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Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments by Catherine H. Zuckert 9780521185066
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.27This 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... -
Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State by William A. Galston 9780521422505
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €76.05This 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: €107.78Rights, 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... -
Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach by Mark Bevir 9780198832942
Booksplease Price: €87.07In 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... -
Truth and the Reality of God: Essay in Natural Theology by Ian S. Markham 9780567086181
Booksplease Price: €133.43Belief in the possibility of truth demonstrates a belief in God. Professor Markham places this striking argument, which lies at the very heart of Augustinian theology, within the modern debate about... -
Reasonable Faith by Annika Isberg 9780415430258
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30In this awaited follow up to his book Faithful Reason, the well-known philosopher and Catholic thinker John Haldane brings his unrivalled insight to bear on questions of the existence of God and the... -
Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II Tracey Rowland 9780415305273
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €64.43Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition... -
Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics by C. D. C. Reeve 9780872205147
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.83In this groundbreaking work, C. D. C. Reeve uses a fundamental problem--the Primacy Dilemma--to explore Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, dialectic, philosophy of mind, and theology in a new way... -
Ethics at the Edges of Life by Paul Ramsey 9780300021417
Booksplease Price: €43.23The tremendous changes in society's attitudes toward abortion, euthanasia, the right to die, and other related life-and-death issues are reflected in recent court decisions and in new legislation. ... -
Nature`s Virtue James F. Pontuso 9781587315572
Booksplease Price: €28.41Virtue is not what it used to be. It has lost its good name. If virtue were a television show, it would garner low ratings and promptly be cancelled. If virtue were running for president, it would... -
Science and Christian Ethics by Paul Scherz 9781108482202
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €106.73There 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... -
The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God by Mitchell Cohen 9780691628134
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €49.93In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. While many Parisian... -
If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past by Christopher Castiglia 9780816676118
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures... -
Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics by C. D. C. Reeve 9780872205154
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €23.31In this groundbreaking work, C. D. C. Reeve uses a fundamental problem--the Primacy Dilemma--to explore Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, dialectic, philosophy of mind, and theology in a new way... -
The Artist and the Trinity: Dorothy L. Sayers' Theology of Work by Christine M. Fletcher 9780718893347
Booksplease Price: €31.02The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artistic creation. Sayers' analogy gives us an account of... -
Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature by Fritz Oehlschlaeger 9780822330646
Booksplease Price: €40.83Insisting on the vital, productive relationship between ethics and the study of literature, Love and Good Reasons demonstrates ways of reading novels and stories from a Christian perspective. Fritz... -
How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions? by 9781608460670
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.69In this panoramic historical analysis, Neil Davidson defends a renovated concept of bourgeois revolution. Davidson shows how globalised societies of the present are the result of a contested,... -
Critique of the New Natural Law Theory by Russell Hittinger 9780268007751
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €26.10In this volume Russell Hittinger presents a comprehensive and critical treatment of the attempt to restate and defend a theory of natural law, particularly as proposed by Germain Grisez and John... -
Ethics in a Capitalist Economy: Why the Market Needs Virtues Robert CB Miller 9781350515383
Booksplease Price: €102.28In a novel application of the work of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics to the philosophy of business, Robert CB Miller argues that free-market capitalism requires virtues to mitigate its flaws and to... -
Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace by Steven A. Long
RRP: €84.49Booksplease Price: €74.67From speculative theology to the exegesis of Aquinas, to contemporary North American philosophy and Catholic social and ethical thought, to the thought of Benedict XVI, this work argues the crucial... -
Rediscovering the Moral Life by James Gouinlock 9780879758158
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €38.56Periodically, someone must remind philosophers of just how far removed they are from the all-too-real and vital human concerns that affect people's lives. Someone has to point the way to a philosophy... -
Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism by Professor Andrius Bielskis 9781350122178
Booksplease Price: €133.43This 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... -
Against Postliberalism: Why 'Family, Faith and Flag' is a Dead End for the Left Paul Kelly 9781509552450
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.61Liberal politics is in crisis and it is a crisis of its own making - so say the post-liberals whose new ideology of family, faith and flag is shaping debates about the future of the Left. But are... -
Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective by David McPherson 9781108745192
Booksplease Price: €38.22The revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics can be seen as a response to the modern problem of disenchantment, that is, the perceived loss of meaning in modernity. However, in Virtue and Meaning, David... -
Against Postliberalism: Why 'Family, Faith and Flag' is a Dead End for the Left Paul Kelly 9781509552443
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.84Liberal politics is in crisis and it is a crisis of its own making - so say the post-liberals whose new ideology of family, faith and flag is shaping debates about the future of the Left. But are... -
Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective David McPherson (Creighton University, Omaha) 9781108477888
Booksplease Price: €118.32The revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics can be seen as a response to the modern problem of disenchantment, that is, the perceived loss of meaning in modernity. However, in Virtue and Meaning, David... -
Critique of the New Natural Law Theory by Russell Hittinger 9780268007669
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €69.09In this volume Russell Hittinger presents a comprehensive and critical treatment of the attempt to restate and defend a theory of natural law, particularly as proposed by Germain Grisez and John... -
The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It by Thaddeus J. Kozinski 9780739179871
Booksplease Price: €61.52In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political... -
Catholicism and Democracy: An Essay in the History of Political Thought by Emile Perreau-Saussine
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in the wake of the French RevolutionCatholicism and Democracy is a history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to... -
Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges: Volume I Purushottama Bilimoria 9781138062696
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73Indian ethics is one of the great traditions of moral thought in world philosophy whose insights have influenced thinkers in early Greece, Europe, Asia, and the New World. This is the first such... -
Catholicism and Democracy: An Essay in the History of Political Thought by Emile Perreau-Saussine 9780691153940
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €55.38Catholicism and Democracy is a history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. Emile Perreau-Saussine investigates the church's response to liberal democracy, a... -
An Essay on Divine Authority by Mark C. Murphy 9780801440304
RRP: €78.54Booksplease Price: €53.45In the first book wholly concerned with divine authority, Mark C. Murphy explores the extent of God's rule over created rational beings. The author challenges the view-widely supported by theists and... -
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick 9780674664791
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €36.37In this highly original work, Robert Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified philosophical perspective. It is many years since a major work in English... -
God Who Commands, The by Richard J. Mouw 9780268010218
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €21.05In this book Richard J. Mouw, one of the foremost thinkers in the field of Christian ethics, develops a constructive theological ethic, employing primarily Calvinist themes. Exploring issues that are... -
Faith within Reason by Herbert McCabe 9780826495471
Booksplease Price: €21.63Is it possible to think about religious beliefs philosophically? Should religious beliefs be viewed as a flight from reason or as capable of rational support? Can theologians learn from philosophers?... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the... -
Philosophy of Human Rights: Theory and Practice David Boersema 9780813344928
RRP: €72.58Booksplease Price: €64.43Combining the sustained, coherent perspective of an authored text with diverse, authoritative primary readings, Philosophy of Human Rights provides the context and commentary students need to... -
Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press by Sandra L. Borden 9780415877671
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €36.10Technological innovation and conglomeration in communication industries has been accelerating the commodification of the news into just another product. The emphasis on the bottom line has resulted... -
How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality by John Kekes
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €91.99What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Nonetheless philosophers have long sought a single, overriding ideal that should guide... -
Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays by Charles Taylor
Booksplease Price: €35.06There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one's philosophy-and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in...