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Who Holds the Moral High Ground?
Colin J. Beckley
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Meta-ethical attempts to define concepts such as ?goodness?, ?right and wrong?, ?ought? and ?ought not?, have proved largely futile, even over-ambitious. Morality, it is argued, should therefore be directed primarily at the reduction of suffering, pr ...
Do the Right Thing : Readings in Applied Ethics and Social Philosophy
Francis J. Beckwith
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Offering an outstanding balance of rigor and accessibility, "Do the Right Thing" provides accessible, impartial introductions to an excellent collection of readings in contemporary social issues. Provocative study questions urge readers to get to the ...
Making Mortal Choices : Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry
Hugo Adam Bedau
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Aimed at both general readers and philosophers interested in the revival of casuistic method, 'Making Mortal Choices' illuminates not only how we reason in life and death situations, but also how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent an ...
Thinking Against the Grain : Essays on Morality, Education, and Law
Rodger Beehler
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The Beginning of Human Life
Beller
Hardcover - $468.95
Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants. In a ...
Happiness Is Overrated
Raymond Angelo Belliotti
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Happiness is Overrated highlights the greatest thinking on the concept of happiness from classical philosophers such as Plato, to contemporary sociologists and psychologists. It includes practical advice on how to attain happiness, but argues that ha ...
Better Never to Have Been : The Harm of Coming Into Existence
David Benatar
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Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm. (2) It is always wrong to have children. (3) It is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestation. ...
The Ecological Life : Discovering Citizenship and a Sense of Humanity
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
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Written as a series of lectures, Earthly Humanity offers innovative and current perspectives in environmental philosophy that draw from analytic and continental traditions of philosophy. Bendik-Keymer argues for a sense of ecological justice consonan ...