Ethics & Moral Philosophy

The study of 'subjective wellbeing' has seen explosive growth in recent decades, opening important new discourses in personality and social psychol...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine normative Analyse und Verteidigung der Erbschaftssteuer unternommen. Zunächst wird eine egalitaristische Argum...

Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida a...

Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason and that the path to a good human li...

This book offers the first substantial account of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgartens significant influence on Kants ethics. Arguing that Baumgartens im...

First published in 1989, Overcoming Foundations offers a challenge to both postmodernism and traditional doctrines of knowledge and value by undert...

How do people actually experience God, Jesus Christ, the Kingdom and the Church? Does this experience affect their awareness of capitalism, sociali...

Kants kritischer Philosophie wird bis heute von prominenter Seite der Vorwurf gemacht, sie unterstelle ein im Kern subjektivistisch-monologisches I...

In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptica...

The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the n...

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic approach or bring together...

Everything you need to know about Spinoza's Ethics in one volume. The Ethics presents a complete metaphysical, epistemological and ethical world-vi...

Despite Victor Hugo's proclamation (in the 19th-century) that torture no longer exists, we find it in virtually every corner of the world - even no...

Despite Victor Hugo's proclamation (in the 19th-century) that torture no longer exists, we find it in virtually every corner of the world - even no...

Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, st...

What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical p...

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

Athena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question w...

Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari; the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuze's...

Contemporary political philosophy - especially in the works of Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls and Amartya Sen - has assumed that it can separate itsel...