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.
The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species
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By Ian A. Smith
June 14, 2018
Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing to ...
The Limits of Moral Obligation: Moral Demandingness and Ought Implies Can
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By Marcel van Ackeren, Michael Kühler
June 14, 2018
This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle "ought implies can." Though both of these ideas ...
Developing Moral Sensitivity
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By Deborah Mower, Wade L. Robison, Phyllis Vandenberg
February 12, 2018
Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions. Scholars from a variety of fields explore the concept of moral sensitivity and how it develops, beginning with a natural moral capacity for sensitivity ...
Defending Associative Duties
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By Jonathan Seglow
November 28, 2017
This book explores the associative duties we owe to our children, parents, friends, colleagues, associates and compatriots and defends a novel account which justifies such duties through the realization of values that are produced in these various kinds of social relationships. Seglow engages with ...
Moral Exemplars in the Analects: The Good Person is That
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By Amy Olberding
April 27, 2017
In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus...
Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well
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By Lorraine Besser
February 06, 2017
In this book, Lorraine Besser-Jones develops a eudaimonistic virtue ethics based on a psychological account of human nature. While her project maintains the fundamental features of the eudaimonistic virtue ethical framework—virtue, character, and well-being—she constructs these concepts from an ...
The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity
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By William Smith
February 06, 2017
Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but ...
The Ethics of Vulnerability: A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice
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By Erinn Gilson
July 27, 2016
As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As a fundamental part of the human condition, vulnerability has significant ethical import: how one ...
The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness
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By Nancy E. Snow, Franco V. Trivigno
July 27, 2016
Since ancient times, character, virtue, and happiness have been central to thinking about how to live well. Yet until recently, philosophers have thought about these topics in an empirical vacuum. Taking up the general challenge of situationism – that philosophers should pay attention to empirical ...
Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics
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By Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn
October 29, 2015
This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. Environmental issues challenge contemporary ethical theorists to account for topics that traditional ethical theories do not address to any significant extent. This book articulates and ...
The Self, the Soul and the Psychology of Good and Evil
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By Ilham Dilman
July 20, 2015
The way an individual's psychology is intertwined with their morality is the subject of this fascinating book from the pen of the late Ilham Dilman.Dilman convincingly argues that evil, though it cannot be reduced to psychological terms (it is a moral concept) is explicable in terms of an ...
Art and Ethics in a Material World: Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy
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By Jennifer McMahon
July 16, 2015
In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is ...