Moral Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Modern Honor

   A Philosophical Defense

   By Anthony Cunningham

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor’s rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor’s influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace honor, it must be...

   Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Morality and Moral Reasoning (Routledge Revivals)

   Five Essays in Ethics

   Edited by John Casey

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1971, the five essays in this book were written by young philosophers at Cambridge at that time. They focus on two major questions of ethical theory: ‘What is it to judge morally?’ and ‘What makes a reason a moral reason?’. The book explores the relation of moral judgements to...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Ethics and the Golden Rule

   By Harry J. Gensler

   It is commonly accepted that the golden rule—most often formulated as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"—is a unifying element between many diverse religious traditions, both Eastern and Western. Its influence also extends beyond such traditions, since many non-religious...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Habermas and Rawls

   Disputing the Political

   Edited by James Gordon Finlayson, Fabian Freyenhagen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Evil and Moral Psychology

   By Peter Brian Barry

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology—the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Free Will: The Basics

   By Meghan Griffith

   Series: The Basics

   The question of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated and it continues to be a controversial topic today. In Free Will: The Basics readers are provided with a clear and accessible introduction to this central but challenging philosophical problem. The questions...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective

   Edited by Julia Peters

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   By bringing together influential critics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and some of the strongest defenders of an Aristotelian approach, this collection provides a fresh assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotelian virtue ethics and its contemporary interpretations. Contributors...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Islamic Ethics

   Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought

   By Mariam al-Attar

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This book explores philosophical ethics in Arabo-Islamic thought. Examining the meaning, origin and development of "Divine Command Theory", it underscores the philosophical bases of religious fundamentalism that hinder social development and hamper dialogue between different cultures and nations....

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Theology and the Science of Moral Action

   Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by James A. Van Slyke, Gregory Peterson, Warren S. Brown, Kevin S. Reimer, Michael Spezio

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Needs and Moral Necessity

    By Soran Reader

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

    Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory....

    Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge