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.
Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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By Matthew Dennis, Sander Werkhoven
September 30, 2020
The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been ...
Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications
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By Benjamin Sachs
September 30, 2020
Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Benjamin Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if ...
Kant and Parfit: The Groundwork of Morals
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By Husain Sarkar
September 30, 2020
Derek Parfit’s On What Matters is widely recognized as elegant, profound, and destined to change the landscape of moral philosophy. In Volume One, Parfit argues that the distinct—indeed, powerfully conflicting—theories of deontology and contractualism can be woven together in a way so as to yield ...
Methodology and Moral Philosophy
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By Jussi Suikkanen, Antti Kauppinen
September 30, 2020
Many ethicists either accept the reflective equilibrium method or think that anything goes in ethical theorizing as long as the results are plausible. The aim of this book is to advance methodological thinking in ethics beyond these common attitudes and to raise new methodological questions about ...
Moral Evil in Practical Ethics
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By Shlomit Harrosh, Roger Crisp
September 30, 2020
The concept of evil is one of the most powerful in our moral vocabulary, and is commonly used today in both religious and secular spheres to condemn ideas, people, their actions, and much else besides. Yet appeals to evil in public debate have often deepened existing conflicts, through corruption ...
Moral Skepticism: New Essays
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By Diego E. Machuca
August 14, 2020
Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral skeptics of various stripes and their opponents have gained renewed force not only by taking account of innovative ideas in moral philosophy, but also by...
Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions
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By Sabine Roeser
August 14, 2020
Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can improve human well-being, they may also convey risks for our well-being due to, for example, abuse, unintended side-effects, accidents, and ...
Welfare, Meaning, and Worth
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By Aaron Smuts
June 30, 2020
Welfare, Meaning, and Worth argues that there is more to what makes a life worth living than welfare, and that a good life does not consist of what is merely good for the one who lives it. Smuts defends an objective list theory that states that the notion of worth captures matters of importance for...
Ethics and Social Survival
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By Milton Fisk
December 10, 2019
When speaking of society’s role in ethics, one tends to think of society as regimenting people through its customs. Ethics and Social Survival rejects theories that treat ethics as having justification within itself and contends that ethics can have a grip on humans only if it serves their ...
Love, Reason and Morality
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By Katrien Schaubroeck, Esther Kroeker
December 10, 2019
This book brings together new essays that explore the connection between love and reasons. The observation that considerations of love carry significant weight in the deliberative process opens up new perspectives in the classic discussion about practical reasons, and gives rise to many interesting...
In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness
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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
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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 ...