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How To Raise an Antiracist: FROM THE GLOBAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $18.85$13.33A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future - from the author of the million-copy global bestseller How To Be an Antiracist*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on... -
Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World by Jordi Casamitjana
RRP: $22.28$14.89'Veganism is not just a diet. Not just an opinion, nor a trend. It is a 21st-century revolution which began 20 centuries ago.' From the activist, scientist and animal welfare consultant whose employment tribunal changed the law forever comes a timely,... -
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
RRP: $18.85$12.01Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.As a member of... -
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780521794725
RRP: $85.75$54.58This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal... -
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner
$26.88In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society.Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved... -
An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists: Sources and Commentary by Douglas Hedley 9781032023847
RRP: $65.16$57.26Notwithstanding their neglect in many histories of ideas in the West, the Cambridge Platonists constitute the most significant and influential group of thinkers in the Platonic tradition between the Florentine Renaissance and the Romantic Age. This... -
Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals by Gary Francione
$23.41Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral obligation to become vegan.Gary L. Francione-the leading and most... -
Ethical Studies by Robert A. Bowie 9780748780792 [USED COPY]
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Ethical Studies by Robert A. Bowie
$75.03A best-selling book written by popular author Robert Bowie, offering trusted and accessible coverage of the Religious Ethics requirements for all major awarding bodies.Book InformationISBN 9780748780792Author Robert A BowieFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI: Ethical and World-View Philosophy by Wilhelm Dilthey 9780691195575
$67.10This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human... -
Corruption: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
RRP: $15.42$11.06Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in... -
Commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" by Saint Thomas Aquinas
RRP: $61.75$60.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883357511Author Thomas AquinasFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Dumb Ox Books,USPublisher Dumb Ox Books,USWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology by Matt Hern 9783837670264
RRP: $75.46$61.65Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as... -
Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
$39.26Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental... -
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781515427261
RRP: $32.57$29.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515427261Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Reconsidering Reparations by Assistant Professor Olufemi O Taiwo
RRP: $48.01$40.50Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project - either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present;... -
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer 9781847927774
$20.58Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals'Probably the single most influential document in... -
Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics by Richard Holloway
RRP: $17.14$11.49If the use of God in a moral debate raises more problems than it solves, is it better to leave God out of the argument altogether and find strong human reasons for the rules we live by? Godless Morality is a refreshing, courageous and human-centred... -
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever by Andrew Potter
RRP: $17.14$11.58A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist... -
German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 by Frederick C. Beiser
$50.07One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of idealism... -
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $20.57$13.72Should we welcome the end of humanity? In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the... -
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780691181028
$30.46The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these... -
Epictetus’s 'Encheiridion': A New Translation and Guide to Stoic Ethics by Scott Aikin
RRP: $30.86$27.53For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex philosophical text. Including a full translation and clear explanatory commentaries, Epictetus's... -
Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt by Alec Ryrie
RRP: $34.31$30.22Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism. ... -
The Persistence of Faith: Religion, Morality and Society in a Secular Age (the Reith Lectures) by Jonathan Sacks 9780826478559
RRP: $37.65$24.00Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, keep alive their separate communities and still contribute far more to national debates on moral issues. they must also learn to get along better. His thesis is that we still live under a Biblical... -
The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism by Tim Rogan 9780691191492
$37.39A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted... -
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell 9781107534230
$28.44In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing... -
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691212326
RRP: $42.80$26.96An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human... -
Philosophical Criminology by Andrew Millie 9781447323716
RRP: $42.87$33.26Philosophical criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not. This accessible book in the New Horizons in Criminology series is the first to foreground this growing area. The book is structured around... -
Would You Eat Your Cat?: Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself by Jeremy Stangroom 9780393339420
RRP: $27.36$19.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393339420Author Jeremy StangroomFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley 9781350051089
RRP: $162.95$118.48Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives? "Engaging and accessible,... -
The Reasons of Love by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691191478
$17.41From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we loveIn The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue... -
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter by Peter Singer 9780691172477
$29.78Peter 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... -
Towards Justice and Virtue: A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning by Onora O'Neill
$48.68Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of justice and those who commend only the particularities of virtuous lives. Onora O'Neill traces this impasse to defects in underlying... -
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will by Kevin J. Mitchell
$33.60An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision... -
Don't Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises by Pierre Hadot
RRP: $34.31$29.13The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre Hadot explores Goethe's relationship with ancient spiritual... -
Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology by Brian Davies 9780198751946
RRP: $73.74$71.01Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible overview of the philosophy of religion. Under the careful editorship of Brian Davies, the book contains a selection of the best classical and... -
Trudeau's MAiD Service: A Euthanasia Program for Canada by David Cooke 9781777413828
RRP: $8.56$7.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777413828Author David CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Baptist HousePublisher Baptist HouseWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 2mm -
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument by Bernard Williams
$39.95Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream... -
Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good by Patrick Riordan 9781647123697
$42.09A deeply considered examination of the “common good” reconciling Catholic Social Thought with secular politics and philosophy The Second Vatican Council invites dialogue about the common good as the set of economic, political, legal, and cultural...