Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Is it ever morally right to procure an abortion, to help procure one, or to perform one? Patrick Lee surveys the main philosophical arguments in fa...

A compendium of ruminations and reflections by thesecond-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the Stoic philosophy. It is a...

This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight ...

Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people o...

Augustine's Confessions is a masterpiece of world literature. Written by Augustine in his forties, at the height of his philosophical and rhetorica...

'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of...

More than ever, people across the planet want deep and meaningful change. From those campaigning for social justice and ecological sustainability, ...

What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his sta...

What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Ethicists Gregory Be...

Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire a...

This is a step-by-step guide to Kant's first work on moral philosophy. Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is considered a standard text...

In 1972, Peter Singer published Famine, Affluence and Morality, which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Thr...

This book continues the discussions in What a piece of work: on being human (Imprint Academic 2006) and may be considered its sequel. Among all t...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the l...

The first look at the philosophy behind the Captain America comics and movies, publishing in advance of the movie release of Captain America: The W...

A Matter of Choice represents a substantive discussion of the concept of choice in human affairs, taken against the backdrop of ethics and religion...

The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fr...