Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

A fresh and rigorous interpretation of William James's ethical theory, showing how experimenting with life's opportunities can transform one's self and life.

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.

Shows the importance of honor for leaders, both as a source of noble ambition to pursue the public good and as dangerous temptation to seek glory through domination.

A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind.

Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.

Draws on philosophy, economics, theology, and psychoanalytic theory to reveal a fundamental dynamic of capitalism.

Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.

Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.

Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.

Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.

Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.

An analysis of Derrida’s early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.

Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.

Presentation of C. I. Lewis's final book, formulating a cognitivistic ethics.

Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.

Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.

Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.

A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.

Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights.

A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard’s later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.

Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.

Lectures from the late period of Fichte’s career, never before available in English.

Argues for revitalizing the place of honor in contemporary life.

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.

Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.

Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.

Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.

Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.

A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.

Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.

Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.

A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.

A detailed, clear, and comprehensive overview of the current philosophical debate on toture.

Explores the spiritual obligations of humans to animals from a religious naturalist’s perspective.

Reflections on, and analysis of, ethical issues facing military service in the United States.

A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.

Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.

Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.

An examination of the ethical issues surrounding tax cheating and implications for public policy.

A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.

A comprehensive look at how we rely on ideals of worthy action in the pursuit of moral happiness.

Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.

A collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics.

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

Examines the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of military intervention for humanitarian reasons.

A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.

Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

How a religion based on the sacredness of nature deals with the problem of evil.

Traces the roots of logos in different cultural milieux.

An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work.

Makes the novel argument that erotic life is the real sphere of human freedom.

Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.

Leading scholars explore the full range and current significance of Carson’s work.

Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.

Leading environmental thinkers investigate the complexities of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of environmental problems.

Philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity and freedom.

Explores the notion of ēthos in Heidegger’s thought.

Argues that there are moral grounds to use torture where the lives of the innocent are at stake.

Explores the social ramifications of Kant's concept of radical evil.

Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.

A wide-ranging attempt to develop a theory of ethical life from a hermeneutic understanding of language.

An introduction to Badiou's philosophical thought and its implications for other humanistic disciplines and the social sciences.

Explores how humans can take the lives of animals and plants while maintaining a proper respect both for ecosystems and for those who live in them.

Leading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur.

The first comprehensive account of the ethical issues facing biological anthropologists today.

Argues for American national narratives in Christian theology that respect the separation of church and state and a diverse, multifaith society.

Maintains that the secular West has its gods—such as market capitalism—and that veneration of these contributes to the cultural and religious unrest of our time.

Explores how psychoanalysis can nurture and vitalize, rather than only focusing on affliction and neuroses.

A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle.

Explores the moral dimensions of the current global role of the U.S. military.

Addresses the question of whether special preference for friends is morally justified.

Explores how continental philosophy can inform environmental ethics.

Leading scholars address the ethical and practical dimensions of Heidegger's thought.

Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another.

A study of Nietzche’s Zarathustra.

Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.

Contra both Freud and Jung, argues that the unconscious is not exclusively irrational.

Explores the human propensity for owning and having.