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

Explores the contributions that psychoanalysis can make to the study of ethics, and vice versa.

A study of Nietzche’s Zarathustra.

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

Explores the notion of selfhood in the wake of the post-structuralist debates.

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.

Explores the idea of human and natural kinds, pursuing an ethics of the earth responsive to social, political, and environmental issues.

For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides ...

A translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.

Challenges the deep traditional assumption that autonomy, morality, and moral responsibility are uniquely human characteristics.

Offers an alternative paradigm for psychology, one that reflects Levinas's criticism of a self-centered notion of identity. Reveals the secret of an "authentic" altruism through a phenomenology of both power and weakness, and of the paradoxes of the weakness of power and the power of weakness.

A radical new look at the religious, economic, and political roots of terracide and how things can change for the better.

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

Develops an original and compelling moral psychology that recognizes both the centrality of unconscious motivation and the inescapability of moral responsibility.

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

Traces the history of the idea of art as an ethical movement, interpreting the good as nature's abundance, giving rise to an ethics of inclusion, expressed in art.

The rush to the Information Superhighway and the transition to an Information Age have enormous political, ethical, and religious consequences. The essays collected here develop both interdisciplinary ...

This book explores historical and current discussions of the relevance of evolutionary theory to ethics. The historical section conveys the intellectual struggle that took place within the framework of ...

This book brings together the basic documents needed for reaching an informed judgment on the central ethical question in the Pinto case: did Ford Motor Company act ethically in designing the Pinto fuel ...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Kant's treatment of happiness in ethics. It considers the definition of happiness and the possible roles happiness may serve in ethics. It argues against ...

The Harmony of the Soul creates a naturalistic grounding for ethics and a moral grounding for psychotherapy. It is an original and startling synthesis of the ideas of mental health and moral virtue based ...

This book was written because none of the more traditional theories accurately portray the way rights, including individual rights, actually function. It develops a theory of rights that challenges the ...

This volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements in evolutionary ethics and points out difficulties with the interpretations.

The book is divided into four sections. The first is an ...

In suggesting that general ethics be modeled on legal ethics, this book is a call for more creativity in our moral experience. Luizzi argues that lawyers regularly re-think their roles and the rules related ...