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From Principles to Practice: Normativity and Judgement in Ethics and Politics by Onora O'Neill
RRP: $48.73$41.30Knowledge aims to fit the world, and action to change it. In this collection of essays, Onora O'Neill explores the relationship between these concepts and shows that principles are not enough for ethical thought or action: we also need to understand how... -
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner
$46.20Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did... -
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Jerome B. Schneewind
RRP: $68.23$56.96This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the... -
The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $15.50$11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486435503Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Architecture of Ethics by Thomas Fisher
RRP: $72.13$63.43Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book, Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture - and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at... -
Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $29.23$26.48The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
$45.61From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
RRP: $58.40$37.83Why 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,... -
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm 9780415307710
RRP: $29.23$26.48Erich Fromm fought long and hard for the rights and freedoms of the individual. He also recognized that fundamental to this pursuit is the promotion of self-knowledge. In encouraging people to analyze their own behavior, Fromm identified the crucial link... -
Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza 9780872201309
$27.55Since their publication in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect... -
Ethics of Gender – New Dimensions to Religious Ethics by SF Parsons 9780631215172
RRP: $87.65$76.56The Ethics of Gender investigates the impact of thinking with gender on modern ethics, and considers the insights that postmodern gender theory might bring to the ethical project.About the AuthorSusan Frank Parsons is the Director of Pastoral Studies at... -
Why Honor Matters by Tamler Sommers 9780465098873
RRP: $52.65$32.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465098873Author Tamler SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
Moral, Immoral, Amoral by Osho 9780312595494
RRP: $21.43$17.55The "Osho Life Essentials" series focuses on the most important questions in the life of the individual. Each volume contains timeless and always-contemporary investigations and discussions into questions vital to our personal search for meaning and... -
The Moral Case for Abortion: A Defence of Reproductive Choice by Ann Furedi 9783030901882
RRP: $44.83$28.39This revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman's right to decide the future of her pregnancy. Drawing on traditions of philosophical and sociological thinking, it presents the case for recognizing... -
What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $19.48$13.26A.C. Grayling answers the most important question - How do we live a good life?One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out what we value - what principles we want to live by and which codes we will use to guide our behaviour. Most of... -
A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human by Victor Kumar
RRP: $47.76$41.30Humans are moral creatures. Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved?... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691177014
$63.39The 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... -
Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $29.23$26.48Marriage and Morals is a compelling cross-cultural examination of individual, familial and societal attitudes towards sex and marriage. By exploring the codes by which we live our sexual lives and conventional morality, Russell daringly sets out a new... -
Beyond Bad: How obsolete morals are holding us back by Chris Paley
RRP: $33.13$22.50'Vital reading' - THE TIMES'Brilliantly unillusioned thinking... It could hardly be more necessary in these all-too-moralistic times' - James Marriott, THE TIMESMorals have held empires together, kept soldiers marching under fire, fed the hungry, passed... -
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Horace
$23.69What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years... -
The Genesis of Values by Hans Joas 9780745621548
$37.13One of the most important issues in public and academic debate is the concept of value and the difficulty in defining it. In this new book, the leading social theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of values in relation to some of the leading figures of... -
How We Get Along by J. David Velleman
RRP: $44.83$38.14In How We Get Along, philosopher David Velleman compares our social interactions to the interactions among improvisational actors on stage. He argues that we play ourselves - not artificially but authentically, by doing what would make sense coming from... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: $52.63$44.46Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk by Justin Tosi 9780190900151
RRP: $74.08$63.51We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a... -
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes 9780198822417
RRP: $26.31$23.15Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon-a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the... -
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $33.13$23.95'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree... -
Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites by Suki Finn
RRP: $23.38$16.44Thirty leading women philosophers draw on and advance the rich heritage of the philosophical tradition to explore topics of pressing interest for today. Women of Ideas is edited by Suki Finn, based upon interviews by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton,... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: $23.30$15.48Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
$45.61From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled ... -
Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life by Stephen C. Angle
RRP: $35.08$25.25Ancient and enduring, rich and wide-ranging, the tradition of Confucianism offers profound insights into how we can lead good lives--lives built on understanding that we are deeply connected to one another. For thousands of years, Confucian thinkers... -
Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living in by Kai Whiting
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608686933Author Kai WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $19.48$13.86`Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good... -
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler 9780691183848
$54.09From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the... -
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: $31.10$20.67In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter 9780192897930
$72.01Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780486298238
RRP: $7.78$5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486298238Author John Gough NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies by Ken Stone
$37.42Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new. Surviving cave paintings are of animal forms, and closer to us, as Ken Stone points out, animals populate biblical literature from beginning to end... -
Humanism: A Beginner's Guide (updated edition) by Peter Cave
RRP: $19.48$13.86Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through reason, experience and shared human values. In this thought-provoking... -
Unintended Consequences: Or Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Decisions? by Clive Wills 9781789042887
RRP: $29.23$25.41How is it that, in doing our very best to achieve one thing, we can end up achieving just the opposite? There exists an unseen force with an unassuming name that conceals all manner of terrors. It is `Unintended Consequences', and it takes our efforts to... -
The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene by Patricia MacCormack
RRP: $48.73$43.25We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the...