Product Description: This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms of action and communication, silence and aesthetics, the ethics and politics of silence, and the religious dimensions of silence...read more

Product Description: Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions is an in-depth, critical and constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and truth; an emotive theory of truth; P...read more

Community and Communitarianism presents - and defends in detail - a care-centered ideal of a good and moral community: a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in «teleological communities,» cooperation in the realization of communal goals); mutual concern and solidarity; sympathy and empathy; benevolence; a spirit of sacrifice; and affection, love, and caring. It is argued that a care-centered ethic, hence a care-centered community, needs to be constrained and fortified by equal respect for the participants' basic human right to be treated as moral subjects, together with fair and just treatment. Besides contributing to social philosophy, the book contributes significantly to ethics.

Product Description: This collection brings together papers that throw light on important ethical issues facing humanity in the 21st century - war, revolution, political assassination, terrorism and counter-terrorism, humanitarian military intervention, and nuclear deterrence and the Missile Defense Shield...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Morality of Terrorism argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, and just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always wrong. In distinguishing «freedom fighting» from terrorism, this study lays down stringent conditions derived from just war theory, for the moral justifiability of «freedom fighting», such as some revolutions, civil wars, and guerilla warfare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)