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The Virtue of Nonviolence: From Gautama to Gandhi by Nicholas F. Gier 9780791459492
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $76.86A study in comparative virtue ethics.Virtue 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... -
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri 9780521096195
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.65Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the 'young' Marx, who was... -
Blair'S Community: Communitarian Thought and New Labour by Sarah Hale 9780719089008
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91Blair's community, available in paperback for the first time, is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of New... -
Community, Liberalism and Christian Ethics by David Fergusson 9780521498081
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $56.30This book explores some issues on the borderland between moral philosophy and Christian theology. Particular attention is paid to the issues at stake between liberals and communitarians and the... -
Philosophy and Contemporary Politics of Communitarianism by Imad Salamey 9781035333059
Booksplease Price: $112.62This erudite book delves into the philosophical underpinnings and practical implications of communitarianism in comparison to liberalism and other political theories. Imad Salamey and Andrew Tsz Wan... -
Hegel on Action by Arto Laitinen 9780230229082
Booksplease Price: $116.82This unique collection focuses on Hegel's Philosophy of Action as it relates to current concerns. Including key papers by Taylor, MacIntyre, and McDowell as well as eleven especially commissioned... -
The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy: Ethics after Wittgenstein by Paul Johnston
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy is a highly original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston demonstrates that much recent moral philosophy is confused about... -
A Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice by Aaron D. Cobb 9781032177588
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Perinatal hospice is a novel form of care for an unborn child who has been diagnosed with a significantly life-limiting condition. In this book, Aaron D. Cobb develops a virtue-based defense of the... -
The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity by Gavin D'Costa 9780567087300
Booksplease Price: $131.85One of the most discussed topics of our time is Christianity's relation to other religions. In this important new book, one of Britain's leading contemporary theologians develops a sharp and... -
Community, Liberalism and Christian Ethics by David Fergusson 9780521496780
RRP: $118.67Booksplease Price: $108.67This book explores some issues on the borderland between moral philosophy and Christian theology. Particular attention is paid to the issues at stake between liberals and communitarians and the... -
The Doctrine of God and Theological Ethics by Michael C. Banner 9780567084613
Booksplease Price: $105.10This book addresses an important topic and fills a major gap in developments in modern theology and Christian ethics. Significant treatments include Wolfhart Pannenberg's historical overview of the... -
Concern for the Other: Perspectives on the Ethics of K. E. Logstrup by 9780268020316
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.29In Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K. E. Logstrup, eleven scholars examine the structure, intention, and originality of Logstrup's ethics as a whole. This collection of essays is a companion to... -
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.38How 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 concentrate on... -
Literature and the Political Imagination by John Horton 9780415129152
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.66This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal... -
Jacques Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing by Douglas A. Ollivant
Booksplease Price: $31.97Drawing on the writings of Jacques Maritain - and by extension those of Thomas Aquinas - the essays in this volume examine the effects of theories of knowledge on individuals, culture and entire... -
Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity by Gary Gutting 9780521640138
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $88.27In this book Gary Gutting offers a powerful account of the nature of human reason in modern times. The fundamental question addressed by the book is what authority human reason can still claim once... -
Judaism, Education and Social Justice: Towards a Jewish Critical Pedagogy by Matt Plen 9781350293090
Booksplease Price: $133.01This book sets out new theoretical foundations for Jewish social justice education by surveying and discussing Freirean critical pedagogy, Catholic models of social justice education, Jewish social... -
The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil by Stanford M. Lyman 9780930390815
Booksplease Price: $66.05When Stanford M. Lyman authored The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil in 1978 it was hailed by Alasdair MacIntyre as "a book of absorbing interest and importance...[that] places us all in his debt... -
Virtue: Readings in Moral Theology by Charles E. Curran 9780809146857
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $22.52This edited volume focuses on virtue using the same perspective that has characterized the previous fifteen volumes in the prestigious series Readings in Moral Theology from Paulist Press begun by... -
Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity by Gary Gutting 9780521649735
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $44.67In this book Gary Gutting offers a powerful account of the nature of human reason in modern times. The fundamental question addressed by the book is what authority human reason can still claim once... -
Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge by Alan Thomas 9780198250173
Booksplease Price: $62.00Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified. He articulates and defends the view that human beings do... -
Prophetic Politics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering by Philip J. Harold 9780821418956
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.58In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas's mature position in Otherwise Than... -
Law, Love and Language by McCabe Herbert 9780826472984
Booksplease Price: $34.31What is ethics all about? In this book Herbert McCabe suggests that it is about loving, obeying laws and talking to people. In doing so, he offers an introduction to ethical thinking for anyone with... -
The Supremacy of Love: An Agape-Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics by Eric J. Silverman
Booksplease Price: $111.49Thirty-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... -
Key Philosophers in Conversation Andrew Pyle (University of Bristol, UK) 9780415180375
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92Key Philosophers in Conversation is a fascinating collection of interviews presenting the ideas of some of the worlds leading contemporary philosophers. Each interview features a discussion with a... -
The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory by Richard J. Bernstein
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.About the AuthorRichard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of... -
The Honest to God Debate by John A. T. Robinson 9780334049203
Booksplease Price: $29.00THE 1963 paperback Honest to God by Dr John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, has caused an immense discussion by its call for a revolution in Christianity. It has sold more quickly than any other new... -
Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other by Ronald C. Arnett 9781611477559
Booksplease Price: $73.09Philosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely contribution to the study of communication ethics. This series of essays articulates unequivocally the intimate connection between philosophy... -
The Contribution of Fiction to Organizational Ethics by Howard Harris 9781783509492
Booksplease Price: $144.96Alasdair MacIntyre described humans as storytelling animals. Stories are essential to any organization. They help organizations define who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Tom Peters and... -
Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge by Alan Thomas 9780199587278
Booksplease Price: $49.34Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified. He articulates and defends the view that human beings do... -
Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique by Joseph Dunne
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $35.33Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the... -
Reading as a Philosophical Practice by Robert Piercey 9781785276071
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading-everyday reading for pleasure-matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To... -
Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique by Joseph Dunne 9780268161729
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $92.45Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the... -
Reading as a Philosophical Practice by Robert Piercey 9781839985430
Booksplease Price: $33.17Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading-everyday reading for pleasure-matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To... -
Moral Discourse in a Pluralistic World by Daniel Vokey 9780268034665
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $92.45In this thought-provoking book, Daniel Vokey argues that agreement on core fundamental moral values is necessary for justice and democracy to flourish. Addressing the political, social, and... -
The Prevalence of Humbug and Other Essays by Max Black 9780801493218
Booksplease Price: $34.96'About the AuthorThe late Max Black was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Human Letters at Cornell University and President of the International Institute of Philosophy. His other books... -
Proceedings of the 1972 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association by K. Schaffner 9789027704085
Booksplease Price: $118.27This book contains selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions presented at the third biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Lansing, Michigan, on October... -
After Virtue by Jon W. Thompson
Booksplease Price: $8.62Alasdair MacIntyre's 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that... -
After Virtue by Jon W. Thompson 9781912303076
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17Alasdair MacIntyre's 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that... -
Philosophical and Theological Writings by Franz Rosenzweig 9780872204720
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.45This volume brings together Rosenzweig's central essays on theology and philosophy, including two works available for the first time in English: the conclusion to Rosenzweig's book Hegel and the...