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Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure by William Ferraiolo 9781785355875
RRP: £12.99£11.46A collection of meditations in the Stoic tradition. Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure provides access to the ruminations, practices, and applications of ancient Stoic philosophy as deployed by a contemporary professional philosopher with twenty... -
The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music by Bruce Ellis Benson
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Whereas most books in this field focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers the radical thesis... -
One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer 9780300196054 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£6.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
RRP: £12.99£11.46One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential... -
Final Judgements by Joan Fuster
RRP: £10.99£8.29The pinnacle of Fuster's essay writing, Final Judgements is a book of aphorisms that, used to teach moral and/or philosophical truths, reveal things that are relevant to the universal human experience. As Adam Gopnick of The New Yorker puts it, "the... -
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns by Immanuel Kant
£11.06This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translation includes Ellington's new translation of Kant's essay Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral... -
Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues by Irene McMullin
£25.45This innovative volume argues that flourishing is achieved when individuals successfully balance their responsiveness to three kinds of normative claim: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability. Applying underutilised... -
Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis by Stephen Kershnar 9781498504454
£39.64This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult-child sex and pedophilia. This sex intuitively strikes many people as sick, disgusting, and wrong. The problem is that it is not clear whether these judgments are justified and whether they are... -
The Road to Character by David Brooks 9780812983418
RRP: £20.00£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983418Author David BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
On Mercy by Malcolm Bull
£27.78Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had... -
Eros for the Other: Retaining Truth in a Pluralistic World by Wendy Farley
£31.19Eros for the Other takes up the problem of how truth claims and ethical norms can survive the increasingly radical recognition of the historical, cultural, pluralistic, and often ideological character of human experience. Sharing with postmodernism a... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Spring 1884-Winter 1884/85): Volume 15 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503629707
RRP: £30.00£22.99This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from the spring of 1884 through the winter of 1884-85, the period in which he was composing the fourth and final part of his favorite work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These... -
Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice by Professor Marion Hourdequin 9781350185920
RRP: £21.99£19.41What is environmental virtue? Is developing good habits enough? What does climate justice require? Is ecological restoration just another form of the human domination of nature? Exploring these questions and more, this book provides an up-to-date and... -
Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump by Joseph S. Nye 9780190935962
RRP: £27.99£16.80Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of... -
Dignity: Its History and Meaning by Michael Rosen
£15.37Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and... -
Natural Law: Reflections on Theory and Practice by Jacques Maritain 9781890318680
£8.00Can there be universal moral principles in a culturally and religiously diverse world? Are such principles provided by a theory of natural law? Jacques response to both questions is 'yes.' These essays, selected from the writings of one of the most... -
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich
£27.74The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropyIs philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today's democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society's benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only... -
Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy by Edith Wyschogrod
RRP: £30.00£29.25"In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study."-Michael Gareffa, Theological Studies"A 'must' for readers... -
Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding by Jarrett Zigon
£24.14Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment responds to this call by showing how collaboration... -
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle by Balthasar Gracian
RRP: £28.00£17.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385421317Author Baltasar GracianFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Spring 1884-Winter 1884/85): Volume 15 by Friedrich Nietzsche
£93.40This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from the spring of 1884 through the winter of 1884-85, the period in which he was composing the fourth and final part of his favorite work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These... -
The Trolley Problem Mysteries by F.M. Kamm 9780190949112
£14.75Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a bystander in front of the trolley so that his body... -
The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by Luke Gormally 9781845408961
£23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845408961Author Luke GormallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400g -
Race: A Philosophical Introduction by Paul C. Taylor
RRP: £17.99£16.04The third edition of Race: A Philosophical Introduction continues to provide the definitive guide to a topic of major contemporary importance. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume, Paul Taylor outlines the main features and implications of... -
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear
RRP: £38.95£36.70Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry-psychoanalysis and moral philosophy-that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live.Jonathan... -
Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty by Darrel Moellendorf
RRP: £27.99£23.61The global climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology cause profound anxieties for humanity. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in dire poverty-widening the gap in an already deeply divided economy. However, a... -
Environmental Ethics: An Anthology by Andrew Light 9780631222941 [USED COPY]
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Environmental Ethics: An Anthology by Andrew Light 9780631222941
RRP: £33.95£30.98Environmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together both classic and cutting-edge essays which have formed contemporary environmental ethics, ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems to theories of the intrinsic value of nature.About the... -
Truth: Ideas in Profile by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99£7.77Truth has always been a thorny topic. How does it work? Who decides what it is? And why is it seen as so important? In this lucid introduction to the topic, leading scholar Simon Blackburn describes the main approaches to the notion of truth and... -
Evil and a Good God by Bruce Reichenbach 9780823210817
£30.74. . . a comprehensive review and criticism of the major deductive and inductive arguments against theism [and] a morally sufficient reason for the presence of evil.-Religious Studies ReviewAbout the AuthorBruce Reichenbach is Professor Emeritus of... -
Ethics: The Basics, 2nd Edition by John Mizzoni
RRP: £16.95£15.20Updated and revised, Ethics: The Basics, Second Edition, introduces students to fundamental ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions while providing them with the conceptual tools necessary to think critically about ethical issues... -
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All by Scott Samuelson
RRP: £22.00£21.62It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition--which leads to a question that has proved just as inescapable throughout the centuries: Why? Why do we... -
Climate Ethics: Essential Readings by Stephen M. Gardiner 9780195399615
£33.17This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of... -
Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action by Jurgen Habermas 9780745611044
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from... -
Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn 9780268108892
£34.97Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the... -
The Pornographic Age by Alain Badiou 9781350014794
RRP: £24.95£18.73Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin... -
Ethics, Religion and Politics: Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 by G. E. M. Anscombe
RRP: £40.95£35.89An essential collection of Anscombe's work on ethics and intention Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe is considered one of analytical philosophy's most prominent figures and a leader in the field of virtue ethics. Ethics, Religion, and Politics:... -
Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany by Matthew Hall 9781438434285
RRP: £35.00£32.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438434285Author Matthew HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Thinking of Answers: Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by A. C. Grayling 9781408809532
RRP: £16.99£12.28Thought-provoking short essays by Britain's leading public philosopher that show us how to discover our own answers to life's challenges 'While most philosophy is written in abstruse and ponderous prose, Grayling's is a model of clarity and elegance'... -
Perjury and Pardon, Volume II by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £36.00£30.37An exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and repentance from Jacques Derrida. Perjury and Pardon is a two-year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris during the late 1990s...