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The Forgiveness to Come: The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical by Peter Jason Banki
RRP: £21.99£19.19This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the... -
Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights by Elisabeth De Fontenay
RRP: £15.99£14.24A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, Elisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida's uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal engagement with political and ethical theory as it has... -
Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism by Mitchell Aboulafia
RRP: £21.99£19.19Notions of self-determination are central to modern politics, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed, nor adequately allied to cosmopolitanism. Transcendence seeks to rectify this... -
On Determinism and Freedom by Ted Honderich
RRP: £105.00£95.39The most recalcitrant problem of philosophy, free will, laid out and taken beyond unsatisfactory standard solutions by Britain's foremost working philosopher. Determinism comes in many forms, some confused, some inconsistent, some incomplete. Some... -
Dimensions of Moral Theory: An Introduction to Metaethics and Moral Psychology by Jonathan Jacobs
RRP: £31.95£28.29Dimensions of Moral Theory examines the key presuppositions and philosophical commitments that support and shape moral theories.About the AuthorJonathan Jacobs is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Colgate... -
Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics by David Copp
RRP: £105.00£82.40The central philosophical challenge of metaethics is to account for the normativity of moral judgment without abandoning or seriously compromising moral realism. In Morality in a Natural World, David Copp defends a version of naturalistic moral realism... -
Moral Obligation: Volume 27, Part 2 by Ellen Frankel Paul
RRP: £25.99£21.99The notion of obligation of what an agent owes to himself, to others, or to society generally occupies a central place in morality. But what are the sources of our moral obligations and what are their limits? To what extent do obligations vary in their... -
Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives by Maria Pia Lara
RRP: £27.00£24.12This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm... -
The Third City: Philosophy at War with Positivism by Borna Bebek
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Third City, first published in 1982, offers an innovative response to the troubled relationship between Western philosophy, as it has been conducted since the Renaissance, and the everyday lives of the communities in which we live. Bebek contends... -
Bodily Democracy: Towards a Philosophy of Sport for All by Henning Eichberg
RRP: £135.00£117.68Sport has gained increasing importance for welfare society. In this process, however, the term of 'sport' has become less and less clear. Larger parts of what nowadays is called 'sport for all' are non-competitive and derived from traditions of... -
Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry And Modern Ph by Robert Baker
RRP: £103.00£89.54In The Extravagant Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period, engaging a broad range of writers: Kant, Wordsworth, and Lyotard in a chapter on the sublime; Rimbaud, Nietzsche, and Bataille in a chapter on... -
Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom by Cynthia Willett
RRP: £16.99£15.07Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of Empire, Cynthia Willett asks: What could embody... -
Beyond Political Liberalism: Toward a Post-Secular Ethics of Public Life by Troy Dostert
RRP: £23.99£20.84"In this fresh critique of Rawls's political liberalism, Dostert offers a bold and stimulating account of the political potential of religion that actually enhances the prospects of a genuinely democratic public discourse. Drawing lessons from the... -
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society by Zahra M. S. Ayubi
RRP: £88.00£68.75Islamic scriptural sources offer potentially radical notions of equality. Yet medieval Islamic philosophers chose to establish a hierarchical, male-centered virtue ethics. In Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical... -
Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power by Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo
RRP: £22.00£17.36Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it... -
Human Predicaments: And What to Do About Them by John Kekes
RRP: £80.00£76.61In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new ways... -
An Introduction to Robophilosophy Cognition, Intelligence, Autonomy, Consciousness, Conscience, and Ethics by Spyros G. Tzafestas
RRP: £71.99£62.45Modern robots have arrived at a very matured state both in their mechanical / control aspects and their mental aspects. An Introduction to Robophilosophy explores the philosophical questions that arise in the development, creation, and use of mental -... -
Thinking Ecologically: Environmental Thought, Values and Policy by Bruce Morito
RRP: £21.00£17.21Arguments about the environment in the history of Western thought accompany a guide to developing an approach to environmental thought based on ecological attunement in this analysis of the fundamental concepts that ground environmental policy... -
Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human: A Mosaic of Peace by John J. Shea
RRP: £105.00£92.13In Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human, John J. Shea describes an adult, moral, and fully human self in terms of integrity and mutuality. Those who are fully human are caring and just. Violence is the absence of care and justice. Peace-the pinnacle... -
Character by Jay R. Elliott
RRP: £34.99£11.08Why do people do evil? How can we learn to do better? Philosophers in the long-standing tradition of 'virtue ethics' argue that we act badly because of shortcomings in our character, and that we can improve by practicing virtues such as courage, honesty,... -
Moral Obligations: Action, Intention, and Valuation by Thomas E. Wren
RRP: £43.99£38.44There are many ways of writing about the moral life; Moral Obligations follows the way of what philosophers call ""meta-ethics"": the analysis, not of particular moral problems, but of how the concepts used in formulating and solving them, concepts like... -
Moral Judgments and Social Education by Hans A. Hartmann
RRP: £46.99£40.97The study of morality is an empirical as well as conceptual task, one that involves data collection, statistical analysis, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. This volume is about moral judgment, especially its exercise in selected social... -
Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World by Cynthia Kaufman
RRP: £80.00£48.64Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change, sweatshop labour, police abuse, and... -
Portraits of Integrity by Charlotte Alston
RRP: £24.99£20.44Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life raises questions about what integrity is and how it is perceived. Integrity might be culturally bound, but this diverse set of portraits... -
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism by James E. Crimmins
£77.59The idea of utility as a value, goal or principle in political, moral and economic life has a long and rich history. Now available in paperback, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism captures the complex history and the multi-faceted character of... -
Motivation Ethics by Mathew Coakley
£29.07This is a book about a particular moral theory - motivation ethics - and why we should accept it. But it is also a book about moral theorizing, about how we might compare different structures of moral theory. In principle we might morally evaluate a... -
Moore's Ethics by William H. Shaw
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element critically surveys the full range of G. E. Moore's ethical thought, including: (1) his rejection of naturalism in favor of the view that 'good' designates a simple, indefinable property, which cannot be identified with or reduced to any... -
Public Reason and Bioethics: Three Perspectives by Hon-Lam Li
£91.72This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism. Drawing together academics from these separate approaches, the volume explores how the three theories... -
Moral Scepticism and Moral Knowledge by Renford Bambrough
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1979, this book shows that a recognition of the rationality of moral judgment and moral action in no way involves us in diminishing our respect for liberty, authenticity, sincerity or integrity. It maintains that the resolution of... -
Religion, Power, and Illusion: A Genealogy of Religious Belief by Patrick J Hurley
RRP: £25.00£17.62According to anthropologists, religion arose in the Neolithic period, a time that began 12 thousand years ago when people abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started settling down in communities. By the time of the ancient Egyptians, religion had... -
Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All by Patricia Illingworth
RRP: £27.99£23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190907044Author Patricia IllingworthFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory by Elijah Millgram
RRP: £85.00£65.68Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a... -
Virtue, Narrative, and Self: Explorations of Character in the Philosophy of Mind and Action by Joseph Ulatowski
RRP: £39.99£35.46Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection... -
Duty and the Beast: Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights? by Andy Lamey
RRP: £30.99£25.45The moral status of animals is a subject of controversy both within and beyond academic philosophy, especially regarding the question of whether and when it is ethical to eat meat. A commitment to animal rights and related notions of animal protection is... -
Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality: Theory, Research and Policy by Maddy Coy
RRP: £49.99£43.50Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality brings together international research exploring the range of gendered harms to women involved in prostitution and the consequences of growth of the sex industry for global gender relations. While there is an... -
Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments by Aner Govrin
RRP: £36.99£32.53Why are we disgusted when an elderly woman is robbed but sympathize with the actions of a Robin Hood? Why do acts of cruelty against a helpless kitten bother us more than does the trampling of ants? In Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments,... -
Utilitarianism by Tim Mulgan
RRP: £17.00£14.72Moral theories can be distinguished not only by the answers they give but also by the questions they ask. Utilitarianism's central commitment is to the promotion of well-being, impartially considered. This commitment shapes utilitarianism in a number of... -
Ethical Theory and Social Change by Abraham Edel
RRP: £135.00£117.28John Dewey was unique among American philosophers in his insistence that the events, the social structure, the beliefs and attitudes of a period, its models of science and human history, all have some constitutive role in its philosophical theory. This... -
Conservative Reformers: The Freshman Republicans in the 104th Congress: The Freshman Republicans in the 104th Congress by Nicol C. Rae
RRP: £135.00£117.28Nicol Rae's engaging account of the Republican revolutionaries' freshman year in Congress persuasively demonstrates that the precepts set forth by Madison in Federalist 10 and 51 are still in force in our remarkably stable political system. The 73... -
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy by Don Marietta
RRP: £29.99£26.64This survey of the history of Western philosophy, from Thales to Augustine, introduces the central tenets of each philosopher or school within the cultural and historical aspect of the particular time. Topics covered include metaphysics, ethics and...