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The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want by Marian Stamp Dawkins
RRP: $76.63$72.35What is animal welfare? Why has it proved so difficult to find a definition that everyone can agree on? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically. It... -
On Human Rights by James Griffin
RRP: $66.13$54.29What 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... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: $31.48$25.52Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous-and massive-Lives, including politicians... -
The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas by Simon Critchley
RRP: $50.38$41.81This is an expanded edition of the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work. Simon Critchley's first book, The Ethics of Deconstruction, was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. It was the first book to argue for the ethical... -
Property and Justice: A Liberal Theory of Natural Rights by Billy Christmas 9780367752668
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty. It shows that a purely deontological approach to justice can deal with the most complex questions regarding the property system. Moreover, the... -
Skeptical Theism: New Essays by Trent Dougherty 9780198757399
$68.73Given that we meet evils in every quarter of the world, could it be governed by an all-good and all-powerful deity? Whilst some philosophers argue that the problem of evil is strong evidence for atheism, others claim that all of the evils in our world... -
Moralia: v. 2 by Plutarch
RRP: $52.40$49.12Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life by Cheryl Mattingly 9781800739208
RRP: $58.70$47.42In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between... -
The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics by Prof A. W. Moore 9780192871411
RRP: $189.00$172.16The Human A Priori is a collection of essays by A.W. Moore, one of them previously unpublished and the rest all revised. These essays are all concerned, more or less directly, with something ineliminably anthropocentric in our systematic pursuit of a... -
The Holy City of Antiracism: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy by Glenn Ellmers 9781641773430
RRP: $37.78$25.83Americans are more divided today than at any time since the Civil War. Our differences are not merely moral and political, but philosophical, and even spiritual. We hardly seem to experience the same reality anymore, preferring to self-select into media... -
Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr 9780664266356
RRP: $77.70$67.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780664266356Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S... -
A Natural History of Human Morality by Michael Tomasello
RRP: $41.90$33.85Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological AssociationWinner of a PROSE Award, Association of American PublishersShortlist, Cognitive Development Society Book AwardA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of... -
Cooperation and Social Justice by Joseph Heath
RRP: $50.38$46.98In six new essays, philosopher and award-winning author Joseph Heath explores the connection between principles of justice and the institutional arrangements required to achieve them. Topics include the significance of status inequality, the question of... -
The Ethics of Money Production by Jorg Guido Hulsmann
RRP: $29.40$26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610166812Author Jorg Guido HulsmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
The Evil Imagination: Understanding and Resisting Destructive Forces by Dr. Roger Kennedy 9781912691296
RRP: $54.58$50.74Roger Kennedy has written a masterful investigation into the concept of evil. He begins with a general view of the subject before moving into more detailed analysis. First is a review of the science of evil, including evidence from neuroscience and... -
The Philosophy of Civilization by Albert Schweitzer 9780879754037
RRP: $52.50$38.93Albert Schweitzer's social and ethical philosophy is best expressed in The Philosophy of Civilization. Not widely available in recent years, this edition will give contemporary readers the opportunity to discover his prophetic thought. In Book I, The... -
Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams
RRP: $73.50$58.25What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion... -
The Myths We Live By: Adventures in Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Inventions by Peter Cave 9781786495204
RRP: $31.48$6.53In this witty and mischievous book, philosopher Peter Cave dissects the most controversial disputes today and uses philosophical argument to reveal that many issues are less straightforward than we'd like to believe. Leaving no sacred cow standing, Cave... -
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
RRP: $27.28$24.07A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide... -
Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton
RRP: $62.90$49.69A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves... -
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community by Roberto Esposito
RRP: $46.18$36.83No theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in... -
Critical Affect: The Politics of Method by Ashley Barnwell 9781474451338
RRP: $44.08$40.43Critical Affect forges a path across the current impasse between critical and post-critical methods in social and cultural theory. It explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology... -
Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity by Daniel Star
$90.34The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it. Few concepts have received as much attention in recent philosophy as the concept of a reason to do or believe something. And... -
Immanence and Micropolitics: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Deleuze by Christian Gilliam 9781474441407
RRP: $50.38$45.89Christian Gilliam maps the context and development of immanence and micropolitics, from Sartre to Deleuze. He argues that a philosophy of 'pure' immanence is integral to an alternative understanding of 'the political'; one that re-orients our... -
The Enchiridion: a Stoic's Guide to Contentment and Tranquility by Epictetus. Translated by George Long 9780486851952
RRP: $23.08$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486851952Author Epictetus. Translated by George LongFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey
RRP: $46.20$36.46A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of... -
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan by Alenka Zupancic 9781844677870
RRP: $41.98$36.88The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary... -
The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality: Building Worlds by Erick Jose Ramirez 9781032181479
RRP: $83.98$76.50This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences.The... -
The Moral Psychology of Curiosity by Ilhan Inan 9781538158722
RRP: $79.80$73.88Curiosity has taken a winding path through intellectual history, from Early Christian vice to Enlightenment virtue and beyond. This original volume sees contemporary philosophers and psychologists examining the nature and value of curiosity, shedding... -
Fear and Trembling: A New Translation by Soren Kierkegaard 9781631498312
RRP: $44.08$34.46First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and... -
Moral Questions: by Rush Rhees by R. Rhees 9780312223557
RRP: $188.98$188.73Rush Rhees questions the viability of moral theories and the general claims they make in ethics. He shows how one can both be concerned with knowing what one ought to do while recognising that one's answer is a personal one. These insights, arrived at in... -
Beyond Universal Reason: The Relation between Religion and Ethics in the Work of Stanley Hauerwas by Emmanuel Katongole
RRP: $235.20$187.19In The Peaceable Kingdom Stanley Hauerwas claims that "to begin by asking what is the relation between theology and ethics is to have already made a mistake." Hauerwas's claim, and his contribution toward a socially constituted and historically embodied... -
Idleness: A Philosophical Essay by Brian O'Connor 9780691167527
RRP: $63.00$48.91The first book to challenge modern philosophy's case against idleness, revealing why the idle state is one of true freedomFor millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting... -
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $20.98$14.18'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree... -
Practical Philosophy: Ethics, Society and Culture by John Haldane 9781845401818
$99.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401818Author John HaldaneFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 850gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 155mm... -
Good Citizens by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: $29.38$18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935209898Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm... -
Freedom and Belief by Galen Strawson 9780199247509
RRP: $77.68$65.63This is a revised and updated edition of Galen Strawson's groundbreaking first book, where he argues that there is a fundamental sense in which there is no such thing as free will or true moral responsibility (as this is ordinarily understood). This... -
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780915145454 [USED COPY]
$35.91A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of... -
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780915145454
RRP: $23.08$18.90A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724650
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724650Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...