Ethics & Moral Philosophy

This book examines the concept of moral economy originally established by E.P. Thompson, focusing on the impact of religious norms on economic prac...

We all have ethical beliefs. We may believe, for example, that torture is wrong, that compassion is a virtue, and that it is rational to promote wh...

Ziel des Sammelbandes ist die Sensibilisierung für eine ethisch-politische Bildung in der Polizei über Antisemitismus unter Einbeziehung der Perspe...

There is no good human life outside of a state, and the good state enables us to live well together so says Constitutivism, the theory developed i...

Why lifes shortnessmore than anything elseis what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful l...

Obwohl Kants Tugendlehre bei ihrer Veröffentlichung weithin unbeachtet bleibt, entfaltet sie in den letzten Jahren eine zunehmende Wirkung: ein rev...

Immanuel Kants Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre, 1797 als erster Teil der Metaphysik der Sitten erschienen, stellen einen Beitrag zur n...

Ciceros De officiis, geschrieben 44 v. Chr., gehört zu den anerkannten Klassikern der Philosophie, ist aber in seinen philosophischen Dimensionen u...

Themistios, a recognised philosopher of his time, is regarded as one of the most successful eulogists of the 4th century AD. For a long time, the r...

Tod und Sterben gehören zu den existentiellen Grunderfahrungen des Menschseins, die seit jeher Gegenstand kultureller Deutung sind. Der erste Teil ...

Ist libertarische Handlungsfreiheit eine Voraussetzung moralischer Verantwortung im tugendethischen Sinn? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird die l...

First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (John of Silence), Soren Kierkegaards richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for g...

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...

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...