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The Ethics of Liberty (Large Print Edition) by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9781500264789
$35.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500264789Author Hans-Hermann HoppeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $58.78$55.50Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and 'revaluation of all values'. This volume presents the distinguished translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with a new... -
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
RRP: $37.78$33.68With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.' - Times... -
Health, Luck, and Justice by Shlomi Segall 9780691140537
RRP: $105.00$80.66"Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice. Health, Luck, and Justice is the first... -
A Brief History Of Vice by Robert Evans
RRP: $25.18$18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147517609Author Robert EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 262g -
Spinoza's Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Beth Lord
RRP: $35.68$29.61Everything you need to know about Spinoza's Ethics in one volume. The Ethics presents a complete metaphysical, epistemological and ethical world-view that is immensely inspiring. However, it is also an extremely difficult text to read. This book takes... -
Pursuing Moral Warfare: Ethics in American, British, and Israeli Counterinsurgency by Marcus Schulzke 9781626166585
RRP: $100.80$87.44During combat, soldiers make life-and-death choices dozens of times a day. These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars. This work examines the theory and practice of military ethics in counterinsurgency operations. Marcus... -
Plough Quarterly No. 8: Who Is My Neighbor by Gerhard Lohfink
RRP: $16.78$15.08From Jordan to Germany, the influx of refugees is straining goodwill to the breaking point. This issue of Plough Quarterly focuses on the second half of Jesus' Great Commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. We found love of neighbor demonstrated by... -
Evil: A Very Short Introduction by Luke Russell 9780198819271
RRP: $18.88$13.55Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken... -
Vice Epistemology by Ian James Kidd 9780367551155
RRP: $83.98$73.63Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, and intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking. What sorts of things are epistemic vices? How... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781474620949
RRP: $18.88$7.37How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful... -
Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide by Laurence Gane 9781848310094
RRP: $18.88$13.92Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or... -
The Moral Powers – A Study of Human Nature by PMS Hacker
RRP: $62.90$56.72A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world’s preeminent living philosophers The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human... -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello 9780231152952
RRP: $73.50$57.98Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of... -
Journal Like a Stoic: A 90-Day Stoicism Program to Live with Greater Acceptance, Less Judgment, and Deeper Intentionality (Includes Teachings of Marcus Aurelius) by Brittany Polat
RRP: $29.38$20.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593435892Author Brittany PolatFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ZeitgeistPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804780056
RRP: $46.18$39.46Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsche's work. The edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a translation of the celebrated Kritische... -
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley 9780415371391
RRP: $41.98$37.15One of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching.In spite of her many books... -
Conscience: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Strohm
RRP: $18.88$13.88Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it? In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline... -
Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $52.40$40.91In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he's a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity "usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars." China Newsweek... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: $20.98$13.94Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is... -
Moral Knowledge by Sarah McGrath
RRP: $134.40$121.11Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B Peterson
RRP: $62.90$37.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345816023Author Jordan B. PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm)... -
On What Matters: Volume Three by Derek Parfit
RRP: $74.53$64.89Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his... -
Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism by Emma C. Gordon 9780367702205
RRP: $262.50$226.51New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves,... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: $31.48$24.93Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous-and massive-Lives, including politicians... -
The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick 9780915145287
RRP: $39.88$33.03This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.From the forward by John Rawls:In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick... -
To Will & To Do by Jacques Ellul 9781532676147
RRP: $56.70$43.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532676147Author Jacques EllulFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
C.S. Lewis on Higher Education: The Pedagogy of Pleasure by Professor Stewart Goetz 9781350355118
RRP: $46.18$40.49Why pursue a university education? Some people answer in terms of the purpose of getting a good job. Others respond in terms of the aim of earning more money. Still others answer in terms of the goal of promoting social justice. Drawing on C. S. Lewis's... -
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: v. 1 by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: $52.40$48.13A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks by Simone Weil 9781032533995
RRP: $35.68$31.96Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist... -
Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice by Joyce D'Silva
RRP: $62.98$55.94This unique and readable book examines the relationship between religion and animal welfare, taking a detailed dive into the teachings and practices of the major world religions.While there are many books expounding the beliefs of the major religions and... -
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $31.48$28.52A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat... the growth in Dogmatism", on first... -
The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism by Seth Zuiho Segall 9781800503465
RRP: $44.00$42.13The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonationalists, and economic populists. At the same time, liberal democracies are failing at cultivating and... -
From Dusk 'til Dawn: An Insider's View of the Growth of the Animal Liberation Movement by Keith Mann 9780955585005
$63.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955585005Author Keith MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Puppy Pincher PressPublisher Puppy Pincher PressDimensions(mm) 230mm * 156mm * 45mm -
FRONTLINE: How to Save Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: $35.68$25.79A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.' Jon Snow, Channel 4 News ... -
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter by Peter Singer 9780691178479
RRP: $31.48$26.48Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he... -
A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity by Peter E. Gordon 9780226828572
RRP: $67.20$57.02A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. "Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno's negativism."-Jurgen Habermas Theodor Adorno... -
In In Defence of Separatism by Susan Hawthorne
RRP: $27.20$23.06In Defence of Separatism is a timely book. When it was first written in 1976, although it was an important subject of conversation among many feminists it was not welcomed by academics or publishers. When a political group wants to strategise so that... -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: $20.98$15.31'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice by Lester Parrott
RRP: $60.88$49.10Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA courses. This book is a clear introduction to this subject and will help students develop their understanding by showing...