This cutting-edge volume of original essays features a diverse, international team of prominent scholars examining issues of morality and justice within a global perspective. The chapters are grouped according to an integrative design that progresses from normative principles to normative theories to normative applications. Applications chapters address current significant and provocative topics such as poverty and the global economy; global health; religion; war; and gender, identity, and family. Distinguished philosopher and volume editor Michael Boylan provides a unifying introduction to...
This cutting-edge volume of original essays features a diverse, international team of prominent scholars examining issues of morality and justice with...
This timely book by internationally regarded scholar of ethics and social/political philosophy Michael Boylan focuses on the history, application, and significance of human rights in the West and in China. Boylan engages the key current philosophical debates prevalent in human rights discourse today and draws them together to argue for the existence of natural, universal human rights. Arguing against the grain of mainstream philosophical beliefs, Boylan asserts that there is continuity between human rights and natural law and that human beings require basic, essential goods for minimum...
This timely book by internationally regarded scholar of ethics and social/political philosophy Michael Boylan focuses on the history, application, and...
This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers in the ancient world, as well as to the philosophical and literary work of writers prior to the Hippocratic authors, produce an interesting story of how science progressed and the critical context in which important methodological questions were addressed. The end result is an account that arises from debates that are engaged in and "solved" by different writers. These stopping points form the foundation for Harvey and for modern...
This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical ...
What are the limits to Forgiveness? Moses Levi is pushing the envelope. He's gotten a big company off for an environmental disaster that could have been avoided. And Moses has betrayed his college roommate. Is there any hope for Moses? He's a hated man and sometimes hated men end up dead. That's when the FBI stepped in.
What are the limits to Forgiveness? Moses Levi is pushing the envelope. He's gotten a big company off for an environmental disaster that could have be...
Buy a ticket for voyage to Latin America to watch barnstorming baseball the way it used to be played. Skip forward to the training camp of the Chicago Cubs. Can they really make it to the World Series this time? Find how these two stories come together in an atmosphere of political corruption and danger. One man is there to stand up to it all. Can he do it?
Buy a ticket for voyage to Latin America to watch barnstorming baseball the way it used to be played. Skip forward to the training camp of the Chicago...
There is a secret back door to the Ivory Tower. Andrew Viam makes his escape and it takes him to places and people that threaten his very existence. Follow Andrew's odyssey to see whether he has what it takes to survive.
There is a secret back door to the Ivory Tower. Andrew Viam makes his escape and it takes him to places and people that threaten his very existence. F...
