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Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions by Cass R. Sunstein 9780195305104
RRP: $54.58$38.98Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection... -
365 Ways to be More Stoic: A day-by-day guide to practical stoicism by Tim Lebon
RRP: $27.28$18.06HAPPINESS, SERENITY AND FULFIMENT ARE ALL WITHIN YOUR CONTROL365 WAYS TO BE MORE STOIC is a full year's worth of daily inspiration, tools, stories, actions, and rituals that will guide you to a meaningful life, filled with happiness. It is a simple,... -
The Crucified God - 40th Anniversary Edition by Jurgen Moltmann 9780334053309
RRP: $46.18$40.49Jurgen Moltmann's The Crucified God is one of the most influential theological books of the twentieth century and a classic to be found on every reading list on Christian doctrine. Arguably the most powerful of Moltmann's books. The Crucified God is a... -
Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt 9780718191412 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.03'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest:... -
Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents Professor Tony Judt 9780718191412
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest:... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: $20.98$14.93After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a better future after the pandemic. Each contribution... -
Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation by Roger Scruton 9780826480385
$54.31A passionate and consoling study of sexual love by one of Britain's finest philosophers. "A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" and considerably more sound in its conclusion." -... -
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya 9780691183282
RRP: $29.38$23.98How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the... -
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar
RRP: $66.13$57.08Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether... -
Cruelty: Human evil and the human brain by Kathleen Taylor
RRP: $41.98$32.38In this thoughtful exploration of a painful subject, Kathleen Taylor seeks to bring together the fruits of work in psychology, sociology, and her own field of neuroscience to shed light on the nature of cruelty and what makes human beings cruel. The... -
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
RRP: $27.28$18.80How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the... -
A New Stoicism: Revised Edition by Lawrence C. Becker 9780691177212
RRP: $46.20$36.46What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, and if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? What would stoic ethics be like today if... -
Why Vegan? by Peter Singer
RRP: $12.58$9.37'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human... -
AI Ethics: A Textbook by Paula Boddington
RRP: $115.48$103.66This book introduces readers to critical ethical concerns in the development and use of artificial intelligence. Offering clear and accessible information on central concepts and debates in AI ethics, it explores how related problems are now forcing us... -
The Virtue Of Selfishness (Centennial Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: $20.98$12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451163936Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 176mm * 106mm *... -
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J. L. MacKie
RRP: $23.08$16.32An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on... -
Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way by Tom Morris
RRP: $31.48$20.75The comic book naratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an effective means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of... -
Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham by Roger Crisp 9780198896562
RRP: $52.50$47.33Does being virtuous make you happy? Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating... -
Intelligent Virtue by Julia Annas
RRP: $88.18$53.45Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. Annas argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of a kind which can illuminatingly be compared to the kind of reasoning we find in... -
Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination by Sophia Moreau
RRP: $205.80$151.56This book defends an original and pluralist theory of when and why discrimination wrongs people. Starting from actual legal cases in which claimants have alleged wrongful discrimination by other people or by the state, Sophia Moreau argues that we can... -
Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780486841687
RRP: $17.83$11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486841687Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503612549
RRP: $44.08$38.58The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in... -
Being Happy by Epicurus
RRP: $16.78$13.84'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly'The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argued that pleasure - not sensual hedonism, but the absence of pain or fear - is the highest goal of life. His... -
How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Big Questions in Philosophy by Anthony McGowan
RRP: $23.08$15.50Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another dramatic confrontation with the local Rottweiler, Anthony McGowan realises it's high time he and Monty had... -
Bushido: The Way of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto 9780757000263
RRP: $20.98$12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757000263Author Tsunetomo YamamotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One PublishersDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm... -
Ethics: The Fundamentals Julia Driver (Dartmouth College, USA) 9781405111546
RRP: $41.90$37.11Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics. The first volume in... -
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer 9780691150697
RRP: $31.48$21.21What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology - especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation... -
The Moral Universe John Bengson 9780198914693
RRP: $52.50$48.87The Moral Universe marks an importance advance in metaethical thinking, offering the most sustained and sophisticated development of nonnaturalistic moral realism to date. Employing a novel philosophical method, it addresses central questions in... -
Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide by Thomas Szasz 9780815607557
RRP: $35.60$27.22This is a defence of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the... -
The Forking Trolley: An Ethical Journey to The Good Place James M Russell 9781786750792
RRP: $18.88$13.02Holy Motherforking Shirtballs! The madly popular sitcom The Good Place, has propelled ethics and moral philosophy into the 21st century mainstream. The story of Eleanor Shellstrop, who has accidentally been sent to the Good Place after her death,... -
Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler
RRP: $52.48$35.74Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would... -
Marcus Aurelius Meditations: The Original Ancient Greek Text with English Translation by Constantin Vaughn 9780993328442
$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993328442Author Constantin VaughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Erebus SocietyPublisher Erebus Society -
Practical Ethics by Peter Singer
RRP: $62.98$56.01For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most... -
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley 9781910695067 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.68Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to... -
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
RRP: $23.08$15.50Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to... -
Abortion: Three Perspectives by Michael Tooley 9780195308952
$37.86Moving beyond traditional "liberal versus conservative" arguments for and against abortion, Abortion: Three Perspectives is an up-to-date, accessible, and engaging exploration of this highly contentious issue. Featuring a triangular debate between four... -
Ethics by Peter Singer 9780192892454 [USED COPY]
RRP: $90.28$4.81This book is not a conventional reader in moral philosophy. To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, history, observation of non-human animals, the theory of evolution, game... -
Ethics by Peter Singer
RRP: $90.28$85.68This book is not a conventional reader in moral philosophy. To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, history, observation of non-human animals, the theory of evolution, game... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: $23.08$16.32'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times. Roger Scruton's brilliant and passionate exploration... -
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $25.18$16.80Should we welcome the end of humanity? In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the...