Ethics & Moral Philosophy

A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the s...

A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the s...

An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance pros...

Questions as personal as those about suffering require a very personal response. However, the most popular responses to 'the problem of evil' revol...

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much...

This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western cul...

Oskar Kraus (18721942) war unter den Vertretern der orthodoxen Brentano-Schule der vielleicht originellste Kopf. Er hat sich nicht nur als Mitherau...

'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 qu...