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Communitarianism and its Critics by Daniel Bell 9780198279228
Booksplease Price: $146.58Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in... -
Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas by Curtis Chang
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14How 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: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Appeals 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: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35Natural 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... -
Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency Owen Abbott 9783031751806
Booksplease Price: $235.45This book provides an interdisciplinary series of essays on key social theorists of morality. It explores contributions to social moral theorising made by W. E. B. Du Bois, G. H. Mead, Jane Addams,... -
Political Philosophy After 1945 by 9781138084704
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $76.19By the mid-twentieth century interest in political philosophy had dwindled, with one writer even pronouncing the subject 'dead'. Things were to change in 1971, when the subject experienced a... -
Nature as Guide: Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology by David OP Goodill 9780813234458
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $103.47Wittgenstein influenced a generation of philosophers and theologians, with works such as Fergus Kerr's Theology After Wittgenstein showing the relevance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for contemporary... -
Thomas Carlyle and the Political Universe: From American Transcendentalism to an Elusive Post-Liberalism by Brian Wolfel 9781666954234
Booksplease Price: $190.20Thomas Carlyle and the Political Universe: From American Transcendentalism to an Elusive Post-Liberalism recognizes and reckons with Thomas Carlyle's broad and deep influence on politics, on a global... -
A Philosophy of the Christian Religion: For the Twenty-first Century by Nancey Murphy
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $44.21A Philosophy of the Christian Religion offers a new kind of introduction to the subject. Whereas most introductions in the past have attempted to deal with religion in general, this book focuses on... -
Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics by Mark C. Murphy 9780521108089
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $56.30Natural 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... -
Virtue Ethics: An Introduction, a Proposal, and a Case Robert Campbell Roberts 9780197847978
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $47.29Robert Campbell Roberts here offers an introduction to virtue ethics, suitable for students, that covers the topic along multiple dimensions--a historical and conceptual survey, a proposal for a new... -
Virtue Ethics: An Introduction, a Proposal, and a Case by Robert Campbell Roberts 9780197847961
Booksplease Price: $197.17Robert Campbell Roberts here offers an introduction to virtue ethics, suitable for students, that covers the topic along multiple dimensions--a historical and conceptual survey, a proposal for a new... -
Choosing the Good - Christian Ethics in a Complex World Dennis P. Hollinger 9780801025631
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $38.28The subject of ethics has always been of fundamental importance for thoughtful Christians, but it has become even more significant in recent years with the recognition of the pluralism and... -
Waiting For Godot In Sarajevo by David Toole 9780813335032
Booksplease Price: $59.24In the summer of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, an event which led to the horror of World War I and which many historians suggest marked the beginning of the twentieth... -
Recovering Nature: Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny by John P. O'Callaghan 9780268016661
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $121.07The recovery of nature has been a unifying and enduring aim of the writings of Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, director of the Jacques... -
God-Talk: An Examination of the Language and Logic of Theology by John Macquarrie 9781859310243
Booksplease Price: $47.31The book has a genuine unity, and I can think of no better introduction for theological students to the variety of problems about language which confront the contemporary theologian. Analytical... -
Recovering Nature: Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny by John P. O'Callaghan 9780268160708
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $46.05The recovery of nature has been a unifying and enduring aim of the writings of Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, director of the Jacques... -
Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth by Stanley Hauerwas 9780813951263
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94Living through an apocalyptic time, Swiss theologian Karl Barth influenced Christianity in the twentieth century profoundly. He publicly rejected Hitler's Nazism, advocated on behalf of workers and... -
Dispatches from the Front: Theological Engagements with the Secular by Stanley Hauerwas
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39God knows it is hard to make God boring, Stanley Hauerwas writes, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat. Whatever might be said about Hauerwas-and... -
Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas by Fran O'Rourke
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $56.89Although Pseudo-Dionysius was, after Aristotle, the author whom Thomas Aquinas quoted most frequently, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of this Neoplatonist thinker in the... -
Philosophy of Law: The Fundamentals by Mark C. Murphy 9781405129466
RRP: $193.10Booksplease Price: $188.60The Philosophy of Law is a broad-reaching text that guides readers through the basic analytical and normative issues in the field, highlighting key historical and contemporary thinkers and offering a... -
Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach by Mark Bevir 9780198832959
Booksplease Price: $84.40In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major... -
Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present by Tobias Hoffmann 9780813215204
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $108.51In thirteen original essays, eminent scholars of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy examine weakness of will, or incontinence - the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better... -
Philosophy of Law: The Fundamentals Mark C. Murphy (Georgetown University) 9781405129602
Booksplease Price: $69.01The Philosophy of Law is a broad-reaching text that guides readers through the basic analytical and normative issues in the field, highlighting key historical and contemporary thinkers and offering a... -
Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas by Fran O'Rourke 9780268206727
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $149.86Although Pseudo-Dionysius was, after Aristotle, the author whom Thomas Aquinas quoted most frequently, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of this Neoplatonist thinker in the... -
Character and the Christian Life: A Study in Theological Ethics by Stanley Hauerwas 9780268007720
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $46.85Some fourteen years after its initial publication, this important and influential book, with a new, substantial, and candid introduction by the author, is available in a reasonably priced paperback... -
The Good Life by Herbert McCabe 9780826476470
Booksplease Price: $34.71The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy. This sounds extremely glib as happiness in the popular imagination is a feeling and in the words of the song 'the... -
The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader: Critical and Interpretive Essays by Dr. Jon Stewart 9780791435366
Booksplease Price: $62.64The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel's first major philosophical work and is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Its several hundred pages treat topics as diverse as Greek drama, religion,... -
The Communitarian Constitution by Beau Breslin 9780801885389
Booksplease Price: $53.82Bowling Alone, the title of Robert Putnam's 1995 article (later a bestselling book) perfectly captured a sense of national unease: Somewhere along the way, America had become a nation divided by... -
A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation by Colleen Murphy 9780521193924
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.61Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of... -
The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics: On Nature and Normativity Professor Jessy Jordan 9781350412798
Booksplease Price: $179.87The re-emergence of virtue ethics in the 20th century revolutionized moral philosophy. This is the first book-length introduction to elaborate and defend its complex philosophical framework, natural... -
Reconstructing Public Philosophy by William M. Sullivan 9780520330757
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $65.71Reconstructing Public Philosophy is William Sullivan's ambitious effort to recover a richer language of citizenship for American democracy at a moment of cultural exhaustion. Moving between... -
O Rare Ralph McInerny: Stories and Reflections about a Legendary Notre Dame Professor by Christopher Kaczor
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $27.03During more than a half century at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Ralph McInerny's legendary achievements include writing more than 50 non-fiction books in philosophy, medieval studies, and... -
Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot 9780198235088
Booksplease Price: $190.83Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually... -
Science and Christian Ethics by Paul Scherz
Booksplease Price: $50.72There is a growing crisis in scientific research characterized by failures to reproduce experimental results, fraud, lack of innovation, and burn-out. In Science and Christian Ethics, Paul Scherz... -
Introduction to Metaphysics by Andrew B. Schoedinger 9780879756222
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $51.18Are the characteristics and relationships among spatio-temporal entities "real" or are they simply conventional terms that note similarities among things in the world but lack any reality of their... -
Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot 9780199265473
RRP: $93.43Booksplease Price: $86.75Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually... -
Reconstructing Public Philosophy by William M. Sullivan 9780520369757
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.87Reconstructing Public Philosophy is William Sullivan's ambitious effort to recover a richer language of citizenship for American democracy at a moment of cultural exhaustion. Moving between... -
Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State by William A. Galston 9780521422505
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $134.21This book is a major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist. It challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman who believe that the... -
Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre: Community After the Fall Joel Pierce 9781978716209
Booksplease Price: $190.20Rights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre: Community After the Fall demonstrates that human rights are not anathema to MacIntyre's vision of practices, virtue, and tradition, but rather are necessary...