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Songs in Search of a Musician by Abdalhamid Evans 9780993456909
RRP: $21.00$15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993456909Author Abdalhamid EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Looking For FitraPublisher Looking For Fitra -
Moral Dilemmas by Christopher W. Gowans 9780195042719
RRP: $76.63$53.45The essays in this volume illuminate a central topic in ethical theory: moral dilemmas. Some contemporary philosophers dispute the traditional view that a true moral dilemma - a situation in which a person has two irreconcilable moral duties - cannot... -
Reasons and the Good by Roger Crisp 9780199548699
RRP: $79.78$64.47In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Claiming that a fundamental issue in normative ethics is what ultimate reasons for action we might have, he argues that the best statements of such reasons will... -
Answering Moral Skepticism by Shelly Kagan 9780197688984
$76.94Most thoughtful people worry at one time or another about whether there can actually be such a thing as objective moral truth. They might wonder, for example, whether the prevalence of moral disagreement makes it reasonable to conclude that there aren't... -
Prioritarianism by Richard J. Arneson
RRP: $35.70$30.91Prioritarianism holds that improvements in someone's life (gains in well-being) are morally more valuable, the worse off the person would otherwise be. The doctrine is impartial, holding that a gain in one person's life counts exactly the same as an... -
The Heart of Human Rights by Allen Buchanan 9780199325382
RRP: $161.70$112.58This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law-not any philosophical theory of moral human rights... -
The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon 9781603863360
$11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863360Author Francis BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm)... -
Leadership Ethics: An Introduction by Terry L. Price 9780521699112
RRP: $52.48$44.48Are leaders morally special? Is there something ethically distinctive about the relationship between leaders and followers? Should leaders do whatever it takes to achieve group goals? Leadership Ethics uses moral theory, as well as empirical research in... -
Public Goods, Private Goods by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $67.20$52.00Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for... -
Reverence For Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century by Marvin Meyer 9780815629771
$41.66Albert Schweitzer's system of ethics as a way of life in which individuals live with compassion and respect for all living things - humans, animals, plants - is illuminated here through a series of essays by Schweitzer and renowned contemporary... -
Two Theories of Morality by Stuart Hampshire 9780197259757
$97.19In this expanded version of his Thank-Offering to Britain Fund lectures, delivered at the British Academy in February 1976, Stuart Hampshire compares two radically different conceptions of morality, those of Aristotle and Spinoza, authors, he claims, of... -
"Character Matters: Help Children develop Good Judgement, Integrity and Essential Virtues " by Thomas Lickona
RRP: $37.78$23.90Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743245074Author Thomas LickonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life by Brian E. Johnson 9781498550833
RRP: $94.50$82.93The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life offers an original interpretation of Epictetus's ethics and how he bases his ethics on an appeal to our roles in life. Epictetus believes that every individual is the bearer of many roles from... -
Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach by David S. Oderberg
RRP: $79.70$70.06Applied Ethics focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems, including abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment,... -
This Is Ethics: An Introduction by Jussi Suikkanen
RRP: $60.90$55.88This is Ethics presents an accessible and engaging introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary moral philosophy. Covers a wide range of topics which are actively debated in contemporary moral philosophyAddresses the nature of happiness,... -
Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering by Kyle Johannsen
RRP: $79.78$70.10Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals. Using concepts from moral and political philosophy to analyze... -
Nietzsche on Love by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781734452570
RRP: $16.80$12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734452570Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler Press -
Consciousness and Moral Responsibility by Neil Levy 9780198704638
$111.91Neil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience and psychology provide a great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by information of which we are not conscious; some psychologists have concluded... -
The Morality Wars: The Ongoing Debate Over The Origin Of Human Goodness by Louise Mabille 9781978710887
RRP: $63.00$56.03In The Morality Wars, contributors from religious and non-religious backgrounds debate the origin and nature of human goodness. While the subject is often addressed by prominent figures on both sides of the believer/atheist divide on public platforms and... -
Existentialist Ethics by Mary Warnock 9780333011782
RRP: $94.48$94.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333011782Author Mary WarnockFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 104g -
Human Morality by Samuel Scheffler 9780195085648
RRP: $78.73$56.51This book by Samuel Scheffler, one of the most prominent moral philosophers working today, investigates morality's content, scope, authority, and deliberative role, and in so doing offers an interpretation of the place of moral concerns in our lives... -
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord 9780316484916
RRP: $63.00$41.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316484916Author Toby OrdFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm * 38mm -
Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle by K. J. Dover 9780872202450
RRP: $41.98$34.52A reprint, with corrections, of the University of California and Basil Blackwell editions of 1974.ReviewsA classic. It provides an invaluable aid to anyone seeking to understand Plato and Aristotle in their historical context. Dover uses a variety of... -
Political Evil by Alan Wolfe
RRP: $33.60$21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473011Author Alan WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
War and Individual Rights: The Foundations of Just War Theory by Kai Draper 9780199388899
RRP: $165.90$144.59Kai Draper begins his book with the assumption that individual rights exist and stand as moral obstacles to the pursuit of national no less than personal interests. That assumption might seem to demand a pacifist rejection of war, for any sustained war... -
My Teaching by Jacques Lacan
$28.90Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise introduction to the thought of the influential psychoanalyst after... -
Philosophical Writings by P. F. Strawson 9780199587292
RRP: $178.50$108.28This volume presents twenty-two uncollected philosophical essays by Sir Peter Strawson, one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. The essays (two of them previously unpublished) are drawn from seven decades of work,... -
Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons by Banu Bargu 9780231163415
RRP: $63.00$49.75Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving together contemporary and critical political theory... -
Ethics: The Key Thinkers by Dr Tom Angier
RRP: $46.18$40.76Ethics: The Key Thinkers introduces the individuals who have wrestled with core moral questions and shaped how we understand ethics today, from what constitutes a good life to arguments about what is right and wrong. Chapters are organised... -
Radical Hospitality: From Thought to Action by Richard Kearney
RRP: $50.38$43.76Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how radical hospitality happens by opening... -
Thinking About Reasons: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Dancy by David Bakhurst 9780199604678
RRP: $236.25$180.29Thinking about Reasons is a collection of fourteen new essays on topics in ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired in one way or another by the work of Jonathan Dancy-one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers. Many of the most... -
Healthcare Ethics and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and Case Studies by K. W. M. Fulford 9780631202240
RRP: $90.20$79.74This volume illustrates the central importance of diversity of human values throughout healthcare. The readings are organized around the main stages of the clinical encounter from the patient's perspective. They run from staying well and 'first contact'... -
Forgiveness and Its Moral Dimensions by Brandon Warmke
RRP: $52.48$47.29Philosophical interest in forgiveness has seen a resurgence. This interest reflects, at least in part, a large body of new work in psychology, several newsworthy cases of institutional apology and forgiveness, and intense and increased attention to the... -
Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times by Leon R. Kass 9781594039416
RRP: $41.98$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039416Author Leon R. KassFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
On Mercy by Malcolm Bull
RRP: $73.50$56.89Is 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... -
The Virtue of Harmony by Chenyang Li
$90.36Harmony, the bringing together of dissimilar elements in a manner that coordinates these as parts of an organic whole, is central to different aspects of human existence. In many cultures, harmony is considered an important virtue. As a personal, social,... -
Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall
RRP: $46.18$40.30Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature... -
The Retrieval of Ethics by Talbot Brewer 9780199692224
RRP: $95.53$74.84Talbot Brewer presents an invigorating new approach to ethical theory, in the context of human selfhood and agency. The first main theme of the book is that contemporary ethical theorists have focused too narrowly on actions and the discrete episodes of... -
Moral Fictionalism by Mark Eli Kalderon 9780199228041
RRP: $90.28$89.73Moral realists maintain that morality has a distinctive subject matter. Specifically, realists maintain that moral discourse is representational, that moral sentences express moral propositions - propositions that attribute moral properties to things... -
The Moral Demands of Memory by Jeffrey Blustein 9780521709729
RRP: $65.08$53.45Despite an explosion of studies on memory in historical and cultural studies, there is relatively little in moral philosophy on this subject. In this book, Jeffrey Blustein provides a systematic and philosophically rigorous account of a morality of...