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The Gift of Kinds: The Good in Abundance, an Ethic of the Earth
by Stephen David Ross  Publisher Comments In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project reexamining Western philosophical tradition, The Gift of Kinds explores the order of things, linking the kinds of the natural world to disciplinary distinctions and to social divisions by...
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The Communicative Ethics Controversy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
by Seyla Benhabib Publisher Comments This timely reader in moral philosophy addresses a controversy that strongly affected recent European reflections on the relevance of ethics for theories of democratic institutions and democratic legitimacy. The debate centers around the idea of a...
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Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy #5: The Ethical
by Edith Wyschogrod Publisher Comments The Ethical is a collection of readings on ethics and the nature of morality by some of the most important contemporary philosophers in the continental tradition....
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Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
by Silvia Benso Publisher Comments Here's a book that dispels the traditional tendency of philosophy to ignore the alterity of things. Drawing on two major figures in the continental tradition -- Levinas and Heidegger -- author Silvia Benso engages them on the provocative issue of an...
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Animal Welfare: Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications
by Richard P. Haynes Publisher Comments Members of the a oeanimal welfare science communitya, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than...
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International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine #35: Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Non-Identity Problem
by Melinda A. Roberts Publisher Comments Where an act that seems destructive causes the very existence of the people it injures or impairs, on what basis do we say a indeed, can we cogently say a that that act is nonetheless morally wrong? Our response to this disturbing question will have...
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Rediscovering the Moral Life: Philosophy and Human Practice (Frontiers of Philosophy)
by James Gouinlock Synopsis Periodically, someone must remind philosophers of just how far removed they are from the all-too-real and vital human concerns that affect people's lives. Someone has to point the way to a philosophy that returns to these concerns with both depth and...
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The Embers and the Stars
by Erazim Kohak Publisher Comments "It is hard to put this profound book into a category. Despite the author's criticisms of Thoreau, it is more like Walden than any other book I have read. . . . The book makes great strides toward bringing the best insights from medieval philosophy and...
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Ethics & Discovery of Unconscious (Suny Series, Transpersonal & Humanistic Psychology)
by John Hanwell Riker Publisher Comments This book shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud requires a reconception of the concepts of moral agency and responsibility and even of morality itself. it explicates how contemporary psychology has taken over the traditional...
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Values, Education and the Human World
by John Haldane Publisher Comments The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered in the universities of St Andrews, London (Kings College), Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds....
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Desire and Affect
by Yirmiyahu (edt) Yovel Publisher Comments Desire and Affect brings together leading international scholars to provide one of the few comprehensive accounts of Spinoza's rational psychology and its major themes and wide-ranging influence. The papers were first presented at the third conference in...
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Morality of Political Violence
by C. A. J. Coady Publisher Comments Coady brings a philosophical and ethical perspective to the subject of political violence....
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Altared Ground : Levinas, History, Violence (96 Edition)
by Brian Schroeder Publisher Comments One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In "Altared Ground: Levinas, History and Violence, Brian Schroeder stages an engagement between Emmanuel Levinas, one of the leading...
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Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas
by Robert Eaglestone Publisher Comments What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? The book sets these issues in context by analyzing the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary backlash against what is known as "theory." This is the...
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Morality and Self-Interest
by Paul Bloomfield Publisher Comments Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy....
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Moral Contexts (Feminist Constructions)
by Margaret Urban Walker Publisher Comments To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference....
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Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection
by Lisa H. Sideris Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-306) and index....
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Central Problems of Philosophy #14: Death
by Geoffrey Scarre Publisher Comments What is death? 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 meaningfulness of life or would life that never ended be eternally and absurdly tedious? Can...
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Values and Valuing: Speculations on the Ethical Life of Persons
by Graham Nerlich Publisher Comments This provocative book argues that people are naturally endowed with the ability to speak an articulate language and to form a culture. Language and cultural life require self-appraisal, and hence an evolution--through self-conflict--of desires into...
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Reading Philosophy #7: Reading Ethics
by Miranda Fricker Synopsis This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. This text encourages students to engage with ethical issues through a series of classic and contemporary readings...
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