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The Art of Life by John Kekes
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by... -
Facing Evil by John Kekes
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of... -
Moral Tradition and Individuality by John Kekes
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and... -
The Human Condition by John Kekes 9780199588886
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £70.65The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life,... -
The Roots of Evil by John Kekes 9780801473814
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.01"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething... -
The Illusions of Egalitarianism by John Kekes 9780801473395
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.00In this systematic and scathing attack on the dominant contemporary version of liberalism, John Kekes challenges political assumptions shared by the majority of people in Western societies... -
The Illusions of Egalitarianism by John Kekes 9780801441905
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £56.55In this systematic and scathing attack on the dominant contemporary version of liberalism, John Kekes challenges political assumptions shared by the majority of people in Western societies... -
The Art of Life by John Kekes 9780801440069
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.05"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by... -
Wisdom: A Humanistic Conception by John Kekes
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £56.42In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude--one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often... -
A Case for Conservatism by John Kekes 9780801435560
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.92In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a... -
Against Liberalism by John Kekes 9780801484001
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £18.78Liberalism is doomed to failure, John Kekes argues in this penetrating criticism of its basic assumptions. Liberals favor individual autonomy, a wide plurality of choices, and equal rights and... -
The Roots of Evil by John Kekes 9780801443688
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £48.02"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething... -
A Case for Conservatism by John Kekes 9780801485527
Booksplease Price: £28.65In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a... -
The Human Condition by John Kekes 9780199687480
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £31.89The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life,... -
The Examined Life by John Kekes 9780271008738
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Pluralism in Philosophy: Changing the Subject by John Kekes
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £50.35This original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates about good lives-the disagreements caused by conflicts between scientific, religious, moral,... -
Moral Wisdom and Good Lives by John Kekes 9780801482786
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Moral Wisdom and Good Lives by John Kekes 9780801431715
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.05In this profound and yet accessible book, John Kekes discusses moral wisdom: a virtue essential to living a morally good and personally satisfying life. He advances a broad, nontechnical argument... -
Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes 9780197668061
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.26Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes is a response to attacks on the United States' 300-year-old constitutional democracy by extremists on the left and the right. It makes a... -
Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life by John Kekes 9780199592494
Booksplease Price: £32.31In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting... -
The Nature of Philosophical Problems: Their Causes and Implications by John Kekes 9780198712756
Booksplease Price: £54.58We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values... -
Hard Questions: Facing the Problems of Life by John Kekes 9780190919986
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £27.39In this book, John Kekes discusses the hard questions we all must face in the course of our lives. Is there an absolute value that overrides all other considerations? Must we conform to prevailing... -
Human Predicaments: And What to Do About Them by John Kekes
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of... -
Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life by John Kekes 9780199546923
Booksplease Price: £37.98In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting... -
Human Predicaments: And What to Do about Them John Kekes 9780226638911
Booksplease Price: £26.68In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of... -
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... -
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... -
The Problem of Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond George Crowder 9781032085227
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and incommensurable with one another. Incommensurability is... -
On Meaning in Life by Beatrix Himmelmann 9783110323894
RRP: £108.50Booksplease Price: £98.44The question of meaning in life is as relevant and central as ever - in spite of all attempts at declaring it senseless. It does not disappear. But how should we deal with this question today? The... -
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... -
Reflections On How We Live by Annette Baier 9780199570362
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £47.69The pioneering moral philosopher Annette Baier presents a series of new and recent essays in ethics, broadly conceived to include both engagements with other philosophers and personal meditations on... -
Reflections On How We Live by Annette Baier 9780199694648
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £31.34The pioneering moral philosopher Annette Baier presents a series of new and recent essays in ethics, broadly conceived to include both engagements with other philosophers and personal meditations on... -
Relationship Morality by James Kellenberger 9780271025988
Booksplease Price: £37.69This book is an inquiry into the extent to which human relationships are foundational in morality. J. Kellenberger seeks to discover, first, how relationships between persons, and ultimately the... -
Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Happiness has long been a focus of attention for philosophers as well as psychologists. This volume, the only collection devoted to the subject from the standpoint of philosophy, offers twenty-seven... -
The Meaning of Life: A Reader by E. D. Klemke 9780195327304
Booksplease Price: £35.21Featuring nine new articles chosen by coeditor Steven M. Cahn, the third edition of E. D. Klemke's The Meaning of Life offers twenty-two insightful selections that explore this fascinating topic. The... -
Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law by Shadia B. Drury 9780742522589
Booksplease Price: £43.76In this startling book, Drury overturns the long-standing reputation of Thomas Aquinas as the most rational exponent of the Christian faith. She reveals that Aquinas as one of the most zealous... -
Moral Relativism, Moral Diversity, and Human Relationships by James Kellenberger 9780271022871
Booksplease Price: £44.03This book aims to clarify the debate between moral relativists and moral absolutists by showing what is right and what is wrong about each of these positions, by revealing how the phenomenon of moral... -
The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham by Nafsika Athanassoulis 9780230527560
Booksplease Price: £46.28A collection of essays by leading philosophers on the work of John Cottingham, focussing on his work in moral philosophy, discussing themes from his contributions to the debate on partiality and... -
Nature, Reason, and the Good Life: Ethics for Human Beings by Roger Teichmann 9780198708971
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £27.46At the centre of our ethical thought stands the human being. Facts about human nature determine the shape of ethical concepts in a variety of ways, and our pre-rational animal nature forms the basis... -
Nature, Reason, and the Good Life: Ethics for Human Beings by Roger Teichmann 9780199606177
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £66.22At the centre of our ethical thought stands the human being. Facts about human nature determine the shape of ethical concepts in a variety of ways, and our pre-rational animal nature forms the basis...