Ethics and Language is a 1944 book by C. L. Stevenson which was influential in furthering the metaethical view of emotivism first espoused by A. J. Ayer. Yale University, where Stevenson lectured, did not approve of the contents of the book, as a result his lecture position was not renewed.

What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying ...(展开全部)

Let us now imagine that some administrative authority, as far superior in power and intelligence to men, as men are to their cattle, is set over the colony, charged to deal with its human elements in such a manner as to assure the victory of the settlement over the antagonistic influences of the state of nature in which it is set down. He would proceed in the same fashion as th...(展开全部)

理查德•斯坦利•彼得斯(Richard Stanley Peters,1919-2011)，英国伦敦大学教育学院教育哲学教授，曾任伦敦大学教育学院院长和不列颠教育哲学学会主席，是英国分析教育哲学代表人物和“伦敦学派”领军人物。著述颇丰，《伦理学与教育》是他的分析教育哲学代表作。 朱镜人(1949- )，合肥师范学院教授，安徽大学、安徽新华学院兼职教授。英国伦敦大学访问学者和布利斯托尔大学高级访问学者。主要从事外国教育史和比较教育学教学和研究。已出版《英国教育思想之演进》等专著、译著，发表论文90余篇。

The question at the heart of the book is why we should accept a given conceptualization or definition—a question that has a rich history in philosophy, but that also arises in science and politics. To answer this question, the book develops a framework for concept appraisal. Its guiding idea is that to question the authority of concepts is to ask for reasons of a special kind: ...(展开全部)

Answering the call of the Second Vatican Council for moral theology to draw more fully on the teaching of Holy Scripture, the authors examine the virtues that both flow from the Scripture and provide a lens by which to interpret the Scripture. By remaining true to both the New Testament's emphasis on the human response to God's gracious activity in Jesus Christ and to the ethic...(展开全部)

With a clear presentation, Ethics: Theory and Practice educates readers about ethical theory and has them apply what they learn to specific classic and contemporary moral problems (lying, cheating, establishing ethical business practices, honoring ethical obligations in medicine, etc.). Jacques P. Thiroux first wrote this text 1977 in order to educate readers about ethical theo...(展开全部)

著者简介 雅克•蒂洛（Jacques Paul Thiroux，1928～2006），美国著名伦理学家，曾任加州大学贝克斯菲尔德分校哲学系主任、伦理学教授。他是人道主义伦理学体系的创立者，享有盛誉的伦理学教育家。蒂洛还是一位热忱的社会活动家，他与妻子共同创建了贝克斯菲尔德Spotlight Theatre School of Arts，也是当地第一家失亲者联合会的创建人之一。 基思•克拉斯曼（Keith W. Krasemann），美国伊利诺伊州杜佩奇学院哲学与宗教学教授，曾获富布赖特(Fulbright)奖学金访问中国。 译者者简介 程立显，英国威尔士大学哲学博士。现任北京大学教授、博士生导师，北京市伦理学会副会长。 刘建，中国社会科学院亚太研究所研究员、文化研究室主任。 审阅者简介 周辅成（1911～ ），中国现当代伦理学家，北京大学教授，中国...(展开全部)