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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... -
Why Climate Breakdown Matters by Dr Rupert Read
$35.28Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a... -
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals by Christine M. Korsgaard 9780198753858
RRP: $52.63$44.46Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
$30.99Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
Utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
RRP: $62.38$59.14The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive... -
Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important – and Most Unexpected – Questions by Ian Olasov
RRP: $19.50$13.26The perfect gift for the smart thinker in your life.For several years Ian Olasov has set up 'Ask-a-Philosopher' booths around New York City, answering questions from passersby. Now in this book he offers answers to the real-life questions on people's... -
A Short Treatise On Great Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville 9780099437987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.18$5.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Short Treatise On Great Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville
RRP: $31.18$22.64Much of the history of philosophy is the history of ethics. From Plato to Sartre, the great philosophers have returned to the central ethical questions of how we are to live good lives; how is it appropriate and virtuous for us to behave, both to... -
Philosophy Bites Again by Nigel Warburton
RRP: $25.33$18.19Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a selection of major philosophical issues that affect our lives... -
Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Selected Essays by Andrews Reath 9780199288830
$86.62Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. The opening essays explore different... -
Natural Law: The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Law by G. W. F. Hegel
$37.42One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of natural... -
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience by Sophie Grace Chappell 9780192858016
RRP: $79.93$73.55Epiphanies is a philosophical exploration of epiphanies, peak experiences, 'wow moments', or ecstasies as they are sometimes called. What are epiphanies, and why do so many people so frequently experience them? Are they just transient phenomena in our... -
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
RRP: $19.48$13.86Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in... -
A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication by Onora O'Neill
RRP: $19.48$15.93Communication is complicated, and so is the ethics of communication. We communicate about innumerable topics, to varied audiences, using a gamut of technologies. The ethics of communication, therefore, has to address a wide range of technical, ethical... -
Clearing a Way: Unveiling the Mental Tricks That Hide Reality by Trevor Griffiths 9781803412894
RRP: $44.83$37.69How to make better life-enhancing choices when environments crumble and population shifts disrupt our ways of living? Dr Griffiths takes a deep look at how our brains trick us into seeing the surface of things so that we lose sight of the deep... -
Causation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
RRP: $17.53$12.58Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any... -
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer 9780300219869
RRP: $35.10$24.14From the ethicist the New Yorker calls "the most influential living philosopher," a new way of thinking about living ethically"Singer's argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right. The world would be a better place if we were as... -
The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems by Peter Cave 9781780747422
$17.41What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from the funny to the very serious indeed... -
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept by Brent Nongbri
RRP: $38.98$33.09For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and... -
Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time by Andy Price
RRP: $35.10$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354943Author Andy PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value by Michael Roberts
RRP: $38.98$26.03Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi... -
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Andrew H. Miller 9780801477188
RRP: $56.45$37.01Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
$45.61The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.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... -
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown
RRP: $68.25$59.96Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range... -
First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively by Emma Kidd 9781782501695
RRP: $33.13$22.09In the twenty-first century we are confronted with a rapidly changing world full of social, economic and environmental uncertainties. We are all inherently connected to this changing world and in order to create the best possible conditions for life to... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
$16.03A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be... -
Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction by Mark van Roojen
RRP: $77.98$68.37Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction provides a solid foundation in metaethics for advanced undergraduates by introducing a series of puzzles that most metaethical theories address. These puzzles involve moral disagreement, reference, moral... -
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Pena-Guzman
RRP: $48.65$32.02A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on... -
Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G. E. M. Anscombe 9781845401214
RRP: $35.00$33.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401214Author G.E.M. AnscombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780871406736
RRP: $33.05$21.31Apologies 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... -
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham
$22.27How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times. What do we mean when we talk about finding our soul,... -
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
RRP: $23.38$18.92Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics and professional ethics, respect for human rights and reverence for the Other have become matters of... -
Philebus by Plato 9780872201705
$17.55This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard of readability and fidelity to the Greek text. The volume includes a cogent introduction, notes, and... -
On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? by Richard Holloway
RRP: $17.53$11.86'Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject' PHILIP PULLMANIn this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of forgiveness. One of the most important books on this essential... -
Problems of Moral Philosophy by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745628653
RRP: $35.08$31.28This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several volumes of Adorno's unpublished writings which are currently being published in Germany, and which will... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780486298689
RRP: $7.78$5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486298689Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt
$49.06An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of... -
On Evil by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $25.33$22.35An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil,... -
Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics by Emilia A. Leese
$19.46According to the latest figures, the number of vegans in the UK has more than quadrupled since 2014, now representing over 1 per cent of the total population. With the rise in plant-based foods and cruelty-free products showing no sign of stopping, Think... -
Global Ethics: An Introduction by Kimberly Hutchings 9781509513956
RRP: $35.08$31.28This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings's best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key...