Author: Zak Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009321056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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This interdisciplinary work, which traces the formation of global reformist networks and reconceptualizes anti-colonial critique, will appeal to students of history and political science.
Author: Teresa Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107321158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as a whole and in individual lives. She examines the range of ideas and practices and their relative importance, as well as questions of authority and the relationship with high philosophy and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. The Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many other factors. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an ethical community, which was a significant factor in its socio-political success.
Author: Kōjirō Sugimori
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Gary Dorrien
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526296
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 527
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Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian social ethics social gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism, and liberation theology Gary Dorrien argues for the social-ethical necessity of social justice politics. In carefully reasoned essays, he focuses on three subjects: the ethics and politics of economic justice, racial and gender justice, and antimilitarism, making a constructive case for economic democracy, along with a liberationist understanding of racial and gender justice and an anti-imperial form of liberal internationalism. In Dorrien's view, the three major discourse traditions of progressive Christian social ethics share a fundamental commitment to transform the structures of society in the direction of social justice. His reflections on these topics feature innovative analyses of major figures, such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, James Burnham, Norman Thomas, and Michael Harrington, and an extensive engagement with contemporary intellectuals, such as Rosemary R. Ruether, Katie Cannon, Gregory Baum, and Cornel West. Dorrien also weaves his personal experiences into his narrative, especially his involvement in social justice movements. He includes a special chapter on the 2008 presidential campaign and the historic candidacy of Barack Obama.
Author: Teresa Jean Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107198456
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Explores how morality worked, for Roman society as a whole and for individuals.
Author: Andrew Wadoski
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526165422
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Spenser’s ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophy’s profound transformation in the early modern era, and the English colonisation of Ireland in the turbulent 1580’s and 90’s. It revises a scholarly narrative describing Spenser’s ethical thinking as derivative, nostalgic, or inconsistent with one that contends him to be one of early modern England’s most original and incisive moral theorists, placing The Faerie Queene at the centre of the contested discipline of moral philosophy as it engaged the social, political, and intellectual upheavals driving classical virtue ethics’ unravelling at the threshold of early modernity.
Author: Bart Schultz
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739162233
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those critical of it.
Author: Morgan Teresa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107322110
Category : PHILOSOPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Explores how morality worked, for Roman society as a whole and for individuals.
Author: David George Ritchie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Author: Zachary Kendal
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303027893X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian and science fiction literature. The essays examine recent visions of the future in science fiction and re-examine earlier texts through contemporary lenses. Across fourteen chapters, the collection considers authors from Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and USA. The volume delves into a range of ethical questions of immediate contemporary relevance, including environmental ethics, postcolonial ethics, social justice, animal ethics and the ethics of alterity.
