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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781435172494
RRP: £12.99£8.60A compendium of ruminations and reflections by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the Stoic philosophy. It is a spiritual journal of the author's philosophical exercises and a chronicle of the paradox of the... -
Against Authenticity: Why You Shouldn't Be Yourself by Simon Feldman 9781498506786
RRP: £42.00£36.93"Be true to yourself"-it is a dictum so ubiquitous that it can seem like both philosophical wisdom and an empty truism. Should we aspire to an ideal of living authentically? What does it mean to be true to yourself? Against Authenticity: Why You... -
Sartre's Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity by Thomas C. Anderson 9780812692334
£17.42It is well-known that Sartre's thought developed from an incomplete, abstract, and individualistic concept of human reality, human freedom, and their relation to the world, to a more concrete and richer understanding of the human being, its freedom, the... -
Liberty's Apostle - Richard Price, His Life and Times by Paul Frame 9781783162161
RRP: £19.99£15.23Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales, Richard Price (1723-91) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human race. His friend Benjamin Franklin described aspects of... -
Discrimination and Disrespect by Benjamin Eidelson 9780198732877
RRP: £86.00£81.03Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about what makes something an act of discrimination, as well as precisely why (and hence when) such acts are wrong. In Discrimination and... -
Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism by James Rachels 9780192861290
RRP: £31.49£24.51Since the Origin of Species was first published, Darwinism has been attacked for undermining traditional morality. In particular, because it emphasizes the kinship between humans and other animals, Darwinism seems incompatible with the traditional idea... -
The Moral Psychology Handbook by John M. Doris 9780199655489
RRP: £43.99£31.22The Moral Psychology Handbook offers a survey of contemporary moral psychology, integrating evidence and argument from philosophy and the human sciences. The chapters cover major issues in moral psychology, including moral reasoning, character, moral... -
Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics by Robert Merrihew Adams 9780195153712
RRP: £66.00£51.41Renowned scholar Robert Adams explores the relation between religion and ethics through a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. Adams' framework begins with the good rather than the right, and with excellence... -
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth by Michel Foucault
RRP: £16.99£15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565844346Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 552g -
Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter by Richard Greene 9780812697179
RRP: £22.99£17.37What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another? Although Dexter Morgan kills only... -
Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism: Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science by Jason Blakely
RRP: £27.99£24.14Today the ethical and normative concerns of everyday citizens are all too often sidelined from the study of political and social issues, driven out by an effort to create a more "scientific" study. This book offers a way for social scientists and... -
Of Good Character: Exploration of Virtues and Values in 3-25 year-olds by James Arthur 9781845402259
£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402259Author James ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g -
Moral Relativism: Big Ideas/Small Books by Professor Steven Lukes 9780312427191
RRP: £19.00£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427191Author Steven LukesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues by Irene McMullin
RRP: £30.99£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... -
Kant: Ethical Philosophy: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, with, "On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns" by Immanuel Kant
RRP: £16.99£14.13This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translations of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue includes his new translation of Kant's essay On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns,... -
The Case Against Death by Ingemar Patrick Linden
£43.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543163Author Ingemar Patrick LindenFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Law by David Ingram 9780826478221
RRP: £23.99£23.80"Key Concepts in Philosophy" is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but... -
Probability and Evidence by Paul Horwich 9781316507018
RRP: £19.99£16.04In this influential study of central issues in the philosophy of science, Paul Horwich elaborates on an important conception of probability, diagnosing the failure of previous attempts to resolve these issues as stemming from a too-rigid conception of... -
Reason, Ethics, and Society: Themes From Kurt Baier, With His Responses by J. B. Schneewind 9780812693164
RRP: £15.99£14.83Since 1948, Kurt Baier has been producing some of our century's most stimulating, seminal, and meticulous work in ethics. His quest for a rational justification of morality has centered on the human predicament that although most of us want to live in... -
Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals by Pamela Hieronymi 9780691233970
RRP: £20.00£15.89An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential... -
The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources by Margaret Pabst Battin 9780195135992
£70.12The spectrum of views about the ethics of suicide-from the view that suicide is profoundly morally wrong to the view that it is a matter of basic human right, and from the view that it is primarily a private matter to the view that it is largely a social... -
Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions by David R. Keller
RRP: £32.95£30.14Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s. Includes an extended... -
The Development of Ethics: Three volume set by Terence Irwin 9780199695287
RRP: £115.00£100.41The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence. This three-volume set discusses... -
Ethics and Science: An Introduction by Adam Briggle 9780521702676
RRP: £30.99£26.03Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by... -
Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach by David S. Oderberg 9780631219033
RRP: £37.95£33.36Moral Theory sets out the basic system used to solve moral problems, the system that consequentialists deride as 'traditional morality'. The central concepts, principles and distinctions of traditional morality are explained and defended: rights;... -
Humility by Jennifer Cole Wright 9780190864880
£46.94The 21st century has seen a renewed interest in cultivating positive character traits, or virtues, to foster personal growth. Humility is a virtue that has long been understood--especially by early theological thinking and Western philosophers--through... -
Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit by Sally Sedgwick
RRP: £60.00£54.13Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel's major works: that they are progressive narratives. They advance from less to more perfect, abstract to concrete, indeterminate or empty to determinate. This is... -
Doing and Allowing Harm by Fiona Woollard
£28.22Doing harm seems much harder to justify than merely allowing harm. If a boulder is rushing towards Bob, you may refuse to save Bob's life by driving your car into the path of the boulder if doing so would cost you your own life. You may not push the... -
Inner Virtue by Nicolas Bommarito
RRP: £65.00£53.75What does it mean to be a morally good person? It can be tempting to think that it is simply a matter of performing certain actions and avoiding others. And yet, there is much more to moral character than our outward actions. We expect a good person to... -
Lectures on the Will to Know by Michel Foucault 9781250050106
RRP: £14.99£14.96Lectures on the Will to Know reminds us that Michel Foucault's work only ever had one object: truth. Here, he builds on his earlier work, Discipline and Punish, to explore the relationship between tragedy, conflict, and truth-telling. He also explores... -
Truth and Justification by Jurgen Habermas 9780745691886
RRP: £19.99£18.09In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy. While much of his recent work has been concerned with issues of morality and law, in this new work Habermas returns to the traditional philosophical... -
The Moral Habitat by Barbara Herman 9780198906223
RRP: £19.99£18.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9780226026749
£42.37"The Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel, "the Politics", is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and... -
The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau by Christopher W. Morris 9780847689071 [USED COPY]
RRP: £41.00£5.68This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully... -
The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau by Christopher W. Morris 9780847689071
RRP: £41.00£36.08This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully... -
Eagles And Earwigs by Colin Wilson
RRP: £20.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477166Author Colin WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle by A. W. Price 9780198709350
RRP: £39.99£36.83In this illuminating study of the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, A. W. Price considers four related areas: eudaimonia, or living and acting well, as the ultimate end of action; virtues of character in relation to the emotions, and to one... -
Moral Principles by Dr. Maike Albertzart
£30.16The history of moral philosophy has been dominated by attempts to find and defend the correct moral principle or set of principles. However, over the last two decades the assumption that morality can and should be understood in terms of principles has... -
Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships by George Philip Fletcher 9780195098327
RRP: £14.99£12.39This book is an important contribution to the public debate on morality, politics, and the law, and is unique in its exploration of loyalty and its role in our personal and national identity.Book InformationISBN 9780195098327Author George Philip... -
Morality and Mathematics by Justin Clarke-Doane 9780198823667
RRP: £74.00£67.31To what extent are the subjects of our thoughts and talk real? This is the question of realism. In this book, Justin Clarke-Doane explores arguments for and against moral realism and mathematical realism, how they interact, and what they can tell us...