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Utility and Rights was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. At issue in the clash between utilitarianism and the theory of rights is a fundamental question about the theor

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Author Raja Halwani discusses how virtue ethics illuminates three central areas of our lives: care, love and sex. He concludes that virtue ethics allows for those sexual lifestyles that are deemed by traditional morality to be wrong, such as promiscuity, open relationships, and sex work.

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Philosophers put WikiLeaks on trial, with various writers taking different positions as to the rights or wrongs of their actions.

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A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. Would you kill the fat man The question may seem bizarre.

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Beginning Bioethics introduces students to the language of philosophical ethics before leading them in Part Two through six major issues in bioethics. The author gives explanations of all sides of a given issue and engages with several major contributions to the debate.

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The major new book from global sensation Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition provides a roadmap for a better world - one that we can all build together.

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Debates several difficult moral issues, exploring the nature of ethics and the ways that we make moral decisions. This book explains how to distinguish right from wrong in areas ranging from euthanasia and abortion, Down's Syndrome and education, to genetic engineering.

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A guide to life's most important lessons inspired by The Twilight Zone

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Internationally acclaimed thought-leader Jonathan Sacks demonstrates how we can build a strong collective morality for the modern era.

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The renowned science historian reveals how humans have evolved from social primates into moral primates, exploring the implications of fuzzy logic, fate, free will, and ecology, among other issues affecting the way humans think about moral issues. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn considers survivors arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing what it would mean to take their claims seriously. Her approach is interdisciplinary, incorporating philosophy, psychology, trauma research, survivors testimony, Holocaust poetry, literature, and the Hebrew Bible.

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This book shows the Emersonian arc in environmental ethics and nature writing extending into contemporary discussions of those topics. Dunston connects Emersons nature literacy and natural philosophy to contemporary forms of eco-feminism, living systems theory, Native American science, Asian philosophy, and environmental activism.

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In this book Michael Strawser argues that Kierkegaard should be interpreted primarily as a philosopher of love who ultimately presents readers with a first phenomenology of love.

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This book is staunchly anti-skeptical. It develops a theory of moral realismthere are indeed objective moral truthsand a broadly commonsense theory of moral knowledge: although we are certainly liable to error, we nevertheless often possess moral knowledge.

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