Ethics in Action

Ethics in Action
Author: Daniel A. Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2006-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139459066

This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding the organization's mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions by both theorists and practitioners of human rights.

Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics

Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics
Author: Julian Wuerth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199587620

Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of major themes in Kant's philosophy. He explores Kant's ontology of the mind, his transcendental idealism, his account of the mind's powers, and his theory of action, and goes on to develop an original, moral realist account of Kant's ethics.

Ethics and Action

Ethics and Action
Author: Peter Winch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 100007711X

Originally published in 1972, and now with a new Preface by Michael Campbell, this collection of essays on closely related issues in moral philosophy looks at different aspects of people’s understanding of their own and others’ actions in ethical dimensions. The book discusses the ways in which the understanding both of man’s own nature and of the nature of the world in which he lives, is a function of his social existence. It discusses questions about the character of moral deliberation and decision, the nature of the human will and its connections with action, and the extent to which an individual’s moral reasonings must claim universal applicability.

Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza’s "Ethics"

Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza’s
Author: Noa Naaman-Zauderer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000732460

The present volume posits the themes of freedom, action, and motivation as the central principles that drive Spinoza’s Ethics from its first part to its last. It assembles essays by internationally leading scholars who provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of these fundamental themes as they operate across the five parts of the Ethics and within its manifold domains. The diversity of issues, approaches, and perspectives within this volume, along with the chapters’ common focus, open up new ways of understanding not only some of the key concepts and main objectives in the Ethics but also the threads unifying the entire work. The sequence of essays in the book broadly follows the order of the Ethics, providing up-to-date perspectives of Spinoza’s views on freedom, action, and motivation in their ontological, cognitive, physical, affective, and ethical facets. This enables readers to engage with a variety of new interpretations of these key themes of the Ethics and to reconsider their consequences both for other related issues in the Ethics and for the relevance of the Ethics to contemporary trends in philosophy of action and motivation. The essays will contribute to the growing interest in Spinoza’s Ethics and spark further discussion and debate within and outside the vast body of scholarship on this important work. Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza’s Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Spinoza and early modern philosophy, as well as on philosophy of action and motivation.

From Action to Ethics

From Action to Ethics
Author: Constantine Sandis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350235121

Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this collection of his best essays in the philosophy of action, Sandis brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology and literature. Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy. As he responds to each thinker and theme, he develops his own philosophical position, the key thesis of which is that philosophy of action without ethics is empty, ethics without philosophy of action is blind.

In Pursuit of the Good

In Pursuit of the Good
Author: Eric Salem
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1589880501

What is friendship? What is the best life? How does one decide? Try Salem on Aristotle.

Ethics into Action

Ethics into Action
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2019-05-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1538123908

More than twenty years after its publication, Peter Singer's Ethics into Action continues to inspire new generations of activists through its portrayal of Henry Spira and the animal rights movement. With a new preface from the author, this edition celebrates the continued importance of social movements and provides a path towards furthering changes in our world. Singer, one of the world's most influential living philosophers, reveals how Henry Spira influenced major corporations by simultaneously applying targeted pressures and removing existing obstacles to achieve his ethical goals. As people all over the world continues to struggle for justice, Spira's method of effecting change serves as a proven model for activists fighting across a wide range of causes.

Human Life, Action and Ethics

Human Life, Action and Ethics
Author: G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1845402707

A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

Humanitarian Action and Ethics

Humanitarian Action and Ethics
Author: Ayesha Ahmad
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786992701

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by the impact of globalization, the escalating refugee crisis, and mounting criticisms of established humanitarian practice. Featuring contributions from humanitarian practitioners, health professionals, and social and political scientists, this book explores the question of ethics in modern humanitarian work, drawing on the lived experience of humanitarian workers themselves. Its essential case studies cover humanitarian work in countries ranging from Haiti and South Sudan to Syria and Iraq, and address issues such as gender based violence, migration, and the growing phenomenon of ‘volunteer tourism’. Together, these contributions offer new perspectives on humanitarian ethics, as well as insight into how such ethical considerations might inform more effective approaches to humanitarian work.

Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism

Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism
Author: Brad Inwood
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1985
Genre: Ethics, Ancient
ISBN: 0198247397

This book reconstructs in detail the older Stoic theory of the psychology of action, discussing it in relation to Aristotelian, Epicurean, Platonic, and some of the more influential modern theories. Important Greek terms are transliterated and explained; no knowledge of Greek is required.