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On Courage by Geoffrey Scarre
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take? In this insightful and crisply... -
Death Geoffrey Scarre 9781844650835
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69What is death and why does it matter to us? How should the knowledge of our finitude affect the living of our lives and what are the virtues suitable to mortal beings? Does death destroy the... -
Utilitarianism Geoffrey Scarre 9780415121972
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the... -
On Courage by Geoffrey Scarre 9780415471138
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.84What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take? In this insightful and crisply... -
Children, Parents, and Politics by Geoffrey Scarre 9780521369350
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21This highly original collection of essays, first published in 1989, is concerned with the nature of children and their moral and political status. The international team of contributors explore, and... -
After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing Geoffrey Scarre 9781138378834
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life. This book is about responding to them and in particular about responding to moral evils, that is, those produced by the deliberate... -
Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory by Geoffrey Scarre 9783031345104
Booksplease Price: £100.11This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding... -
Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology by Geoffrey Scarre
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the... -
Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe by Geoffrey Scarre 9780333920824
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.99The figure of the witch still has the ability to exert a powerful fascination on the modern mind. The vision of the elderly crone begging for charity at the crossroads, an object of fear and... -
Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology by Geoffrey Scarre 9780521196062
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £51.02In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the... -
Consequentialism Julia Driver 9780415772587
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Consequentialism is the view that the rightness or wrongness of actions depend solely on their consequences. It is one of the most influential, and controversial, of all ethical theories. In this... -
Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations Cornelius Holtorf 9781138788220
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass... -
The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: 1700-1900 CE by Douglas Hedley
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The fourth volume of The History of Evil explores the key thinkers and themes relating to the question of evil in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The very idea of "evil" is highly contentious in... -
The Positive Function of Evil by Pedro Alexis Tabensky 9780230219557
Booksplease Price: £46.74This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives. For centuries a... -
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill 9780393441161
Booksplease Price: £9.20Edited by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, "the acknowledged heirs of the founders of utilitarianism" (Jeff McMahan), the Norton Library edition of Utilitarianism features the complete... -
Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £19.22We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's. ... -
Embracing the Darkness: A Cultural History of Witchcraft John Callow (University of Suffolk, UK) 9781845114695
Booksplease Price: £46.61As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther - hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle - found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of... -
The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice by Chris Scarre 9780521840118
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93The question of ethics and their role in archaeology has stimulated one of the discipline's liveliest debates. In this collection of essays, first published in 2006, an international team of... -
The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice by Chris Scarre 9780521549424
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £42.16The question of ethics and their role in archaeology has stimulated one of the discipline's liveliest debates. In this collection of essays, first published in 2006, an international team of... -
Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions by David Benatar 9781442258334
Booksplease Price: £81.53Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and... -
Corporal Punishment: A Philosophical Assessment by Patrick Lenta
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited. Against the widespread view that corporal... -
Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration by Charles Griswold
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.57Nearly everyone has wronged another. Who among us has not longed to be forgiven? Who has not struggled to forgive? Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical book on...