Encyclopedia of ethics / Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, editors.

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Book

Contributor:

Becker, Lawrence C.

Becker, Charlotte B., 1944-

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

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English

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Ethics--Encyclopedias.

Ethics.

Ethics, Medical.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics.

Ethics, Medical.

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Encyclopedias.

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1 online resource (3 volumes (xxxv, 1977 pages))

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Second edition.

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Contents:

Abelard, Peter (1079-1142)

abortion

absurd, the

academic ethics

academic freedom

action

acts and omissions

additivity problems

Adler, Felix (1851-1933)

aesthetics

Africa

agency and disability

agent-centered morality

agnosticism

agricultural ethics

Alan Donagan (1925-1991)

alienation

altruism

American moral philosophy

amnesty and pardon

analogical argument

analytic philosophy and ethics

anger

animals, treatment of

Anscombe, G[ertrude] E[lizabeth] M[argaret] (1919-2001)

Anselm, Saint (1033-1109)

anthropology

applied ethics

Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)

Aristotelian ethics

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)

atheism

Augustine, Saint (354-430)

authenticity

authority

autonomy of ethics

autonomy of moral agents

Avicenna [Ibn Sīnā] (980-1037)

Ayer, A[lfred] J[ules] (1910-1989)

bad faith

Baier, Kurt E.M. (1917- ).

Balguy, John (1686-1748)

bargaining

Barry, Brian (M.)

Beccaria, Cesare [Bonesana] Marchesi di (1738-1794)

beneficence

benevolence

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)

bioethics

biological theory

blackmail

Bradley, F[rancis] H[erbert] (1846-1924)

Brandt, Richard B. (1910-1997)

Brentano, Franz Clemens (1838-1917)

bribery

Buber, [Mordekhai] Martin (1878-1965)

Buddha (6th century B.C.E.)

Buddhist ethics

Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

business ethics

Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)

Calvin, John (1509-1564)

Cambridge Platonists

Camus, Albert (1913-1960)

capital punishment

care

casuistry

categorical and hypothetical imperatives

causation and responsibility

censorship

character

charity

Charles, Darwin (1809-1882)

cheating

children and ethical theory

China

Christian ethics

Chu, Hsi (1130-1200)

Chuang, Tzu (fourth century B.C.E.) (1509-1564).

Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.E.)

civic good and virtue

civil disobedience

civil rights and civic duties

civility

Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)

coercion

cognitive science

coherentism

collective responsibility

commensurability

common good

common sense moralists

communitarianism

comparative ethics

competition

compromise

computers

Confucian ethics

Confucius (fifth-sixth century B.C.E.)

conscience

consent

consequentialism

conservation ethics

conservatism

constructivism

contractarianism

contracts

conventions

cooperation, conflict, and coordination

cooperative surplus

correctional ethics

corruption

cosmopolitan ethics

cost-benefit analysis

courage

cradle arguments

critical theory

cruelty

Crusius, Christian August (c.1715-1775)

Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)

cultural studies

Cumberland, Richard (1632-1718).

Cynics

Cyrenaics

David, Hume (1711-1776)

de Beauvoir, Simone (1908-1986)

death

deceit

deliberation and choice

democracy

Democritus (c. 460-c. 370 B.C.E.)

deontology

desert

deterrence, threats and retaliation

dignity

dirty hands

discounting the future

discrimination

double effect

duty and obligation

economic analysis

economic systems

Edmund Husserl, [Gustav Albrecht] (1859-1938)

egoism

elite, concept of

Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)

emotion

emotivism

engineering ethics

entitlements

environmental ethics

envy

Epictetus (c. 55

c. 135)

Epicureanism

Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.)

equality

ethics and morality

etiquette

eudaimonia, eudaimonism

euthanasia

evil

evolution

excellence

excuses

existential ethics

exploitation

externalism and internalism

fairness

family

Fārābī, al- (870-950).

fate and fatalism

feminist ethics

Fichte, Gottlieb Johann (1762-1814)

fidelity

fiduciary relationships

final good

fittingness

Foot, Philippa (1920- )

forgery

forgiveness

formalism

forms of consciousness

Foucault, Michel (1926-1984)

Francis, Hutcheson (1694-1746)

Francois, Fenelon (1651-1715)

Frankena, KlaasWilliam (1908-1994)

Frederick, Engels (1820-1895)

free will

freedom and determinism

freedom of the press

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

friendship

Fuller, Lon Luvois (1902-1978)

future generations

Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900- )

game theory

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948)

Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)

gay ethics

generosity

genetic engineering

genocide

G[eorge] E[dward] Moore (1873-1958)

Gert, Bernard (1934- )

Gewirth, Alan (1912- )

Godwin, William (1756-1836)

golden rule

good, theories of the.

government, ethics in

gratitude

Green, Thomas Hill (1836-1882)

Grotius, Hugo [or, Huig de Groot] (1583-1645)

groups, moral status of

guilt and shame

Habermas, Jürgen (1929- )

happiness

Hare, M[ervyn]R[ichard] (1919- )

harm and offense

Hart, H.L.A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus) (1907-1992)

Hartmann, Nicolai (1882-1950)

hate

hedonism

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)

Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976)

Hindu ethics

historiography

history of Western ethics

history of Western ethics: 01. Presocratic Greek

history of Western ethics: 02. Classical Greek

history of Western ethics: 03. Hellenistic

history of Western ethics: 04. Roman

history of Western ethics: 05. Early Medieval

history of Western ethics: 06. Later Medieval

history of Western ethics: 07. Renaissance

history of Western ethics: 08. seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

history of Western ethics: 09. nineteenth-century British

history of Western ethics: 10. nineteenth-century Continental

history of Western ethics: 11. twentieth-century Continental

history of Western ethics: 12. twentieth-century Anglo-American

Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' (1723-1789)

Holocaust

homicide

homosexuality

honor

hope

Hsün Tzu third century B.C.E.)

human rights

humanism

humility

hypocrisy

Ibn Tufayl (1110-1185)

ideal observer

idealist ethics

idealized agents

immoralism

impartiality

India

individualism

inequality

infanticide

innocence

institutions

integrity

intention

interests

international justice: conflict

international justice: distribution

intransitivity

intuitionism

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Islam

Islamic business ethics

Islamic ethics

Islamic medical ethics.

Jainism

James Mill (1773-1836)

James, William (1842-1910)

Japan

Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)

Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 B.C.E.

C.E. 27)

Jewish ethics

John Dewey (1859-1952)

John, Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

journalism

justice, circumstances of

justice, distributive

justice, rectificatory

Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)

Kantian ethics

karma

Kierkegaard, Søren [Aabye] (1813-1855)

killing and letting die

King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929-1968)

land ethics

Lao Tzu (dates uncertain)

legal ethics

legal philosophy

legitimacy

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)

Leopold, Aldo (1887-1948)

lesbian ethics

Levinas, Emmanuel (1906-1995)

Lewis, Clarence Irving (1883-1964)

liberalism

libertarianism

liberty

liberty, economic

library and information professions

life and death.

life, meaning of

life, right to

literature and ethics

Locke, John (1632-1704)

logic and ethics

love

loyalty

Lucretius, [Titus Lucretius Carus] (c. 95-c. 55 B.C.E.)

Ludwig Feuerbach [Andreas] (1804-1872)

Luther, Martin (1483-1546)

MacIntyre, Alasdair C (1926- )

Malebranche, Nicolas (1638-1715)

Mandeville, Bernard (1670-1733)

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor of Rome (121-180)

Marx, Karl [Heinrich] (1818-1883)

Marxism

mass media

materialism

Mead, George Herbert (1863-1931)

medical ethics

medical ethics, historical

Mencius (c. 371 -c. 289 B.C.E.)

mercy

merit and desert

metaethics

metaphysics and epistemology

military ethics

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

Mo Tzu (fourth century B.C.E.)

Montaigne, Michel [Eyquem] de (1533-1592)

Montesquieu [Charles-Louis de Secondat] baron de (1689-1755)

moral absolutes.

moral attention

moral community, boundaries of

moral development

moral dilemmas

moral education

moral imagination

moral luck

moral perception

moral pluralism

moral point of view

moral psychology

moral purity

moral realism

moral reasoning

moral relativism

moral rules

moral saints

moral sense theorists

moral terms

mortality

Moses Maimonides (1138-1204)

motives

multiculturalism

Murphy, Arthur Edward (1901-1962)

mysticism

Nāgārjuna (c. 113-213)

narrative ethics

natural law

naturalism

naturalistic fallacy

nature and ethics

needs

negligence

neo-Kantian ethics

neo-Stoicism

neutral principles

Niccolò Machiavelli [di Bernardo dei] (1469-1527)

nihilism

norms

Nozick, Robert (1938- )

nuclear ethics

nursing ethics

Obedience to Law

Objectivism

Oppression

Organic Unity

Ought Implies can

pacifism.

pain and suffering

Paine, Thomas [Tom] (1737-1809)

Paley, [variant: Payley] William (1743-1805)

partiality

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

Passion

paternalism

Paul, the Apostle, Saint (C.E.5-67?)

Peirce, C[harles] S[anders] (1839-1914)

perfectionism

Perry, R[alph] B[arton] 1876-1957)

person, concept of

personal relationships

persuasive definition

phenomenology

philosophical anthropology

philosophy of religion

phronesis

plagiarism

Plato (c. 430-347 B.C.E.)

pleasure

Plotinus 205-270)

police ethics

political correctness

political systems, evaluation of

pornography

possibilism

postmodernism

power

practical reason[ing]

practical wisdom

pragmatism

praxis

precedent

prescriptivism

Price, Richard (1723-1791)

Prichard, H.A. (Harold Arthur) (1871-1947)

pride

principlism

privacy

professional ethics

promises

property.

proportionality

Protagoras of Abdera (c. 490-c. 421 B.C.E.)

prudence

psychoanalysis

psychology

public and private morality

public goods

public health policy

public policy

public policy analysis

Pufendorf, Samuel Freiherr von (1632-1694)

punishment

puritanism

Racism and Related Issues

Racism, Concepts Of

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Rand, Ayn (1905-1982)

Rape

Rational Choice

Rationality vs. Reasonableness

Rawls, John (1921- )

reason[ing]

Reasons for Action

Reciprocity

Reflective Equilibrium

Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

Religion

René Descartes (1596-1650)

Reproductive Technologies

Resentment

Responsibility

Revenge

Revolution

Ricoeur, Paul (1913- )

Right, Concepts of

Right Holders

Rights

Risk

Risk Analysis

Risk Aversion

Ronald Dworkin (1931- )

Ross, W[illiam] D[avid] (1877-1971).

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

Royce, Josiah (1855-1916)

Russell, Bertrand [Arthur William] (1872-1970)

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980)

Scheler, Max [Ferdinand] (1874-1928)

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (1775-1854)

Schiller, [Johann Christoph] Friedrich von (1759-1805)

Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)

Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

secrecy and confidentiality

self and social self

self-control

self-deception

self-defense

self-esteem

self-knowledge

self-ownership

self-respect

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus ["the Younger"] (c. 4 B.C.E.-65 C.E.)

sexual abuse and harassment

sexuality and sexual ethics

Shaftesbury, [Anthony Ashley Cooper] 3rd Earl of (1671-1713)

Shī'ism

Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900)

Singer, Marcus G. (1926- )

situation ethics

skepticism in ancient ethics

skepticism in ethics

slavery

slippery slope arguments.

Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

social and political philosophy

social contract

social psychology

sociology

Socrates (c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

Sophists

Soviet Ethical Theory

Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903)

Spinoza, Baruch de (1632-1677)

sport

Stael, Madame de (1766-1817)

stakeholder analysis

Stevenson, Charles L[eslie] (1908-1979)

Stewart, Dugald (1753-1828)

Stoicism

strategic interaction

Suarez, Francisco (1548-1617)

subjectivism

suicide

Sunnīsm

supererogation

sympathy

Taoist Ethics

Taylor, Charles (1931- )

Technology

Technology and Nature

Teleological Ethics

Temperance

Terrorism

Theism

Theological Ethics

Theory and Practice

Thomas, Aquinas Saint (1225-1274)

Thomas, Hobbes (1588-1679)

Thomasius, Christian (1655-1728)

Thomson, Judith Jarvis (1929- )

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)

Toleration

Torture

Tragedy.

Transcendentalism

Trust

Tufts, James Hayden (1862-1942)

Universalizability

Utilitarianism

value, concept of

value, theory of

violence and non-violence

virtue ethics

virtues

Vitoria, Francisco de (1486-1546)

Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet de] (1694-1778)

voluntarism

voluntary acts

Walzer, Michael (1935- )

Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)

War and Peace

Weakness of Will

Weber, Max (1864-1920)

Weil, Simone (1909-1943)

Welfare Rights and Social Policy

Westermarck, Edward [Alexander] (1862-1939)

Whewell, William (1794-1866)

Wickedness

William of Ockham (c. 1285-1347)

Williams, Bernard (Arthur Owen) (1929- )

Wisdom

Wittgenstein, Ludwig [Josef Johann] (1889-1951)

Wittgensteinian ethics

Wolff, Christian (1679-1754)

Wollaston, William (1660-1724)

Wollstonecraft, [Godwin] Mary (1759-1797)

Women Moral Philosophers

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