Showing titles in Ethics & Morality

Anyone new to philosophy soon encounters new ideas that challenge their hidden biases and cherished beliefs, or are at odds with common sense and tradition. Yet, these philosophical ideas are backed by strong arguments, arguments so strong that it’s difficult to identify what is wrong with...

Torture in Abu Ghraib prison. Corporate fraud. Falsified records at Veterans Administration hospitals. Teachers pressured to feed test answers to students. These scandals could have been prevented if, early on, people had said no to their higher-ups. In this timely new book, Ira Chaleff goes deeply into when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.The inspiration for the book and its title came from a concept used in guide-dog training.

A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society. Does altruism exist? Or is human nature entirely selfish? In this eloquent and accessible book, famed biologist David Sloan Wilson provides new answers to this age-old question based on the latest developments in evolutionary science.

Of Anger by Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) defines and explains anger within the context of Stoic philosophy, and offers therapeutic advice on how to prevent and control anger. This is achievable by the development of an understanding of how to control the passions, and to make them subject to reason. Seneca believed that the passions arise in a rational mind as a misunderstanding of reality. A passion is a defective belief which occurs when the mind makes errors about the values of things.

Brought to you by Penguin. When Dr Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In...

Bhagavad Gita distilled. Authentic, unbiased, and thorough. One hundred percent spiritual. Zero percent religion. Includes the recitation of Sanskrit Slokas. Secrets for success, happiness, abundance, peace, and liberation from material bondage. Authentic, spiritual, and scientific. Nothing religious about it. Expect to receive divine love and God's grace, and prepare yourself for a total and positive life transformation.

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century. 

Despair and uncertainty surround us - in the news, in our families and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest, Anne Lamott shows how we can rediscover the hope and wisdom that are buried within us, and that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight and, with warmth and humour, offers a path forward.

Esta es una nueva traducción del latín al español, que incluye notas aclaratorias, apartado crítico y didáctico e ilustraciones originales creadas por Katherine Hernández. Este primer tomo abarca las epístolas morales de la 1 a la 41 (I–XLI) ¿Y si la verdadera libertad no dependiera de...

They were called logs. Thousands of men, women, and children, taken from their homes and delivered to a military compound in occupied Manchuria where Japanese doctors used them as raw material for the most systematic program of human experimentation the modern world has ever seen. They were infected with deadly diseases. They were cut open without anesthesia. They were frozen, burned, and suffocated in the pursuit of data. The men who did this were not punished. They were protected.

In Character is Destiny, McCain tells the stories of celebrated historical figures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit. He illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against the odds, righteousness in the face of iniquity, hope in adversity...

Something happens when the life you built stops working. Not a dramatic collapse—more like a slow recognition that the things you were chasing were never going to arrive, no matter how hard you tried. The money, the status, the career, the houses—they delivered everything except the one thing they promised. For What It's Worth: In Search of a Good Life is about what comes after that recognition. Not the tidy version.

Wilson admits in the preface of his book that "virtue has acquired a bad name". However, people make some kind of reference to morality whenever they discuss whether or not someone is nice, dependable, or decent; whether they have a good character; and the aspects of friendship, loyalty, and moderation that are all informed by morality.

To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled, honor encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity.

What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished for more than 2,000 years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a good life - above all else, a life of contentment in a world of materialistic excess and personal pressures. In How to Be Content, Stephen Harrison provides fresh, contemporary translations of poems from across Horace's works that continue to offer important lessons about the good life, friendship, love, and death. 

Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice.

How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interests—Plutarch's essay On Dysopia or How to Resist Pressure and Prudentius's poetic allegory Psychomachia or How to Slay Your Demons. Challenging the idea that humans are helpless victims of vice, these works—introduced and presented in vivid, accessible new prose translations by Michael Fontaine—emphasize the power of personal choice and the possibility of personal growth, as they offer insights and practical advice about resisting temptation.

The philosophy of the Stoics has experienced something of a rediscovery in recent years as certain individuals today, unable to ignore the virtually universal decadence, cowardice, selfishness, and ignorance of the human race as a whole, seek a more challenging and honorable approach to life.

Selbsterkenntnis ist der erste Schritt zur Weisheit auf Wegen des Zweifels, der Irrtümer, des Staunens und der Überraschungen. Unterwegs auf diesem Weg begegnen wir uns selbst. Als Wegbegleiter hören wir: "Was ist Aufklärung?" (I. Kant), "Essais"(M. de Montagne), "Von der Gemütsruhe" (Seneca), "Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außenmoralischen Sinn" (F. Nietzsche), "Gespräche" (Konfuzius).