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Ethics & moral philosophy

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Ethics & moral philosophy

Paperback. Some moral theorists hold that the realm of morality must be autonomous of the sciences; others maintain that science undermines the authority of moral reasons. This book elaborates a vision of naturalism that resists both temptations. It also traces an intellectual genealogy of the burgeoning discipline of 'experimental philosophy'. Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034570
ISBN
9780674034570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.28

Paperback. Challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. This work revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027814
ISBN
9780141027814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Provides an introduction to theories of the good life by exploring the strengths and weakness of six simple statements of what a good life should be. Drawing on classic Chinese, Indian, Greek and Roman sources, this work considers the various ways in which one might think about the values that are worth aiming for. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872207837
ISBN
9780872207837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 36.94

paperback. Series: Environmental Ethics & Science Policy Series. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; HPS; PDA; PDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780190603816
ISBN
9780190603816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.45

Hardback. Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosopher - Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker Claire Denis. It offers new readings of Denis' films, situating them within larger feminist, postcolonial and queer debates. Num Pages: 208 pages, 40 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; HPQ; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474403276
ISBN
9781474403276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.92

Paperback. Series: Open Media Pamphlet S. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; TCBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 168 x 171 x 5. Weight in Grams: 74.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Edition
2 New ed
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583224205
ISBN
9781583224205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.07

Paperback. Lays the groundwork for a social theory receptive to altruism by examining the experiences described by altruists themselves. This work explores the causes of altruism and the differences between altruists and other people. It demonstrates how social theories may begin to account for altruism and debunks the notions of scientific inevitability. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691058474
ISBN
9780691058474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.11

Hardback. This examination of Simone de Beauvoir's form of existentialism pays special attention to her work, "The Ethics of Ambiguity", in which de Beauvoir draws from many thinkers in the continental tradition to argue that one's own freedom is intertwined with that of others. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812694420
ISBN
9780812694420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 36.28

Hardcover. The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. * The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. Editor(s): Kraut, Richard. Series: Blackwell Guides to Great Works S. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 177 x 28. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405120203
ISBN
9781405120203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.08

Paperback. The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. * The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. Editor(s): Kraut, Richard. Series: Blackwell Guides to Great Works S. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405120210
ISBN
9781405120210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.76

Paperback. This text presents an alternative understanding of interpersonal life, not only from utilitarianism and Kantianism, but also with Kierkegaard's Christian existentialism and forms of subjectivism. For Logstrup there is no Christian or secular morality, only human morality. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268009342
ISBN
9780268009342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Petrus, Klaus; Wild, Markus. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRLM; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837624625
ISBN
9783837624625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.44
€ 51.84

Paperback. Advance directives - such as living wills and health care proxies - are documents intended to declare and preserve the health care choices of patients if they become unable to make their own decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions for writing and interpreting them. Editor(s): King, Nancy M. P. Series: Clinical Medical Ethics. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFME; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878406050
ISBN
9780878406050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.79

paperback. An account of the competing schools of thought in international theory. It examines mainstream approaches in international relations and applied ethics, and introduces the central debates. It also draws conclusions for transcending the theoretical deadlock in international relations. Series: Sage Politics Texts Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHBA; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761955160
ISBN
9780761955160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.00

Paperback. Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms, and argues that if there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 135 x 203 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198709619
ISBN
9780198709619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.70

Paperback. This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide - not euthanasia - are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFME; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137487469
ISBN
9781137487469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.92

Hardback. This text brings together a diverse group of clinicians, theologians, and philosophers to examine the use of reproductive technologies in the light of the Roman Catholic moral tradition and recent teaching. Editor(s): Wildes, Kevin Wm. Series: Philosophy and Medicine / Catholic Studies in Bioethics. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792340614
ISBN
9780792340614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.03

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Tuttle Shokai Inc Japan
Edition
Hardcover with Jacket
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9784805312292
ISBN
9784805312292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.38

paperback. Includes essays that explore mandates for humanitarian action in religious traditions, and codes of conduct for the media, military, medicine, and the academy in relief efforts. This book explores threats to human welfare from terrorism and gender exploitation and assess international law, and the media. Series: International Humanitarian Affairs. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823222889
ISBN
9780823222889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Hardback. Editor(s): Love, Kevin. Series Editor(s): Pole, Christopher. Series: Studies in Qualitative Methodology. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780528786
ISBN
9781780528786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.20

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