Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
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Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory publishes original, international work and research of the highest scholarly quality in the areas of ethics and moral philosophy.
The Making of the Good Person: Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nora Hämäläinen
October 07, 2024
This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical scholarship, a self-help culture where the self is brought forth as an object of improvement and a key to meaning, progress,...
Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation
1st Edition
By Craig M. White
August 26, 2024
This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent’s inner states. By arguing for the indispensable relevance of intention in the moral evaluation of acts, the book moves against a mainstream, "objective" approach in normative ethics. It is commonly held that the intentions, ...
A Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
May 27, 2024
This book argues that it can be both reasonable and appropriate to adopt a certain kind of misanthropy. The author defends a cognitivist version of misanthropy, an attitude whose central feature is the judgment that humanity is morally bad. Misanthropy is often dismissed on moral grounds. Many ...
From Value to Rightness: Consequentialism, Action-Guidance, and the Perspective-Dependence of Moral Duties
1st Edition
By Vuko Andrić
May 27, 2024
This book develops an original version of act-consequentialism. It argues that act-consequentialists should adopt a subjective criterion of rightness. The book develops new arguments which strongly suggest that, according to the best version of act-consequentialism, the rightness of actions depends...
Incomparable Values: Analysis, Axiomatics and Applications
1st Edition
By John Nolt
May 27, 2024
People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable. Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, ...
The Transcendent Character of the Good: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Petruschka Schaafsma
May 27, 2024
This volume addresses issues of moral pluralism and polarization by drawing attention to the transcendent character of the good. It probes the history of Christian theology and moral philosophy to investigate the value of this idea and then relates it to contemporary moral issues. The good is ...
Desert Collapses: Why No One Deserves Anything
1st Edition
By Stephen Kershnar
January 29, 2024
People consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no one deserves anything. If this is correct, then claims that people deserve general and specific things are false. At the heart of desert is ...
The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil
1st Edition
By Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
January 29, 2024
This book draws on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch’s ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but also the difficulty, for most of us, of ...
Love, Justice, and Autonomy: Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Rachel Fedock, Michael Kühler, Raja Rosenhagen
November 27, 2023
Philosophers have long been interested in love and its general role in morality. This volume focuses on and explores the complex relation between love and justice as it appears within loving relationships, between lovers and their wider social context, and the broader political realm. Special ...
Evil Matters: A Philosophical Inquiry
1st Edition
By Zachary J. Goldberg
September 25, 2023
This book is an inquiry into particular matters concerning the nature, normativity, and aftermath of evil action. It combines philosophical conceptual analysis with empirical studies in psychology and discussions of historical events to provide an innovative analysis of evil action. The book ...
Neglected Virtues
1st Edition
Edited
By Glen Pettigrove, Christine Swanton
September 25, 2023
Much of the work that has been done on virtue has been devoted to getting virtue ethics a seat at the theoretical table. It has been concerned with showing that virtue ethics can provide a satisfactory account of right action to rival accounts offered by consequentialism and deontology. This volume...
Practical Wisdom: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Mario De Caro, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
September 25, 2023
Featuring original essays from leading scholars in philosophy and psychology, this volume investigates and rethinks the role of practical wisdom in light of the most recent developments in virtue theory and moral, social and developmental psychology. The concept of phronesis has long held a ...