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  • Disputes in Bioethics
    Christopher Kaczor
    Disputes in Bioethics tackles some of the most debated questions in contemporary scholarship about the beginning and end of life. This collection of essays takes up questions about the dawn of human life, including: Should we make children with three (or more) parents? Is it better never to have been born? and Why should the baby live? This volume also asks about the dusk of hu...
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    42,73 €

  • Renaissance Vegetarianism
    Cecilia Muratori
    Should a philosopher be vegetarian? This question had been famously answered in the affirmative in a classic work on philosophical vegetarianism: On Abstinence from Eating Animals, written by the Neoplatonist Porphyry in the third century AD. This study traces the rekindling of interest in On Abstinence in the Renaissance. It shows that long before the term ‘vegetarianism’ emer...
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    132,65 €

  • Kierkegaard and the Legitimacy of the Comic
    Will Williams
    Kierkegaard makes a controversial and little-understood claim: irony, humor, and the comic are essential to ethics and religion. This account, grounded in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, explicates that idea for a philosophical and theological audience with a level of conceptual analysis never seen before in Kierkegaard scholarship. ...
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    54,44 €

  • The Ethical Detective
    Rachel Haliburton
    This book works within the neo-Aristotelian ethical framework to make the case that moral philosophers ought to see detective fiction as a source of ethical insight and as a tool to spark the moral imagination. It also critiques contemporary moral philosophy and proposes what autonomy might look like if understood in neo-Aristotelian terms. ...
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    54,28 €

  • SOLITUDE
    Thomas Murphy
    This book is a hodgepodge of extremely personal essays, initially written over the past decade and now edited to reflect current conditions, public attitudes and my own opinions. For my part, I only quote others in order to make myself more explicit. When I occasionally offer advice, it is with the pronounced admission that I 'know' nothing, and that what I offer is my own beli...
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    43,95 €

  • Empathy and Indifference
    Ignace Haaz
    As a student of philosophy, directed by Prof. Roberta de Monticelli at the University of Geneva/Milano, I first followed the school of ethical philosophy of phenomenology (Scheler, Husserl, etc.) with great enthusiasm, which bases ethics on an analysis of lived experience, empathy and compassion, that is, a basic understanding of the Golden Rule. In the midst of my studies, how...
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    23,75 €

  • Think Least of Death
    Stefen Nadler / Steven Nadler
    From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community for 'abominable heresies' and 'monstrous deeds,' the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family’s import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious acros...
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    53,41 €

  • The Charmed Triangle
    Bill K Koul / Vijay Narain Shankar
    Many people seek solace in religion, but what if, rather than showing us to a higher truth, religion blinkers us to the real world we live in? Trying to nurture our souls, we may instead become caught in the trappings of organised religion and charismatic spiritual leaders. What if our religions have got it all wrong? In a series of dialogues, Vijay Narain Shankar and Bill K. K...
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    36,07 €

  • Lev Shestov
    Matthew Beaumont
    The Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze and many others, Shestov developed a fascinating anti-Enlightenment philosophy that critiqued the limits of reason ...
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    161,00 €

  • Full History
    Steven G. Smith
    How can we take history seriously as real and relevant? Despite the hazards of politically dangerous or misleading accounts of the past, we live our lives in a great network of cooperation with other actors; past, present, and future. We study and reflect on the past as a way of exercising a responsibility for shared action. In each of the chapters of Full History Smith poses a...
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    54,95 €

  • The World’s Biggest Lie
    Andrew James McQuinn
    MY CASE: The greatest investigation of all time provides the evidence that over six billion people have been lied to by religion. Previous criticisms of religion leverage narrower fields of evidence, such as its evil history, which only proves its wickedness. I will prosecute religion by calling on expert witnesses from historicity, neuroscience, microbiology, astronomy and mor...
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    23,63 €

  • The World’s Biggest Lie
    Andrew James McQuinn
    MY CASE: The greatest investigation of all time provides the evidence that over six billion people have been lied to by religion. Previous criticisms of religion leverage narrower fields of evidence, such as its evil history, which only proves its wickedness. I will prosecute religion by calling on expert witnesses from historicity, neuroscience, microbiology, astronomy and mor...
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    28,50 €

  • A Bun in the Oven
    Dominic Guzzo
    PREGNANCY.  If it is wanted it is something to look forward to.  If it is not wanted, the pregnancy can be terminated.  It is a woman’s choice.  Though, it is probably true that most women like living on the planet while their child or children are here as well.  Be careful not to be fooled out of something positive. ...
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    11,90 €

  • Heart of Reality
    Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev
    Vladimir S. Soloviev (1853-1900), moral philosopher, social and literary critic, theologian, and poet, is considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers. But Soloviev is relatively unknown in the West, despite his close association with Fyodor Dostoevsky, who modeled one of his most famous literary characters, Alyosha Karamazov, on Soloviev. In The Heart of Reality, Vladimir ...
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    39,33 €

  • I’ve Got Tickets to Heaven
    JC de Melo
    I’ve Got tickets to Heaven is meant to be, as the author claims, no more than reproductions of café style conversations amongst friends about themes well familiar to humans. These conversations, at one stage of their friendly encounters, eventually evolve and connect with more serious gatherings of civic and social nature.The novel is helped by the characters’ combination of or...
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    18,60 €

  • Ethics and the Full-Breasted Richness of Life
    Richard Mullin
    American philosophers around the turn of the twentieth century offer a treasure of principles that can usefully guide our life. In a personal letter to philosopher Josiah Royce, the pragmatic philosopher Charles Pierce admitted that while his logic provided security by avoiding error, it lacked the quality of "uberty," or being life-giving. Royce developed a view that would lea...
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    9,67 €

  • French and Italian Stoicisms
    The importance of Stoicism for Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense and Michel Foucault’s Hermeneutics of the Subjectand The Care of the Self is well known. However, few students of either classics or philosophy are aware of the breadth of French and Italian receptions of Stoicism. This book firstly presents this broad field to readers, and secondly advances it by renewing dialogues...
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    160,80 €

  • A World Not Made for Us
    Keith R. Peterson
    Proposes a nonanthropocentric reassessment of key themes and approaches in environmental philosophy ...
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    127,07 €

  • Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare
    Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence. ...
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    127,04 €

  • The Priority of the Person
    David Walsh
    In The Priority of the Person, world-class philosopher David Walsh advances the argument set forth in his highly original philosophic meditation Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (2015), that 'person' is the central category of modern political thought and philosophy. The present volume is divided into three main parts. It begins with the political discovery of th...
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    179,45 €

  • The Priority of the Person
    David Walsh
    In The Priority of the Person, world-class philosopher David Walsh advances the argument set forth in his highly original philosophic meditation Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (2015), that 'person' is the central category of modern political thought and philosophy. The present volume is divided into three main parts. It begins with the political discovery of th...
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    55,23 €

  • Collected Studies, Letters and Meditations
    The Elder Brothers of Humanity
    AS THE SERPENT chases its tail, one can try to catch the elusive Sun to take in a global sequence of perpetual sunrise. Development has its rewards and when you are asked, 'For what am I working towards?' you may take us on our word that you are working for the day when you may witness the perpetual sunrise in all its glory! There are mysteries and there are Mysteries. Above al...
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    45,15 €

  • Beyond Good and Evil
    FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE / Helen Zimmern
    2020 Reprint of the 1907 Edition.  Beyond Good and Evil expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. It was first published in 1886. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accus...
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    8,55 €

  • People Are Ruled through Ethic to Develop and Control
    Tommie Simpson Hinton
    This is the summary of the works that is designed after thirty years of research. It describes events and truths which will enable you to live a better life. A reflection of history which is certain to be repeated as we are educated on how things work and what it will take to make life work for us. Thus, we know and believe that education is the way to achieve a better life, an...
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    14,70 €

  • The Last Days of Socrates
    Plato
    The Last Days of Socrates presents Plato’s dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. ...
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    30,66 €

  • The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger
    Andy Amato
    While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an ’ethical imagination’. Following the increased interest in reading Shakespeare philosophically, it s...
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    54,87 €

  • Ethics in the Digital Domain
    Robert S. Fortner / Robert SFortner
    Presented in a format to initiate debate and discussion, Ethics in the Digital Domain helps students explore the big questions surrounding the impact of the digital domain on our daily lives. This text covers enduring debates in ethics such as privacy, copyright, libel, consent, surveillance and the necessity for truthful discourse. ...
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    54,08 €

  • Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence
    Marguerite La Caze
    This book provides an account of ethical restoration in situations that bring ethical and political questions together. It shows how punishment as well as forgiveness and reconciliation are necessary to properly restore peace and justice in both transitional and democratic societies. ...
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    54,45 €

  • War Refugees
    Jennifer Kling
    Jennifer Kling argues that war refugees suffer a series of wrongs and oppressions, and so are owed restitution and aid—as a matter of justice—by socio-political institutions. She makes the case that they should be viewed differently than migrants but that their circumstances do not wholly alleviate their own moral responsibilities. ...
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    54,83 €

  • Ethics in the Digital Domain
    Robert S. Fortner / Robert SFortner
    Presented in a format to initiate debate and discussion, Ethics in the Digital Domain helps students explore the big questions surrounding the impact of the digital domain on our daily lives. This text covers enduring debates in ethics such as privacy, copyright, libel, consent, surveillance and the necessity for truthful discourse. ...
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    104,41 €