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Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen
$70.48Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
$49.12Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
The Animal That Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida
$48.97The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was... -
Creating the Kingdom of Ends by Christine M. Korsgaard
RRP: $73.48$61.34Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical... -
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre
RRP: $83.98$76.00Alasdair 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... -
Setting Health-Care Priorities: What Ethical Theories Tell Us by Torbjorn Tannsjo
RRP: $153.30$112.88With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals. How do we decide where funding for health-care... -
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian by Lucian
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary'From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
$49.12Three late dialogues.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... -
Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose
RRP: $33.58$27.99In this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before her death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life - the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation - that flows across and between... -
Meno by Plato 9780915144242
$14.11About G.M.A Grube's translations of Plato: "Unmistakably superior: more lucid, more accurate, more readable. Above all, they're lucidly adorned, unpretentious, and in translating Plato that counts a good deal. The prose is, as English prose, persuasive,... -
Moral Vision: An Introduction to Ethics by David McNaughton
RRP: $71.30$62.96This book introduces the reader to ethics by examining a current and important debate. During the last fifty years the orthodox position in ethics has been a broadly non-cognitivist one: since there are no moral facts, moral remarks are best understood,... -
Understanding Kant's Ethics by Michael Cholbi 9781316615225
RRP: $50.38$42.78Kant's ethical thought remains one of the most influential, yet notoriously challenging, systems in the history of philosophy. This volume provides a sympathetic but critical reconstruction of the main strands of Kant's ethics, focusing on the most... -
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178677
$41.98A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
$49.12Government of state and self.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am by Richard Greene 9780812695588
RRP: $27.28$18.12Covering everything from Aristotle to ziti, this title explores such topics as: is Tony Soprano a good man?; is Carmella a feminist?; morally speaking who is the worst person on "The Sopranos"; is watching "The Sopranos" harmful to... -
Philosophical Treatises: v. 18: Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$48.78Philosophical dialogues of a grieving 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... -
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf
$33.37Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably... -
Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality by Jon Elster 9781316507001
RRP: $41.98$31.98Drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, decision-theory, economics, psychology, history and literature, Jon Elster's classic book Sour Grapes continues and complements the arguments of his acclaimed earlier book, Ulysses and the Sirens... -
Reasons First by Mark Schroeder 9780198868224
$73.75In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons. The vocabulary of reasons has become a common currency not only in ethics, but in epistemology, action theory, and many related areas. It is now common, for example, to... -
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe 9781548051938
RRP: $15.75$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548051938Author Inazo NitobeFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden 9780691242101
RRP: $39.80$27.07A 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... -
Religion without God by Ronald M. Dworkin 9780674726826
$60.82In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
$33.37Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may... -
Defending Animal Rights by Tom Regan
$36.83A 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
$24.21More 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... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198854883
$37.99Inequality 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... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
$49.12The 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... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $58.70$36.52An 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... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary by Sarah Broadie
RRP: $90.28$85.68Amongst 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... -
Bioethics: The Basics by Alastair V. Campbell
RRP: $41.98$37.15Bioethics: 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
$237.34The 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... -
Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi
$64.07Opposing 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... -
Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman
RRP: $39.88$29.11Apologies 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: $27.28$19.09As 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... -
Satires by Horace
$49.12Artful 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
$50.69A 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... -
Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society by James R. Otteson 9780190914219
RRP: $53.53$47.99Business 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: $27.28$18.23For 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... -
How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer 9780192892959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $100.78$4.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer 9780192892959
RRP: $100.78$80.60'Imagine that you could choose a book that everyone in the world would read. My choice would be this book.' Roger Crisp, Ethics Many people have an uneasy feeling that they may be missing out on something basic that would give their lives a...