Ethics & Moral Philosophy

If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancie...

This volume focuses on fittingness as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethic...

While the importance of consent has been discussed widely over the last few decades, interest in its study has received renewed attention in recent...

Morality indicates what is the right and what is the wrong way to behave. It is one of the most popular areas of research in contemporary social ps...

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even o...

Recent discussion of the European Enlightenment has tended to highlight its radical, atheist currents of thought and their relation to modernity, b...

Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions provides an account of how we might effectively address wrongdoing given challenges to the legitimacy of anger an...

American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess. Cops are too violent, the punishments are too punitive, and the so-called Land of the Free impri...

Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change takes a practical approach to environmental ethics with a focus on its transformative potential for stu...

This book offers a detailed utilitarian analysis of the ethical issues involved in war.Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War addresses the two basic...

Trying to understand morality involves grappling with seemingly irreconcilable conflicts between opposing theoretical positions. Originally publish...

Friendship is regarded as crucial to living a good life. But how does friendship make our lives better? Do all friendships make our lives better? W...

Graham McAleers Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law is the first work to present in an accessible way the thinking of Erich Przywara (1889-19...

This book provides a systematic analysis of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant with respect to international relations. These philosophers belong to ...

This book explores the structure and frameworks of digital governance, focusing on various regulatory patterns, with the aim of tackling the disrup...

Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner? In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultrama...

Arguments about ethics often centre on traditional questions of, for instance, euthanasia and abortion. Whilst these questions are still in the for...

Democracy is in trouble--there is disagreement about what is going wrong and what we should do about it. Lottocracy argues that, perhaps surprising...

This sixth edition of Writing Philosophy Papers updates and expands one of the most popular guides to philosophical writing assignments for undergr...

This sixth edition of Writing Philosophy Papers updates and expands one of the most popular guides to philosophical writing assignments for undergr...

Henry Crabb Robinson (17751867) earned his place in literary history as a perceptive diarist from 1811 onwards. Drawing substantially on hitherto u...

Democracy is in trouble--there is disagreement about what is going wrong and what we should do about it. Lottocracy argues that, perhaps surprising...

Existentialist philosophy has, at times, been exceptionally popular. This is because of its promise of possibility, both in doctrine and in style: ...

While complex global problems cry out for solutions devised with moral sensitivity and responsibility, a more common mentality tends to prevail, on...

Manu Bazzano engages with identity, otherness and ethics in a wide-ranging discussion of hospitality, exploring various social and political implic...

The Challenge of Complexity gathers in one volume over 32 essays by the esteemed French philosopher and sociologist, Edgar Morin, probably France's...

Contemporary societies face many complex injustices, from environmental devastation that threatens our long-term prospects, to human trafficking th...

'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devas...

Of what does the good life consist? What do we owe each other? How should we distribute the product of our joint effort? For modern rationality, ea...

This book promotes a social justice approach that emphasizes social relations, human desires, and lifestyles, demonstrating that Saint Augustines t...