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The Logic of the Body by Matthew A. Lapine
RRP: $52.48$39.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683594253Author Matthew A. LapineFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams)... -
Animals, Ethics and Us: A Veterinary's View of Human-Animal Interactions by Madeleine Campbell 9781789180497
RRP: $52.40$45.68Everyone has a view about animal ethics. Each of us, for example, has an opinion about whether we should eat meat; whether animals should be used for scientific research, or whether the use of animals in sport is acceptable. But very few of us stop to... -
Right to Die?: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Care by John Wyatt
RRP: $20.98$14.93The case for assisted suicide can seem so compelling. Surely it can't be wrong to help desperate people to kill themselves? Don't we have a right to take our own lives in certain circumstances? There are no trite or easy answers. John Wyatt helps us... -
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Seneca 9780691175577
RRP: $31.48$23.42Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own... -
For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 9780190665067
RRP: $35.68$25.79Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise,... -
The Idea of Private Law by Ernest J Weinrib 9780199664795
$104.52Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the... -
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $16.78$7.18"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle
RRP: $73.50$58.25A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In... -
Value, Respect, and Attachment by Joseph Raz
RRP: $39.88$34.27The book is a contribution to the study of values, as they affect both our personal and our public life. It defends the view that values are necessarily universal, on the ground that that is a condition of their intelligibility. It does, however, reject... -
Wickedness by Mary Midgley
RRP: $31.48$28.52To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley's analysis proves that the capacity for real wickedness is an inevitable part of human nature. This is not... -
The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays by Harry G. Frankfurt
RRP: $41.98$33.60This 1988 volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. The essays deal with such central topics as freedom of the will, moral responsibility, the concept of a person, the structure of the will, the... -
Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas by Richard A. Cohen 9780521047166
RRP: $77.68$61.64The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil... -
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting by Shannon Vallor 9780190905286
RRP: $44.08$43.83The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every... -
The Usefulness of the Useless by Nuccio Ordine 9781589881167
RRP: $35.68$26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881167Author Nuccio OrdineFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 174g -
Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes by James Mumford
RRP: $35.68$25.79Across the democratic West, politics has become deeply polarised and profoundly personal. Challenge someone's political views and increasingly you challenge their very being. And yet, do our political tribes even make sense? Look carefully, and on... -
Postmodern Ethics Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780631186939
RRP: $69.20$61.19Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way... -
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management by Seneca 9780691181950
RRP: $31.48$25.52Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion:... -
On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? by Richard Holloway
RRP: $20.98$14.07'Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject' PHILIP PULLMANIn this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of forgiveness. One of the most important books on this essential... -
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
RRP: $23.08$17.07'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result... -
The Daily Telegraph How to Crack a Cryptic Crossw by Val Gilbert 9780330488457
$23.98If you've ever looked at cryptic crossword clues and wondered how anyone even begins to solve them, then here is your answer. This easy to follow fun guide shows how anyone can learn the logic behind these puzzles and become cryptically expert. It covers... -
After Life Eugene Thacker 9780226793726
RRP: $65.10$63.40Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as... -
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.88$12.64"We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche."-New York Times Book Review Reissued for the age of "fake news," On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche's evolving thinking on truth, which has exerted a powerful... -
The Courage of Truth by Michel Foucault 9781403986696
RRP: $48.28$43.39The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to... -
The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $39.88$38.89Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition to the annotated text, there is also a rich and... -
Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780226782768
RRP: $174.30$166.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226782768Author Lucius Annaeus SenecaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Without God, Is Everything Permitted?: The 20 Big Questions in Ethics Julian Baggini 9781780875972
RRP: $27.28$18.06Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights? Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really... -
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
RRP: $27.28$19.09This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle 9780691224190
RRP: $39.88$31.75A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In... -
A Companion to Ethics by Peter Singer 9780631187851 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.70$5.88In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of... -
A Companion to Ethics Peter Singer (Princeton University) 9780631187851
RRP: $58.70$53.03In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of... -
Getting Things Right: Fittingness, Reasons, and Value by Jonathan Way 9780198810322
RRP: $159.60$145.11Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way... -
The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures by Roger Scruton
RRP: $35.68$27.64Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Self by Shaun Gallagher
$73.50Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience. The Oxford Handbook of the Self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays... -
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics by Kenan Malik
RRP: $27.28$17.98In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... -
Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz
RRP: $73.50$68.23Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the... -
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772 by Immanuel Kant 9780872205932
RRP: $31.48$26.44This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.About the AuthorImmanuel... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691177014
RRP: $52.50$41.98The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for... -
Training The Samurai Mind by Thomas Cleary
RRP: $46.20$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307212Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality by Joseph Raz
$92.95This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. Raz begins by presenting an analysis of the concept of authority and what is involved in... -
Matters of Life and Death: Human Dilemmas in the Light of the Christian Faith by John Wyatt
RRP: $39.88$28.58Conjoined twins dilemma... Suicide of terminally ill patient... Designer baby transplant success... Woman gives birth at sixty-six... Rarely are human dilemmas out of the news. And what medical science can do and ought to do - or ought not to do -...