How To Do the Right Thing: A Practical Guide for Ethical Decision Making presents a focused exploration of ethical decision making and frameworks for moral judgment. Emphasizing moral character and the notion that ethical choices are within our power, this book guides readers through the process of making principled decisions. The text covers ......
Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar
A deeply human portrait of a region defined by conflict and military dictatorship. Pursuing Morality is an in-depth and fascinating study of ordinary life in Myanmar's southeast through a unique ethnographic focus on Buddhist Plong (Pwo) Karen. Based on extensive in-depth fieldwork in the small city of Hpa-an, the capital of Karen State, Justine ......
Applying Ethical Theories to the Lives of Real People
Ethics and Your Life: Applying Ethical Theories to the Lives of Real People provides students with an introduction to various methods of ethical reasoning and their application in our everyday lives. The book underscores the ubiquitous nature of ethics and its importance in helping us better understand each other, ourselves, and increasingly ......
For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define this nature? These questions are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain subjects of perennial interest and ......
The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition
Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a long view of the "rise and fall" of the classical understanding of freedom. In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion of freedom that dominates contemporary discourse, Retrieving Freedom seeks to return to the sources of the Western tradition to recover a more adequate ......
A first-of-its-kind critical overview of how art leads to moral action in the field of theological ethics One question that remains insufficiently addressed in theological ethics is the question of how art leads to moral action.
Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting them directly and instead view the governance of cities as primarily an administrative task or, even worse, a merely political one. Timothy Beatley challenges readers to consider the issues in our cities not simply as legal or ......
Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting them directly and instead view the governance of cities as primarily an administrative task or, even worse, a merely political one. Timothy Beatley challenges readers to consider the issues in our cities not simply as legal or ......
