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It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control.

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This book provides a solid grounding in the scientific and political issues of climate change, which allows students to explore the important moral issues raised by climate change, and consider what our values are in climate policy.

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This book provides a solid grounding in the scientific and political issues of climate change, which allows students to explore the important moral issues raised by climate change, and consider what our values are in climate policy.

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Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, genetic engineering and fetal experimentation, environmental and animal rights--these topics inspire some of today's most heated public controversies. And it is fashionable to pursue these debates in terms of the negative query "Under what conditions may life be disregarded or terminated" John Kleinig

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Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics. Yet, its precise meaning is often left unexplored. The book aims to tackle this by clarifying the different and even contradictory ways in which empathy can be defined.

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This volume examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life.

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This book explores the relationship between virtue, values and both individual and collective identity.

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This book explores the relationship between virtue, values and both individual and collective identity.

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From Aristotle to MacIntyre, this introduction to virtue ethics critically explores competing accounts of 'virtue' and potential uses and future directions for the discipline.

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A critical introductory account of the development of modern virtue ethics, from its roots in Aristotelian thought, to contemporary versions of eudaimonistic ethics; the volume also includes discussions of the theory's contribution to debates in applied philosophy.

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Offers a critique of Maclntyre by Dewey that allows these two philosophers to converse about the nature and origins of the virtues and their importance for living a good life. This book argues that Dewey has the more comprehensive view of the virtues and that a comparison of their ideas reveals significant weaknesses in Maclntyre's position.

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While many books on ethics contain a chapter discussing prisoners rights and the ethical dimensions of research involving incarcerated persons, Vulnerability and Incarceration is the first monograph devoted to the subject. Victor interrogates the concept of vulnerability to examine prisoners right to medical research from a novel point of view.

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This book looks at the changing forms of violence and likely consequences of a fully digitalized world.

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This book looks at the changing forms of violence and likely consequences of a fully digitalized world.

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Jennifer Kling argues that war refugees suffer a series of wrongs and oppressions and so are owed restitution and aidas a matter of justiceby socio political institutions. She makes the case that they should be viewed differently than migrants but that their circumstances do not wholly alleviate their own moral responsibilities.

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Jennifer Kling argues that war refugees suffer a series of wrongs and oppressions, and so are owed restitution and aidas a matter of justiceby socio-political institutions. She makes the case that they should be viewed differently than migrants but that their circumstances do not wholly alleviate their own moral responsibilities.

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A comprehensive introduction to water ethics, this book explores the common thread between debates in the allocation of water resources, the human right to water and the commodification and privatisation of water services, and fills the gap for alternatives to the predominantly consequentialist approach to dealing with these issues.

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What kind of life best ensures human welfare Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare Presenting a rational care theory of welfare, this work proves that an understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people.

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This study analyzes the reasoning process through which individuals determine what consequences are appropriate for those who do wrong. This sample was asked what consequences would be appropriate for the wrongdoers and why those proposed consequences would be appropriate.