Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
About the Book Series
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.
The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch
1st Edition
By Mark Hopwood
July 20, 2026
The moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch said that philosophy “is both the guide and mirror of the age”. In this wide-ranging book Mark Hopwood explores the significance of Murdoch's philosophy in the present day, paying particular attention to her account of the role of metaphor and imagery...
Unfair Emotions: Their Morality and Blameworthiness
1st Edition
By Jonas Blatter
July 19, 2026
This book provides a novel philosophical account of the unfairness of certain emotions. It explains how the concept of unfairness can be applied to emotions and how emotions can be the proper objects of second-person moral evaluation. Emotions are an integral part of our moral practices. While the ...
Because You Promised: A Non-Reductive Account of the Normativity of Promises
1st Edition
By Daniele Bruno
May 18, 2026
As a moral phenomenon, promises have long received great amounts of attention in philosophical debates within both normative ethics and metaethics. This book defends a novel trust-based form of non-reductivism about promises and promissory normativity. There is a tension inherent in the ways in ...
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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 ...