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Philosophical and Theological Writings by Franz Rosenzweig 9780872204737
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £29.06This 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... -
Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx Michael Lazarus 9781503642850
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital, but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an... -
Moral Conflict and Legal Reasoning by Scott Veitch 9781841131085
Booksplease Price: £102.21Winner of the 1998 European Award for Legal Theory European Academy of Legal Theory Monograph Series This book sets the significance of moral conflict as a core concern for contemporary theorising... -
Crucible of Reason: Intentional Action, Practical Rationality, and Weakness of Will by Keith D. Wyma 9780742535381
Booksplease Price: £56.12Weakness of will seems to be an inherent part of the human condition. We know what we ought to do and how often we knowingly, willingly fall short in actual practice. How can this be explained and... -
Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: From 'After Virtue' to a New Monasticism (2nd Edition) by Jonathan R. Wilson 9780718892418
Booksplease Price: £22.84The first edition of Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World became one of the founding and guiding texts for new monastic communities. In this revised edition, Jonathan Wilson focuses more directly... -
Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx Michael Lazarus 9781503641709
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital, but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an... -
Culture War and Ethical Theory by Richard F. Von Dohlen 9780761806165
Booksplease Price: £76.50This book introduces major philosophical theories and issues in the context of the contemporary debate about the so-called culture wars in American society. It is designed to make these theories come... -
Proceedings of the 1972 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association by K. Schaffner 9789027704092
Booksplease Price: £90.86This 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... -
Beyond the Self: Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Culture by Raymond Hain 9781481310413
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £28.88W. David Solomon sits at the very center of the revival of virtue ethics. Solomon's work extended what began with the publication of G. E. M. Anscombe's ""Modern Moral Philosophy"" (1958) by... -
Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical by Anthony Rudd 9780198752189
Booksplease Price: £53.67Anthony Rudd introduces, explains, and discusses of some of Kierkegaard's central ideas, showing their relevance to current debates in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Rudd uses... -
Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Ai, Automation and Alienation Andrius Bielskis 9781350510715
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95With 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... -
Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare by George Lucas
Booksplease Price: £32.50In this work, an internationally-respected authority in military ethics describes a wholly new kind of cyber conflict that has utterly confounded the predictions of earlier experts in information... -
Reimagining Human Rights: Religion and the Common Good by William R. O'Neill
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £34.70An 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... -
Hegel on Action by Arto Laitinen 9781349588336
Booksplease Price: £61.04This 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... -
Writing and Freedom: From Nothing to Persons and Back by William Myers 9780999513408
Booksplease Price: £53.33Twelve essays in literary theory, philosophy, and religion – about atheism, freedom, and "the Jesus thought experiment" – connect, but don't conclude. A recurring theme is the "nothing" at the heart... -
Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas by R. Scott Smith 9781138273023
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his... -
The Quest for God and the Good: World Philosophy as a Living Experience by Diana Lobel 9780231153140
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided... -
The Poetic Character of Human Activity: Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakeshott by Wendell John Coats 9780739171615
Booksplease Price: £90.57The Poetic Character of Human Activity is a collection of essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explores the meaning of Oakeshott's pregnant phrase, "the poetic character of human... -
Transformed in Christ: Essays in the Renewal of Moral Theology by John S. Grabowski 9781932589801
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In calling for a renewal of moral theology, the Second Vatican Council also charted a course for the Church's future. The Decree on Priestly Formation specified the need for "livelier contact with... -
Communitarianism and Individualism by Shlomo Avineri 9780198780281
Booksplease Price: £69.02In the last decade much contemporary political and moral thought has been devoted to the debate between communitarianism and individualism. While individualists advocate the notions of rights,... -
The Philosophy of Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion and the Self Professor William G. Batchelder IV 9781350424548
Booksplease Price: £85.95Philip Rieff's social theory is at once a crucial tool in understanding the movements of contemporary culture, and a challenging body of work that has often been overlooked. The Social Philosophy of... -
The Threads of Natural Law: Unravelling a Philosophical Tradition by Francisco Jose Contreras 9789400756557
Booksplease Price: £90.56The notion of "natural law" has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the... -
The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization by Elijah Millgram 9780190904272
Booksplease Price: £36.55Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of... -
Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction by Anthony J. Lisska 9780198269670
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.26This new critique of Aquinas's theory of natural law presents an incisive, new analysis of the central themes and relevant texts in the Summa Theologiae which became the classical canon for natural... -
The Political Philosophy of Pierre Manent: Political Form and Human Action by Joseph Wood 9780813238906
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52This book presents and evaluates the understanding of political form in the work of Pierre Manent. The study of political form is Manent's central philosophical task. He is interested in the nature... -
Narrative and Morality: A Theological Inquiry by Paul Nelson 9780271026589
Booksplease Price: £37.39This book analyzes a rich and diverse body of philosophical and theological literature concerning the import of narrative for the understanding of morality. Nelson begins by examining the theses that... -
Philosophers of Our Times by Ted Honderich 9780198712503
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.05Eighteen of the world's most eminent philosophers of recent years tackle central questions of philosophy in this collection of the prestigious annual lectures given at the Royal Institute of... -
Balanced Wonder: Experiential Sources of Imagination, Virtue, and Human Flourishing by Jan B. W. Pedersen 9781498587792
Booksplease Price: £33.49In Balanced Wonder: Experiential Sources of Imagination, Virtue, and Human Flourishing, Jan B. W. Pedersen digs deep into the alluring topic of wonder and argues in a scholarly yet accessible way... -
Sport Technology: History, Philosophy and Policy by A. Maih 9780762308804
RRP: £104.99Booksplease Price: £87.90With innovations in sports equipment, doping methods and human engineering on the horizon, the ethical issues raised by such technology have become noticeably acute. The problematization of... -
The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy for an Age of Hyperspecialization by Elijah Millgram 9780199326020
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £72.86Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of... -
Virtue Ethics Stephen Darwall 9780631231141
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.22Virtue Ethics collects, for the first time, the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of virtue ethics approach to normative ethical theory. Edited and introduced by Stephen... -
The Shape of the Past: A Philosophical Approach to History by Gordon Graham 9780192892553
Booksplease Price: £45.60Can human history as a whole be interpreted in any meaningful way? Has there been real progress between stone age and space age? Does history repeat itself? Is there evidence of divine providence?... -
Killing and Saving: Abortion, Hunger, and War by John P. Reeder 9780271024882
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £30.27Contrary to the views of Alasdair MacIntyre and others who assert that modern Western morality is in disarray, torn by incommensurable moral views, John Reeder believes that there is much agreement... -
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by Richard Rorty 9780691178158
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.93When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers... -
True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment Jay Budziszewski 9780765806666
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23In contemporary liberal thought, "tolerance" has come to be redefined as a synonym for ethical neutrality: refusal to judge among competing views of goods and evils. The result of this extreme... -
The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act by Steven Long 9781932589733
Booksplease Price: £32.87Cutting through contemporary confusions with his characteristic rigor and aplomb, Steven A. Long offers the most penetrating study available of St. Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of the intention, choice,... -
The New Creation by Herbert McCabe 9781441145734
Booksplease Price: £16.94A reissue of McCabe's study of the sacraments and what it means to live in the Church and the Church's world, "The New Creation" explores how human beings can reach real unity with one another and... -
Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas by Curtis Chang
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64How can we present the truth about Jesus to a world that no longer believes in truth? Can we find ways to engage in meaningful conversation with those who reject all claims to absolutes? Can we talk... -
Planning for the Common Good Mick Lennon 9780367726034
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Appeals to the 'common good' or 'public interest' have long been used to justify planning as an activity. While often criticised, such appeals endure in spirit if not in name as practitioners and... -
Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics by Mark C. Murphy 9780521859301
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Natural law is a perennial though poorly represented and understood issue in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. In this 2006 book, Mark C. Murphy argues that the central thesis of...