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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden 9780691242101
RRP: £15.99£12.41A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways... -
Defending Animal Rights by Tom Regan
RRP: £19.99£17.17A multifaceted response to the question,A multifaceted response to the question, "Do animals have rights?" from an intellectual leader in the animal rights movementAbout the AuthorTom Regan is professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State... -
Ethics into Action: Learning from a Tube of Toothpaste by Peter Singer 9781538123898
RRP: £14.99£11.26More than twenty years after its publication, Peter Singer's Ethics into Action continues to inspire new generations of activists through its portrayal of Henry Spira and the animal rights movement. With a new preface from the author, this edition... -
Fifty Questions on Natural Law by Charles E. Rice 9780898707502
£14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898707502Author Charles E. RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92The ethics of a statesman.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, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198854883
£17.13Inequality 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... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary by Sarah Broadie
£43.42Amongst the works of Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics stands virtually alone in speaking not only to classicists, historians of ideas, and technical philosophers, but to anyone trying to make sense of practical human ideals. In this major new... -
Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi
RRP: £37.95£29.94Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought-those that explicate how we in fact think-must be... -
Satires by Horace
RRP: £24.95£22.92Artful hexameters.Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BC) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the... -
The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin 9780801488337
RRP: £27.99£23.66A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: £22.00£16.98An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
Bioethics: The Basics by Alastair V. Campbell
RRP: £19.99£17.69Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most... -
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility by Professor of Philosophy Dana Nelkin
£113.02The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility and its main forms, praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. The articles in the volume provide a comprehensive... -
Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman
RRP: £16.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385262422Author Jacob NeedlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Aroha: Maori Wisdom for a Happier You and Better World by Hinemoa Elder
RRP: £12.99£9.09As seen on Oprah's Book Club! The #1 New Zealand Bestseller! Discover how to live a happier life - simple, traditional wisdom for difficult modern times.Aroha is an ancient Maori word and way of thinking. Maori psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder explores how... -
Haunted Data by Lisa Blackman 9781350047051
£28.52Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data. Our engagement with data - big or small - is never as simplistic or straightforward as might first appear. Indeed, Blackman argues that our relationship with data... -
Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society by James R. Otteson 9780190914219
RRP: £23.99£22.85Business has a bad name for many people. It is easy to point to unethical and damaging behavior by companies. And it may seem straightforward to blame either indivuduals or, more generally, ruthless markets and amoral commercial society. In Honorable... -
Utopia by Merlin Coverley 9781842433164
RRP: £12.99£8.68For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society: from Plato to HG Wells, from Cloud cuckoo land to Shangri-La, the utopian impulse has generated a vast body of work, encompassing philosophy and... -
Essays on Aristotle's Ethics by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
RRP: £31.00£24.55Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropriate ends. The articles in this unique collection, many new or not readily available, form a continuous... -
Enforcement of Morals by Patrick Devlin 9780865978058
RRP: £8.95£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978058Author Patrick DevlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 294g -
The Moral Maze: Way of Exploring Christian Ethics by E.David Cook
RRP: £11.99£10.26Moral decisions present the individual with a maze of possibilities which can be overwhelming. The increasing complexity of modern life makes it difficult for Christians to know what is ethically right and how to make the right choices.About the AuthorDr... -
Contractualism by Jussi Suikkanen
RRP: £17.00£15.24This Element begins by describing T.M. Scanlon's contractualism according to which an action is right when it is authorised by the moral principles no one could reasonably reject. This view has argued to have implausible consequences with regards to how... -
Unmasked: Corruption in the West by Laurence Cockcroft
£20.54How corrupt is the West? Europe and North America's formal self-perception is one of high standards in public life. And yet, corruption is receiving ever greater attention in the European, American and Canadian press, with high-profile cases affecting... -
AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS MORALITY AND VIRTUES FOR CHILDREN: 2019 by TONY FRAIS
RRP: £10.00£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954806859Author TONY FRAISFormat PaperbackPage Count 39Imprint Anthony T. FraisPublisher Anthony T. FraisDimensions(mm) 300mm * 210mm * 4mm -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724629
RRP: £14.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724629Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Global Ethics and Climate Change by Paul G. Harris
RRP: £23.99£21.06New for This Edition: Includes recent climate diplomacy and international agreements. Presents current data and information on climate science. Updated statistics; e.g. in chapters and sections that look at poverty and Wealth Expanded learning guide for... -
Nietzsche's Values by John Richardson 9780190098230
RRP: £82.00£72.57John Richardson here organizes Nietzsche's thinking around the central and unifying concept of values. Richardson maps in detail Nietzsche's arguments, which crucially distinguish three basic ways of valuing.The first is the valuingNietzsche attributes... -
The Philosophy of Aristotle by Aristotle 9780451531759
RRP: £8.95£5.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531759Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 105mm * 21mm -
Is Morality Real?: A Debate by Matt Lutz 9781032023878
RRP: £27.99£24.28In this book, Spencer Case and Matt Lutz debate whether objective moral facts exist. We often say that actions like murder and institutions like slavery are morally wrong. And sometimes people strenuously disagree about the moral status of actions, as... -
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deirdre McCloskey 9780226556642
RRP: £17.00£16.55For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie,"... -
An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Mary Jeanne Larrabee
RRP: £47.99£41.81Published in 1982, Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice proposed a new model of moral reasoning based on care, arguing that it better described the moral life of women. An Ethic of Care is the first volume to bring together key contributions to the... -
Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience by Nancy Sherman
RRP: £21.99£15.61How do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what we most value? Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others, Nancy Sherman's... -
Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486445632
RRP: £8.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445632Author Epicurus EpicurusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger by Arthur Kleinman
RRP: £21.49£15.71In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century. Here we meet an... -
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp 9780199351978
RRP: £51.00£50.96Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume. Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds... -
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia Churchland
RRP: £13.99£12.25Distinguished founder of neurophilosophy Patricia S. Churchland explores why all social groups have ideals for behaviour, even though ethics vary among different cultures and even among individuals. Bringing together an understanding of the influences of... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World by Amol Rajan 9781785947179
RRP: £16.99£11.27After darkness, there is always light In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a better future after the pandemic. Each contribution... -
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It by David Livingstone Smith
RRP: £17.49£12.61The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again--that we would stand... -
Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-culture Borderlands by Jennifer R. Wolch
RRP: £21.99£18.49Each year billions of animals are poisoned, dissected, displaced, killed for consumption, or held in captivity-usually for the benefit of humans. The animal world has never been under greater peril and this broad-ranging collection contributes to a... -
Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780198245360
£37.16David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, was composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally recognised at the time. Hume, attributing the failure of his Treatise to the manner of its...