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Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State by William A. Galston 9780521422505
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £63.91This 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: £90.57Rights, 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: £73.17In 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... -
Morality - The Catholic View Servais O.p. Pinckaers 9781587315152
Booksplease Price: £12.07"As Alasdair MacIntyre notes in the preface, the work of Pinckaers attracted strongand fully justified notice in this country with the publication in English of his TheSources of Christian Ethics. As... -
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments by Catherine H. Zuckert 9780521185066
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76This 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... -
Truth and the Reality of God: Essay in Natural Theology by Ian S. Markham 9780567086181
Booksplease Price: £112.13Belief 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... -
Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II Tracey Rowland 9780415305273
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14Thomism'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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98In 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: £36.33The 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. ... -
Reasonable Faith by Annika Isberg 9780415430258
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79In 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... -
Nature`s Virtue James F. Pontuso 9781587315572
Booksplease Price: £23.87Virtue 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: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69There 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: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96In 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... -
Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics by C. D. C. Reeve 9780872205154
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.59In 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: £26.07The 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: £34.31Insisting 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... -
If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past by Christopher Castiglia 9780816676118
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The 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... -
How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions? by 9781608460670
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.95In 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: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.93In 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: £85.95In 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: £71.00Booksplease Price: £62.75From 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.40Periodically, 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: £112.13This 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.64Liberal 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: £99.43The 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: £80.00Booksplease Price: £58.06In 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... -
Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective by David McPherson 9781108745192
Booksplease Price: £32.12The 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: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.24Liberal 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... -
The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It by Thaddeus J. Kozinski 9780739179871
Booksplease Price: £51.70In 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: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82How 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: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Indian 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: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Catholicism 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: £66.00Booksplease Price: £44.92In 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: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56In 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: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69In 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: £18.18Is 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?... -
Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy by Anna Bonta Moreland
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £27.09Muhammad Reconsidered rectifies the failures of scholarly attempts to understand Islam in the West and to take Islamic theology seriously. Engaging Islam from deep within the Christian tradition by... -
Natural Law: The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Law by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve... -
Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity by Khurram Hussain 9781350248861
Booksplease Price: £34.47What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of great tribulation for Muslim India under British rule. By examining Khan's work as a... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05This 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...