Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Philosophy, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J.S. Mill (who used it in his The Subjection of Women) to the latest generation of women’s activists. ...

Animal Subjects

Edited by Jodey Castricano
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Social Science, Child Studies, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches ...

Craving and Salvation

By Bruce Matthews
Subjects: Religion, Eastern Religions, Philosophy
Series: SR Supplements

Is there any escape form the awareness of pain and the bonds of an unending cycle of life? Why are human subject to craving" What is the nature human beings? The Buddhist understanding of salvation is ...

The Biblical Politics of John Locke

By Kim Ian Parker
Subjects: Religion, Philosophy
Series: Editions SR

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely ...

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the ...

Dilemmas of Reconciliation

Edited by Carol Prager and Trudy Govier
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, History, Philosophy, Ethics

How can bitter enemies who have inflicted unspeakable acts of cruelty on each other live together in peace?

At a time in history when most organized violence consists of civil wars and when nations resort ...

Persons — What Philosophers Say about You

By Warren Bourgeois
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics

Can a person suffer radical change and still be the same person?

Are there human beings who are not persons at all?

Western philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, gave the concept ...

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World

Edited by Phyllis D. Airhart, Marilyn J. Legge and Gary L. Redcliffe
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Series: Comparative Ethics

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual ...

Structural Idealism

By Douglas Mann
Subjects: History, Philosophy

Do we determine our actions, or are our actions ruled by the structure of our society? Does our culture create us, or do we create our culture?

Within history and social theory there is a fundamental ...