you through sound reasoning strategies with its Thinking It Through modules, a course-long examination of an important ethical issue.
Concise yet comprehensive, this text draws on many examples from classical and contemporary sources.
Ethics introduces the issues and controversies of contemporary moral philosophy to undergraduate students who have already done an introductory course in philosophy.
Ethics has been addressed in health care, but relatively little attention has been paid to the subject in the social care sector. This book redresses the balance by examining theory, research, policy and practice in both fields.
This book expertly balances ethical theory with today's most relevant moral issues, including torture, "partial birth" abortion, cloning, same-sex marriage, and Wikipedia and Google.
I am especially interested here in the implications for duties of moral repair. ... the individual past beneficiaries of affirmative action owe apologies, compensation or some other highly personal form of corrective accountability.
The book contains a systematical investigation of the ethics from a scholastic standpoint.
Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong
Besides updating the foundations of the text, Krasemann incoporates new and relevant material, most of which is often unique only to this text.
A major new introduction to ethics, designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Key Features: • Serves as either the sole textbook for a lower-level introduction to ethics/moral philosophy course or a supplementary text for a more advanced undergraduate ethics course • Provides clear, direct writing throughout, ...
This volume, containing lectures given as courses at the University at Munster in 1928 and 1929, represents Barth's first systematic attempt at a theological account of Christian ethics.