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How do you decide what is ethically wrong and right? Few people
make moral judgments by taking the theory first. Specifically
written with the interests, needs, and experience of students in
mind, this textbook approaches thinking ethically as you do in real
life - by first encountering practical moral problems and then
introducing theory to understand and integrate the issues. Built
around engaging case studies from news media, court hearings,
famous speeches and philosophical writings, each of the 15
chapters: - explains and defines the moral problem dealt with -
provides excerpts of readings on all sides of the issue - analyses
the problem, using the relevant theory The examples are
recognizable ethical problems, including judgments about racism and
sexism, controversial debates such as assisted suicide and the
death penalty, and contemporary concerns like privacy and
technology, corporate responsibility, and the environment. The
mission of the book is to assist you to engage in informed,
independent, critical thinking and to enable you to enter into
ethical discussions in the classroom and beyond. Supported by
learning features, including study questions, key quotes, handy
definitions and a companion website, this book is essential for any
student of moral philosophy.
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Jacques Ellul
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Jacob E. Van Vleet, Jacob Marques Rollison
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Inquiring 'whether any war can be just', Thomas Aquinas famously
responded that this may hold true, provided the war is conducted by
a legitimate authority, for a just cause, and with an upright
intention. Virtually all accounts of just war, from the Middle Ages
to the current day, make reference to this threefold formula. But
due in large measure to its very succinctness, Aquinas's theory has
prompted contrasting interpretations. This book sets the record
straight by surveying the wide range of texts in his literary
corpus that have bearing on peace and the ethics of war. Thereby
emerges a coherent and nuanced picture of just war as set within
his systematic moral theory. It is shown how Aquinas deftly
combined elements from earlier authors, and how his teaching has
fruitfully propelled inquiry on this important topic by his fellow
scholastics, later legal theorists such as Grotius, and
contemporary philosophers of just war.
What is the significance of the Protestant Reformation for
Christian ethical thinking and action? Can core Protestant
commitments and claims still provide for compelling and viable
accounts of Christian living. This collection of essays by leading
international scholars explores the relevance of the Protestant
Reformation and its legacy for contemporary Christian ethics.
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What's with Free Will?
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Philip Clayton, James W. Walters; Foreword by John Martin Fischer
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Solidarity Beyond Borders is a collection on international ethics
by a multidisciplinary team of scholars from four continents. The
volume explores ethical and political dimensions of transnational
solidarity in the emerging multipolar world. Analyzing global
challenges of the world plagued by poverty, diseases, injustice,
inequality and environmental degradation, the contributors - rooted
in diverse cultures and ethical traditions - voice their support
for 'solidarity beyond borders'. Bringing to light both universally
shared ethical insights as well as the irreducible diversity of
ethical perceptions of particular problems helps the reader to
appreciate the chances and the challenges that the global community
- more interconnected and yet more ideologically fragmented than
ever before - faces in the coming decades. Solidarity Beyond
Borders exemplifies an innovative approach to the key issues of
global ethics which takes into account the processes of economic
globalization, leading to an ever deeper interdependence of peoples
and states, as well as the increasing cultural and ideological
fragmentation which characterize the emerging multipolar world
order.
Hegel's Philosophy of Right has long been recognized as the only
systematic alternative to the dominant social contract tradition in
modern political philosophy. Dean Moyar here takes on the difficult
task of reading and representing Hegel's view of justice with the
same kind of intuitive appeal that has made social contract theory,
with its voluntary consent and assignment of rights and privileges,
such an attractive model. Moyar argues that Hegelian justice
depends on a proper understanding of Hegel's theory of value and on
the model of life through which the overall conception of value,
the Good, is operationalized. Closely examining key episodes in
Phenomenology of Spirit and the entire Philosophy of Right, Moyar
shows how Hegel develops his account of justice through an
inferentialist method whereby the content of right unfolds into
increasingly thick normative structures. He asserts that the theory
of value that Hegel develops in tandem with the account of right
relies on a productive unity of self-consciousness and life, of
pure thinking and the natural drives. Moyar argues that Hegel's
expressive account of the free will enables him to theorize rights
not simply as abstract claims, but rather as realizations of value
in social contexts of mutual recognition. Moyar shows that Hegel's
account of justice is a living system of institutions centered on a
close relation of the economic and political spheres and on an
understanding of the law as developing through practices of public
reason. Moyar defends Hegel's metaphysics of the State as an
account of the sovereignty of the Good, and he shows why Hegel
thought that philosophy needs to offer an account of world history
and reformed religion to buttress the modern social order.
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Anti-Machiavel
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Innocent Gentillet; Edited by Ryan Murtha; Translated by Simon Patericke
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Just War Theory is the governing moral doctrine for all of the
major democratic militaries and indeed beyond. This book is a close
study of a critical component of Just War theory, the moral status
of noncombatants. In this post September 11th, 2001 time of
cascading unconventional or 'dirty' wars, issues of treatment of
noncombatants - whether as incidental casualties during grey area
operations or as prisoners swept up by preventative security
measures - have resonance across national lines. Whether or not the
democracies and other states pursue their national security
interests within the limits of Just War reasoning and laws, or
break out of these limits in prosecuting war and security measures
against terrorist organizations, is one of the top security issues
of the day. Zupan examines the flaws that this complex body of
moral reasoning often exhibits, arguing that many of the
shortcomings of Just War theory can be resolved using Kantian
methodology and the theory of autonomy. According to this
conception, human beings have unconditional worth which imposes
moral constraints upon the actions of other human beings. From this
understanding Zupan generates principles that serve as moral
guidelines for the use of force which establish a presumption
against harming any human being and greatly restrict the conditions
under which we may justify any unintended, collateral harm that may
affect those who do not intend our harm. Considering the work of
moral theorists such as Onora O'Neill, T. M. Scanlon, Michael
Walzer, Paul Christopher and G. E. M. Anscombe and such issues as
the Doctrine of Double Effect, autonomy and supreme emergency,
Zupan concludes that if we ever are justified in targeting the
innocent, it will only be under very rare conditions where the
innocent themselves should accept the principle that permitted
their being killed.
Differing moral views are dividing the country and polarizing the
left and the right more than ever before. This book offers unique
solutions to improve communication and understanding between the
two factions to fix our fractured political system. Morality is at
the heart of political contention in American society.
Unfortunately, our polarized belief systems severely inhibit the
achievement of bipartisan compromises. A Battlefield of Values:
America's Left, Right, and Endangered Center provides a candid but
nonjudgmental examination of what people think and believe-and how
this informs our divisions over core values. By addressing how
individuals believe rather than how they vote, the book illuminates
why 21st-century America is so conflicted politically and
religiously; exposes what matters most to those on the right and
left of the political, religious, and cultural spectrum; explains
why the members of the endangered center in American life-the
moderates-are struggling to make sense of the great divide between
conflicting ideologies; and predicts how a degree of reconciliation
and detente might be possible in the future. Authors Stephen
Burgard and Benjamin J. Hubbard build a powerful case for how
authentic communication between political factions is integral to
bettering our society as a whole. Along the way, they illustrate
the impact of religion and media on American belief systems and
also explore the inability of news media to serve as mediators of
this dilemma. This work will fascinate lay readers seeking
perspective on our current political stalemate as well as serve
college students taking courses in political science,
communications, journalism, anthropology, or religious studies.
Provides a unique analysis that shows how our seemingly
irreconcilable differences can be turned into assets for
transforming the United States into a better country Offers
informed perspectives of American conflict from authors with more
than 50 years of experience combined in their respective fields
Explores a future using religion, technology, and science to mend
distrust and tune up our political system Presents information and
concepts appropriate for an academic lesson plan or for any
civics-savvy reader
Examines the meaning of "life" in an era of emerging biotechnology.
What happens to prevailing beliefs about the uniqueness of
individual life when life can be cloned? Or to traditional
understandings of family relationships when a child can have up to
five parents? These are some of the questions addressed by Valerie
Hartouni in her consideration of the cultural effects of new
reproductive technologies as reflected in video images, popular
journalism, scientific debates, legal briefs, and policy
decisions.
In Cultural Conceptions, Hartouni tracks the circulation and
communication of various myths, images, and stories pertaining to
new reproductive technologies and their effects, both imagined and
real, during the past two decades. While addressing topics ranging
from surrogacy and cloning to adoption, ultrasound imaging, and
abortion, Hartouni looks to American popular culture for clues to
what these new -- and not so new -- reproductive practices tell us
about issues of personhood.
Hartouni investigates the emergence of new anxieties about the
nature of selfhood as well as the recurrence of age-old myths
regarding individuality, sexuality, property, and family. She
argues that both are being played out in cultural contests over the
meaning and organization of women's reproductive capacity. In her
discussion of provocative issues such as The Bell Curve controversy
and the Baby M. case, Hartouni traces the dialectic of crisis and
containment unleashed by reproductive technologies. Ultimately,
however, Cultural Conceptions argues that the anxieties that
surround new reproductive technologies provide openings for
alternative understandings and practices of life to emerge
andchallenge those currently in place.
A thoughtful, daring, and original look at this complex set of
issues, Cultural Conceptions provides an much-needed guide to our
nation's psyche as we approach the new millennium.
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