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 ...

Clothed in Integrity

By Barbara Paleczny
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes ...

Towards an Ethics of Community

Edited by James Olthuis
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Series: Comparative Ethics

How do we deal with difference personally, interpersonally, nationally? Can we weave a cohesive social fabric in a religiously plural society without suppressing differences?

This collection of significant ...

A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics

Edited by Harold Coward & Pinit Ratanakul
Subjects: Ethnography, Philosophy, Ethics

The ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health ...

The Moral Parameters of Good Talk

By Maryann Neely Ayim
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Ethics

Should we not apply the same moral standards to language as we do to behaviour? Should we not demand fair treatment in how others speak to us or include us in conversations?

In The Moral Parameters of ...

The Concept of Equity in Calvin’s Ethics

By Guenther H. Haas
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Series: Editions SR

Ever since Calvin wrote his Institutes of the Christian Religion, admonishing the reader that “it would not be difficult for him to determine what he ought especially to seek in Scriptures, and to what ...

Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment

By Conrad G. Brunk, Lawrence Haworth, and Brenda Lee
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Environmental Studies

Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding publications for 1991.

Are risk debates disputes between those who accept the findings of science and those who do not? Between good and bad science? Or is ...

Ethics and Climate Change

Edited by Harold Coward & Thomas Hurka
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics

Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. ...

Thinking the Unthinkable

By Lydia Dotto
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Environmental Studies

An overwhelming majority of climatologists believe there will be significant changes in climate during the next century. Although the rate and magnitude of this change are uncertain, it could happen very ...