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Expressive Theories of Punishment
In this chapter, Wringe considers expressivist accounts of punishment with particular emphasis on the work of Joel Feinberg, Jean Hampton, and Antony...
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Introduction: Black Ethical Life
This chapter serves as an introduction to the project by framing the problem/question of ethics within an antiblack world. From certain perspectives...
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That Our World Might Endure: Polanyi’s “Primary Education”
In Science, Faith and Society Michael Polanyi incisively examines the world of scientific practice. There is, he observes, much that a scientist...
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Marriage, Money, and Women’s Independence in the Modern Era
The institution of marriage has long been used as a tool for securing and transferring property and wealth. The role of women in this system has...
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Ending Sex-Based Oppression: Transitional Pathways
From a radical feminist perspective, gender is a cage. Or to be more precise, it’s two cages. If genders are cages, then surely we want to let people...
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Understanding the Caste System and Its Maintenance: Brave New World’s World State and Ambedkar’s Stratified Hindu Society in Annihilation of Caste
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World contains and resembles a caste system found in Hindu society. While in Hindu society, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas...
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Modernisation, Modernity, Liberalism and Religion
This chapter discusses liberalism, liberal modernity and modernisation theory. The chapter discusses the concepts of secularisation and...
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Aristotle and Hegel as the Co-authors of Das Kapital
Marx’s theory of capitalism was significantly influenced by Aristotle’s and Hegel’s theory of the syllogism. In Hegel the formula of the syllogism...
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Modern Slavery and the Discursive Construction of a Propertied Freedom: Evidence from Australian Business
This paper examines the ethics of the Australian business community’s responses to the phenomenon of modern slavery. Engaging a critical discourse...
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Zwei Rezensionen von Herbert Marcuses Vernunft und Revolution
Only a few studies have been made on the very interesting and impor¬tant transition from Hegel to Marx, from »reason« to »revolution«, though F....
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Moral Progress
Posner boldly states that there has been no moral counterpart to material progress, and that the criteria for evaluating any moral change are only...
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Ethical Issues Related to the Predominant Weltbild: The Pythagorean vs. The Post-Einstein Age
For ancient pre-Socratic societies the living pattern of the Universe was—according to Plato—also the blueprint for the organizational structures...
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Reactionary Moral Fictionalism
There is a debate among moral error theorists. It concerns what is to be done with moral discourse once it is believed to be systematically false or...
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Institutional persistence despite cultural change: a historical case study of the re-categorization of dogs in Germany
Human–animal relations in post-industrial societies are characterized by a system of cultural categories that distinguishes between different types...
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Correction to: ‘That’s What Art Does’: Disclosing Religious and Ethical Possibilities Through Film
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00852-6
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The Dynamics of Moral Revolutions – Prelude to Future Investigations and Interventions
What drives moral revolutions like the legal abolition of slavery and women’s right to vote? The importance of having an answer to this question lies...