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God, the World and Muslim Theology by Ramon Harvey
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474451642Author Ramon HarveyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Transcendent God, Rational World: A Maturidi Theology by Ramon Harvey
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $32.66Constructs a contemporary philosophical theology from the M?tur?d? tradition of kal?m Reconstructs the theological system of Ab? Man??r al-M?tur?d? Explores the development of the early and... -
The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom by Mark T. Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $92.45In The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate... -
A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century Alasdair MacIntyre 9780415287487
Booksplease Price: $95.06A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition... -
Political Responsibility and the European Union by Myrto Tsakatika 9780719075155
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $79.48This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the much neglected angle of political responsibility. It develops an original communitarian approach to legitimacy... -
Liberalism and Its Critics by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29A classic collection of writings on political philosophy from leading thinkers of the late 20th century Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one... -
A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Second Edition by Alasdair MacIntyre 9780268017590
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Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of Al-Sulami Jason Welle 9780755652310
Booksplease Price: $42.70Al-Sulami (d. 412/1021) was an influential classical Sufi master whose works espoused companionship as a way for believers to experience God's guidance and cultivate religious virtues. This book... -
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War by Patrick Gray 9781474427456
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $122.95Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic' introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche... -
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War by Patrick Gray
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474427463Author Patrick GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint < -
Christians among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics by Stanley Hauerwas
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.29Christians among the Virtues investigates the distinctiveness of virtues as illuminated by Christian practice, using a discussion of Aristotle's ethics together with the work of significant... -
Spirituality and Social Embodiment by L.Gregory Jones 9780631204824
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $29.28"Spirituality" often takes us out of the public world to a more inward (so-called "mystical") space, while "politics" calls us beyond ourselves to the more material realities of social embodiment... -
Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope David Albertson 9780300278088
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.22Inspired by the humanist and Catholic martyr Thomas More, David Albertson and Jason Blakely imagine a new politics of hopeIn Thomas More's Utopia, a traveler from the New World delivers a shocking... -
Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good by Patrick Riordan 9781647123680
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $96.47A deeply considered examination of the "common good" reconciling Catholic Social Thought with secular politics and philosophyThe Second Vatican Council invites dialogue about the common good as the... -
Philosophical Historicism and the Betrayal of First Philosophy by Carl Page
Booksplease Price: $48.23The recent emergence, among philosophers, of the view that the activity of human reason in all its possible modes must also be historicized, including the activity of philosophizing itself, may be... -
Undoing the Moral Empire: Moral Philosophy in Post-War Britain Lesley Chamberlain 9781350457744
Booksplease Price: $34.47After 1945, Britain wanted to be a new country.The authority of state and church were giving way, the Empire was dismantled, and it was no longer clear who was leading whom in matters of morals... -
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin 9780802804266
Booksplease Price: $24.39How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity, and cultural relativism? Should Christians encountering... -
The Moral Vision of Proverbs: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Wisdom by Timothy J. Sandoval 9781540967206
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $37.54Wisdom literature is an unfamiliar genre to modern readers and presents many interpretive challenges. In this major new work, respected wisdom scholar Timothy Sandoval argues that the book of... -
Undoing the Moral Empire: Moral Philosophy in Post-War Britain Lesley Chamberlain 9781350457737
Booksplease Price: $91.45After 1945, Britain wanted to be a new country.The authority of state and church were giving way, the Empire was dismantled, and it was no longer clear who was leading whom in matters of morals... -
Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life Michael Lamb 9781626167070
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.54What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the world's... -
Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics George Lucas 9780367581770
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.25The Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics is a comprehensive reference work that addresses concerns held in common by the military services of many nations. It attempts to discern both moral dilemmas... -
Towards A Pre-Modern Psychiatry by J. Booth 9781349449217
Booksplease Price: $59.70The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist,... -
Reason and Conversion in Kierkegaard and the German Idealists by Ryan S. Kemp
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57In his late work Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Immanuel Kant struggles to answer a straightforward, yet surprisingly difficult, question: how is radical conversion-a complete... -
Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair by Hilde Lindemann Nelson
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94The nature of identity, especially of groups such as Gypsies, mothers, nurses, and transsexuals is explored by comparing the stories these groups express of themselves against the narratives written... -
Liberating Judgment: Fanatics, Skeptics, and John Locke's Politics of Probability by Douglas John Casson 9780691144740
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $66.91Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, "Liberating Judgment" offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.08Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and... -
The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge by Dallas Willard
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the... -
Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought - Second Edition by Jean Bethke Elshtain
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $60.04Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world--the political sphere... -
Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise by Eboo Patel 9780691182728
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identityAmerica is the most religiously devout country in the Western world and the most religiously diverse nation on the... -
Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies by Robert Wokler 9780691147895
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $60.42Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book... -
Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality by David Scott
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.08How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic... -
MacIntyre's After Virtue at 40 Tom Angier 9781009074759
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.55Since its publication in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has been recognised as a classic. Primarily a work of moral philosophy, it also draws on sociology, classics, political science and... -
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse by Adrian Wooldridge 9780061771132
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.12Fifteen years ago, after, having completed a two-year research study, long-time Economist journalists and editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge published an explosive critique of management... -
God Matters by Herbert McCabe
Booksplease Price: $18.37Seldom have God matters been treated with such verve, sense, rigour and humour as in the collection of writings by Herbert McCabe. This book demonstrates the depth and clarity of his theology and... -
Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience by Kwame Gyekye 9780195112252
Booksplease Price: $128.91This book offers a philosophical interpretation and critical analysis of the African cultural experience in modern times. In their attempt to evolve ways of life appropriate to our modern world... -
Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance and Utopia by Kelvin Knight 9783828204423
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.19This book includes revisions of papers originally presented at the inaugural conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy, on the theme of Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary... -
The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically by Robert Piercey 9780521517539
RRP: $73.53Booksplease Price: $67.71In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur,... -
The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline Theology after MacIntyre by Colin D. Miller 9780227174609
Booksplease Price: $33.18'The Practice of the Body of Christ' begins a conversation between "apocalyptic" interpretations of the Apostle Paul and "virtue ethics" interpretations. It argues that the human actor's place in... -
Fully Informed Reasonable Disagreement and Tradition Based Perspectivalism by E.D. Baldwin 9789042932364
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $98.62Apparently, people who are aware of the relevant facts and experiences in a belief forming situation, sometimes reasonably disagree about whether to believe and why. This study argues...