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.
Art and Ethics in a Material World: Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy
1st Edition
By Jennifer McMahon
July 16, 2015
In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is ...
Social Humanism: A New Metaphysics
1st Edition
By Brian Ellis
June 23, 2015
In this book, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem. Social humanism is a moral and political philosophy that does just this. As a political philosophy, it justifies the implementation and maintenance of many of the ...
Modern Honor: A Philosophical Defense
1st Edition
By Anthony Cunningham
June 08, 2015
This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor’s rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor’s influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace honor, it must be ...
Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Peters
May 21, 2015
By bringing together influential critics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and some of the strongest defenders of an Aristotelian approach, this collection provides a fresh assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotelian virtue ethics and its contemporary interpretations. Contributors ...
Evil and Moral Psychology
1st Edition
By Peter Brian Barry
May 21, 2015
This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology—the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides ...
Ethics without Morals: In Defence of Amorality
1st Edition
By Joel Marks
September 11, 2014
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human ...
Caste Wars: A Philosophy of Discrimination
1st Edition
By David Edmonds
May 16, 2014
The central topic for this book is the ethics of treating individuals as though they are members of groups. The book raises many interesting questions, including: Why do we feel so much more strongly about discrimination on certain grounds – e.g. of race and sex - than discrimination on other ...
The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays
1st Edition
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By Christel Fricke
April 22, 2014
We are often pressed to forgive or in need of forgiveness: Wrongdoing is common. Even after a perpetrator has been taken to court and punished, forgiveness still has a role to play. How should a victim and a perpetrator relate to each other outside the courtroom, and how should others relate to ...
The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts
1st Edition
By Andrew Pinsent
November 08, 2013
Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key ...
The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy: Ethics after Wittgenstein
1st Edition
By Dr Paul Johnston, Paul Johnston
May 10, 2013
The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy is a highly original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston demonstrates that much recent moral philosophy is confused about the fundamental issue of whether there are correct moral judgements. He shows that the standard modern...
Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics
1st Edition
By Pavlos Kontos
March 15, 2013
This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and ...
Needs and Moral Necessity
1st Edition
By Soran Reader
October 10, 2012
Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory....