A Broader View for Plant EvoDevo: Novel Approaches for Diverse Model Systems

In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudo?, Seno'o Giro?, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic views that were radically anti-hegemonic, anti-capital…

End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition

Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, …

Transformational Ethics of Film = Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philo…

What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ethics at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate. Whenever philosophers claim that films can do philosophy, they also persistently put forward edifying p…

Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope

This open access volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first part, it recognizes the importance of the centuries-old reflection on hope by offering historical perspectives and tracing it back to ancient Greek philosophy. At the same time, it provides novel per…

The Power of Morality in Movements; From Theory to Definitions, Classificatio…

Buku Akses Terbuka ini mengeksplorasi peran moralitas dalam gerakan sosial. Moralitas selalu menjadi pusat dalam gerakan sosial baik itu dalam bentuk dasar moral klaim gerakan, politik dan ideologi, nilai-nilai yang memotivasi partisipasi, prinsip-prinsip moral baru yang dibayangkan dan dipraktikkan di antara peserta gerakan, atau perjuangan keseluruhan atas nilai-nilai moral masyarakat yang te…

The Ethics of Vaccination

This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…

The Everyday Lives of Gay Men : Autoethnographies of the Ordinary

Draws on the expertise of twelve contributors, writing from an autoethnographic first person approach.

Uncertain Bioethics : Moral Risk and Human Dignity

Uncertain Bioethics makes a significant and distinctive contribution to the bioethics literature by culling the insights from contemporary moral psychology to highlight the epistemic pitfalls and distorting influences on our apprehension of value. Stephen Napier also incorporates research from epistemology addressing pragmatic encroachment and the significance of peer disagreement to justify wh…

FOLK DEVILS AND MORAL PANICS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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The self, civic virtue, and public life: interdisciplinary perspectives

Introduction / Nancy E. Snow -- Can Feelings of Authenticity Help to Guide Virtuous Behavior? -- Civic Virtues, Wisdom, and Psychological Resilience -- Personal Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance: From Values to Virtues -- Good Citizenship and Sustainable