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Alasdair MacIntyre
by Mark C. Murphy Publisher Comments Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book...
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The Nature Of Goodness
by George Herbert Palmer Publisher Comments A second inadequate definition of goodness is that it is adaptation to environment. This is a far more important conception than the preceding; but again, while not untrue, is still, in my judgment, partial and ambiguous. When its meaning is made clear...
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Locke on Government
by David L. Thomas Publisher Comments Locke on Government is an essential companion for any student of his Second Treatise on Government, one of the most influential political statements of its time and the foundation of liberal political thought....
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Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer Publisher Comments The Essays here presented form a further selection from Schopenhauer's Parerga, brought together under a title which is not to be found in the original, and does not claim to apply to every chapter in the volume. The first essay is, in the main, a...
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Do you ask my kinds of questions too?
by Twu-Myla Publisher Comments If you are like me, you might have tried extensively to understand reality including yourself. You might have asked all kinds of questions, too many to track their numbers. Some of the issues that you wanted to get answers for might have been trivial...
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Musical Performance
by Publisher Comments "Musical Performance" considers music from the vantage point of active music-making. Stan Godlovitch brings philosophical insight to the issue that most of us now listen to music that is "ready-made"--recorded and replayed for us at our convenience and...
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The Machiavellian Moment
by J. G. A. Pocock Publisher Comments The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli...
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Considered Judgment
by Catherine Z. Elgin Publisher Comments Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, foundationalism's heirs continue their forbears' quest,...
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Zen And Art Of Anything
by Hal French Publisher Comments "If shelf and cerebral space allowed for only one book on personal spirituality, self-knowledge, or improvement, it could easily be Dr. Hal French's Zen and the Art of Anything." ¯The Star Reporter, Columbia, S.C. THIS IS NOT JUST A BOOK...
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus: An Introduction
by Alfred Nordmann Publisher Comments This introduction considers the philosophical and literary aspects of Wittgenstein"s 'Tractatus" and shows how they are related....
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Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics
by Friedrich Schleiermacher Publisher Comments The first English translation of Schleiermacher's lectures on philosophical ethics, with a philosophical introduction....
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Is the Welfare State Justified?
by Daniel Shapiro Publisher Comments In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state...
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments Coming now to the other qualities mentioned above, I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency. Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; notwithstanding, his...
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Essays, Volume V
by T., H. Huxley Publisher Comments 'For close upon forty years I have been writing with one purpose; from time to time, I have fought for that which seemed to me the truth, perhaps still more, against that which I have thought error; and, in this way, I have reached, indeed over-stepped...
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Cambridge Companion to Ockham
by Paul Vincent Spade Publisher Comments The Franciscan William of Ockham (c. 1288 1347) was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he is regarded as one of the three main figures in medieval philosophy after around 1150...
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The Limits of Thought
by J. Krishnamurti Synopsis The authors of this volume explore the nature of humanity and a person's relationship to society, and insights on human thought, death, awakening insight, cosmic order, and the problem of the fragmented mind....
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The Tao
by Lao Tzu Publisher Comments The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao....
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Laches, or Courage - PLATO
by Plato Publisher Comments There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following the teachings of Socrates, Plato's works are...
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Essai sur les fondements de nos connaissances et sur les caract
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Preface, Bibliography, Index to "Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholarship"
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