UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Insight and solidarity: a study in the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas Author: Rehg, William Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy \| Law \| Politics Publisher's Description: Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory. William Rehg offers an insightful introduction to its complex theorization by its major proponent, Jürgen Habermas, and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have bee . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Earth's insights: a survey of ecological ethics from the Mediterranean basin to the Australian outback Author: Callicott, J. Baird Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy \| Anthropology \| Ethics \| Ecology Publisher's Description: The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The temptations of evolutionary ethics Author: Farber, Paul Lawrence 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| History \| Ethics \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are bui . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics Author: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Philosophers as diverse as Socrates, Plato, Spinoza, and Rawls have sometimes argued that ethics can be an exact discipline whose propositions can match the exactness we associate with mathematics. Yet for Aristotle, knowledge of ethical matters is essentially inexact, and his perceptive criticisms . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Just doctoring: medical ethics in the liberal state Author: Brennan, Troyen A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics \| Medicine Publisher's Description: Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left t . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ahead of the curve: David Baltimore's life in science Author: Crotty, Shane 1974- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies \| History of Science \| Science Publisher's Description: Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MI . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Being human: ethics, environment, and our place in the world Author: Peterson, Anna Lisa 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Folklore and Mythology \| Environmental Studies \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna Peterson proposes an "ethical anthropology" that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures. Peter . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Henry Edwards Huntington: a biography Author: Thorpe, James Ernest 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| United States History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: A legendary book collector, a connoisseur of fine art, a horticulturist, and a philanthropist, Henry Edwards Huntington is perhaps best known as the founder of the world-renowned Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. James Thorpe's comprehensive biography . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity Author: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Classical Religions \| Classical Politics \| Christianity \| Ethics \| Social and Political Thought \| Ancient History \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hegel's ethics of recognition Author: Williams, Robert R 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics Publisher's Description: In this significant contribution to Hegel scholarship, Robert Williams develops the most comprehensive account to date of Hegel's concept of recognition ( Anerkennung ). Fichte introduced the concept of recognition as a presupposition of both Rousseau's social contract and Kant's ethics. Williams sh . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Democracy and moral development Author: Norton, David L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy \| Political Theory \| Ethics Publisher's Description: At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral Development shows how to bring the two together. Philosopher David Norton applies classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy. The centerpiece of the book is a model of organizational . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public health law and ethics: a reader Author: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law \| Medicine \| Health Care Publisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Representation and its discontents: the critical legacy of German romanticism Author: Seyhan, Azade Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| German Studies Publisher's Description: Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Genethics: moral issues in the creation of people Author: Heyd, David Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics Publisher's Description: Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Just interpretations: law between ethics and politics Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: In pluralistic societies that lack common ethical, social, and political values, legal interpretation is constantly under siege. Just interpretations - that is, interpretations that reflect a shared vision of justice - may become just interpretations in the sense of mere interpretations, rooted in t . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ethics in an epidemic: AIDS, morality, and culture Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Sociology \| Ethics \| Medicine \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Agent-centered morality: an Aristotelian alternative to Kantian internalism Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality , George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, a . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eros and the Jews: from biblical Israel to contemporary America Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion \| Sociology \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale does much more than answer that question as . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modernity and the hegemony of vision Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literature \| Ethics Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on ar . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making modern mothers: ethics and family planning in urban Greece Author: Paxson, Heather 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Anthropology \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper indi . . . [more] Similar Items