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Caliban's Reason

By: Henry, Paget

"Caliban's Reason" introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy. In this ground-breaking work, Paget Henry traces the r ... more

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Basic Writings of Nietzsche

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Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul

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Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone's misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If everyone followed Batman's example, would Gotham be a better place? What is the Tao of the Bat? B ...

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Camus

By Sherman, David

Reflecting the profound influence he continues to exert on popular consciousness, Camus examines the complete body of works of French author and philosopher Albert Camus, providing a comprehensive analysis of Camus' most important works-most notably The Myth of Sis ...

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And God Cloned Eve...: We all come from Adam. What other people have su

By Adelard Dr. Moloto

Mankind hidden potential is like the memory of a computer. Many people switch it on only to play games. As a result, many people use their potential at 0.00000000000000001% This book challenges the vegetative life of the modern man. It gives hope to the descendants of Adam. ...

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Berkeley: Philosophical Writings

By Clarke, Desmond M.

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of his long philosophical career was to counteract objections to religious belief that resulted from new philosophies associated with the Scien ...

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Considering Transcendence: Elements of a philosophical theology

By Nys, Martin J. De

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Antifoundationalism Old and New

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The debate over foundationalism, the viewpoint that there exists some secure foundation upon which to build a system of knowledge, appears to have been resolved and the antifoundationalists have at least temporarily prevailed. From a firmly historical approach, the book trac ...

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Aggression and Crimes Against Peace

By May, Larry

In this volume, the third in his trilogy on the philosophical and legal aspects of war and conflict, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the crime of aggression - the only one of the three crimes charged at Nuremberg that is not currently being prosecuted - that is s ...

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An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

By Lai, Karyn L.

This comprehensive introductory textbook to early Chinese philosophy covers a range of philosophical traditions which arose during the Spring and Autumn (722-476 BCe) and Warring States (475-221 BCe) periods in China, including Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism. It ...

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Appropriating Heidegger

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Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, among the philosophers who study his work we find considerable disagreement over what might seem to be basic issues: why is Heidegger important? What did his work do? T ...

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Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series #15)

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The first look at the philosophy behind Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight series
Bella and edward, and their family and friends, have faced countless dangers and philosophical dilemmas in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels. This book is the first ...

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Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By Timmermann, Jens

The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785. Kant champions the insights of 'common human understanding' against what he sees as the dangerous perversio ...

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The Audacity of Leadership: 10 Essentials to Becoming a Transformative Leader in the 21st Century

By Gunn, Anton J.

- Have you every wondered, what defines leadership in the 21st Century? - Do you know what it takes to become a revolutionary leader for change? - Do you possess the essential skills needed to be a transformative leader in your organization? - What are the things that sep ...

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Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

By Williams, Bernard

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From a Philosophical Point of View: Selected Studies

By White, Morton

From a Philosophical Point of View: Selected Studies ...

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Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism

By Soames, Scott

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Justice

By Sandel, Michael J.

What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do i ...

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Is There A God?

By Swinburne, Richard

Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God. It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the twentieth century leave little room for God. Cosmol ...

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Meditations

By Aurelius, Marcus

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121–180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161. A student of philosophy from his earliest youth, he was especially influenced by the first-century Stoic thinker epictetus. His ...

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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The definitive collection of emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The essential Writings of Ralph Waldo emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar."
As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement ...

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Conversations with Elie Wiesel

By Wiesel, Elie / Heffner, Richard D.

elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, Wiesel is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston Un ...

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Cunning

By Herzog, Don

Want to be cunning? You might wish you were more clever, more flexible, able to cut a few corners without getting caught, to dive now and again into iniquity and surface clutching a prize. You might want to roll your eyes at those slaves of duty who play by the rules. Or you ...

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Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion

By Hibbs, Thomas

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Animal Pragmatism

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Animal welfare considered by American pragmatists. ...

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Cruel Delight

By Steintrager, James A.

"Cruel Delight: enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman" investigates cruelty and its contribution to concepts of the human in the enlightenment culture of the eighteenth century. It reveals the way that cruelty moved from being an inherently inhuman act that undermines the hu ...

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Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory

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Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today.
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Chinnagounder's Challenge

By Curtin, Deane W.

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A Psychological Approach to Ethical Reality, Volume 132

By Hillner, Kenneth P.

The pre-eminent 19th century British ethicist, Henry Sidgwick once said: "All important ethical notions are also psychological, except perhaps the fundamental antitheses of 'good' and 'bad' and 'wrong', with which psychology, as it treats of what is and ...

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After the Holocaust

By Alford, C. Fred

The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Moving from the Book of Job, ...

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Getting What You Want?

By Brecher, Bob, Brecher, Robert

Bob Brecher claims that it is wrong to think that morality is simply rooted in what people want. Brecher explains that in our consumerist society, we make the assumption that getting "what people want" is our natural goal, and that this goal is usually a good one. We see ...

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What Does It Mean to Be Human?

By Franck, Frederick

At a time when technology is improving daily to feed our insatiable hunger to connect instantaneously across time and space, we seem to have lost touch with what genuinely binds us together -- our humanity. What Does It Mean to Be Human? is a thoughtful and candid ...

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Morality: An Introduction to Ethics

By Williams, Bernard

Bernard Williams's remarkable essay on morality confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analy ...

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Public Goods, Private Goods

By Geuss, Raymond

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Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality

By Dan-Cohen, Meir

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Goodness and Advice

By Thomson, Judith Jarvis

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Reasons without Rationalism

By Setiya, Kieran

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Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation

By Zamir, Tzachi

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Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence

By Seligman, Adam B.

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The Virtue of Selfishness

By RAND, AYN

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, an ...

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Conversations with Elie Wiesel

By Wiesel, Elie / Heffner, Richard D.

elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, Wiesel is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston Un ...

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Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context

By Bell, Daniel A.

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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy: 2 Volume Set

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This new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars.
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A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France

By Pitts, Jennifer

A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to empire, Adam Smith, edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criti ...

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The Autonomy of Morality

By Larmore, Charles

In The Autonomy of Morality Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor does human freedom consist in imposing principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consis ...

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Naturalized Bioethics

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Naturalized bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practised. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, political ...

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The Human Right to a Green Future

By Hiskes, Richard P.

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice. It argues that the rights to clean air, water, and soil should be seen as the environmental human rights of both present and future generations. It presents ...

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Just Health

By Daniels, Norman

In this new book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key questions: What is the special moral importance of health? When are health inequalities unjust? How can we meet healt ...

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Morality and Political Violence

By Coady, C. A. J.

Political violence in the form of wars, insurgencies, terrorism, and violent rebellion constitutes a major human challenge. C. A. J. Coady brings a philosophical and ethical perspective as he places the problems of war and political violence in the frame of reflective ethics ...

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Tocqueville on American Character

By Ledeen, Michael Arthur

In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a twenty-six-year-old French aristocrat, spent nine months traveling across the United States. From the east Coast to the frontier, from the Canadian border to New Orleans, Tocqueville observed the American people and the revolutionary count ...

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In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument

By Williams, Bernard

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Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question

By Cocks, Joan

Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question ...

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Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context

By Bell, Daniel A.

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Enlightenment against Empire

By Muthu, Sankar

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Democracy and Tradition

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Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life

By Wolin, Sheldon S.

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We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship

By Balibar, Etienne

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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

By Aristotle

Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCe, is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavour. It is soundly located within a...more ...

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EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES VOL 2- Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Eg

By Ashby, Muata

eGYPTIAN MYSTeRIeS VOL 2- Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses of Ancient egypt...more ...

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> Kant, Immanuel

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Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

By Kant, Immanuel

This volume is the first to assemble in historical sequence the writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is...more ...

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> Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

By Nietzsche, Friedrich

Beyond Good and evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. In it, Nietzsche presents a set of problems, criticisms and philosophical challenges that continue both to inspire and to trouble conte...more ...

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> Miller, Barbara

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How To Quit Smoking Even If You Don't Want To

By Miller, Barbara

People often say, "I am not ready to quit smoking." This book gives you a step-by-step plan that will show you how to get ready to quit. Quitting smoking is like going into battle. With this plan in place you will be ready to win...more ...

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Gorgias

By Plato

In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict them, and sometimes we are inclined to thi...more ...

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> Russell, Bertrand

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By Russell, Bertrand

THe attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose “Republic” set the model for the Utopias of subs...more ...

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> Stevenson, Jay

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The complete idiot's guide to philosophy

By Stevenson, Jay

Thousands of years of wisdom, in one updated guide. Socrates's admonition that "the unexamined life is not worth living" still resonates with many people, and this guide is a great introduction to that mental exercise. The author skillfully covers the subject both historical...more ...

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