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Politics and Morality
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. In this book, Susan Mendus asks if politicians can be morally good or whether politics is destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim. more...
Living without Free Will
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 47.00Derk Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of them. In addition, adopting this perspective would provide significant benefit for our lives. more...
Facts, Values, and Norms
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 42.00In contrast to facts, values and morality seem insecure, influenced by illusion or ideology. How can we apply this same objectivity and accuracy to values and morality? In this collection, Peter Railton shows how a fairly sober, naturalistically informed view of the world might incorporate objective values and moral knowledge. more...
Suffering and Moral Responsibility
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 45.00In this work, Jamie Mayerfeld examines the content of the duty to prevent suffering and the weight it has relative to other moral considerations. He argues that the prevention of suffering is morally more important than the promotion of happiness, and that the duty to relieve suffering is much stronger than most of us acknowledge. more...
Appearances of the Good
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 37.00Argues that what we want is good, even when desires and evaluative judgments conflict. more...
Treat Me Right!
Picture Window Books 2003; US$ 19.95Uses an advice-column format to define respect for others, respect for property, and respect for oneself, and demonstrates how respect is used in daily situations. more...
Ethics
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 18.00In Ethics: The Essential Writings , philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought?from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer?and cover a broad range of topics, from... more...
Ethik und die Möglichkeit einer guten Welt
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 154.00?The good world? is out of fashion in philosophical ethics. The "concrete ethics" of Ludwig Siep orients itself consciously towards a hermeneutics of human religious and cultural traditions as well asit looks for a dialogue with the natural sciences in dealing with the problems of cultural and natural ethics. The present volume discusses Siep's theses,... more...
Kohärenzbegriffe in der Ethik
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 91.00Talk of coherence in ethics is popular. Particularly when dealing with the justification of ethical judgments, one frequently refers back to a concept of coherence. However, the question as to the exact meaning of the term ?coherence? is seldom posed. This book provides a comprehensive answer. The author shows that there is not a single concept of... more...
Ethiek van DNA tot 9/11
Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 38.75Essays on the diverse ethical dillema's of the 21th century more...









