Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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...

This collection embodies a debate that explores what could be characterised as the tension between judging and understanding. It seems that after a...

Originally compiled in 1859, this book is a collection of Nathaniel Taylor's lectures considering the moral government of God. The moral government...

Over recent decades, pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists try to answer deep and difficult qu...

Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is ...

Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is ...

With the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence across all sectors, each day we are faced with urgent questions around how this technology ca...

This book argues that moralism is a troublesome emotion of the sort one might seek help with from a psychotherapist. Its focus is on how to disabus...

Why should we strive to be important? Does it make our lives go better if we are especially significant? The Significance Impulse argues that the c...

What gives someone a moral right to parent? What role should the liberal state play in the creation of families? Are prospective parents allowed to...