Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page.
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Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
In a dramatically changing world, it is necessary to reassess our conceptions of ethical standards. This is a guide to contemporary ethical issues. It discusses comparative religious ethics, moral philosophy, and applied ethics, asking difficult but relevant questions, and reflecting upon the intersection of religion and morality.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Presents and defends a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits. This work addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. It offers a framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It […]
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Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
At the time of his death in 2005, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur was regarded as one of the great thinkers of his generation. This work continues and expands on the work Ricoeur began with his little ethics in Oneself as Another and The Just. It is also suitable for understanding […]
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Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and that we can study moral cognition just as we study other forms of cognition. His goal is to show that we have softly fixed human natures, that […]
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Why do leaders fail ethically? In Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership, Terry L. Price uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand leader immorality in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders often know that a certain kind of behavior is generally required by morality but are nonetheless mistaken as to […]
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? The growth of religious fundamentalism seems to suggest so. For the sceptically-minded this is a deeply worrying trend, not just confined to religion. Political, economic, and scientific theories can demand the same unquestioning obedience from the general public. Stuart Sim outlines the history of scepticism […]
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand more generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two […]
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
This text deals with the question of objectivity in ethics and the viability of moral realism, focusing on what moral judgments mean, whether morality can be objective, and whether there are any such things as moral facts.
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