The crisis or "death" of philosophy currently identified both within and outside professional circles is commonly attributed to the failure to find universals in metaphysics, epistemology, and, most obviously, in valuational judgment. Profundity concentrates on an assumption uniformly upheld in the theory of value, that all ......
At A Time When Moral Questions about armed force are at the forefront of the public's attention, this volume offers insight on current challenges related to war, nationalism, and justice. Though recent publications on military ethics abound, this work adds to the debate by considering the historical background of just war theory in the Middle ......
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ......
Maintains that science can help us make wise choices and that an increase in scientific knowledge can help modify our ethical values and bring fresh ethical principles into social awareness. This book covers topics including bio-genetic engineering, stem cell research, organ transplants, human enhancement, abortion, euthanasia, and psychiatry.
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it "a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world." Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen ......
Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.
Contains articles on the connection between morality and the law by such thinkers as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cass R Sunstein, and others. This book focuses on issues of morality and lawyering by looking at such questions as how lawyers should represent clients with whom they disagree ethically and how defence lawyers can represent guilty clients.
Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our being that it always was and always will be? This title says that "Early Christians" were unanimous in opposing this view. It argues that later Christians succumbed to the supposed "normalcy" of war and developed what later became known as the "just-war theory".
