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Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence by Elsa Dorlin 9781839761058
RRP: $37.78$31.23Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenseless. In 1685, for example, ... -
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre 9781316629604
RRP: $46.18$37.74Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and... -
Rhetorical Treatises: De Oratore: v. 4: Book III, De Fato by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.12The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
The Kalam Cosmological Argument by William L. Craig 9781579104382
RRP: $50.40$37.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579104382Author William L. CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834
RRP: $39.80$33.12"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered... -
Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being Peter Block 9781523005963
RRP: $54.60$35.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523005963Author Peter BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Music and the Ineffable by Vladimir Jankelevitch 9780691090474
RRP: $105.00$82.15Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist... -
Animal Theologians by Andrew Linzey 9780197655559
RRP: $54.58$46.18Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have are some of the most celebrated religious thinkers, including Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, John... -
Memorize the Stoics!: The Ancient Art of Memory Meets the Timeless Art of Living by Kevin Vost 9781621388296
RRP: $33.60$31.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621388296Author Kevin VostFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
A Defense of Abortion by David Boonin 9780521520355
RRP: $65.08$51.26David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every human fetus has a right to life, he shows that each of... -
Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza 9780872201309
RRP: $35.68$29.67Since 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... -
The Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: $18.88$13.55'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life... -
Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli A First English Translation Sebastian Purcell 9781324076162
RRP: $29.38$24.40Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false or at least deeply misleading? The... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $14.68$10.08HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780871406736
RRP: $35.60$21.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871406736Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Liveright Publishing CorporationPublisher Liveright Publishing... -
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: $20.98$14.93`the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.' Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition,... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
RRP: $52.40$49.12From 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 ... -
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks 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... -
Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $49.33$34.88We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's. Here are ideas about when to retire, how to... -
Moral, Immoral, Amoral by Osho 9780312595494
RRP: $23.08$18.90The "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: $37.78$29.25This 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: $20.98$14.28A.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... -
Ethics by Noel Stewart 9780745640686
$35.97This book provides a much-needed, straightforward introduction to moral philosophy. It will particularly benefit students following courses containing an ethics module, including philosophy from AS level onwards, religious studies, law and medicine, but... -
Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science by Gregory Currie 9780521453561
RRP: $189.00$142.07This is a book about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images, about the viewer's relation to film, and about the kinds of narrative that film is capable of presenting. It represents a very decisive break with the semiotic and psychoanalytic... -
Tetralogue: I'm Right, You're Wrong by Timothy Williamson
RRP: $19.93$14.24Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is... -
The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future by Sheila Jasanoff 9780393078992
RRP: $46.18$38.96Sheila Jasanoff charts society's embrace of technological solutions and technology's complex interplay with ethics and human rights. She dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. From GMOs... -
A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human by Victor Kumar
RRP: $51.43$44.48Humans 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?... -
Beyond Bad: How obsolete morals are holding us back Chris Paley 9781529327090
RRP: $35.68$24.23'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... -
The Pulse of Sense: Encounters with Jean-Luc Nancy by Marie Chabbert 9781032198828
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy’s thought: sense, experience, existence, and Christianity. In doing so, the volume seeks to remind... -
Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume by Stephen Buckle 9780198240945
RRP: $117.60$111.74Stephen Buckle traces the history of theories of natural law, social order, and property through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Book InformationISBN 9780198240945Author Stephen BuckleFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Clarendon... -
How We Get Along by J. David Velleman
RRP: $48.28$41.08In 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... -
Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Gaukroger
RRP: $18.88$13.55- Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? ... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: $20.98$15.56Is 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... -
Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living in Kai Whiting 9781608686933
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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 -
The Reasons of Love by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691191478
RRP: $27.28$21.32From 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... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
RRP: $46.18$38.58Why 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 Development of Ethics: Volume 1: From Socrates to the Reformation by Terence H. Irwin 9780199693856
RRP: $117.60$85.01The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence. It discusses the main topics of... -
Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments by Sean D. Aas 9781032638119
RRP: $58.78$50.99Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments collects 50 cases—both real and imaginary—that have been, or should be, of special interest and importance to philosophical bioethics. Cases are collected together under topical headings in a... -
Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land by Norman Wirzba
RRP: $58.78$50.69This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today's most pressing social and ecological concerns. For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in... -
Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies by Ken Stone
RRP: $44.08$38.58Animal 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...