Personal Identity and Applied Ethics : A Historical and Philosophical Introduction [1 ed.] 9781317288558, 9781138185692

'Soul', 'self', 'substance' and 'person' are just four of the terms often used t

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Personal Identity and Applied Ethics : A Historical and Philosophical Introduction [1 ed.]
9781317288558, 9781138185692

This textbook not only provides the student with a solid foundation in ethics, but introduces students to the most impor

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How do you decide what is ethically wrong and right? Few people make moral judgments by taking the theory first. Specifi

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Few people make moral judgments by taking the theory first and then applying it to practical moral problems. This ethics

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This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is benef

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1. Christian ethics-History. 2. Christian ethics-Methodist authors. This new edition contains more extensive discussion

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The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has bee

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The development of ideas in Thomas Aquinas's philosophical thinking has been the subject of numerous smaller studie

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This textbook examines the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for the economy, and explores t

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