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Philosophy and Medicine #63: Disease and Diagnosis: Value-Dependent Realism
by William E., S.j. Stempsey  Publisher Comments This is a book about the concept of disease and the philosophy of diagnosis. The author proposes value-dependent realism' as a way to show how value judgments can be foundational for the practice of diagnosis without losing the sense that diseases are...
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The Morality of Pluralism
by John Kekes Publisher Comments Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the...
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Moral Questions by Rush Rhees (Swansea Studies in Philosophy)
by Rush Rhees Publisher Comments Rush Rhees questions the viability of moral theories and the general claims they make in ethics. He shows how one can both be concerned with knowing what one ought to do while recognizing that one's answer is a personal one. These insights, arrived at in...
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Social and Political Philosophy
by Ronald Santoni Publisher Comments An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and others....
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Morality, Utilitarianism, and Rights
by Richard B. Brandt Publisher Comments Richard Brandt is one of the most eminent and influential of contemporary moral philosophers. His work has been concerned with how to justify what is good or right not by reliance on intuitions or theories about what moral words mean but by the...
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Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel, and Heidegger (Topics in Historical Philosophy)
by Karen S Feldman Publisher Comments In a work that brings a new field-altering perspective as well as new tools to the history of philosophy, Karen S. Feldman offers a powerful and elegantly written account of how philosophical language appears to "produce" the very thing-here, "conscience"...
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Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays
by Mark Timmons Publisher Comments This is the only book devoted entirely to The Metaphysics of Morals. Seventeen essays by leading contemporary Kant scholars cover such topics as Kant's views on rights, punishment, contract, practical reasoning, revolution, freedom, virtue, legislation...
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Morality and the Meaning of Life #16: Responsibility, Indifference and Global Poverty: A Levinasian Perspective
by Eduard Jordaan Synopsis This study attempts to understand our continued good conscience amid the suffering of the world's poorest. In doing so, it draws on Emmanuel Levinas' ethical philosophy to demonstrate how writings in the principal debate about the extent of our...
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How to Defend Humane Ideals: Substitutes for Objectivity
by James R. Flynn Publisher Comments One of the principal moral and psychological problems of our time is whether humane ideals can be defended. Loss of faith in the objectivity of ethics has encouraged a sense of hopelessness. The notion that no ideal is better than any other, that a...
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The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
by Deen K. Chatterjee Publisher Comments Presents the ideas of some of the leading moral and political philosophers on this important topic....
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Introduction To Engineering Ethics (00 Edition)
by Mike W. Martin Publisher Comments Introduction to Engineering Ethics provides the background for discussion of the basic issues in engineering ethics. Emphasis is given to the moral problems engineers face in the corporate setting. It places those issues within a philosophical framework,...
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The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
by J. B. Schneewind Publisher Comments uts Kant's ethics into historical context....
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Elements of Morality Including Polity Part 2
by William Whewell Publisher Comments Volume 2 of 2. The reader will perceive that this work is not described in the title as having moral philosophy for its subject, but is entitled Elements of Morality. The distinction between the two subjects to which there two terms may be most...
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Essays: Adam Smith
by Adam Smith Synopsis Essays On Moral Sentiments; Astronomical Inquiries; Formation Of Languages; History Of Ancient Physics; Ancient Logic And Metaphysics; The Imitative Arts; Music, Dancing, Poetry; The External Senses; English And Italian Verses....
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Pleasure and Good Life (06 Edition)
by Fred Feldman Publisher Comments Since ancient times, hedonism has been one of the most attractive and controversial theories about "the Good Life." On this view, the Good Life is the pleasant life-- pleasure is the Good. Now Fred Feldman presents a careful, modern formulation of...
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Moral Development, Moral Education, and Kohlberg: Basic Issues in Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, and Education
by Brenda Munsey Publisher Comments The best overall serious introduction to Kohlberg's work currently available. This book is quoted more than almost any other book on Kohlberg.A distinguished international group of scholars explore the strengths and probe the weaknesses of Lawrence...
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Finite, Contingent, and Free: a New Ethics of Acceptance
by Joyce Kloc Mcclure Publisher Comments Finite, Contingent, and Free is a Roman Catholic perspective that views acceptance as the proper response to the conditions of human existence, and the foundation for ethics....
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Aristotelian Society Monographs Series #18: Moral Theory and Anomaly
by Tom Sorrell Publisher Comments Moral Theory and Anomaly considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to...
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Astrophysics and Space Science Library #2: Norms, Values, and Society
by Herlinde (edt) Pauer-studer Publisher Comments Norms, Values, and Society is the second Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The main part of the book contains original contributions to an international symposium the Institute held in October 1993 on ethics and...
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How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen
by John G. Heidenrich Publisher Comments Genocide--the deliberate destruction, usually through mass murder, of an ethnic, racial or religious group--is the ultimate crime against humanity. Drawing upon a wide variety of disciplines, this study assesses ways to prevent this crime. While most...
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