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On Mercy by Malcolm Bull 9780691217451
RRP: $33.13$26.62Is 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... -
On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance by Howard Caygill 9781472523099
$38.03No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action than 'resistance'. In its various manifestations - from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and... -
The Future of Punishment by Thomas A. Nadelhoffer 9780199779208
RRP: $199.88$177.43Scholars are struggling to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences. This volume aims at providing philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal theorists with an opportunity to... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781497415768
RRP: $12.99$12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497415768Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life by Adam Adatto Sandel
RRP: $48.65$39.57"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
RRP: $66.30$58.29For 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... -
The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben 9780804747387
RRP: $40.93$22.74The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming-or has come-to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he... -
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard 9780316208239
RRP: $44.83$31.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316208239Author Matthieu RicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
Aquinas on Friendship by Daniel Schwartz 9780199205394
$209.66Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of... -
Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga
RRP: $44.83$35.82Arguments 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: $78.00$52.01Attending - 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... -
Oil and World Politics: The Real Story of Today's Conflict Zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ukraine and More by John Foster 9781459413443
RRP: $35.08$25.25Petroleum is the most valuable commodity in the world and an enormous source of wealth for those who sell it, transport it and transform it for its many uses. As the engine of modern economies and industries, governments everywhere want to assure steady... -
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Simon Blackburn 9780198247852
RRP: $183.30$167.41Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books II-IV: Translated with an introduction and commentary by C. C. W. Taylor 9780198250661
$98.30C. 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
$27.90Apologies 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 Future of Human Nature by Jurgen Habermas 9780745629872
RRP: $29.23$26.48Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent... -
The Moral Foundations of Parenthood by Joseph Millum 9780190695439
RRP: $152.10$127.78Most 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
RRP: $60.45$47.64In "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... -
Widening Circles: A Memoir by Joanna Macy 9781897408018
RRP: $68.25$42.57In this absorbing memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist /teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our era. Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she... -
Responsibility And Judgment by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $33.13$24.32Apologies 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
RRP: $54.60$42.51The 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: $86.76$86.11The 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
RRP: $44.83$39.02A 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
RRP: $81.90$72.01This 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... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171455Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.30The 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: $37.03$26.54Isaiah 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 Way of Nature by Zhuangzi 9780691179742
RRP: $39.00$33.93A delightfully illustrated selection of the great Daoist writings of Zhuangzi by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over... -
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer 9780691150697
RRP: $29.23$20.22What 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... -
Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets by Debra Satz 9780199892617
RRP: $50.68$31.55For many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. But what about those markets we might label noxious--markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex? In Why Some Things Should Not Be for... -
Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God by Jordan Howard Sobel
RRP: $74.08$67.14This 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... -
Reading Ethics by Miranda Fricker
RRP: $56.45$49.67This 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: $77.98$68.37This 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... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780486848532
RRP: $28.26$17.69Apologies 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)... -
SCM Studyguide by Ben Pugh 9780334055747
$43.93No sooner have they mastered the basics than students of theology can quickly find themselves in over their heads. They are bombarded with claim and counter-claim as soon as they want to tackle anything topical. The contentious subjects tend to be the... -
The Professional Ethics Toolkit by Christopher Meyers 9781119045151
RRP: $35.00$31.24The 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: $48.73$43.91Our 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... -
The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction by Rachel Haliburton 9781498536820
RRP: $72.15$63.69Detective fiction and philosophy3/4moral philosophy in particular3/4may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case that moral philosophers ought to take murder mysteries... -
The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan 9780520243866
RRP: $58.50$45.42More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered... -
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work That Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back by William Macaskill 9781592409662 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.10$5.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409662Author William MacAskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Avery Publishing GroupPublisher Avery Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...