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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith  Synopsis In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, renowned social thinker Adam Smith presents an intellectual treatise on the phenomenon-and meaning-of morality. Not just an explication of the external actions and internal conscience that influence our every decision...
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy #26: A Companion to Applied Ethics
by R. G. Frey Publisher Comments Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken together, the essays in this volume - including two...
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Ethics of Food
by Gregory E Pence Publisher Comments In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a broad...
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101 Ethical Dilemmas
by Martin Cohen Publisher Comments Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to design a baby? What would you do? Would you always do the right thing? IS there a right thing? In this second edition of his thought-provoking and highly engaging introduction to...
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Naturalism in Question
by David Macarthur Publisher Comments Today the majority of philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to the "naturalist" credos that philosophy is continuous with science, and that the natural sciences provide a complete account of all that exists--whether human or nonhuman. The new...
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The Grounds of Ethical Judgement: New Transcendental Arguments in Moral Philosophy (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)
by Christian Illies Publisher Comments Is it merely a matter of taste or convention to consider something right or wrong? Or can we find good reasons for our values and judgements that are independent of culture and tradition? The problem is as old as philosophy itself; and after more than...
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Going Against the Flow
by Alan M. Laibelman Publisher Comments Most contemporary efforts in philosophy treat metaphysics and ethics as isolated arenas of thought. Critical analytical exploration of a multitude of ethical theories emanating from historically diverse philosophical and theological traditions...
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The Dawn of Day (Philosophical Classics)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Publisher Comments A 19th-century philosopher who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality, Nietzsche has inspired leading figures in all walks of cultural life. This compendium of aphorisms and prose poems marks the advent of his mature...
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Metaphor and Moral Experience (Irwin Trader's Edge Series)
by A. E. Denham Publisher Comments Alison Denham examines the ways in which our engagement with literary art, and metaphorical discourse in particular, informs our moral beliefs. She considers to what extent moral and metaphorical discourses are capable of truth or falsehood, warrant or...
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Problems with Death (Opposing Viewpoints)
by David A. (edt) Becker Publisher Comments Looks at all sides in several arguments concerning death, including debates about abortion, capital punishment, suicide, and euthanasia....
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The Fifth Book of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
by Aristotle Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Ethics, Evil, and Fiction
by Colin Mcginn Publisher Comments McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both. Setting out to enrich the domain of moral reflection by showing the value of literary texts as sources of moral illumination, McGinn starts by setting...
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Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy #5: Ethics After Anscombe: Post Modern Moral Philosophy
by Duncan Richter Publisher Comments The outstanding features of this book are that it directly confronts the challenge posed by G.E.M. Anscombe in Modern Moral Philosophy of how moral philosophy can be done, it makes a significant contribution to the debate on virtue theory and anti-theory...
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Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
by David Hume Publisher Comments In his antireligious "Essay On Miracles", David Hume reiterates a simple message: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors...
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The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture
by Frederick S Lane Publisher Comments Lane examines America's changing attitudes toward the politics of decency and spells out strategies for combating the rising influence of the puritanical Religious Right....
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Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims
by Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Publisher Comments There is a kind of politeness which is necessary in the intercourse among gentlemen, it makes them comprehend badinage, and it keeps them from using and employing certain figures of speech, too rude and unrefined, which are often used thoughtlessly when...
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St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition: Contemporary Perspectives
by John (edt) Goyette Publisher Comments Bringing together the foremost scholars on natural law, this volume explores and evaluates the current revival of interest in natural law across a range of disciplines--philosophical and theological as well as legal and political....
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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments To observe a dog's guilty look.to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there he a code of...
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Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by David Copp Publisher Comments Copp defends a version of naturalistic moral realism that can accommodate the normativity of morality....
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Soil and Soul/Ne
by Alastair Mcintosh Publisher Comments In this truly inspiring account, activist Alastair McIntosh tells how he helped the beleaguered residents of the Isle of Eigg to become the first Scottish community ever to clear their laird (the landed proprietor) from his own estate. He recounts how...
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