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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.

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

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

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

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

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.

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. "

A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.

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

Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.

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

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.

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

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

Explores the notion of ēthos in Heidegger’s thought.

Philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity and freedom.

Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion.

Contributors seek to promote reasoned debate about emerging security threats and potential military responses.

Brings etiquette into dialogue with ethics.

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

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

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.

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

A clear, introductory overview of the issues surrounding gene patenting.

Articles linking ecological sustainability and social justice.

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

Challenges the accepted model, and builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.

A study of Nietzche’s Zarathustra.

An original philosophical treatise on form and the foundations of social value.

Appearing in English for the first time, this is the definitive scholarly treatment on the role of practical reasoning in ethics.

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

Articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good.

Explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an “initiatory ethics.”

Argues that in order to reinvigorate our moral inheritances we must endeavor not only to live well, but also to live better.

Richly informed by readings of Heidegger, Derrida, and Blanchot, the author argues that the notion of responsibility at the heart of Levinas's notion of ethics is intimately dependent upon his account of death.

A translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.

Developing a concept of justice as solidarity, this work addresses a range of urgent social issues--from the meaning of human rights and the character of corporate governance to the resolution of social conflict and the moral status of the environment.

Shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature.

Leading authorities offer insights on tolerance along with cultural, social, religious, and philosophical implications.

Examines the origins and the development of the use of deception in psychological research to create illusions of reality.

Elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force; proposes the idea of an interplay between compassion and reason to help address moral problems; and sketches the conditions necessary for a democratic approach to such problems.

Addresses the question: Can we apply ordinary standards of responsibility to the mentally disordered offender?

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