Great Traditions in Ethics

Great Traditions in Ethics
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Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0442200161
ISBN-13 : 9780442200169
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Great Traditions in Ethics by : Ethel M. Albert

Traditions of International Ethics

Traditions of International Ethics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0521457572
ISBN-13 : 9780521457576
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Traditions of International Ethics by : Terry Nardin

This is the first comprehensive study of how different ethical traditions deal with the central moral problems of international affairs. Using the organizing concept of a tradition, it shows that ethics offers many different languages for moral debate rather than a set of unified doctrines. Each chapter describes the central concepts, premises, vocabulary, and history of a particular tradition and explains how that tradition has dealt with a set of recurring ethical issues in international relations. Such issues include national self-determination, the use of force in armed intervention or nuclear deterrence, and global distributive justice.

Indian Ethics

Indian Ethics
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9781351928069
ISBN-13 : 1351928066
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Indian Ethics by : Purushottama Bilimoria

Indian ethics is one of the great traditions of moral thought in world philosophy whose insights have influenced thinkers in early Greece, Europe, Asia, and the New World. This is the first such systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India, engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective and attending to modern secular sensibilities. The volume explores the scope and limits of Indian ethical thinking, reflecting on the interpretation and application of its teachings and practices in the comparative and contemporary contexts. The chapters chart orthodox and heterodox debates, from early classical Hindu texts to Buddhist, Jaina, Yoga, and Gandhian ethics. The range of issues includes: life-values and virtues, karma and dharma, evil and suffering, renunciation and enlightenment; and extends to questions of human rights and justice, ecology and animal ethics, nonviolence and democracy. Ramifications for rethinking ethics in a postmodern and global era are also explored. Indian Ethics offers an invaluable resource for students of philosophy, religion, human sciences and cultural studies, and to those interested in South Asian responses to moral dilemmas in the postcolonial era.

African Virtue Ethics Traditions for Business and Management

African Virtue Ethics Traditions for Business and Management
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9781789905960
ISBN-13 : 1789905966
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis African Virtue Ethics Traditions for Business and Management by : Kemi Ogunyemi

African philosophies about the way to live a flourishing life are predominantly virtue-oriented. However, narratives of African conceptions of virtue are uncommon. This book therefore helps bridge an important gap in literature. Authors writing from South Africa, Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius, Côte D’Ivoire and Nigeria share research on indigenous wisdoms on virtue, displaying marked consensus about the communitarian nature of African virtue ethics traditions and virtues essential for a flourishing life. They also show how indigenous virtue ethics improve corporate practices. This book will be a launchpad for further studies in Afriethics as well as a medium for sharing rich knowledge with the rest of the world.

Moral Traditions

Moral Traditions
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Publisher : Anselm Academic Christian Brothers Pub.
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0884897494
ISBN-13 : 9780884897491
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Moral Traditions by : Mari Rapela Heidt

Ethics, morality and the study of religious ethics - Hindu tradition - Buddha - Jewish moral tradition - Christian tradition - Islam and the Muslim moral tradition - Chinese moral tradition - Additional moral traditions.

Medicine and the Ethics of Care

Medicine and the Ethics of Care
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Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 1589013697
ISBN-13 : 9781589013698
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine and the Ethics of Care by : Diana Fritz Cates

In these essays, a diverse group of ethicists draw insights from both religious and feminist scholarship in order to propose creative new approaches to the ethics of medical care. While traditional ethics emphasizes rules, justice, and fairness, the contributors to this volume embrace an "ethics of care," which regards emotional engagement in the lives of others as basic to discerning what we ought to do on their behalf. The essays reflect on the three related themes: community, narrative, and emotion. They argue for the need to understand patients and caregivers alike as moral agents who are embedded in multiple communities, who seek to attain or promote healing partly through the medium of storytelling, and who do so by cultivating good emotional habits. A thought-provoking contribution to a field that has long been dominated by an ethics of principle, Medicine and the Ethics of Care will appeal to scholars and students who want to move beyond the constraints of that traditional approach.

Family Ethics

Family Ethics
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Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781589016675
ISBN-13 : 158901667X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Family Ethics by : Julie Hanlon Rubio

How can ordinary Christians find moral guidance for the mundane dilemmas they confront in their daily lives? To answer this question, Julie Hanlon Rubio brings together a rich Catholic theology of marriage and a strong commitment to social justice to focus on the place where the ethics of ordinary life are played out: the family. Sex, money, eating, spirituality, and service. According to Rubio, all are areas for practical application of an ethics of the family. In each area, intentional practices can function as acts of resistance to a cultural and middle-class conformity that promotes materialism over relationships. These practices forge deep connections within the family and help families live out their calling to be in solidarity with others and participate in social change from below. It is through these everyday moral choices that most Christians can live out their faith—and contribute to progress in the world.

Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius

Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781139464581
ISBN-13 : 1139464582
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius by : May Sim

Aristotle and Confucius are pivotal figures in world history; nevertheless, Western and Eastern cultures have in modern times largely abandoned the insights of these masters. Remastering Morals provides a book-length scholarly comparison of the ethics of Aristotle and Confucius. May Sim's comparisons offer fresh interpretations of the central teachings of both men. More than a catalog of similarities and differences, her study brings two great traditions into dialog so that each is able to learn from the other. This is essential reading for anyone interested in virtue-oriented ethics.

Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781498586054
ISBN-13 : 1498586058
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Swami Vivekananda by : Rita D. Sherma

With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global dislocations and international inequities. Due to the complexity of Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of late modernity with its vast transformations, few works offer a contemporary, multi-vocal, nuanced, academic examination of his liberative vision and legacy in the way that this volume does. It brings together North American, European, British, and Indian scholars associated with a broad array of humanistic disciplines towards critical-constructive, contextually-sensitive reflections on one of the most important thinkers and theologians of the modern era.

Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality

Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality
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Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 1589013417
ISBN-13 : 9781589013414
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality by : Andrew Michael Flescher

Most of us are content to see ourselves as ordinary people—unique in ways, talented in others, but still among the ranks of ordinary mortals. Andrew Flescher probes our contented state by asking important questions: How should "ordinary" people respond when others need our help, whether the situation is a crisis, or something less? Do we have a responsibility, an obligation, to go that extra mile, to act above and beyond the call of duty? Or should we leave the braver responses to those who are somehow different than we are: better somehow, "heroes," or "saints?" Traditional approaches to ethics have suggested there is a sharp distinction between ordinary people and those called heroes and saints; between duties and acts of supererogation (going beyond the expected). Flescher seeks to undo these standard dichotomies by looking at the lives and actions of certain historical figures—Holocaust rescuers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, among others—who appear to be extraordinary but were, in fact, ordinary people. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance of wrongdoing. Andrew Flescher sets a stage where we need to think and act, calling us to lead lives of self-examination—even if that should sometimes provoke discomfort. He asks that we strive to emulate those we admire and therefore allow ourselves to grow morally, and spiritually. It is then that the individual develops a deeper altruistic sense of self—a state that allows us to respond as the heroes of our own lives, and therefore in the lives of others, when times and circumstance demand that of us.