The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Reducere. What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientist...

DescriptionIn The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the...

DescriptionProgressive Atheism shows how atheism can make progress in humanity's future. It presents a new way of arguing that God doesn't exist, b...

The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Seeking t...

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

Adopting a historical approach to moral philosophy, this text introduces the thoughts of some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. It tre...

A provocative and probing argument showing how human beings can for the first time in history take charge of their moral fate.Is tribalism--the pol...

Reducere. More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very ho...

This book is an introduction to the field of theological ethics with a Trinitarian perspective that guides pastors, ministry leaders, and students ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human histor...

Reducere. Often we think of ethics as a system of codified rules and behavior modification. But when ethics takes our personal, saving God into account, it r...

As champions of deontology and consequentialism respectively, Kant and Sidgwick disagree on many important issues. However, close examination revea...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

This book argues that moral passion and rational ethical deliberation are not enemies, and that moral passion often lurks behind, and is implicit w...

Reducere. Arthur Holmes addresses the questions: What is good? What is right? How can we know? In doing so he also surveys a variety of approaches to ethics,...

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 150Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 211 x 140 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farme...

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by on...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business has evolved historically in the influential management theories and concepts. It lo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Engage with a new vision of Buddhism and the modern world with the bestselling author of Money Sex War Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution. Davi...

This ground-breaking volume offers a theoretical framework from which the theory and practice of ethics in public administration can be guided.Publ...

Who was Cain and what does he represent? The first part of this book invites us to revise the traditional, biblical, view of Cain as his brother's ...

DescriptionHow should we live? How should we act? How might we live? These are the three questions of moral philosophy. Brent Adkins traces the his...

Reducere. From drone warfare to gay marriage, the modern world is full of ethical conundrums stemming from a plethora of amazing technological advances and d...

With its unique union of theory and application and its well-organized, easy-to-use design, Moral Choices has earned its place as the standard text...

Reducere. The only contemporary moral problems text to focus directly on the ethics of current, divisive political issues, Ethics, Left and Right features ne...

Quickly understand complex HR concepts surrounding the modern workplace to ensure you---and those you supervise---are practicing leadership princip...

A novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, Spenser's ethics situaties his ethics in the contexts of early modern moral philosophy and t...

What does the Bible teach about how to live in today's world? Best-selling author and professor Wayne Grudem distills over forty years of teaching ...

Reducere. In 21st Century Ethics, Dr. Glenn Rogers does four things: 1) provides a historical overview of the major systems of moral philosophy that have sha...

In this work, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University illuminates the nature of Christian ethics with thought and ...

While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely unequal, wi...

In an original study, Patrick Colm Hogan brings the insights of global comparative literature to bear on central issues of ethics. A compelling, na...

DescriptionThis introductory textbook presents Christian philosophical and theological approaches to ethics. Combining their expertise in philosoph...

A reintroduction to ethics for the Christian church.How should Christians live? How should they approach today's difficult moral questions? In Ethi...

In Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, editor Daniel K. Finn proposes a field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christia...

Reducere. This one-of-a-kind resource in professional ethics helps today's Christian leaders maintain a high moral character and lifestyle and sharpen their ...

With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based o...

Publisher: ATF PressNumber of pages: 79Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 154 x 230 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Bernadette Richard...

DescriptionWhen Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth was first published it proposed a startling idea to explain the long-standing puzzle of the dinos...

Understanding where science can take us when viewed without the lens of materialism.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Mario BeauregardNumbe...

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030. This vision involves "ensuring inclu...

Publisher: Brandeis University PressAuthor(s): Tamar RossNumber of pages: 352Collection: HBI Series on Jewish WomenPublication date: 2021Dimensions...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Dr. Jan-Olav (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway) HenriksenNumber of pages: 280Collec...

"A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society"--Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Rich...

Reducere. "People don't often think of corruption or white-collar crap having an actual crime scene, but the Winner's Circle was the scene of this one."Will ...