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The end of the law : the good life : a teleological view
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ISBN: 9042907258 9789042907256 Year: 1999 Volume: 7 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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Essays in feminist ethics
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ISBN: 9042905905 9789042905900 Year: 1998 Volume: 5 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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For long enough have male academics, with their privileged status and far from banal, everyday life, been able to define exclusively the morally good and bad. What is contained in our ethical handbooks on genetic engineering, economy, animal experiments, etc., is mainly the product of this narrow point of view. Feminist ethics can, according to Ina Praetorius, occur at the kitchen table as well as in the lecture room, the nursery, in the bank, or from the pulpit. Fourteen essays introduce in an understandable and often polemic form issues in feminist ethics. These issues are themes such as biotechnology, animal experimentation, life styles outside of the monopoly claims of heterosexual marriage, ecology, etc. Praetorius examines closely 'prominent' ethical outlines such as Hans Jonas' principle of responsibility or Hans Kung's project of a world ethos. The introduction offers a very informative overview of what feminists have brought to the field of ethics up to the present. This is a book for interested readers who do not shrink from anti-mainstream thinking and have developed a healthy mistrust of androcentric ethics.

The foundation and application of moral philosophy : Ricoeur's ethical order.
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ISBN: 9042908521 9789042908529 Year: 2000 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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Paul Ricoeur (1913), prominent French philosopher, is one of the most versatile thinkers of our time. Moreover, he is known to be an extremely gifted lecturer, who is able to set forth ethical issues very lucidly. His erudition and profundity are also evident in the two texts that are central to this book, i.e. 'The Problem of the Foundation of Moral Philosophy' and 'Can Forgiveness Heal?' These lectures constitute a remarkable effort on the part of Ricoeur to find an original and more radical foundation of ethics than can be expressed in any law. He demonstrates quite convincingly why the law is not the primary category of ethics. He further deals with the question of what might be the evangelical orientation of ethics. Finally, he sheds light on the specific role of forgiveness. The two lectures by Ricoeur, which have been translated here from French into English, and to which an introduction and three multi-disciplinary commentaries have been added, not only elucidate a fundamental question in the field of ethics, but, in a more general sense, they are also fine examples of philosophical reasoning.

Ethics and the life of faith : a christian moral perspective
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ISBN: 9042906995 9789042906990 Year: 1998 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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How can someone, committed to a Christian view of life, reason concerning ethical issues? That is the main question of this book, which seeks to contribute to an understanding of morality as a human phenomenon. A central question in this respect is how it is possible to understand human beings as persons having free will and moral responsibility. It emerges from the analysis that Christian faith contributes to ethics in three different ways: first, it provides a perspective on human life and its setting, second, it offers an understanding of human beings as personal subjects, while, third, the Christian tradition supplies us with edifying narratives containing patterns of good human life. In the final chapter, one particular case of applied ethics is analysed: How should the acceptable level of accidental death within a given context be established? (Peeters)


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Human life its beginnings and development : bioethical reflections by catholic scholars
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ISBN: 287085143X 9782870851432 Year: 1988 Volume: vol *23 Publisher: Paris Louvain-la-Neuve L'Harmattan CIACO


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From self-development to solidarity : an ethical reading of human desire in its social political relevance according to Emmanuel Levinas
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ISBN: 9068310283 9789068310283 Year: 1985 Publisher: Leuven Peeters [E.]

Die Aufgabe des Lebens : on the ethics of reading
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ISBN: 9068314106 9789068314106 Year: 1992 Volume: 40 Publisher: Leuven Peeters [E.]

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