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The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Volume II - New Dimensions of Forgiveness (Hardcover): Court D. Lewis The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Volume II - New Dimensions of Forgiveness (Hardcover)
Court D. Lewis
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hardcover): David Hume An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hardcover)
David Hume
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Introduction to Applied Ethics (Hardcover, HPOD): Robert L. Holmes Introduction to Applied Ethics (Hardcover, HPOD)
Robert L. Holmes
R3,585 Discovery Miles 35 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Jacques Ellul (Hardcover): Jacob E. Van Vleet, Jacob Marques Rollison Jacques Ellul (Hardcover)
Jacob E. Van Vleet, Jacob Marques Rollison
R1,091 R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Save R177 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace (Hardcover): Gregory M. Reichberg Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace (Hardcover)
Gregory M. Reichberg
R2,821 Discovery Miles 28 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Jean McClure Mudge Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Jean McClure Mudge
R1,666 Discovery Miles 16 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist - The Future of a Reformation Legacy (Hardcover): Brian Brock, Michael Mawson The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist - The Future of a Reformation Legacy (Hardcover)
Brian Brock, Michael Mawson
R4,579 Discovery Miles 45 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

I Looked Into My Soul (Hardcover): Rick Hoppe I Looked Into My Soul (Hardcover)
Rick Hoppe
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Charmed Triangle - Religion, Science and Spirituality - Breaking Out of Belief (Hardcover): Bill K. Koul, Vijay Narain... The Charmed Triangle - Religion, Science and Spirituality - Breaking Out of Belief (Hardcover)
Bill K. Koul, Vijay Narain Shankar
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What's with Free Will? (Hardcover): Philip Clayton, James W. Walters What's with Free Will? (Hardcover)
Philip Clayton, James W. Walters; Foreword by John Martin Fischer
R1,168 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R187 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Power of Ethics - How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World (Paperback): Susan Liautaud The Power of Ethics - How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World (Paperback)
Susan Liautaud; Contributions by Lisa Sweetingham
R471 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Plato's Sophia - His Philosophical Endeavor in Light of Its Spiritual Currents and Undercurrents (Hardcover): Harald... Plato's Sophia - His Philosophical Endeavor in Light of Its Spiritual Currents and Undercurrents (Hardcover)
Harald Haarmann
R2,602 Discovery Miles 26 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Solidarity Beyond Borders - Ethics in a Globalising World (Hardcover): Janusz Salamon Solidarity Beyond Borders - Ethics in a Globalising World (Hardcover)
Janusz Salamon
R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Wide-Awake in God's World (Hardcover): Graham D Stanton Wide-Awake in God's World (Hardcover)
Graham D Stanton
R1,234 R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Save R204 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Philosophy of Literature (Hardcover): Donald Phillip Verene The Philosophy of Literature (Hardcover)
Donald Phillip Verene
R996 R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Save R150 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hegel's Value (Hardcover): Dean Moyar Hegel's Value (Hardcover)
Dean Moyar
R2,807 R2,258 Discovery Miles 22 580 Save R549 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Happiness and Utility (Hardcover): Mark Philp, Georgios Varouxakis Happiness and Utility (Hardcover)
Mark Philp, Georgios Varouxakis
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anti-Machiavel (Hardcover): Innocent Gentillet Anti-Machiavel (Hardcover)
Innocent Gentillet; Edited by Ryan Murtha; Translated by Simon Patericke
R2,098 R1,697 Discovery Miles 16 970 Save R401 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nicomachean Ethics (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): W.D. Ross Nicomachean Ethics (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
W.D. Ross
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
War, Morality, and Autonomy - An Investigation in Just War Theory (Paperback): Daniel S. Zupan War, Morality, and Autonomy - An Investigation in Just War Theory (Paperback)
Daniel S. Zupan
R1,066 Discovery Miles 10 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems - (Save Our Planet!) (Hardcover): S.T. Kimbrough A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems - (Save Our Planet!) (Hardcover)
S.T. Kimbrough
R822 R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Save R111 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gospel Of The Wolf (Hardcover): Wulfric Thorsson Gospel Of The Wolf (Hardcover)
Wulfric Thorsson
R774 R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Battlefield of Values - America's Left, Right, and Endangered Center (Hardcover): Stephen D. Burgard, Benjamin J. Hubbard A Battlefield of Values - America's Left, Right, and Endangered Center (Hardcover)
Stephen D. Burgard, Benjamin J. Hubbard
R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Cultural Conceptions - On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life (Paperback): Valerie Hartouni Cultural Conceptions - On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life (Paperback)
Valerie Hartouni
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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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