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Ethics of the Nature and Origin
by Benedict De Spinoza  Publisher Comments Modes of thinking, such as love, desire, or any other of the passions, do not take place, unless there be in the same individual an idea of the thing loved, desired, But the idea can exist without the presence of any other mode of thinking....
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The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford Ethics Series)
by Jeff Mcmahan Publisher Comments This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual is uncertain or controversial. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks...
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Contributions to Phenomenology #54: The Sphere of Attention: Context and Margin
by P. Sven Arvidson Publisher Comments The Sphere of Attention uses the latest empirical research to illustrate how attention is organized according to gestalt-phenomenological principles inside and outside the focus of attention. For the first time, this book classifies how attention shifts,...
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Invitation To Feminist Ethics (06 Edition)
by Hilde Lindeman Publisher Comments Feminist ethics illustrates how power, in the guise of gender, affects various moral practices and moral theorizing; it also assesses those practices and theories for their legitimacy. "An Invitation to Feminist Ethics" introduces students to the body of...
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Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement
by Colin Farrelly Publisher Comments Farrelly argues against the principled paradigm of ideal theory and champions instead a virtue-oriented theory of justice entitled 'civic liberalism'. He critically assesses the main contemporary theories of justice and tackles a number of applied topics,...
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Ethical Choices for Contemporary Medicine: Integrative Bioethics
by Raphael Sassower Publisher Comments Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine rejects the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and public are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith Publisher Comments What can he added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? To one in this situation, all accessions of fortune may properly be said to be superfluous; and if he is much elevated upon account of them...
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Ethics and the Between (Suny Series, Philosophy)
by William Desmond Book News Annotation With this book, Desmond (philosophy, Katholieke U., Louvain, Belgium) aims to create a reconstruction of metaphysical thinking about the meaning of being good. Sections are devoted to the ethos and being, ethical ways (univocal, equivocal, dialectical,...
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Newer Ideals of Peace
by Jane Addams Publisher Comments A paradigm for peace discovered in the cosmopolitan neighborhoods of poor urban...
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Ethics by Committee: A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees
by D. Micah (edt) Hester Synopsis While tens of thousands of people across the United States serve on hospital and other healthcare ethics committees (HECs), almost no carefully prepared educational material exists for HEC members. Ethics by Committee is a one volume collection of...
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On Shame
by Michael Morgan Publisher Comments Despite the wide use of shame in the media and politics, through 'name and shame' campaigns and cause-related marketing, it is not a term well or universally understood. On Shame points to ways in which we can and should use this powerful emotion to...
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Law and Philosophy Library #44: Rights and Reason
by Marilyn Friedman Publisher Comments This is the most important collection of essays on rights theory to appear in the last decade. Most essays are published here for the first time. The collection honors the eminent rights theorist, Carl Wellman, on the occasion of his retirement...
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Contemporary Moral Problems: War, Terrorism, and Torture
by James E White Publisher Comments An excerpted chapter from the ninth edition of White Contemporary Moral Problems made available to provide readers with a brief anthology for ethical study of war, terrorism and torture. Supported with problem cases, an illuminating introductory essay...
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International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Foo #15: Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food
by Christian Coff Publisher Comments Traceability a the ability to track a product from farm to plate a is now widely used in the food sector for a range of purposes: it allows companies to improve efficiency, facilitates product recall, and helps producers flag the specific characteristics...
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Reasons and the Good
by Roger Crisp Publisher Comments In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Fundamental to ethics, he claims, is the idea of ultimate reasons for action; and he argues controversially that these reasons don't depend on moral concepts...
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Gulistan or Rose Garden
by Musle-huddeen Sheik Saadi Publisher Comments With the exception of a few passages, of which we need not stop to given account, in this translation, the morality of the Gulistan & the Bostan is pure, and so little clogged with the superstition of the country, that this does not interfere with...
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics)
by Jeremy Bentham Publisher Comments A classic of both philosophy and jurisprudence, this 1789 work articulates an important statement of the foundations of utilitarian philosophy. It also represents a pioneering study of crime and punishment. Bentham's reasoning remains ever relevant and...
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Human Identity and Bioethics (05 Edition)
by Degrazia Publisher Comments This book explores numerical and narrative accounts of identity, through philosophical and non-philosophical perspectives....
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Ethics, Money & Sport: This Sporting Mammon (Ethics and Sport)
by Adrian J. Walsh Synopsis Football used to be free. In 2001, the estimated annual turnover of world football was 250 billion. Is the commercialization of sport simply 'fair game', or is big business causing long-term damage? Many have concerns about the changes that are taking...
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The Science of Ethics
by Leslie Stephen Publisher Comments THE SCIENCE OF ETHICS THE SCIENCE OF ETHICS BY LESLIE STEPHEN SECOND EDITION NEW TOEK G, P, PUTNAMS SONS LONDON SMITH, ELDEE, CO. 1907 All rights reserved PEEFACE A PEEFACE is generally the most interesting, and not seldom the only interesting, part of a...
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