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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility

    The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw

    by Yechiel Michael Barilan ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw.“Human dignity” has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Lying

    Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

    by Sissela Bok ...
    Is it ever all right to lie? A philosopher looks at lying and deception in public and private life—in government, medicine, law, academia, journalism, in the family and between friends.Lying is a penetrating and thoughtful examination of one of the most pervasive yet little discussed aspects of our public and private lives. Beginning with the moral questions raised about lying since antiquity, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On Human Rights

    by James Griffin ...
    What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Christian Political Ethics

    Edited by John A. Coleman ...
    Series series Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment. Representing a unique fusion of faith-centered ethics and social science ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Sociology of Law

    Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by A. Javier Trevino ...
    Series series Law and Society
    The purpose of this book is to introduce the sociology of law by providing a coherent organization to the general body of literature in that field. As such, the text gives a comprehensive overview of theoretical sociology of law. It deals with the broad expanse of the field and covers a vast amount of intellectual terrain. This volume is intended to fill a gap in the literature. Most textbooks in ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Neither Beast Nor God

    The Dignity of the Human Person

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    Appeals to “human dignity” are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ought to be treated as equals? Or is it what distinguishes some greater and more admirable human beings from ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • After Christendom

    How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas

    by Stanley Hauerwas ...
    Liberal/conservative and modern/postmodern concepts define contemporary theological debate. Yet what if these categories are grounded in a set of assumptions about what it means to be the church in the world, presuming we must live as though God's existence does not matter? What if our theological discussion distracts us from the fact that the church is no longer able to shape the desires and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Where Do You Stand?: Eight Moral Issues Confronting Today's Christians

    by Gregory C. Higgins ...
    Examines the particulars behind eight crucial moral issues of the day and challenges the reader to take a personal stand on them. ... Read more

    $7.35 USD

  • The Theory Primer

    A Sociological Guide

    by Mark A. Schneider ...
    The Theory Primer: A Sociological Guide is both a classical theory text and a practical guide to theorizing, making it ideal for sociology majors or graduate students new to the field. Schneider presents theories drawn from Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Mead, among others, offering rigorous evaluations that examine the research traditions that arose from them and the paradigms that continue to ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • One Another's Equals

    The Basis of Human Equality

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    This enlightening inquiry into the nature of human equality reveals the vital importance of this basic Western principle—"an important new book" (Robert B. Reich, New York Times Book Review).An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In a major new work, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theology and Public Philosophy

    Four Conversations

    by Jeanne Heffernan Schindler, Joshua Mitchell, Robin Lovin, Michael L. Budde, Jean Porter, Eloise A. Buker, Christopher Beem, Peter Berkowitz, Fred Dallmayr, J. Budziszewski, Charles Taylor, William Schweiker, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Charles Mathewes, Jonathan Chaplin, Jean Bethke Elshtain ...
    This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that so often dominate discussions of religion and public life, the contributors address such subjects as ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Ethics

    Approaching Moral Decisions

    by Arthur F. Holmes ...
    Series series Contours of Christian Philosophy
    With over 60,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1984, Ethics has served numerous generations of students as a classic introduction to philosophical ethics from a Christian perspective. Over the years the philosophical landscape has changed somewhat, and in this second edition Arthur Holmes adjusts the argument and information throughout, completely rewriting the original chapter ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus