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What is morality? This is the question this book is dealing with. The aim of the study is to show the distorting character of many common pictures of what morality is, pictures found inside and outside of philosophy. The central idea of the book is that...

This title was first published in 2000. Philosophers have been greatly concerned with the nature of explanation, but no account has been fully satisfactory within science or plausible in the wider world. The author asserts that this is due to a misplaced...

"Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, and connotations-an interplay of multiple resonance which is finely tuned to Derrida's thought and which makes his essay as artful as it is conceptually disciplined. He is surely one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789552401770Author Nyanatiloka MahatheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Buddhist Publication Society,Sri LankaPublisher Buddhist Publication...

Nowadays advertising seems to be ubiquitous. We notice it everywhere, and we seem to intuitively grasp its pervasive nature. But is it possible to define it? This book is a pioneering attempt to offer a definition of the omnipresence of advertising. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360451196Author Swami VivekanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint IndiepressPublisher Westland Publications Limited

This volume contains contributions from the international and interdisciplinary scientific conference "Ethics and the Law in Medicine - in Research and Healthcare", which took place at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz...

The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise that was carried out over a vast geographical area and over a vast stretch of time. Focusing mainly on areas of Northern India and...

Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized. In response to this various alternatives to it have been advanced, notably coherentism. At the same time new versions of foundationalism were crafted, that were claimed to be immune...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic interests, enhance their global standing, and address pressing global challenges. In his book, Andreas N...

The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Tesin Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The...

This book seeks to answer how we can reposition the geopolitical situation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region in the 21st century. CEE region defined by the socialist past has transformed in the 21st century. Within geopolitical thought we...

The present volume, based on a related conference in Erfurt, offers interdisciplinary insights on the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church or the Pan-Orthodox Council, convened on the island of Crete in June 2016. Although some Orthodox Churches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783849166878Author Vernon LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027976994Author Russell H. TuttleFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 951g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110115109Author Lennart AqvistFormat HardbackPage Count 373Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 709g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039102006Author Magnus UllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 640g

Mou Zongsan (1909-1995) is one of the representatives of Modern Confucianism and an important Chinese philosopher of the twentieth century. This two-volume set critically examines the philosophical system of moral metaphysics proposed by Mou, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935830344Author L P YakubinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.Publisher Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc...

The explicit ambition of this collection is to move 'beyond' the Universal Pragmatics of Jurgen Habermas. It is without doubt an ambitious programme whose architect has led since the 1960s a series of reflections on the rational potential of western...

Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security...

The book discusses contemporary metaphysics of science and deals with the central question which ontology fits best with our knowledge of the world. Two competing positions in today's metaphysics of science are analysed: Humeanism and dispositionalism...

How ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)-the view that under axiological uncertainty, an option is better than another if and only if it has...

Eduard C. Lindeman and Social Work Philosophy was first published in 1958. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota...

This book brings out the way in which the twentieth century philosopher R. M. Hare has attempted to break the deadlock to which his contemporary moral theories had been led, i.e. irrationalism and relativism. Taking his point of departure from these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039105823Author Rohit SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 430g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888305324Author Will DurantFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039102808Author Benedict O'DonohoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 450g

This book argues that unreasonable dogmatic beliefs are expressions of socially structured patterns of prejudice. Specifically, prejudice is explained as being produced and dispersed within the confines of the political structures governing the manner in...

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art,...

This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to some pivotal topics of (de-) colonization. It examines the early modern debate on just war, transatlantic conquest and slavery, followed by the shift of the debate in the 18th and 19th centuries towards...

Aristotle has been continuously at the frontier of philosophical reflection for almost 2400 years. Throughout the 20th century the influence of his practical philosophy has been growing. His "non-modernist" concept of phronesis or practical wisdom is...

This book provides a case for the de-stigmatisation of ethnophilosophy by demonstrating its continuing relevance in contemporary African philosophy. The book brings together established and brilliant young scholars who defend ethnophilosophy as a unique...

In On Doubt, Vilem Flusser refines Martin Heidegger's famous declaration that "language is the dwelling of Being." For Flusser, "the word is the dwelling of being," because in fact, in the beginning, there was the word. On Doubt is a treatise on the...

Alain Badiou is one of the world's most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in debates critical to both analytic and continental philosophy. Alain Badiou:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887031903Author Roberta Maclise McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Litprime SolutionsPublisher Litprime SolutionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389143089Author Neil Douglas-Klotz Kahili GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Manjul Publishing House Pvt LtdPublisher Manjul Publishing House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778833311Author Harold ToliverFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Bookside PressPublisher Bookside PressWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Mortimer Adler writes in his introduction: "In thinking about war and peace, as in thinking about other basic practical problems, the man who brings general ideas and principles to bear upon particular problems and formulations has a unique advantage. He...

Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.Offering readers much to ponder, Richard H. Jones approaches the "big questions" of philosophy such as the nature of reality, consciousness, free will, the existence of God,...