Other Categories »
Ethics & moral philosophy
Ethics & moral philosophy
Results 73 - 96 of 1731
Ethics & moral philosophy
Paperback. This book provides a penetrating and original reconstruction of Hobbes's materialist accounts of self-consciousness, cognition, and agency and shows how such an account of subjectivity demands that we pursue peace in our ethical and political lives. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757485
- ISBN
- 9780804757485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.35
€ 29.99
€ 26.35
Paperback.
The most accessible expression of Francois Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745679617
- ISBN
- 9780745679617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.28
€ 21.28
Hardback. These essays examine the Confucian view towards women and whether old and modern attitudes and beliefs about women are a necessary implication of its general philosophy. The collection also compares ancient and modern opportunites for Chinese women in societal contributions and personal growth. Editor(s): Li, Chenyang. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; HPQ; JFM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812694185
- ISBN
- 9780812694185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.58€ 45.89
€ 51.58
€ 45.89
Paperback. Taking a fresh look at a central controversy in criminal law theory, The Ethics of Capital Punishment presents a rationale for the death penalty grounded in a theory of the nature of evil and the nature of defilement. Original, unsettling, and deeply controversial, it will be an essential reference point for future debates on the subject. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB; LAR; LNFX1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 232 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199642199
- ISBN
- 9780199642199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.96
€ 59.96
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823257232
- ISBN
- 9780823257232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.59
€ 32.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. This work argues that the prevailing view of happiness being defined as "well-feeling" is dangerous in politics as well as ethics. It suggests that it creates individuals with no other sense of obligation than finding personal satisfaction, regardless of the cost to themselves or others. Num Pages: 168 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847681402
- ISBN
- 9780847681402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.12
€ 72.12
paperback. The essays in this volume address questions of property ownership and principles of justice. Editor(s): Paul, Ellen Frankel; Miller, Fred D., Jr.; Jeffrey, Paul. Series: Social Philosophy and Policy. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521175432
- ISBN
- 9780521175432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.53
€ 34.99
€ 31.53
Paperback. This volume of Philosophical Issues, on normativity, has unusually broad scope, and should have correspondingly broad appeal both because of its issues and because of its contributors. The volume includes contributions to moral psychology, theory of reasons and rationality, political philosophy, ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. Editor(s): Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique. Series: Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous. Num Pages: 512 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Volume 15
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405138116
- ISBN
- 9781405138116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.70
€ 49.99
€ 49.70
Hardback. Offers an interpretation of the nature and scope of practical reasoning in light of postmodern philosophical criticism. This title charts a via media between the abstract formalism of neo-Kantian morality and relativist interpretations of neo-Aristotelian ethics. It treats the eclipse of the classical Aristotelian conception of practical reason. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878405657
- ISBN
- 9780878405657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.64
€ 72.64
Paperback. Characterizes the ethical act of forgiving as behaving toward the perpetrator as if he or she had never committed the action, rather than merely forgetting or rationalizing it - a controversial notion when considering events as heinous as the Holocaust. Translator(s): Kelley, Andrew. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226045658
- ISBN
- 9780226045658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.67
€ 34.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Includes probing questions, discussion topics, and simple writing exercises, that help readers to analyze and clarify their own positions on a host of controversial issues: sex, surrogate motherhood, adoption, family abuse, responsibilities for charitable giving, the ethics of war, suicide, and euthanasia, and more. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 6. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Jewish Publication Society United States
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Study Guide
- SKU
- V9780827607569
- ISBN
- 9780827607569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.85
€ 16.99
€ 16.85
Paperback. aeo Robert Goodin is a well--known and well regarded author. aeo Aims to give an overiew and to contextualise the subject. aeo Accessible and jargon--free. aeo Robert Goodin is a well--known and well regarded author. aeo Aims to give an overiew and to contextualise the subject. aeo Accessible and jargon--free. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557863324
- ISBN
- 9781557863324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.07
€ 55.07
Paperback. Drawing on the research into sociology and psychology, deeply personal histories, and the author's own experience as a holocaust survivor, this title offers an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of the nature of good and evil, and moral and immoral behaviour. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Paragon House Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557788962
- ISBN
- 9781557788962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.50
€ 26.99
€ 23.50
Paperback. How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? This title considers bioethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research in Germany at the turn of twenty-first century, highlighting how the country's ongoing struggle to come to terms with its past informs the decisions it makes today. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HPQ; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226924328
- ISBN
- 9780226924328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.08
€ 42.99
€ 33.08
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813530451
- ISBN
- 9780813530451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.07
€ 45.99
€ 40.07
Paperback. Editor(s): Sterba, James P. Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024312
- ISBN
- 9780253024312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.69
€ 33.99
€ 30.69
Paperback. Although the linking of 'ethics' and 'politics' may seem more like the ingredients for a comedian's monologue, it is a sober issue and one that affects every American. This title offers an exploration with that moment when New York became the first state to enact a general ethics law, setting standards and guidelines for behavior. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589010451
- ISBN
- 9781589010451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.95
€ 70.95
Hardback. Translator(s): Steiner, Gary. Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFZ; WBJ; WBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231172967
- ISBN
- 9780231172967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.35€ 44.77
€ 57.35
€ 44.77
Paperback. Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199567812
- ISBN
- 9780199567812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.99
€ 60.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801435676
- ISBN
- 9780801435676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.90
€ 83.90
This is an expanded edition of James Ellington's translation of Kant's essay, in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful consequences. Translator(s): Ellington, James W. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- Third Edition,3
- Number of pages
- 78
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201675
- ISBN
- 9780872201675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.00
€ 38.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. The Danish theologian-philosopher K E Logstrup is known outside Europe for his "The Ethical Demand". This work contains excerpts, translated into English, from the numerous books and essays Logstrup continued to write throughout his life. It also festures essays that connect his ethics with political life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268034078
- ISBN
- 9780268034078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.37
€ 46.99
€ 41.37
Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129046
- ISBN
- 9780231129046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.52
€ 128.52
Paperback. In recent years, there has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in classical conceptions of what it means for human beings to lead a good life. Although the primary focus of the return to classical thought has been Aristotle's account of virtue, the ethics of Aquinas has also received much attention. Series: Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823220441
- ISBN
- 9780823220441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.17
€ 45.99
€ 40.17