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Mother Time
by Margaret Urban Walker  Publisher Comments Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences...
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Reasons of Love (04 Edition)
by Harry G. Frankfurt Publisher Comments This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love...
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Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues (7TH 08 Edition)
by Vincent Ruggiero Publisher Comments This concise, accessible text emphasizes doing ethical analysis and thinking critically about ethical issues, rather than focusing on ethical theory or the history of ethics. Ruggiero's readers are invited to apply ethical principles to issues that...
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Responsibility and Judgment
by Hannah Arendt Publisher Comments Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt's life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a...
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
by Jonathan Lear Publisher Comments Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his storyandmdash;up to a certain point. andldquo;When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,andrdquo; he said, andldquo;and they could not...
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Loeb Classical Library #058: Marcus Aurelius
by C R Haines Publisher Comments Marcus Aurelius (121and#150;180 CE), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138and#150;161), who adopted him. He was converted to Stoicism and henceforward studied...
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Sloth (Seven Deadly Sins)
by Wendy Wasserstein Publisher Comments Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. <BR> With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have...
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Abolition of Man (47 Edition)
by C. S. Lewis Publisher Comments C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society....
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South Park and Philosophy (07 Edition)
by Hanley Publisher Comments Trey Parker and Matt Stone's long-running Comedy Central hit cartoon "South Park" has been equally cheered and reviled for its edgy humor, poited satire of current events and celebrities, and all-around obnoxiousness. But is there more to Kyle, the...
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Radical Honesty, the New Revised Edition: How To Transform Your Life By Telling the Truth
by Brad Blanton Publisher Comments This new edition of the source book fo the whole Radical Honest movement includes Brad's accumulated observations since of 1994 of those people whose lives have been transformed by getting out of the seld--made jails of their minds into the truth they...
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Reasons and Persons
by Derek Parfit Publisher Comments Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he...
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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
by Iris Murdoch Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of The Good Apprentice draws on the entire history of philosophy--and particularly on Plato and Kant--to formulate her own model of morality and demonstrate how thoroughly it is bound up with our daily lives. "An utterly absorbing...
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On Duties (91 Edition)
by Cicero Publisher Comments This volume aims to render De Officiis, Cicero's last theoeretical work, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place....
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Three Challenges to Ethics: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism
by James Sterba Publisher Comments In this unique work, James Sterba argues that traditional ethics has yet to face up to three important challenges posed by environmentalism, feminism, and multiculturalism. This failure signifies that no matter how successful traditional ethics has been...
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Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy
by Bernard Ar Williams Publisher Comments "In this exceptionally brilliant book, ranging effortlessly from Herodotus and Thucydides to Diderot and Nietzsche, Bernard Williams daringly asks--and still more daringly answers--one of the central questions of philosophy: what is the point of telling...
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Equality and Preferential Treatment (77 Edition)
by Marshall Cohen Publisher Comments These essays, with one exception originally published in "Philosophy & Public Affairs," consider the moral problems associated with improving the social and economic position of disadvantaged groups. If the situation of women and minorities improves...
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Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
by Susan Neiman Publisher Comments Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation...
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Ethics in Plain English : Illustrative Casebook for Psychologists (2ND 05 Edition)
by Thomas F. Nagy Publisher Comments ?Ethics in Plain English? is a practical and engaging resource that shows psychologists how to apply the principles of APA's Ethics Code to the ethical dilemmas that they encounter in their daily lives. This second edition has been wholly rewritten and...
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The Genealogy of Morals (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last 2 centuries, deals with master/slave morality and modern man's current moral practices; the evolution of man's feelings of guilt and bad conscience; and how ascetic ideals help...
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The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell the Right from Wrong in Everyday Situations
by Randy Cohen Publisher Comments Updated in paperback, the thought-provoking collection of advice on how to be good in the real world, from the man behind The New York Times Magazine's immensely popular "The Ethicist" column--syndicated nationwide as "Everyday Ethics."...
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