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  • The Handbook of Virtue Ethics

    by Stan van Hooft ...
    Virtue ethics has emerged as a distinct field within moral theory - whether as an alternative account of right action or as a conception of normativity which departs entirely from the obligatoriness of morality - and has proved itself invaluable to many aspects of contemporary applied ethics. Virtue ethics now flourishes in philosophy, sociology and theology and its applications extend to law, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Caring About Health

    by Stan van Hooft ...
    Presenting a philosophical exploration of the ideas central to health care practice this book explores such concepts as caring, health, disease, suffering and pain from a phenomenological perspective. With deep philosophical insight this book draws out, not only the ethical demands that arise when one encounters these phenomena, but also the forms of ethical education that would help health care ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism

    A Philosophy for Global Ethics

    by Stan van Hooft ...
    Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral position. It urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality and equity across boundaries of nationality, race, religion or gender in a way that would have been unheard of even fifty years ago. It suggests a range of virtues which the cosmopolitan individual should display: virtues such as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hope

    by Stan van Hooft ...
    Series series The Art of Living
    From the now iconic Barack Obama 'Hope' poster of the 2008 presidential campaign to the pit-head 'Camp Hope' of the families of the trapped Chilean miners, the language of hope can be hugely powerful as it draws on resources that are uniquely human and universal. We are beings who hope. But what does that say about us? What is hope and what role does it play in our lives? In his fascinating and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Understanding Virtue Ethics

    by Stan van Hooft ...
    Series series Understanding Movements in Modern Thought
    More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given situations. Virtue ethics, which focuses upon the character of moral agents more than on the moral status of their actions or the consequences of those actions, has become one of the most important ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Questioning Cosmopolitanism

    Edited by Stan van Hooft, Wim Vandekerckhove ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Wim Vandekerckhove and Stan van Hooft The philosopher, Diogenes the Cynic, in the fourth century BCE, was asked where he came from and where he felt he belonged. He answered that he was a “citi- 1 zen of the world” (kosmopolitês) . This made him the rst person known to have described himself as a cosmopolitan. A century later, the Stoics had developed that concept further, stating that the whole ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Edited by Guy Fletcher ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in the last few years it has moved to centre stage, grabbing media headlines and the attention of scientists, psychologists and economists. Yet little is actually known about well-being and it is an idea that is often ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Logic of Education (RLE Edu K)

    Edited by R S Peters, Paul Hirst ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is, and by concentrating on its central concepts, initiates readers into exploring it for themselves. It also ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Education

    An Introduction to the Philosophy and Theory of Education and Teaching

    by David Carr ...
    Making Sense of Education provides a contemporary introduction to the key issues in educational philosophy and theory. Exploring major past and present conceptions of education, teaching and learning, this book makes philosophy of education relevant to the professional practice of teachers and student teachers, as well of interest to those studying education as an academic subject.The book is ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • To Flourish or Destruct

    A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

    by Christian Smith ...
    A study of what motivates humans and the activity that gives rise to human social life and social structures.In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived ... Read more

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  • Aristotelian Character Education

    by Kristján Kristjánsson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book provides a reconstruction of Aristotelian character education, shedding new light on what moral character really is, and how it can be highlighted, measured, nurtured and taught in current schooling. Arguing that many recent approaches to character education understand character in exclusively amoral, instrumentalist terms, Kristjánsson proposes a coherent, plausible and up-to-date ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Virtue Ethics and Moral Education

    Edited by David Carr, Jan Steutel ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    This collection of original essays on virtue ethics and moral education seeks to fill this gap in the recent literature of moral education, combining broader analyses with detailed coverage of: * the varieties of virtue * weakness and integrity * relativism and rival traditions * means and methods of educating the virtues The rare collaboration of professional ethical theorists and educational ... Read more

    $76.99 USD