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Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
RRP: £9.99£7.11Embracing 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... -
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis
RRP: £16.00£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316510936Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
The Wrong of Injustice: Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy by Mari Mikkola 9780190601089
RRP: £44.99£33.99This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective. It asks: what makes oppression, discrimination, and domination wrongful? Is there a single wrongness-making feature of various social injustices that are due to... -
Consequentialism and its Critics by Samuel Scheffler
£62.41This volume presents papers discussing arguments on both sides of the consequentialist debate. The distinguished contributors include John Rawls, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, among others.Reviews'This most recent volume is an important... -
Clearing a Way: Unveiling the Mental Tricks That Hide Reality by Trevor Griffiths 9781803412894
RRP: £22.99£19.33How 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... -
How to Count Animals, more or less by Shelly Kagan 9780198829676
£43.13Most people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discussions is that animals have the same moral status that people do, and so in moral deliberation the similar... -
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer 9780300219869
RRP: £14.99£11.86From 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
RRP: £11.99£8.93What 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: £19.99£16.97For 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: £18.00£12.14Apologies 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 -
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott 9780525537441
RRP: £20.00£12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525537441Author Anne LamottFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Knowing What To Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics by Sophie Grace Chappell 9780198798859
£35.74Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer she defends is... -
Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value by Michael Roberts
RRP: £19.99£13.35Contemporary 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: £24.99£18.49Literary 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
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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: £30.00£23.29Tolerance 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: £16.99£11.33In 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
RRP: £9.99£8.22A 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: £39.99£35.06Metaethics: 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: £20.00£15.89A 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... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780871406736
RRP: £16.95£10.32Apologies 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... -
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
RRP: £11.99£9.70Ethical 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... -
Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G. E. M. Anscombe 9781845401214
RRP: £17.95£16.98Apologies 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 *... -
Philebus by Plato 9780872201705
RRP: £10.99£9.00This 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... -
Problems of Moral Philosophy by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745628653
£18.09This 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... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt
RRP: £32.00£25.16An 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: £12.99£11.46An 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
RRP: £14.99£9.98According 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: £17.99£16.04This 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... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meditative 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 ... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780486298689
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies 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)... -
The Animal That Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £26.99£23.32The 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... -
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre
RRP: £39.99£36.19Alasdair 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... -
Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen
RRP: £30.95£24.82Rationality 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... -
Being 'Good': An Ontological View of Ethics by Karim Lahham 9789948000938
RRP: £7.99£5.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948000938Author Karim LahhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Tabah FoundationPublisher Tabah FoundationWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
A Metaphysics for Freedom by Helen Steward 9780198706465
RRP: £37.99£29.60A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism. For determinism is threatened just as surely by the existence of powers which can be unproblematically... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three 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: £15.99£13.33In 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
RRP: £7.99£6.72About 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,... -
Creating the Kingdom of Ends by Christine M. Korsgaard
RRP: £34.99£25.07Christine 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...