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Why Be Moral?
(November 2014)
Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers
Yong Huang - Author
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Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philosophers.
Yong Huang presents a new way of doing comparative philosophy as he demonstrates the resources for contemporary ethics offered by the Cheng brothers, Cheng Hao (1032–1085) and Cheng Yi (1033–1107), canonical neo-Confucian philosophers. Huang departs from the standard method of Chinese/Western c...(Read More) |
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Between Levinas and Heidegger
(October 2014)
John E. Drabinski - Editor
Eric S. Nelson - Editor
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Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.
Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two t...(Read More) |
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Christianity without God
(October 2014)
Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative
Daniel C. Maguire - Author
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Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.
Christianity without an omnipotent god, without a divine savior, without an afterlife? In this bold and hopeful book, theologian Daniel C. Maguire writes that traditional, supernatural aspects of Christianity can be comforting, but are increasingly questionable. A century of scholarly research has not been supportive of the dogmatic triad of pers...(Read More) |
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Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character
(September 2014)
Engaging Joel J. Kupperman
Chenyang Li - Editor
Peimin Ni - Editor
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A consideration of Confucian ethics that employs the work and concerns of the eminent comparative ethicist Joel J. Kupperman.
In this volume, leading scholars in Asian and comparative philosophy take the work of Joel J. Kupperman as a point of departure to consider new perspectives on Confucian ethics. Kupperman is one of the few eminent Western philosophers to have integrated Asian philosophical traditions into ...(Read More) |
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Emplotting Virtue
(June 2014)
A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics
Brian Treanor - Author
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A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.
Despite its ancient roots, virtue ethics has only recently been fully appreciated as a resource for environmental philosophy. Other approaches dominated by utilitarian and duty-based appeals for sacrifice and restraint have had little success in changing behavior, even to the extent that ecological concerns have been embraced. Our actions of...(Read More) |
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Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism
(May 2014)
Tim Themi - Author
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Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.
Bringing together Jacques Lacan and Friedrich Nietzsche, Tim Themi focuses on their conceptions of ethics and on their accounts of the history of ethical thinking in the Western tradition. Nietzsche blames Plato for setting in motion a degenerative process that turned ethics away from nature, the body, and i...(Read More) |
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Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy
(March 2014)
David Wong and His Critics
Yang Xiao - Editor
Yong Huang - Editor
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A wide-ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.
Original, influential, and often controversial, ethicist David Wong defends forms of moral relativism. His 1984 Moral Relativity was a study of this concept, and his 2006 Natural Moralities presented a new and sophisticated account of it. Wong’s vision is of a pluralistic moral relativism; he does not defend all f...(Read More) |
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Hans Jonas's Ethic of Responsibility
(December 2013)
From Ontology to Ecology
Theresa Morris - Author
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Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.
Despite his tremendous impact on the German Green Party and the influence of his work on contemporary debates about stem cell research in the United States, Hans Jonas’s (1903–1993) philosophical contributions have remained partially obscured. In particular, the ontological grounding he gives his ethics, based ...(Read More) |
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Moments of Disruption
(December 2013)
Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Transcendence
Kris Sealey - Author
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Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.
In Moments of Disruption, Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre together to fully realize the ethical and political implications of their similar descriptions of human existence. Focusing on points of contact and difference between their writings on transcendence...(Read More) |
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Wonder and Generosity
(June 2013)
Their Role in Ethics and Politics
Marguerite La Caze - Author
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A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.
Wonder and Generosity provides a fresh account of how the passions of wonder—based on accepting others’ differences—and generosity—based on self-respect and mutual respect—can supplement each other to establish an ethics and politics of respect for sexual and cultural differences. Drawing on the work of bo...(Read More) |
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