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Clean Hands: Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity by Jesse S. Summers
RRP: £72.00£59.26People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this condition checks and rechecks levels of cleaners and solvents to avoid any risk of poisoning her customers... -
On Goodness by David Conan Wolfsdorf
RRP: £79.00£68.85On Goodness attempts to answer the question "What is goodness?" It is natural to associate this question with ethics; but goodness is not confined to ethics. Water and wine, a strategy for streamlining maintenance operations, and an oil... -
Nature's Keeper by Peter S. Wenz
RRP: £27.99£24.14In the West, humans tend to separate themselves from nature, valuing nature only as a means of meeting their own needs and happiness. This domination of nature often fosters human oppression instead of freedom and progress, as those who ignore abuses of... -
The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger by Andy Amato
£33.26While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and... -
Talking about Ethics: A Conversational Approach to Moral Dilemmas by Michael S Jones
RRP: £21.99£16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825446917Author Michael S JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Kregel Academic & ProfessionalPublisher Kregel Academic & Professional -
100 Conversations You Need to Have: A Philosophy Guide for Daily Growth by Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos
RRP: £24.99£20.90100 Conversations You Need to Have is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of life's big questions and corresponding answers from some of history's greatest philosophers. Readers are provided with the opportunity to answer each question, turn... -
Animal Minds & Animal Ethics: Connecting Two Separate Fields by Klaus Petrus
RRP: £55.99£45.46Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on research into animal cognition and subscribe to strong positions regarding animal minds. Whereas philosophers... -
From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum by Duane L. Cady
RRP: £19.99£17.54Illuminating the moral views on violence, from the moral restraint of the just-war tradition through pragmatic nonviolence to principled variations of pacifismBook InformationISBN 9781439903124Author Duane L. CadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint... -
Neither Heroes nor Saints: Ordinary Virtue, Extraordinary Virtue, and Self-Cultivation by Rebecca Stangl
RRP: £66.00£59.44Most of us are far from perfect in virtue. But even those who come far closer to perfect virtue than most of us--people like Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Gandhi--nonetheless fall short of possessing it: not even moral saints and heroes are... -
The Implicit Mind: Cognitive Architecture, the Self, and Ethics by Michael Brownstein
RRP: £89.00£73.28Heroes are often admired for their ability to act without having "one thought too many," as Bernard Williams put it. Likewise, the unhesitating decisions of masterful athletes and artists are part of their fascination. Examples like these make clear that... -
International Ethics: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader by Lawrence A. Alexander
RRP: £45.00£35.32This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars.Book InformationISBN 9780691022345Author Lawrence A. AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Ways to be Blameworthy: Rightness, Wrongness, and Responsibility by Elinor Mason
RRP: £78.00£59.26There must be some connection between our deontic notions, rightness and wrongness, and our responsibility notions, praise- and blameworthiness. Yet traditional approaches to each set of concepts tend to take the other set for granted. This book takes an... -
Guided by Voices: Moral Testimony, Advice, and Forging a 'We' by Eric Wiland
RRP: £77.00£69.99We often rely on others for guidance about what to do. But wouldn't it be better to rely instead on only your own solo judgment? Deferring to others about moral matters, after all, can seem to conflict what Enlightenment demands. In Guided by Voices,... -
An Environmental Proposal for Ethics: The Principle of Integrity by Laura Westra
£28.51'This original discussion breaks new ground by thoroughly analyzing ethical and aesthetic values, centering on the concept of ecological integrity, that apply intrinsically to nature and that govern our rightful use of the environment. Those who have... -
Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective by David McPherson
RRP: £90.00£81.03The revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics can be seen as a response to the modern problem of disenchantment, that is, the perceived loss of meaning in modernity. However, in Virtue and Meaning, David McPherson contends that the dominant approach still... -
Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry by Howard Brody
RRP: £30.00£27.08For decades, medical professionals have been betraying the public's trust by accepting various benefits from the pharmaceutical industry. Drug company representatives and doctors alike have promulgated creative rationalizations to portray this behavior... -
Reality and Morality by Billy Dunaway
RRP: £74.00£67.31Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality, and argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the... -
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 8 by Mark C. Timmons
£35.24Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches... -
Rights and Demands: A Foundational Inquiry by Margaret Gilbert
RRP: £84.00£50.86Rights are often invoked in contemporary moral and political debates, yet the nature of rights is contested. Rights and Demands provides the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the... -
Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? by Fernando Teson
RRP: £20.99£20.87When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma. Two courses of action emerge: either to retaliate against an abusive government on behalf of its victims, or to remain spectators. Either course offers its own perils: the... -
The Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse by Charles Reitz
RRP: £30.99£20.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263446Author Charles ReitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 790g -
Philosophies of Gratitude by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
RRP: £88.00£72.57In Philosophies of Gratitude, Ashraf H. A. Rushdy explores gratitude as a philosophical concept. The first half of the book traces its significance in fundamental Western moral philosophy and notions of ethics, specifically examining key historical... -
Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare by George Lucas
RRP: £37.99£31.31In this work, an internationally-respected authority in military ethics describes a wholly new kind of cyber conflict that has utterly confounded the predictions of earlier experts in information warfare. Comparing this "state-sponsored hacktivism" to... -
Consequentialism: New Directions, New Problems by Christian Seidel
RRP: £79.00£68.85Consequentialism is a focal point of discussion and a driving force behind important developments in moral philosophy. Recently, the debate has shifted in focus and in style. By seeking to consequentialize rival moral theories, in particular those with... -
The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking by Elizabeth Minnich 9781442276307
RRP: £35.00£30.95How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual... -
The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life by Linda Radzik
RRP: £23.99£20.37How do we punish others socially, and should we do so? In her 2018 Descartes Lectures for Tilburg University, Linda Radzik explores the informal methods ordinary people use to enforce moral norms, such as telling people off, boycotting businesses, and... -
Claiming to Answer: How One Person Became the Response to our Deepest Questions by David W Gooding 9781912721214
RRP: £14.99£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912721214Author David W GoodingFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Myrtlefield HousePublisher Myrtlefield HouseWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics by Andrew I. Cohen 9781118479391
RRP: £38.95£34.60Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns. Revised and... -
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr
RRP: £40.99£25.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533750Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 620g -
Eat Meat... or Don't: Considering the Moral Arguments For and Against Eating Meat by Phd Bo Bennett 9781456633356
RRP: £29.95£21.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456633356Author Bo BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.comWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
Ten Philosophical Mistakes by Mortimer J. Adler 9780684818689
RRP: £10.99£9.70For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's Philosopher for Everyman (Time).Book InformationISBN 9780684818689Author Mortimer J. AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon &... -
The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love by Susan Wolf 9780195332810
RRP: £65.00£40.58For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral... -
The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life by Iddo Landau
£97.77A topic of universal concern that touches everyone, philosophy of meaning in life has roots in spiritual and religious movements in almost all cultures. Many of the issues dealt with in these movements, such as human vocation, the life worth living, our... -
The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism by Ben Eggleston 9781107656710
RRP: £30.99£25.52Utilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes, and applications... -
Finding Inner Courage by Mark Nepo
RRP: £15.99£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590035054Author Mark NepoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded about Love and Haight by Mark Gimbel 9780812696233
£17.53The Grateful Dead and Philosophy contains essays from 20 professional philosophers whose love of the Dead's music and scene have led them to reflect on different philosophical questions that have arisen from the enigma that is the Grateful Dead. Coming... -
Hannah Arendt by Simon Swift
RRP: £19.99£17.69Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann,... -
Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations by C. Stephen Evans 9780199206049
RRP: £48.99£47.17C. Stephen Evans explains and defends Kierkegaard's account of moral obligations as rooted in God's commands, the fundamental command being `You shall love your neighbour as yourself'. The work will be of interest not only to those interested in... -
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity by Maurice Hamington
RRP: £20.99£18.37How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm In a world brimming with tremendous wealth and resources, too many are suffering the oppression of precarious existences-and with no adequate relief from free market-driven institutions... -
My Middle Path: The Noble Eightfold Path Teaches Kids To Think, Speak, And Act Skillfully - A Guide For Children To Practice in Buddhism! by Christine H Huynh 9781951175115
RRP: £8.99£6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951175115Author Christine H HuynhFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Dharma Wisdom, LLCPublisher Dharma Wisdom, LLCWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...