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Fair Work - Ethics, Social Policy, Globalization (Hardcover): Kory P. Schaff Fair Work - Ethics, Social Policy, Globalization (Hardcover)
Kory P. Schaff
R3,301 Discovery Miles 33 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy. The volume brings together essays by scholars in philosophy, education, economics, and law that draw our attention to significant issues raised by the transformation of modern work. The first part examines work in the context of traditional ethical issues such as virtue, dignity, and justice, while the second part includes critical investigations at the intersection of ethics, social policy, and globalization on topics such as education and job credentials, happiness in the workplace, women and exploitation, open borders and migrant labor, and human rights. This volume will be of interest to students, professors, social scientists, policy makers, and informed citizens trying to understand the complex issues facing workers in the era of globalization.

Pascal's Pensees (Hardcover): Blaise Pascal Pascal's Pensees (Hardcover)
Blaise Pascal
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Designer Biology - The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (Paperback): Ronald L. Sandler, John... Designer Biology - The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (Paperback)
Ronald L. Sandler, John Basl; Contributions by Immaculada De Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, David A Frank, …
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits of geoengineering, designer ecosystems, and conservation cloning. In human health contexts, it is exemplified in the development of synthetic biology, bionanotechnology, and human enhancement technologies. Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems consists of thirteen chapters (twelve of them original to the collection) that address the ethical issues raised by technological intervention and design across a broad range of biological and ecological systems. Among the technologies addressed are geoengineering, human enhancement, sex selection, genetic modification, and synthetic biology. This collection advances and enriches our understanding of the ethical issues raised by these technologies and identifies general lessons about the ethics of engineering complex biological and ecological systems that can be applied as new technologies and practices emerge. The insights that emerge will be especially valuable to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, or technology ethics.

Transfigured not Conformed - Christian Ethics in a Hermeneutic Key (Hardcover): Hans G Ulrich Transfigured not Conformed - Christian Ethics in a Hermeneutic Key (Hardcover)
Hans G Ulrich; Edited by Brian Brock
R3,217 Discovery Miles 32 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The moral theology of Hans G. Ulrich is presented here in English for the first time. These collected essays represent the culmination of a lifetime of reflection on Christian living from this German theologian in conversation with Luther, Bonhoeffer, and contemporary philosophers and theologians. Ulrich's ethics affirm the lively presence of the living work of God in orienting the daily life of Christians. This presence enables members of the Church to live as creatures trusting in God's promises, bearing witness in political and economic spheres, and trusting in life as a gift in response to bioethical issues. Ulrich's fresh take on living out of the promise of God yields further guidance on issues in international relations, economics, parenting, disability, and more.

Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics - Aesthetics, Ethics and Subjectivity (Hardcover): Michael Smith Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics - Aesthetics, Ethics and Subjectivity (Hardcover)
Michael Smith
R3,199 Discovery Miles 31 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Exploring the rupture between Wittgenstein's early and late phases, Michael Smith provides an original re-assessment of the metaphysical consistencies that exist throughout his divergent texts. Smith shows how Wittgenstein's criticism of metaphysics typically invoked the very thing he was seeking to erase. Taking an alternative approach to the inherent contradiction in his work, the 'problem of metaphysics', as Smith terms it, becomes the organizing principle of Wittgenstein's thought rather than something to overcome. This metaphysical thread enables further reflection on the poetic nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy as well as his preoccupation with ethics and aesthetics as important factors mostly absent from the secondary literature. The turn to aesthetics is crucial to a re-assessment of Wittgenstein's legacy, and is done in conjunction with an innovative analysis of Nietzsche's critique of Kantian aesthetics and Kant's 'judgments of taste'. The result is a unique discussion of the limits and possibilities of metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics and the task of the philosopher more generally.

Authorial Ethics - How Writers Abuse Their Calling (Paperback): Robert Hauptman Authorial Ethics - How Writers Abuse Their Calling (Paperback)
Robert Hauptman
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Authorial Ethics is a normative study that deals with the many ways in which writers abuse their commitment to truth and integrity. It is divided by academic discipline and includes chapters on journalism, history, literature, art, psychology, and science, among others. Robert Hauptman offers generalizations and theoretical remarks exemplified by specific cases. Two major abrogations are inadvertent error and purposeful misconduct, which is subdivided into falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism. All of these problems appear in most disciplines, although their negative impact is felt most potently in biomedical research and publication. Professor Mary Lefkowitz, the classicist, provides an incisive foreword.

How Superheroes Model Community - Philosophically, Communicatively, Relationally (Hardcover): Nathan Miczo How Superheroes Model Community - Philosophically, Communicatively, Relationally (Hardcover)
Nathan Miczo
R2,229 Discovery Miles 22 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the perspectives of positive psychology and positive communication, superheroes are often depicted as possessing virtues and serving as inspirational exemplars. However, many of the virtues enumerated as characterizing the superhero (e.g., courage, teamwork, creativity) could just as easily be applied to heroes of other genres. To understand what is unique to the superhero genre, How Superheroes Model Community: Philosophically, Communicatively, Relationally looks not only to the virtues that animate them, but also to the underlying moral framework that gives meaning to those virtues. The key to understanding their character is that often they save strangers, and they do so in the public sphere. The superhero's moral framework, therefore, must encompass both the motivation to act to benefit others rather than themselves (especially people to whom they have no relational obligation) and to preserve the public sphere against those who would disrupt it. Given such a framework, Nathan Miczo argues that superheroes are not, and could not, be loners. They constantly form team-ups, super teams, alliances, partnerships, take on mentorship roles, and create sidekicks. Social constructionist approaches in the communication field argue that communication, in part, works to shape and create our social reality. Through this lens, Miczo proposes that superheroes maintain themselves as a community through the communicative practices they engage in.

Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Paperback): Michael Cholbi Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Paperback)
Michael Cholbi
R1,316 Discovery Miles 13 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Death comes for us all - eventually. Philosophers have long been perplexed by how we ought to feel about death. Many people fear death and believe that death is bad for the person who dies. But is death bad for us, and if so, how is its badness best explained? If we do not survive death -if death is simply a state of nothingness - how can death be bad for us? If death is bad for us, do we have good reason to live as long as possible? Would an immortal life really be a good human life - or would even an immortal life eventually become tedious and make us long for mortality? This volume presents fourteen philosophical essays that examine our attitudes toward mortality and immortality. The topics addressed have become more urgent as scientists attempt to extend the human lifespan, perhaps even indefinitely. This book invites the reader to critically appraise his or her own attitudes toward death and immortality by exploring the ethical, metaphysical, and psychological complexities associated with these issues.

The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics - From Doping to Cyborgs (Hardcover, New): Jose Luis Perez Trivino The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics - From Doping to Cyborgs (Hardcover, New)
Jose Luis Perez Trivino
R1,822 Discovery Miles 18 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book attempts to provide a wide overview of key ethical matters in the philosophy of sport: What is fair play? Is strategic fouling legitimate? What is the role of cheating and gamesmanship in sport? What can be said about doping and physical enhancement? How can we approach gender issues that come from the core of the practice of sport? Does sport share any common characteristics, or even roots, with racism, violence, or nationalism? Should cyborgathletes compete in equal conditions with organic athletes? What can we do with new technologies in sport? In the book there is an analyse of all possible solutions that the main authors or contemporary sport philosopher has brought forward on a topic, and after having laid out the current panorama, the author deal with each of them directly and personally.

The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct; 2 (Hardcover): Alexander 1852-1902 Sutherland The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct; 2 (Hardcover)
Alexander 1852-1902 Sutherland
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Anne Frank's Tree - Nature's Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust (Hardcover): Eric Katz Anne Frank's Tree - Nature's Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Eric Katz
R2,176 Discovery Miles 21 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology's role in dominating both nature and humanity. He argues that technology dominates, and hence destroys, the natural world; it dominates, and hence destroys, critical aspects of human life and society. Technology causes an estrangement from nature, and thus a loss of meaning in human life. As a result, humans lose the power to make moral and social choices; they lose the power to control their lives. Katz's argument innovatively connects two distinct areas of thought: the fundamental goal of the Holocaust, including Nazi environmental policy, to heal the degenerate elements of society; and the plan to heal degraded natural systems that informs the contemporary environmental policy of 'ecological restoration'. In both arenas of 'healing,' Katz argues that technological forces drive action, while domination emerges as the prevailing ideology. Katz's work is a plea for the development of a technology that does not dominate and destroy but instead promotes autonomy and freedom.Anne Frank, a victim of Nazi ideology and action, saw the titular tree behind her secret annex as a symbol of freedom and moral goodness. In Katz's argument, the tree represents a free and autonomous nature, resistant to human control and domination. Anne Frank's Tree is rooted in an empirical approach to philosophy, seating complex ethical ideas in an accessible and powerful narrative of historical fact and deeply personal lived experience.

Nicomachean Ethics (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): W.D. Ross Nicomachean Ethics (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
W.D. Ross
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Principia Ethica (Hardcover): George Edward Moore Principia Ethica (Hardcover)
George Edward Moore
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Hardcover): Joshua Duclos Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Hardcover)
Joshua Duclos
R2,664 R2,391 Discovery Miles 23 910 Save R273 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value. Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness, and for good reasons, but wilderness entails unremittent, incalculable suffering for its non-human habitants. Given that it will become increasingly possible to augment nature in ways that ameliorates some of this suffering, the morality of wilderness preservation is itself in question. Joshua S. Duclos argues that the technological and ethical reality of the Anthropocene warrants a fundamental reassessment of the value of wilderness. After exposing the moral ambiguity of wilderness preservation, he explores the value of wilderness itself by engaging with anthropocentricism and nonanthropocentrism; sentientism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism; and instrumental value and intrinsic value. Duclos argues that the value of wilderness is a narrow form of anthropocentric intrinsic value, one with a religio-spiritual dimension. By integrating scholarship from bioethics on the norms of engineering human nature with debates in environmental ethics concerning the prospect of engineering non-human nature, Wilderness, Morality, and Value sets the stage for wilderness ethics-or wilderness faith-in the Anthropocene.

Self-Reliance (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Hardcover): Rudolf Steiner The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Hardcover)
Rudolf Steiner; Translated by R. F. Alfred Hoernle
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Epistemology of the Crocodile King, the Lord of Sahu (Hardcover): Xose Miguel Baez, Shemyaza Yehuda Freiberg The Epistemology of the Crocodile King, the Lord of Sahu (Hardcover)
Xose Miguel Baez, Shemyaza Yehuda Freiberg
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Why Vegan? (Paperback): Peter Singer Why Vegan? (Paperback)
Peter Singer
R180 R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Save R17 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal rights movement and gave impetus to the rise in vegan eating. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics (Hardcover, annotated edition): Shyam Ranganathan The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Shyam Ranganathan
R6,317 Discovery Miles 63 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Featuring leading scholars from philosophy and religious studies, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics dispels the myth that Indian thinkers and philosophers were uninterested in ethics. This comprehensive research handbook traces Indian moral philosophy through classical, scholastic Indian philosophy, pan-Indian literature including the Epics, Ayurvedic medical ethics, as well as recent, traditionalist and Neo-Hindu contributions. Contrary to the usual myths about India (that Indians were too busy being religious to care about ethics), moral theory constitutes the paradigmatic differentia of formal Indian philosophy, and is reflected richly in popular literature. Many of the papers make this clear by an analytic explication that draws critical comparisons and contrasts between classical Indian moral philosophy and contemporary contributions to ethics. By critically addressing ethics as a sub-discipline of philosophy and acknowledging the mistaken marginalization of Indian moral philosophy, this handbook reveals how Indian contributions can illuminate contemporary philosophical research on ethics. Unlike previous approaches to Indian ethics, this volume is organized in accordance with major topics in moral philosophy. The volume contains an extended introduction, exploring topics in moral semantics, the philosophy of thought, (metaethical and normative) ethical theory, and the politics of scholarship, which serve to show how the diversity of Indian moral philosophy is a contribution to the discipline of ethics. With an overview of Indian moral theory, and a glossary, this is a valuable guide to understanding the past, present and future research directions of a central component of Indian philosophy.

Children's Rights and Moral Parenting (Hardcover): Mark C. Vopat Children's Rights and Moral Parenting (Hardcover)
Mark C. Vopat
R3,510 R2,472 Discovery Miles 24 720 Save R1,038 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Children's Rights and Moral Parenting offers systematic treatment of a variety of issues involving the intersection of the rights of children and the moral responsibility of parents. Mark C. Vopat offers a theory of the relationship between children, parents, and the state that can be applied to the real life decisions that parents are often in the position to make on behalf of their children. In many instances, our current view of parental "rights" has granted parents far more discretion than is morally warranted. Vopat arrives at this conclusion by carefully considering the unique status children have; socially, legally, and morally in most western societies. Children's Rights and Moral Parenting is essentially contractualist in the Rawlsian tradition. While it may appear counterintuitive to speak of children in terms of the social contract tradition, there is much this approach can do to provide some conceptual clarity to the nature of the relationship between children, parents and the state. The overarching theme of the book is the moral independence of children from extreme forms of parental and, at times, social control. The objective of the book is to provide an argument for extending the range of things owed to children, as well as making the case for fully including children in the moral community.

The Ethics of Nuclear Energy - Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era (Hardcover): Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser The Ethics of Nuclear Energy - Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era (Hardcover)
Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser
R2,826 Discovery Miles 28 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues of risk, justice, and democracy. The essays consider a range of ethical issues, including radiological protection, the influence of gender in the acceptability of nuclear risk, and environmental, international, and intergenerational justice in the context of nuclear energy. They also address the question of when, and under which conditions, nuclear energy should play a role in the world's future supply of electricity, looking at both developing and industrialized countries. The book will interest readers in ethics and political philosophy, social and political sciences, nuclear engineering, and policy studies.

Bhakti Yoga - The Path of Devotion (Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Bhakti Yoga - The Path of Devotion (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Engineering and Philosophy - Reimagining Technology and Social Progress (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Zachary Pirtle, David... Engineering and Philosophy - Reimagining Technology and Social Progress (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Zachary Pirtle, David Tomblin, Guru Madhavan
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Engineers love to build "things" and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To guide future efforts and to best bring about human flourishment and a just world, Engineering and Philosophy: Reimagining Technology and Progress brings together practitioners and scholars to inspire deeper conversations on the nature and varieties of engineering. The perspectives in this book are an act of reimagination: how does engineering serve society, and in a vital sense, how should it.

An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (Hardcover):... An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (Hardcover)
George Boole
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Hardcover): Michael Cholbi Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Hardcover)
Michael Cholbi
R3,797 Discovery Miles 37 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Death comes for us all - eventually. Philosophers have long been perplexed by how we ought to feel about death. Many people fear death and believe that death is bad for the person who dies. But is death bad for us, and if so, how is its badness best explained? If we do not survive death -if death is simply a state of nothingness - how can death be bad for us? If death is bad for us, do we have good reason to live as long as possible? Would an immortal life really be a good human life - or would even an immortal life eventually become tedious and make us long for mortality? This volume presents fourteen philosophical essays that examine our attitudes toward mortality and immortality. The topics addressed have become more urgent as scientists attempt to extend the human lifespan, perhaps even indefinitely. This book invites the reader to critically appraise his or her own attitudes toward death and immortality by exploring the ethical, metaphysical, and psychological complexities associated with these issues.

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