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Relativism in Contemporary American Philosophy: Macintyre, Putnam, and Rorty by Timothy Mosteller 9780826418913
Booksplease Price: $52.62Relativism about knowledge or truth has always provoked the ire of philosophers. Ever since Protagoras declared in antiquity that "man is the measure of all things", relativism has been repeatedly... -
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... -
The Character of the Manager: From Office Executive to Wise Steward by Gregory Beabout 9781137304056
Booksplease Price: $116.82Explores Alasdair MacIntyre's criticisms of the manager and retrieves an interdisciplinary approach to character transforming arguments. The manager as wise steward is proposed as a model for... -
The Character of the Manager: From Office Executive to Wise Steward by Gregory Beabout 9781349454365
Booksplease Price: $116.82Explores Alasdair MacIntyre's criticisms of the manager and retrieves an interdisciplinary approach to character transforming arguments. The manager as wise steward is proposed as a model for... -
Ethics Under Capital: MacIntyre, Communication, and the Culture Wars by Jason Hannan 9781350259539
Booksplease Price: $44.94We in the West are living in the midst of a deadly culture war. Our rival worldviews clash with increasing violence in the public arena, culminating in deadly riots and mass shootings. A fragmented... -
MacIntyre's After Virtue at 40 by Tom Angier 9781316513781
Booksplease Price: $115.57Since 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: $22.92Fifteen 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... -
Character Education: Transforming Values into Virtue by Holly Shepard Salls 9780761836124
Booksplease Price: $50.81Character Education juxtaposes John Dewey's philosophy of the person and values education with Alasdair MacIntyre's treatment of Aristotle's virtue theory in order to highlight the importance of... -
Thomistic Tradition and Human Rights by Carlos Isler Soto 9783662680674
RRP: $90.29Booksplease Price: $85.09The present book verses on the current discussion, between authors writing within the Thomistic tradition, on the issue of human rights, and pretends to adjudicate that discussion. The positions of... -
Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of Seventy Years in Philosophy by Dorothy Emmet 9781349142170
Booksplease Price: $118.65With a wealth of anecdote Dorothy Emmet looks back on the philosophers who made a personal impact on her. She brings to life the Oxford of the 1920s, and writes particularly about H.A. Pritchard and... -
Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Ai, Automation and Alienation Andrius Bielskis 9781350510722
Booksplease Price: $72.41With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in... -
Virtue and Social Enterprise: Ethical Alternatives to Capitalism by Geraldine Hall 9783031140266
Booksplease Price: $119.02This book is an exploration of Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on virtue ethics and John Pearce's reformist and radical forms of social enterprise. Although Pearce's work has had academic impact, by... -
Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics After MacIntyre by Nancey Murphy
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $23.76Contributors to Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition use Alasdair MacIntyre's work as a methodological guide for doing ethics in the Christian tradition. These essays are grouped in three... -
The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically by Robert Piercey 9781107404328
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $50.58In 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,... -
Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode by Richard J. Bernstein 9780812212167
Booksplease Price: $33.24Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy,... -
Pragmatism and Realism by Frederick L. Will 9780847683505
Booksplease Price: $55.90'I have no doubt at all, that if philosophy is to prosper in the coming decades, it will have to treat with great seriousness that splendid seriousness that splendid body of philosophical writing of... -
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 MacIntyre Reader by Kelvin Knight 9780745619750
Booksplease Price: $27.13Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time. He opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the teleological arguments of an updated Thomistic... -
The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline Theology after MacIntyre by Colin D. Miller 9780227174609
Booksplease Price: $33.63'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... -
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,... -
Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism: Modernity, Conflict and Politics by Professor Andrius Bielskis 9781350251465
Booksplease Price: $43.65This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and... -
Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy by Mark Dooley
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $68.03This major discussion takes a look at some of the most important ethical issues confronting us today by some of the world's leading thinkers. Including essays from leading thinkers, such as Jurgen... -
Fully Informed Reasonable Disagreement and Tradition Based Perspectivalism by E.D. Baldwin 9789042932364
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $98.58Apparently, 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... -
Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, Williams, and the Internal Point of View by Rob Compaijen 9783030090197
Booksplease Price: $97.78This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction. Connecting the field of Kierkegaard studies with the... -
Ethical Questions: East and West by Bina Gupta 9780742513136
Booksplease Price: $57.16Ethical Questions: East and West is an anthology of source material from various Eastern and Western traditions, addressing fundamental and enduring questions in moral philosophy. It is intended for... -
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments by Catherine H. Zuckert 9781107006225
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $73.43This book demonstrates the rich diversity and depth of political philosophy in the twentieth century. Catherine H. Zuckert has compiled a collection of essays recounting the lives of political... -
Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience by Kwame Gyekye 9780195112269
RRP: $62.55Booksplease Price: $42.96This 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... -
Aristotelian Philosophy: Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre by Kelvin Knight 9780745619767
Booksplease Price: $78.75Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of practice, and Knight's new book explores the continuing importance of Aristotelian philosophy. First, it examines the theoretical bases of what... -
On Aquinas by Herbert McCabe 9780860124610
Booksplease Price: $25.43Published posthumously, this study of Aristotle is thoroughly rewarding and will only increase McCabe's reputation as one of Britain's finest theologians of recent years.The revival of interest in... -
Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community by Kwong-loi Shun 9780521792172
RRP: $110.93Booksplease Price: $100.83The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and... -
Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology: MacIntyre on Practical Reason and Virtue Egidijus Mardosas 9781350429901
Booksplease Price: $39.40How does ideology function and, more importantly, how can we resist ideological subjugation? Egidijus Mardosas answers these questions by applying the philosophical resources of Revolutionary... -
The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy by George Lucas
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.39What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy's history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said... -
Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community by David B. Wong 9780521796576
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.52The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and... -
Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation by Jeffery L. Nicholas 9781032012186
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an... -
The Supremacy of Love: An Agape-Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics by Eric J. Silverman 9781793608857
Booksplease Price: $48.27Thirty-five years ago Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue established virtue ethics as a major challenger to competing visions of morality, but there is still considerable disagreement concerning which... -
All Things Hold Together in Christ: A Conversation on Faith, Science, and Virtue by James K. A. Smith 9780801098987
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $29.06As Christians engage controversial cultural issues, we must remember that "all things hold together in Christ" (Col. 1:17)--even when it comes to science and faith. In this anthology, top Christian... -
The Narrative Conflict of Traditions in the Late Antique World: Cyril versus Julian by Brad Boswell 9781009493949
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $111.12Intellectual conflict between Early Christians and pagans was not uncommon during the first centuries of the Christian era, as is amply reflected in writings from this period. In this study, Brad... -
The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times by Benjamin R. Barber
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.25The description for this book, The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times, will be forthcoming.Reviews"[His commitment to democratic radicalism] has made Barber one of the... -
The Virtue of Nonviolence: From Gautama to Gandhi by Nicholas F. Gier 9780791459508
RRP: $32.90Booksplease Price: $28.78Virtue ethics has been a major focus in contemporary moral philosophy since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue. Here, in The Virtue of Nonviolence, Nicholas F. Gier argues that...