Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Why hopeful pessimism is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls ...

Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving. Yet despite a wealth of recent philosophical work on the exercise of self-c...

This volume explores the importance of constitutivism for legal studies. Constitutivism is the view that the normative force, or authority, of prac...

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars. However, there will still be some accidents, even fatal ones. The...

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars. However, there will still be some accidents, even fatal ones. The...

This collection brings together key contributions on the ethics of end-of-life decisions, inspired by the publication of What Kind of Death: The Et...

Der vorliegende Band bietet einen Überblick über das gegenwärtig an Kontur gewinnende Forschungsfeld einer Phänomenologie des Politischen. Der Disk...

This book introduces a study of ethics and values to develop a deeper understanding of markets, business, and economic life. Its distinctive featur...

This book introduces a study of ethics and values to develop a deeper understanding of markets, business, and economic life. Its distinctive featur...

Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, sinc...

Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling toward...

Reflect on timeless wisdom thats as meaningful today as it was thousands of years ago.  Its not what happens to you, but how you react to it that m...

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...