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Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death by Marc Crepon
£26.50Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as... -
The Trolley Problem or Would You Throw the Fat Guy off the Bridge? by Thomas Cathcart 9780761175131
RRP: £10.99£7.40A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers; on a spur to the right stands a lone individual. You, a bystander, happen to be standing next to a switch that could divert the trolley, which would save the five, but sacrifice the one-do... -
On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9781944482114
RRP: £12.99£8.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944482114Author Marcus Tullius CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Roman Roads MediaPublisher Roman Roads MediaWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780486848532
RRP: £14.49£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486848532Author Marcus AureliusFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Erotic Phenomenon by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: £24.00£23.03While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy means "love of wisdom," but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. In "The... -
The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews 9780785232322
RRP: £14.99£10.95A New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Traveler's Gift comes a story of common wisdom based on the remarkable true story of "Jones," a mysterious old man who has a knack for showing up in people's lives at just the right time, providing... -
On Escape: De l'evasion by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804741408
RRP: £22.00£16.75First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a... -
Who Needs a World View? by Raymond Geuss
£25.17One of the world's most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems-the perceived need for a world view.We live in a unitary cosmos created and cared for in all its details by a benevolent god. That, for... -
Madness: A Philosophical Exploration by Justin Garson 9780197613832
£59.48Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other disease, happens when something in the mind, or in the brain, does not operate the way that it should or as... -
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims by Thomas Bailey Saunders 9781548157968
RRP: £8.24£7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548157968Author Thomas Bailey SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Bushido: The Soul Of Japan by Inazo Nitobe 9781568364407
RRP: £19.00£12.84A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos of his people composed this seminal work, which with his numerous other writings in English made him the... -
Faith of the Faithless: Experiments on Political Theology by Simon Critchley
RRP: £9.99£8.17The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a... -
Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy by Madison Powers
£26.91In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many... -
The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by Oliver O'Donovan
RRP: £40.99£25.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802883490Author Oliver O'DonovanFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond by David J. Gunkel 9780262546157
RRP: £43.00£33.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546157Author David J. GunkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
On Mercy by Malcolm Bull 9780691217451
£13.65Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment's... -
The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics by Gustaf Arrhenius
RRP: £122.50£110.56The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making. Future people pose an especially hard problem for our... -
Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life by Adam Adatto Sandel
£20.29"Here, at last, is a book about what happiness really means, and why it often eludes us in our stressed-out, always-on lives."-Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, ThriveA young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key... -
The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century by Robert E Norton
£29.89For many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first... -
On Human Rights by James Griffin
£25.85What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political... -
Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga
£20.01Arguments about the "evidences of Christianity" have consumed the talents of believers and agnostics. These arguments have tried to give-or to deny-Christian belief a "foundation." Belief is rational, the argument goes, only if it is logically derived... -
Attending: An Ethical Art by Warren Heiti
RRP: £29.99£26.67Attending - patient contemplation focused on a particular being - is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition. That tradition has imagined that the moral agent is... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books II-IV: Translated with an introduction and commentary by C. C. W. Taylor 9780198250661
£100.95C. C. W. Taylor presents a clear and faithful new translation of one of the most famous and influential texts in the history of Western thought, accompanied by an analytical and critical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV of... -
The Ethics of Money Production (Large Print Edition) by Jorg Guido Hulsmann 9781479280582
£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479280582Author Jorg Guido HulsmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Moral Foundations of Parenthood by Joseph Millum 9780190695439
£65.53Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children. These rights and responsibilities undergird the nuclear family and are essential to the flourishing of its members. However, their basis and contents are... -
The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
£24.43In "The Company We Keep", Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the... -
Responsibility And Judgment by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £20.00£12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211627Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144872
£21.80The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity... -
Gender in the Mirror: Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency by Diana Tietjens Meyers 9780195140415
RRP: £44.49£44.48The cultural imagery of women is deeply ingrained in our consciousness. So deply, in fact, that feminists see this as a fundamental threat to female autonomy because it enshrines procreative heterosexuality as well as the relations of domination and... -
Curating As Ethics by Jean-Paul Martinon
£20.01A new ethics for the global practice of curating Today, everyone is a curator. What was once considered a hallowed expertise is now a commonplace and global activity. Can this new worldwide activity be ethical and, if yes, how? This book argues that... -
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution' by Bernard J. Bergen 9780847692101
£38.76This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
£23.39The 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,... -
Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest... -
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer 9780691150697
RRP: £17.95£11.24What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology - especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation... -
Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God by Jordan Howard Sobel
RRP: £37.99£34.43This is a wide-ranging 2004 book about arguments for and against beliefs in God. The arguments for the belief are analysed in the first six chapters and include ontological arguments from Anselm to Goedel, the cosmological arguments of Aquinas and... -
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy 9780062976581
RRP: £22.99£15.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062976581Author Charlie MackesyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Reading Ethics by Miranda Fricker
RRP: £28.95£25.47This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. This text encourages students to engage with ethical issues through a series of classic and contemporary... -
Moral Injury and Soldiers in Conflict: Political Practices and Public Perceptions by Tine Molendijk 9780367546380
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book advances an interdisciplinary understanding of moral injury by analyzing the stories of military veterans of combat and peace missions.In the past decade, the concept of moral injury has emerged to address the potential moral impact of... -
The Professional Ethics Toolkit by Christopher Meyers 9781119045151
RRP: £17.95£16.02The Professional Ethics Toolkit is an engaging and accessible guide to the study of moral issues in professional life through the analysis of ethical dilemmas faced by people working in medicine, law, social work, business, and other industries where... -
Shared and Institutional Agency: Toward a Planning Theory of Human Practical Organization by Michael E Bratman
RRP: £24.99£22.52Our human lives involve remarkable forms of practical organization-- diachronic organization of individual activity; small-scale organization of shared action; and the organization of institutions. In this book, Michael Bratman argues that the key to...