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Ethics: Questions & Morality of Human Actions

Lucas, George, (editor.). Roth, John K., (editor.).

Summary: Provides a four-volume set that covers topics of recent interest to readers in the twenty-first century, such as Heroic medicine, Gender identity, Wealth inequality, LGBTQ issues, Female genital mutilation, Informed consent, and Transgender care.

Record details

ISBN: 9781682179291
Physical Description: electronic
remote
1 online resource
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]
Copyright: copyright 2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	Salem Press. Print ISBN: 9781682179291. Title from Web page (viewed on December 21, 2020).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Vol. 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Editors' Introduction -- Contributing Scholars -- The Concepts of Ethics -- The Absurd -- Accountability -- Aggression -- Altruism -- Authenticity -- Autonomy -- Bad faith -- Benevolence -- Character -- Charity -- Choice -- Collective guilt -- Consent -- Consistency -- Conversion of one's system of beliefs -- Duty -- Equality -- Excellence -- Exploitation -- Fairness -- Fatalism -- The Good -- Greed -- Harm -- Human nature -- Immortality -- Impartiality -- Incommensurability -- Inequality -- Intention -- Intrinsic good -- Is/ought distinction -- Language -- Leadership -- Lifestyles -- Love -- Luck and chance -- Merit -- Moral education -- Moral equivalence -- Moral luck -- Moral realism -- Moral responsibility -- Morality -- Motivation -- Natural law -- Naturalistic fallacy -- The Other -- Ought/can implication -- Perfectionism -- Permissible acts -- Pessimism and optimism -- Power -- Practical reason -- Prisoner's dilemma -- Property -- Punishment -- Reason and rationality -- Responsibility -- Revelation -- Right and wrong -- Rights and obligations -- "Slippery-slope" arguments -- Tragedy -- Truth -- Value -- Values clarification -- Weakness of will -- Wickedness -- Will -- Work -- Theories & Traditions -- Absolutism -- Academic freedom -- African traditional religion -- Anthropomorphism of the divine -- Applied ethics -- Aristotelian ethics -- Atheism -- Cannibalism -- Caste system, Hindu -- Casuistry -- Chivalry -- Cognitivism -- Communitarianism -- Comparative ethics -- Confucian ethics -- Consequentialism -- Critical theory -- Cynicism -- Cyrenaics -- Daoist ethics -- Deconstruction -- Deism -- Deontological ethics -- Determinism and freedom -- Dilemmas, moral -- Egalitarianism -- Egoism -- Egotist -- Emotivist ethics -- Enlightenment ethics -- Ethics -- Ethics/morality distinction -- Evolutionary theory -- Existentialism -- Fact/value distinction -- Free-riding -- Golden mean -- Golden rule -- Hedonism -- Ideal observer -- Idealist ethics -- Ideology -- Intersubjectivity -- Intuitionist ethics -- Kantian ethics -- Libertarianism -- Marxism -- Maximal vs. minimal ethics -- Mean/ends distinction -- Metaethics -- Moral principles, rules, and imperatives -- Moral-sense theories -- Narrative ethics -- Native American ethics -- Nihilism -- Normative vs. descriptive ethics -- Objectivism -- Panentheism -- Pantheism -- Paradoxes in ethics -- Platonic ethics -- Pluralism -- Post-Enlightenment ethics -- Postmodernism -- Pragmatism -- Prescriptivism -- Private vs. public morality -- Professional ethics -- Progressivism -- Relativism -- Secular ethics -- Situational ethics -- Skepticism -- Social Darwinism -- Sophists -- Stoic ethics -- Subjectivism -- Supererogation -- Teleological ethics -- Theory and practice -- Transcendentalism -- Universalizability -- Utilitarianism -- Virtue ethics -- Theorists & Practitioners -- Abelard, Peter -- Aristotle -- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- Ataturk -- Ayer, A. J -- Bacon, Francis -- Beauvoir, Simone de -- Bentham, Jeremy -- Berdyayev, Nikolay -- Bergson, Henri -- Boethius -- Bradley, F. H -- Buber's I and Thou -- Camus, Albert -- Cicero -- Comte, Auguste -- Confucius -- Darwin, Charles -- Derrida, Jacques -- Descartes, Rene -- Dewey, John -- Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct -- Dostoevski, Fyodor -- Du Bois, W. E. B -- Durkheim, Emile -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Epictetus -- Epicurus -- Foucault, Michel -- Gandhi, Mohandas K -- Hare, R. M -- Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit -- Heidegger, Martin -- Hobbes, Thomas -- Hobbes's Leviathan -- Hume, David -- Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jung, Carl -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kant's Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals -- Kierkegaard's Either/Or -- Kohlberg, Lawrence -- Laozi -- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm -- Lenin, Vladimir Ilich -- Levinas, Emmanuel -- Locke, John -- Locke's Two Treatises of Government -- Machiavelli, Niccolo -- MacIntyre, Alasdair -- Maimonides, Moses -- Malcolm X -- Malthus, Thomas -- Marcus Aurelius -- Marx's The Communist Manifesto -- Mencius -- Mill, John Stuart -- Mill's On Liberty -- Montesquieu -- Moore, G. E -- More's Utopia -- Nagel, Thomas -- Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil -- Ortega y Gasset, Jose -- Orwell, George -- Pascal, Blaise -- Peirce, Charles Sanders -- Perry, R. B -- Plato -- Plato's Republic -- Rand, Ayn -- Rawls, John -- Rorty, Richard -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Royce, Josiah -- Russell, Bertrand -- Santayana, George -- Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Sartre's Being and Nothingness -- Schopenhauer, Arthur -- Schweitzer, Albert -- Shaftesbury, third earl of -- Sidgwick, Henry -- Smith, Adam -- Socrates -- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr -- Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago -- Spinoza, Baruch -- Spinoza's Ethics -- Stalin, Joseph -- Tagore, Rabindranath -- Thomas Aquinas -- Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica -- Thoreau, Henry David -- Tillich, Paul -- Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de -- Voltaire -- Wang Yangming -- Weber, Max -- Whitehead, Alfred North -- Wiesel, Elie -- Wittgenstein, Ludwig -- Zhu Xi -- Zhuangzi.
Target Audience Note:	10-A.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.