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.
Philosophical Perspectives on Moral Certainty
1st Edition
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By Cecilie Eriksen, Julia Hermann, Neil O'Hara, Nigel Pleasants
December 30, 2022
Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality – moral acting, feeling, and thinking – that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification. The essays in this book explore the concept of moral certainty and its application and usefulness in contemporary moral debates. The notion of moral ...
Apologies and Moral Repair: Rights, Duties, and Corrective Justice
1st Edition
By Andrew I. Cohen
August 01, 2022
This book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers. Many leading accounts of apology say much about what apologies do and why they are important. They stop short of ...
Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments
1st Edition
By Matthew J. Dennis
August 01, 2022
Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments. The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments...
Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations
1st Edition
By Anne Schwenkenbecher
August 01, 2022
Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award Together we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening, or we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by ourselves. But when are we morally ...
Kantian and Sidgwickian Ethics: The Cosmos of Duty Above and the Moral Law Within
1st Edition
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By Tyler Paytas, Tim Henning
August 01, 2022
Immanuel Kant and Henry Sidgwick are towering figures in the history of moral philosophy. Kant’s views on ethics continue to be discussed and studied in detail not only in philosophy, but also theology, political science, and legal theory. Meanwhile, Sidgwick is emerging as the philosopher within ...
Offense and Offensiveness: A Philosophical Account
1st Edition
By Andrew Sneddon
August 01, 2022
This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions. When someone claims that something is offensive, ...
Reason and Ethics: The Case Against Objective Value
1st Edition
By Joel Marks
August 01, 2022
Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this. Joel Marks goes beyond his previous work defending moral skepticism to question the existence of all objective values. ...
The Authority of Virtue: Institutions and Character in the Good Society
1st Edition
By Tristan J. Rogers
August 01, 2022
This book provides a unified account of the connection between justice and the good life. It argues that the virtues of character require institutions, while good institutions enable persons to live together virtuously. Although virtue ethics and political philosophy are rich and sophisticated ...
Virtue, Narrative, and Self: Explorations of Character in the Philosophy of Mind and Action
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By Joseph Ulatowski, Liezl van Zyl
August 01, 2022
Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection of these research areas. Specific examples ...
In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness
1st Edition
By Robert Hartman
July 12, 2019
The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy by luck. For example, two reckless drivers manage their vehicles in the same way, and one but not the ...
Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought
1st Edition
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By Reshef Agam-Segal, Edmund Dain
July 12, 2019
Wittgenstein’s work, early and later, contains the seeds of an original and important rethinking of moral or ethical thought that has, so far, yet to be fully appreciated. The ten essays in this collection, all specially commissioned for this volume, are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s ...
Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
March 05, 2019
In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about...