The Ethical Life

• Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2017-06-21
• Total pages : 544
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : This collection of primary source materials covering the major themes of moral philosophy features forty-two classical and contemporary readings divided into four parts--The Good Life, Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Problems. Comprehensive yet concise, it introduces students toethical theory and a wide range of moral issues....

• Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 408
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring thirty-nine readings divided into four parts--Value Theory, Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Problems--it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range ...

• Author : Claes G. Ryn
• Publisher : CUA Press
• Release Date : 1990-01-01
• Total pages : 245
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : This study goes to the heart of ethics and politics. Strongly argued and lucidly written, the book makes a crucial distinction between two forms of democracy...

• Author : Andrew Fiala
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 2005-05-12
• Total pages : 208
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : In a fresh and exciting way, this new book shows how tolerance connects with the practice of philosophy. Andrew Fiala examines the virtue of tolerance as it appears in several historical contexts: Socratic philosophy, Stoic philosophy, Pragmatism, and Existentialism. The lesson derived is that tolerance is a virtue for what ...

• Author : Eliseo Vivas
• Publisher : University Press of Amer
• Release Date : 1963
• Total pages : 292
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : This classic work in the field was originally published by Regnery Gateway in 1983. 'This is a serious, learned, and searching exploration of some of the most difficult questions which have ever concerned the human mind. It is also toughminded in the sense that it recognizes all the difficulties, begs no ...

• Author : Peter Singer
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release Date : 2015-04-14
• Total pages : 374
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our time Since bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. His reputation, built largely on ...

• Author : Webb Keane
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2015-10-06
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or ...

• Author : Ido Geiger
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2007
• Total pages : 173
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : It is well known that Hegel conceives of history as the gradual process of rational thought and of forms of political life. But he is usually thought to place himself at the end of this process. This book argues that an essential part of Hegel's historical-political thinking has escaped the ...

• Author : Harry Redner
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 349
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : In this survey of past and present ethical cultures Harry Redner proposes that only through understanding these systems can one understand the current state of ethics. The author considers how and why being ethical is of use to modern man....

• Author : Jay. M Bernstein
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2014-02-04
• Total pages : 264
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : Reading across the whole range of Habermas' work, this book traces the development of the theory of communicative reason from its inception to its defence against postmodernism. Bernstein's analyses are always problem centred and thematic rather than textual, making this a major contribution to the critical literature on Habermas....

• Author : Sylvia Berryman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2019-03-13
• Total pages : 224
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both substantive ethical advice and justification for the demands of ethics. Sylvia Berryman argues that this is ...

• Author : David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release Date : 2005
• Total pages : 484
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : For Greek antiquity, the question of right or fitting measure constituted the very heart of both ethics and politics. But can the Good of the ethical life and the Justice of the political be reduced to measurement and calculation? If they are matters of measure, are they not also absolutely ...

• Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2020
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : "An exceptionally clear, compact, and affordable introduction to a broad range of ethical theories"--...

• Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2018
• Total pages : 720
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : Living Ethics is an ideal all-in-one resource for courses in introduction to ethics and contemporary moral problems. In this hybrid textbook/reader, moral theory and contemporary moral issues are brought to life with a comprehensive and balanced set of readings, uniquely engaging explanations,and clear analysis of arguments....

• Author : Claes G. Ryn
• Publisher : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press
• Release Date : 1978
• Total pages : 208
• ISBN : 9780190631314

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Summary : Download or read online Democracy and the Ethical Life written by Claes G. Ryn, published by Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press which was released on 1978. Get Democracy and the Ethical Life Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....