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Grounded in the thought of two radical continental thinkers, Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida, this book presents a world-centric caring conceptualisation of cosmopolitanism and forgiveness. It develops political theory of repairing and cultivating the relationships which constitute our human community.

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This work provides a defense of traditional, human-centred ethics against Peter Singer's ethical theory. The author argues that in today's world, human life has been cheapened and the values of the marketplace have begun to govern medical care and organ donation, birth and death.

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Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, this book traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.

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Drawing on recent work in social epistemology, critical race theory, and settler colonial studies, Millicent Churcher outlines how Adam Smiths account of sympathy as an imaginative and reflective capacity provides fertile resources for addressing systemic failures to recognize the histories, needs, and experiences of marginalized social groups.

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Ideal for students in philosophy, animal studies and gender studies, this volume explores an important question: what grounds our ethical responsibility It covers a range of topics including maternal bodies, animal rights, capital punishment, depression and trauma, demonstrating the evolution of Kelly Oliver's seminal work in response ethics.

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Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy.

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Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy.

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Discussion of John Stuart Mill's ethics has been dominated by concern with right and wrong action as determined by the principle of utility. This book unearths the context of moral and socio-political debate that Mill did not have to make explicit to his Victorian readers.

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Gives an overview of the work of both figures, tracing the origins and development of their principal ideas, and identifying key similarities and differences. This book identifies and explores the key philosophical influences upon their work such as: Descartes; Kant; Nietzsche; Husserl; Freud; Marcel; and Jaspers.

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An introduction to the thought of Paul Ricoeur, focusing on the early writings to reveal Ricoeur's capacity as an ethical, social, and political philosopher.

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In Righting Health Policy, MacDougall argues that bioethics has not developed the tools best suited for justifying health law and policy. Using Kants practical philosophy as an example, he explores the promise of political philosophy for making normatively justified recommendations about health law and policy.

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This depiction of the problems and potential of modernity focuses on the modern self's desire to individuate whilst facing the ethical responsibility to integrate with the world: Nietzsche's drive for extraordinary individualism; Rousseau's call for the dependable citizen.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an enigmatic figure in many ways. This book explains Rousseau's true place in the Enlightenment by paying particular attention to his account of virtue. It shows that Rousseau shares important characteristics with his contemporaries as well as with the tradition of Aristotle.

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This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the worlds ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre-modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistry, contemporary Judaism and the Islamic sharia.

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This book represents the first comprehensive anthology of papers designed to explore both the state of scientific progress and the ethics, law and history of scientific research. It will appeal to a very wide international audience, offering a truly multidisciplinary analysis of many facets of scientific research.

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In this book, James Dunson explores end-of-life ethics including physician-assisted suicide and continuous sedation. He argues that debates ignore the experience of the dying patient in an effort to focus on policy creation, and proposes that the dying experience should instead be prioritized and used to inform policy development.

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Cultures around the world have regarded self-fulfillment as the ultimate goal of human striving and as the fundamental test of the goodness of a human life. The ideal has also been criticized, however, as egotistical and value-neutral. This book seeks to overcome these and other arguments.

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This book explores the multiple meaning of the notion of otherness in Sren Kierkegaards thought. Leo Stan discusses in detail the threefold structure of human existence in Kierkegaards authorship as a whole, both pseudonymous and self-signed.

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My hope is that this small book will act as a life-affirming guidebook, inspiring you to ask some big questions of your own. Join with me, on a journey to ask what it means to be alive, and maybe, what it means to live by your own personal philosophy!

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Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, the author surveys the entire field of sexuality. Dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break. Upholding traditional morality - his argument gravitates to that which is consoling in the experience of sexual love.

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The question of what constitutes sexual harrassment is contentious, as is the question of how to address sexual harrassment. In this debate, two philosophers of widely divergent views present their arguments and then respond to each other's reasoning.

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