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Thoreau's Living Ethics
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Philip Cafaro |
*Thoreau's Living Ethics* is the first full account of Henry Thoreau's ethical philosophy. Focused on *Walden* but ranging widely across his writings, the study situates Thoreau within a long traditi… |
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After virtue
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Alasdair C. MacIntyre |
Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice. In a new chapter, MacIntyre elaborates his position on the relationship of philosophy to… |
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Transplantation Ethics
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Robert M. Veatch |
Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from the deceased have successfully been procured and transpl… |
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Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life
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Robert J. Fogelin,Fred Sommers,Christina Hoff Sommers |
A comprehensive and provocative collection of both classical and contemporary voices in perennial ethical debates, *Vice and Virtue* has established itself as one of the truly outstanding anthologies… |
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The Ethical Challenge
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Noel M Tichy |
The Enron debacle, the demise of Arthur Andersen, questionable practices at Tyco, Qwest, WorldCom, and a seemingly endless list of others have pushed public regard for business and business leaders t… |
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Infinitely Demanding
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Simon Critchley |
A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy.
The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and pol… |
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Confronting evils
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Claudia Card |
"In this new contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetr… |
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Ethical naturalism
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Susana Nuccetelli,Gary Seay |
"Ethical naturalism is narrowly construed as the doctrine that there are moral properties and facts, at least some of which are natural properties and facts. Perhaps owing to its having faced, early … |
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The Good Book - A Humanist Bible
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A. C. Grayling |
**From the publisher's website: [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-good-book-9780802778383/][1]**
Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the … |
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Ethical Justice
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Brent E. Turvey,Stan Crowder |
This textbook was developed from an idiom shared by the authors and contributors alike: ethics and ethical challenges are generally black and white, not gray. They are akin to the pregnant woman or t… |
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Leadership and power
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S. K. Chakraborty,Pradip Bhattacharya |
Contributed articles. |
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Ethical issues in death and dying
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Robert F. Weir |
The first edition of this book was published in 1977. At that time the field of thanatology, the study of death and dying, was still reasonably new and was dominated by research done by psychiatrists… |
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The ethical journalist
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Gene Foreman |
"A new edition of this well-regarded, student-friendly text book for journalism ethics that addresses the challenges of digital-age journalism"-- |
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Beyond Power On Women Men and Morals
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Marilyn French |
This examination of the nature and effects of power draws on the wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, political science, law, and theology to investigate the sources of patriar… |
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Religion in legal thought and practice
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Howard Lesnick |
"This book examines moral issues in public and private life from a religious but not devotional perspective. Rather than seeking to prove that one belief system or moral stance is right, it undertake… |
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Galileo's middle finger
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Alice Domurat Dreger |
"An investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades… |
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God and Moral Obligation
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C. Stephen Evans |
C. Stephen Evans defends the claim that moral obligations are best understood as divine commands or requirements; hence an important part of morality depends on God. God's requirements are communicat… |
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Ethics At 3 : AM
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Richard Marshall |
xi, 343 pages ; 25 cm |
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Godless Morality
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Richard Holloway,Holloway, Richard |
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. We can argue with one another as to whether this or that alleged claim genuinely emanated from God, but surely it is better… |
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The theory of moral sentiments
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Adam Smith |
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops… |
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