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Reimagining Human Rights: Religion and the Common Good by William R. O'Neill 9781647120344
RRP: £113.00Booksplease Price: £99.78An interpretation of human rights that centers on the rhetorical-and religious-power of testimony.Jeremy Bentham described the idea of human rights as "rhetorical nonsense." In Reimagining Human... -
Applications of Practical Wisdom in Business and Management by Barry Schwartz 9783031258350
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book deals with the application of the concept in business and management studies. It provides an overview of key areas of empirical research, and looks at the positioning of practical wisdom... -
Liberalism Safe for Catholicism?, A: Perspectives from The Review of Politics by Daniel Philpott 9780268101718
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.18This volume is the third in the "Perspectives from The Review of Politics" series, following The Crisis of Modern Times, edited by A. James McAdams (2007), and War, Peace, and International Political... -
The Polycentric Republic: A Theory of Civil Order for Free and Diverse Societies David Thunder 9781032888897
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The Polycentric Republic presents a compelling and innovative critique of modern social contract theory. It reveals how the social contract theory systematically neglects the interests and... -
Liberalism Safe for Catholicism?, A: Perspectives from The Review of Politics by Daniel Philpott 9780268101701
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.37This volume is the third in the "Perspectives from The Review of Politics" series, following The Crisis of Modern Times, edited by A. James McAdams (2007), and War, Peace, and International Political... -
Metaphysics and Grammar by William Charlton 9781472579300
Booksplease Price: £29.55Metaphysics deals with truth, existence and goodness; it also considers change, time and causation, which characterise the physical world, and thought and language. We are familiar with all these... -
Ten Philosophical Essays in the Christian Tradition by Frederick J. Crosson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.93This volume gathers together ten philosophical essays by the late Frederick J. Crosson, scholar, author, and professor of philosophy in the Program of Liberal Studies and Department of Philosophy at... -
Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteenth-Century Ethics by Jr. Thomas M. Osborne
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.67In this book, Thomas M. Osborne, Jr., covers an important, but often neglected, aspect of medieval ethics, namely the controversy over whether or not it is possible to love God more than oneself... -
The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession by Farr Curlin 9780268200855
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.35Today's medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal. What is... -
The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell by Jonathan V. Last 9781599475073
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.03An all-star team of eighteen conservative writers offers a hilarious, insightful, sanctimony-free remix of William Bennett's The Book of Virtues-without parental controls. The Seven Deadly Virtues... -
Pentecostal Rationality: Epistemology and Theological Hermeneutics in the Foursquare Tradition by Rev Dr Simo Frestadius 9780567698919
Booksplease Price: £34.84This book not only articulates a tradition-specific Pentecostal rationality of Biblical Pragmatism, but also provides the first intellectual history of a major British classical Pentecostal ... -
A Philosophical Retrospective: Facts, Values, and Jewish Identity by Alan Montefiore 9780231153003
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity... -
Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteenth-Century Ethics by Jr. Thomas M. Osborne 9780268037222
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42In this book, Thomas M. Osborne, Jr., covers an important, but often neglected, aspect of medieval ethics, namely the controversy over whether or not it is possible to love God more than oneself... -
The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession by Farr Curlin
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42Today's medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal. What is... -
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear
Booksplease Price: £41.25Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry-psychoanalysis and moral philosophy-that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis... -
The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility by Owen Flanagan
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.15The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology, empirical moral psychology,... -
The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility by Owen Flanagan 9780190942861
RRP: £20.49Booksplease Price: £14.54The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology, empirical moral psychology,... -
Sociological Amnesia: Cross-currents in Disciplinary History by Alex Law
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The history of sociology overwhelmingly focuses on 'the winners' from the classical 'canon' - Marx, Durkheim, and Weber - to today's most celebrated sociologists. This book strikingly demonstrates... -
Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy by Tobias Hoffmann 9781316608838
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £25.92In this book Tobias Hoffmann studies the medieval free will debate during its liveliest period, from the 1220s to the 1320s, and clarifies its background in Aristotle, Augustine, and earlier medieval... -
Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis by Bent Flyvbjerg 9781107000254
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.11Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original... -
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 9780674027466
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.49Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said,... -
Conversations on Ethics by Alex Voorhoeve 9780199215379
Booksplease Price: £59.58Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex... -
The Opacity of Narrative by Peter Lamarque 9781783480173
Booksplease Price: £44.31What is narrative? What is distinctive about the great literary narratives? In virtue of what is a narrative fictional or non-fictional? In this important new book Peter Lamarque, one of the leading... -
Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge by Thomas Pfau 9780268038403
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £86.19In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European... -
The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society by Brad S. Gregory 9780674088054
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £19.59In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the... -
Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy by Tobias Hoffmann
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69In this book Tobias Hoffmann studies the medieval free will debate during its liveliest period, from the 1220s to the 1320s, and clarifies its background in Aristotle, Augustine, and earlier medieval... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor 9780674026766
RRP: £51.95Booksplease Price: £43.48What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we-in the West, at least-largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly... -
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher 9780674271098
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.71"An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £19.65A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Tablet Best Book of the...