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An Eye for an Eye?: The Immorality of Punishing by Death by Stephen Nathanson 9780742513266
RRP: £38.00£33.51The death penalty issue has become the epitome of the unresolvable issue, the question which people answer on the basis of gut reactions rather than logical arguments. In the second edition of An Eye for an Eye? Stephen Nathanson evaluates arguments for... -
Leveling the Playing Field: Justice, Politics, and College Admissions by Robert K. Fullinwider 9780742514119
RRP: £39.00£34.37Leveling the Playing Field examines the admissions policies of contemporary American colleges and universities in light of the assumption that enhancing the educational opportunities of lower-income and minority students would make American society more... -
Campus Rules and Moral Community: In Place of In Loco Parentis by David A. Hoekema 9780847676897
RRP: £55.00£48.03Colleges and universities have largely abandoned their traditional stance in loco parentis, as moral guardians over student life, and instead seek to promote toleration while preventing conflict. In doing so, argues David A. Hoekema, they fail to provide... -
Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today by Peter A. Lawler 9780739102237
RRP: £44.00£38.64This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary... -
Emerging Moral Vocabularies: The Creation and Establishment of New Forms of Moral and Ethical Meanings by Brian M. Lowe 9780739109809
RRP: £95.00£83.12One of the central observations of the social sciences has been that the modern age is an age of constant change. This change has resulted in the emergence of new moral and ethical claims and understanding, which author Brian Lowe refers to as... -
Natural Law, Science, and the Social Construction of Reality by Bernie Koenig 9780761829041
RRP: £62.00£54.01Natural Law, Science, and the Social Construction of Reality looks at changes in knowledge and the relationship to values from the modern era to today. Natural law is a moral theory that combines our factual base with our values. As our knowledge base... -
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon 9781604441741
£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604441741Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 213g -
Memphis 1968: The Forgotten Lessons by Woodrow Wallace 9781984520760
£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984520760Author Woodrow WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 82g -
The Typic in Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason": Moral Judgment and Symbolic Representation by Adam Westra 9783110578249
RRP: £19.00£16.28In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled "On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment," Kant addresses a crucial problem facing his theory of moral judgment: How can we represent the supersensible moral law so as... -
Solar Conscience Lunar Conscience: An Essay on the Psychological Foundations of Morality, Lawfulness, and the Sense of Justice by Murray Stein 9781630512682
RRP: £19.95£18.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities by M. Kramer 9781349427574
RRP: £44.99£39.88In this wide-ranging investigation of many prominent issues in contemporary legal and political philosophy, eight distinguished philosophers and legal theorists (including Matthew Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Antony Duff, Sandra Marshall, Wilfrid Waluchow,... -
The Hate Handbook: Oppressors, Victims, and Fighters by Martin Oppenheimer 9780739110553
RRP: £36.00£31.81Why, in this supposedly rational, early twenty-first century, do large groups of people hate other groups of people and murder them wholesale? Pick up the paper any day of the week: Terrorists, torturers, mass murderers in and out of uniform, extremists... -
Prayer in the Ancient Stoic Tradition: With a Comparison to Prayers of the New Testament by Markus McDowell 9781946849052
RRP: £15.99£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946849052Author Markus McDowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sulis International PressPublisher Sulis International PressWeight(grams) 163g -
The Triumph of Managerialism?: New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value by Anna Yeatman 9781786604880
RRP: £129.00£118.73This collection presents a critical dialogue on managerialist forms of government between philosophy, political thought, organisational and management theory. The volume brings together essays that are concerned with technologies of government that are... -
Climate Justice and Geoengineering: Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene by Christopher J. Preston 9781783486366
RRP: £127.00£110.67It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling... -
Ethical Habits: A Peircean Perspective by Aaron Massecar 9781498508544
RRP: £83.00£72.79Previous attempts to set up an Ethics based on the writings of Charles S. Peirce have generally begun and ended with the 1898 lecture, Philosophy and the Conduct of Life. It was in that lecture that Peirce famously argued that Theory and Practice should... -
Virtue as Identity: Emotions and the Moral Personality by Aleksandar Fatic 9781783483037
RRP: £127.00£111.07Virtue as Identity offers a study of how virtue is learned and identity acquired through the selection and internalization of values. A large part of this process is externally imposed through culture. Another, perhaps more important part of the process... -
Transformed Judgment by L Gregory Jones 9781556356971
RRP: £22.00£16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556356971Author L Gregory JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
21st Century Clues: Essays in Ethics, Ontology, and Time Travel by Charles Tandy 9781934297087
RRP: £59.95£41.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934297087Author Charles TandyFormat HardbackImprint Ria University PressPublisher Ria University PressWeight(grams) 417g -
Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds by Mark Silcox 9781786600684
RRP: £41.00£37.85In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give you any experience you desired'. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a... -
Normative Identity by Per Bauhn 9781783485765
RRP: £127.00£110.67Normative Identity is about how we define ourselves and others in terms of our ideas about the good and the right. Conflict as well as cooperation spring from our normative identity. Terrorists as well as social reformers find meaning and justification... -
The Ethics of Technology: Methods and Approaches by Sven Ove Hansson 9781783486571
£97.43Our daily lives are affected by new technologies at an ever increasing rate. It is becoming more and more important to assess future technologies from an ethical point of view, and to do this before they are introduced on a massive scale. Such... -
Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices by Shay Welch 9781498505413
RRP: £98.00£85.70Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices offer a unique lens aimed at the underbelly of the lady through which feminists can reorient discourses on rationality and moral responsibility related to... -
The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics by Miguel de Beistegui 9781783480371
RRP: £131.00£115.43This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life. The contributors to this volume define and assess the specific meaning of life itself. It is... -
Consuming Choices: Ethics in a Global Consumer Age by David T. Schwartz 9781442275454
RRP: £68.00£62.02Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering,... -
The State and the Self: Identity and Identities by Maren Behrensen 9781783485802
RRP: £30.00£28.02In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity. What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy... -
Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics by Margaret Urban Walker 9780847692613
RRP: £19.99£17.61This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect... -
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts 9781591847953
RRP: £17.00£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847953Author Russ RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 128mm *... -
Elements of Morality Including Polity V2 by William Whewell 9781498076715
RRP: £41.95£38.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498076715Author William WhewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 975g -
A History Of English Utilitarianism by Ernest Albee 9781498084529
RRP: £41.95£36.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498084529Author Ernest AlbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 594g -
Children's Rights and Moral Parenting by Mark C. Vopat 9781498512374
RRP: £43.00£37.78Children's Rights and Moral Parenting offers systematic treatment of a variety of issues involving the intersection of the rights of children and the moral responsibility of parents. Mark C. Vopat offers a theory of the relationship between children,... -
Ethics by Committee: A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees by Micah D. Hester 9780742550452
RRP: £92.00£80.93Ethics by Committee was developed for the tens of thousands of people across the United States serve on hospital and other healthcare ethics committees (HECs). Experts in bioethics, clinical consultation, health law, and social psychology from across the... -
El Discreto: The Complete Man (1646) by Baltasar Gracián 9781945028526
RRP: £23.99£17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945028526Author Baltasar GraciánFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint St. Vitus DancePublisher St. Vitus DanceWeight(grams) 304g -
Moral Objectives, Rules, and the Forms of Social Change by David Braybrooke 9780802080318
RRP: £32.00£29.53Assorted fruit from forty years' writing, these essays by David Braybrooke discuss (in Part One of the book) a variety of concrete, practical topics that ethical concerns bring into politics: people's interests; their needs as well as their preferences;... -
Meddling: On the Virtue of Leaving Others Alone by John Lachs 9780253014719
RRP: £45.00£39.18John Lachs claims that we are surrounded by people who seem to know what is good for us better than we do ourselves. Lachs discusses the joy of choice and the rare virtue of leaving others alone to lead their lives as they see fit. He does not mean that... -
Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Genealogy of Morals by David B. Allison 9780847689804
RRP: £55.00£48.03In this long-awaited volume, David B. Allison argues for a 'generous' approach to Nietzsche's writings, and then provides comprehensive analyses of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, On the Genealogy of Morals, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra... -
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Critical Essays by Paul Guyer 9780847686285
RRP: £125.00£115.48Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. This collection of essays, the first of its kind in nearly thirty years, introduces the reader to some of the most important studies of the book... -
Ethics in the First Person: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics by Deni Elliott 9780742552074
RRP: £38.00£35.18Ethics in the First Person is the first comprehensive guide to teaching and learning practical ethics to be published in more than 25 years. This book provides the historical context for the study of practical ethics in the Twenty-First Century, but... -
Ethics in the First Person: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics by Deni Elliott 9780742552067
RRP: £107.00£93.85Ethics in the First Person is the first comprehensive guide to teaching and learning practical ethics to be published in more than 25 years. This book provides the historical context for the study of practical ethics in the Twenty-First Century, but... -
Bioethics Beyond the Headlines: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Decides? by Albert R. Jonsen 9780742545243
RRP: £36.00£31.81Bioethics asks fundamental questions. "Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?" These questions are relevant to us all. Too often, the general public's sole encounter with these weighty questions is through sound bites fed to us by the media-where...