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by C. Fred Alford Publisher Comments C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil -- in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ton Van Den Beld Publisher Comments What are the conditions which must be met for a person to be justly held responsible for his or her moral faults and failures? This is the first book that pays systematic attention to ontological issues impinging on this question. It contains a selection... (read more) Your price $171.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Philip Clayton Publisher Comments Strong claims have been made for emergence as a new paradigm for understanding science, consciousness, and religion. Tracing the past history and current definitions of the concept, Clayton assesses the case for emergent phenomena in the natural world... (read more) Your price $108.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ernest (ed.) Sosa Publisher Comments This anthology, intended to accompany "A Companion to Metaphysics" (Blackwell, 1995), brings together over 60 selections which represent the best and most important works in metaphysics during this century. The selections are grouped under ten major... (read more) List Price $72.95 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Theodore C. Denise Publisher Comments Long-hailed for skilled editing that enables students to explore many seminal and complex primary sources that contribute to the canon of ethical theory, GREAT TRADITIONS IN ETHICS has become the standard historical anthology for introducing ethical... (read more) List Price $88.45 Your price $71.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Roger J. Sullivan Publisher Comments 'This is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant\'s ethics available.'... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Jameson Publisher Comments A reconciliation of the various accounts of moral obligation is attempted in this essay. Various are the methods used by the learned to illustrate the difference between virtue and vice, and to prove the moral obligations. Many and warm have been the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hillary R. Clinton Publisher Comments For more than twenty-five years, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her long experience with children -- not only through her personal roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by H.g. Wells Publisher Comments In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joseph Agassi Publisher Comments In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. According to Agassi, science is an integral part of culture, and both... (read more) List Price $156.00 Your price $84.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Steven M. (ed.) Cahn Publisher Comments Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Second Edition, is a remarkably accessible and engaging introduction to philosophy. Steven M. Cahn brings together extraordinarily clear, recent essays by noted philosophers and supplements them with... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $39.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Christopher Falzon Publisher Comments "Philosophy Goes to the Movies" is a new kind of introduction to philosophy that makes use of film to help us understand philosophical ideas and positions. Drawing on a wide range of films from around the world - and the ideas of a diverse selection of... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $27.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Erika (ed.) Rummel Publisher Comments 'Rummel's collection makes available readable translations of Erasmus' most original and influential works; the books that made him the intellectual conscience of this generation of scholars and the inspiration of many Reformers who took positions he did... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joshua Piven Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199).... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Schwartz Publisher Comments Essays on topics in the theory of vision including Berkeley's influential writings on vision, debates over competing models of perception, picture perception, and the metaphysical quagmires of the "real."... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry A. Giroux Publisher Comments Today, cultural practices and institutions shape nearly every aspect of our lives. The author takes up this issue by looking at the world's most influential corporation. He explores the way in which the Disney Corporation has become a political force in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Stuart Mill Publisher Comments John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1860) continues to shape modern Western conceptions of individual freedom. In this volume, eight leading Mill scholars comment on this landmark work. Their essays, selected for their importance and accessibility, serve as... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Louis Lyons Publisher Comments Although known as the founder of modern utilitarianism and the source of analytical jurisprudence, Bentham today is infrequently read but often caricatured. The present book offers a reinterpretation of Bentham's main philosophical doctrines, his... (read more) List Price $180.00 Your price $157.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Luce Irigaray Publisher Comments Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche,... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Edward Hacker Publisher Comments With over one thousand entries covering a diverse range of sources including books, articles, unpublished dissertations, taped lectures, devices and software, this is the most comprehensive annotated bibliography of English works on the" I Ching." This... (read more) Your price $107.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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