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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... -
How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality by John Kekes
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30What 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: £29.46There 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... -
Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships by George Philip Fletcher 9780195098327
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.27This book is an important contribution to the public debate on morality, politics, and the law, and is unique in its exploration of loyalty and its role in our personal and national identity.About... -
God Who Commands, The by Richard J. Mouw 9780268010195
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £58.09In 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... -
Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty by D. C. Schindler 9780268102623
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £24.44It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited... -
Tradition v. Rationalism: Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others by Lee Trepanier 9781498571722
Booksplease Price: £103.41In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity... -
Judaism, Education and Social Justice: Towards a Jewish Critical Pedagogy by Matt Plen 9781350293137
Booksplease Price: £31.52This 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... -
Reasonably Vicious by Candace Vogler 9780674030725
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28Is unethical conduct necessarily irrational? Answering this question requires giving an account of practical reason, of practical good, and of the source or point of wrongdoing. By the time most... -
Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty by D. C. Schindler 9780268102616
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £85.69It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited... -
Holding Fast To An Image Of The Past: Essays on Marxism and History by Neil Davidson 9781608463336
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Neil Davidson explores classic themes in historical materialism and Marxism as he explains concepts such as the moments of transition from the dominance of one mode of production to another... -
Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political... -
Truth and Hope by P. T. Geach 9780268042158
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47In this collection of essays, which were first delivered as lectures at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein in 1998, distinguished philosopher Peter Geach... -
The Oxford University Socratic Club, 1942–1972: A Life Jim Stockton 9781666932249
Booksplease Price: £80.73Through a comprehensive account of the Socratic Club's history, Jim Stockton draws focus to the significant role that the club played in shaping mid-twentieth century philosophical and theological... -
What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008 by Neil Davidson 9781642599152
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson's brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that... -
Critique of Forms of Life by Rahel Jaeggi
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22For many liberals, the question "Do others live rightly?" feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: "Who am I to judge?" Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated... -
Under Weber's Shadow: Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre Keith Breen 9781472456267
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Under Weber's Shadow presents an extended critical evaluation of the social and political thought of JA1/4rgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre. Although hailing from very different... -
How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality John Kekes 9780226639079
Booksplease Price: £26.68What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very... -
Care, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics by Christopher Groves 9780230358843
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £64.00Our capacity to reshape the future has never been more powerful. Yet our ability to foresee the consequences of what we do has not kept pace. Is the idea that we have responsibilities to future... -
What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA First Things Books for Christmas SelectionWinner of the Expanded Reason Award"This important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and... -
Conversations on Ethics by Alex Voorhoeve 9780199602940
Booksplease Price: £25.63Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex... -
The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations by Carol A. Newsom 9780195396287
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £24.63From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of... -
Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations by Geoff Moore
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.15Virtue at Work is about good organizations, good managers, and good people, and how these can contribute to good communities. It provides an integrated and philosophically-grounded framework that... -
Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy by Wayne Cristaudo 9781793602350
Booksplease Price: £113.41Ever since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in... -
A Sure Way: Following Truth in a World on Fire Edith Stein 9781636081762
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A rising feminist thinker, Edith Stein examined everything in her relentless pursuit of truth. This ultimately led her to the foot of Jesus' cross and to taking the veil as a Carmelite nun. Though... -
The Anatomy of Antiliberalism by Stephen Holmes 9780674031852
Booksplease Price: £36.25Liberal: spoken in a certain tone, heard more and more often lately, it summons up permissiveness, materialism, rootlessness, skepticism, relativism run rampant. How has liberalism, the grand... -
Philosophical Arguments by Charles Taylor 9780674664777
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £29.48Charles Taylor is one of the most important English-language philosophers at work today; he is also unique in the philosophical community in applying his ideas on language and epistemology to social... -
Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations by Geoff Moore 9780198793441
Booksplease Price: £57.35Virtue at Work is about good organizations, good managers, and good people, and how these can contribute to good communities. It provides an integrated and philosophically-grounded framework that... -
Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy by Wayne Cristaudo 9781793602374
Booksplease Price: £37.42Ever since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in... -
Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States by Rebecca Gordon 9780199336432
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £33.00The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to... -
Working: Its Meanings and Its Limits by Gilbert C. Meilaender 9780268019617
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.35The wide range of readings in Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits proposes different ways of thinking about something most of us do every day-work. As part of the Ethics of Everyday Life series,... -
What Is Ethically Demanded?: K. E. Logstrup's Philosophy of Moral Life by Hans Fink 9780268101855
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.51This collection of essays by leading international philosophers considers central themes in the ethics of Danish philosopher Knud Ejler Logstrup (1905-1981). Logstrup was a Lutheran theologian much... -
Working: Its Meanings and Its Limits by Gilbert C. Meilaender
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52The wide range of readings in Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits proposes different ways of thinking about something most of us do every day-work. As part of the Ethics of Everyday Life series,... -
Christology as Narrative Quest by Michael L. Cook 9780814658543
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.08How central is narrative to Christology? To human experience?In exploring these questions Michal Cook maintains in Christology as Narrative Quest the primacy and centrality of narrative in... -
Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris: Preaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary by Randall B. Smith
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £71.46In this volume, Randall B. Smith provides a revisionist account of the scholastic culture that flourished in Paris during the High Middle Ages. Exploring the educational culture that informed the... -
The Ethical Demand by Knud Ejler Logstrup
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £24.14Knud Ejler Logstrup's The Ethical Demand is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first time that the complete text has been available in... -
The Ethical Demand by Knud Ejler Logstrup 9780268206994
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.37Knud Ejler Logstrup's The Ethical Demand is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first time that the complete text has been available in... -
We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power by Jason Blakely 9780190087388
Booksplease Price: £30.48Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically... -
We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power by Jason Blakely 9780190087371
Booksplease Price: £100.94Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically...