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Eating the Elephant
by John Mangano  Synopsis "Eating the Elephant" delivers a provocative and enlightening treatise on the role of faith, science, and religion in the modern world. It nudges readers toward understanding while challenging them to re-examine their current belief systems....
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Inquiry Whether a General Practice of Virtue Tends to the Wealth or Poverty, Benefit or Disadvantage
by George Blewitt Publisher Comments In which the pleas offered by the author of the Fable of the Bees, or private vices public benefits for the usefulness of vice and roguery are considered, with some thoughts concerning a toleration of public stews. Due to the age and scarcity of the...
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My Teaching
by Jacques Lacan Publisher Comments The father of psychoanalytic philosophy's invaluable introduction to his own thought, available in English for the first time. Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, My...
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Scepticism in the History of Philosophy: A Pan-American Dialogue
by R. H. Popkin Synopsis Scepticism in the History of Philosophy is a dialogue between leading Latin American and North American scholars concerned with the history of scepticism from ancient times to present day philosophy. The volume contains interesting discussions by a wide...
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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
by Martha C Nussbaum Publisher Comments This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal...
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Prescription: Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death
by Jack Kevorkian Publisher Comments Dr. Kevorkian has helped more than a dozen terminally-ill people kill themselves. As a result, physician-assisted suicide has once again become a red-hot debate, with the inventor of the "suicide machine" at the center. Now the famed doctor talks about...
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Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morality: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts)
by Lawrence Hatab Publisher Comments Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is a forceful, perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly influential ever since. This introductory textbook offers a comprehensive, close reading of the entire work, with a section...
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Moral Philosophy After 9/11
by Joseph Margolis Publisher Comments Were the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks courageous "freedom fighters" or despicable terrorist murderers? Eschewing the resort to universal moral principles favored by traditional Anglo-American analytic philosophy, Joseph Margolis sets out to sketch an...
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Animal Experimentation: The Moral Issues
by Robert M Baird Publisher Comments Presents articles debating the use of animals in scientific research....
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Trouble With Principle (99 Edition)
by Stanley Fish Publisher Comments Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the...
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Handbook of Professional and Ethical Practice for Psychologists, Counsellors, and Psychotherapists
by Rachel (edt) Tribe Publisher Comments The increase in professionalization of psychological counselling and the increasing use of litigation against therapists and psychologists means that an awareness of the professional, legal and ethical considerations is vital. The Handbook of...
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Human Happiness and Morality: A Brief Introduction to Ethics
by Robert F. Almeder Publisher Comments What makes a right act right? Why should I be moral? What is human happiness and how do I attain it? Almeder provides lucid introductory explanations of major ethical theories and details simple stoic rules for living the good life....
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Ethics in Information Technology (2ND 07 Edition)
by George Reynolds Publisher Comments Ethics in Information Technology, Second Edition is a highly anticipated revision offering updated and newsworthy coverage of issues such as file sharing, infringement of intellectual property, security risks, Internet crime, identity theft, employee...
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Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by Emilie M. Townes Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes....
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Bioethics Yearbook Vol. 5: Theological Developments in Bioethics: 1992-1994
by B. Andrew Lustig Publisher Comments As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral and religious traditions and in different regions of the world. It is often difficult, however, to obtain timely information...
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John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living: Revisioning Aesthetic Education
by David A. Granger Publisher Comments This book explores the writings of philosopher and educator John Dewey in order to develop an expansive vision of aesthetic education and everyday poetics of living. Robert Pirsig's best-selling book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, provides...
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Civilian Immunity in War
by Igor (edt) Primoratz Publisher Comments The protection of noncombatants from deadly violence is the centerpiece of any account of ethical and legal constraints on war. It was a major achievement of moral progress from early modern times to World War I. Yet it has been under constant attrition...
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Ethics of Human Cloning (98 Edition)
by Leon R. Kass Publisher Comments This accessible volume promises to inform the public policy debate over the permissible conduct of genetic research and the permissible uses of its discoveries....
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Do Ethics Matter?: A Guide to Contemporary Religious Ethics
by Ian S. Markham Publisher Comments Do Morals Matter? is an accessible and informed guide to contemporary ethical issues that reflects upon the intersection of religion and morality....
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Moral Reasons
by Jonathan Dancy Synopsis Aims to place a realistic view of ethics within a broader context. It examines why we should mind about the difference between right and wrong, asks what account we should give of our ability to learn from moral experience and looks at how moral reasons...
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