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.
Virtuous Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil
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By Eric J. Silverman
January 28, 2026
Suffering and tragic situations have always been a part of human experience. This book features essays from varying philosophical views on responses to tragedy, suffering and evil. Many conflicting strategies for addressing such situations have been proposed in response to such tragedies. Both ...
Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought: Perspectives on Crafting Character
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By Jonathan Jacobs, Heinz-Dieter Meyer
December 26, 2025
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concerning character development and moral agency...
Living Ethics in Theory and Practice
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By Eric Racine, Bénédicte D’Anjou, Caroline Favron-Godbout, Giulia Inguaggiato, Suzanne Metselaar, Gabriel Saso-Baudaux
December 01, 2025
This volume advances a new approach to ethics: “living ethics”. As an ethical and philosophical orientation, living ethics offers a refreshing perspective on how difficult human situations become opportunities for co-learning and co-creative ethical thinking. Living ethics starts with the ...
Goodness and Tradition
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By Irene Liu
October 27, 2025
This book investigates the importance of spirituality in moral life. The author claims that modern secular morality suffers from a lack of spirituality and argues that a solution to this problem can be found in tradition. Over several centuries, a process of secularization has loosened both the ...
Public Health Virtue Ethics: Institutions, Structures, and Political Virtue for the Good Society
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By Kathryn L. MacKay
October 27, 2025
This book argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics. It provides the theoretical foundations for a virtue ethics that is applicable to public health, as well as political institutions more broadly. Ethical analyses of public health policies and practices have been ...
Taking Moral Theorising Seriously: A Theory-First Approach to Moral Philosophy
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By Andrew Sneddon
September 29, 2025
This book develops a plausible and novel account of methodology for moral philosophy. It focuses on the structural features of moral theories, specifically what is taken as input and the process of theorising itself. Philosophers have long neglected the difficulties of identifying and using good ...
Rights-Based Ethics: Foundations and Applications
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By Marcus Düwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, Philipp Richter
September 15, 2025
Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based ...
A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy
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By Michael Robert Kelly
June 27, 2025
This book provides a phenomenological analysis of envy. The author’s account takes a descriptive look at the whole experience of envy as it pertains to the envier’s sense of self and the envied. Philosophical work on envy has predominately focused on how the envier perceives, thinks about, or ...
The Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Nancy E. Snow
May 26, 2025
This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways. What is the role of civic virtues in public life? How does possessing civic virtues affect persons and their capacities for ...
Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible
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By Stephen Kershnar
May 05, 2025
Our worldview assumes that people are morally responsible. Our emotions, beliefs, and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does, and that this is a good thing. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on ...
Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality
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By Eric J. Silverman
May 05, 2025
This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our ...
Moral Thought Outside Moral Theory
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By Craig Taylor
January 30, 2025
This book argues there can be no theory of ethics and that any attempt at such a theory ends up distorting the moral phenomena that it is supposed to explain. It presents clear examples of moral thought outside moral theorising through literature and Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. The book’s ...