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Ethics & moral philosophy
Paperback. Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of a normala society. It is at once the cause and the explanation of misfortune, of the wretchedness of human existence, and of our own individual wrongdoing. Editor(s): Parkin, Robert. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631154327
- ISBN
- 9780631154327
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Condition: New
€ 54.57
€ 54.57
Hardback. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment - the right to pursue happiness - become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we become unhappy about not being happy - and what might we do to escape this predicament? This book considers these questions. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143736
- ISBN
- 9780691143736
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Condition: New
€ 39.97
€ 39.97
Hardback. The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought. The author argues that the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules - without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements. Translator(s): Randall, Steven. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149141
- ISBN
- 9780691149141
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.78
€ 42.99
€ 30.78
Paperback. Presents a treatment of the problem of recognition and a sequence of virtuoso studies. This book develops an alternative account of the nature and sources of identity-based injustice in which the pursuit of recognition is part of the problem rather than the solution. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113821
- ISBN
- 9780691113821
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Condition: New
€ 53.10€ 42.00
€ 53.10
€ 42.00
Paperback. Patricia Illingworth's short, powerful and passionate book argues that "social capital" should be an essential ethical concept guiding our actions, and explains how one might go about implementing this idea in a positive way. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314436
- ISBN
- 9780230314436
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Condition: New
€ 52.57
€ 52.57
Paperback. Editor(s): Maccormack, Patricia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- n
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472534446
- ISBN
- 9781472534446
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.00
€ 42.99
€ 36.00
hardcover. Derives a fundamental ethic from liberation theology. This title asserts that the experience of resisting suffering, especially oppressive social suffering, must be brought from the fringe to the center of ethics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878405411
- ISBN
- 9780878405411
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Condition: New
€ 42.31
€ 42.31
Hardback. Including unpublished material and personal correspondence from the Uppsala archives, A Real Mind follows the evolution of Hagerstrom's intellectual ideas, summarizing his main arguments at the same time as providing inspiration for future critical assessment. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 271 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ; HPS; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048128945
- ISBN
- 9789048128945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.05
€ 127.05
Paperback. Including unpublished material and personal correspondence from the Uppsala archives, A Real Mind follows the evolution of Hagerstrom's intellectual ideas, summarizing his main arguments at the same time as providing inspiration for future critical assessment. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 271 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730472
- ISBN
- 9789400730472
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Condition: New
€ 121.80
€ 121.80
Paperback. This book treats art as a unique thread in human communication, a medium that carries the significance of human life and sustains history and culture. The reader takes away a creative experience that transmutes and transforms. Editor(s): Coohill, Patricia Trutty. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 440 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400733268
- ISBN
- 9789400733268
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Condition: New
€ 186.21
€ 186.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Nerhot, Patrick. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GBC; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401054386
- ISBN
- 9789401054386
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Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc.
- Number of pages
- 139
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865978058
- ISBN
- 9780865978058
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. A mature scholar and established literary critic, Grant has emerged as a cultural critic of religious and ethnic conflict. Series: Cultural Dialectics. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; HRAM1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AU Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926836751
- ISBN
- 9781926836751
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.09
€ 27.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Is it ever morally right to procure an abortion, to help procure one, or to perform one? This title surveys the philosophical arguments in favor of the moral permissibility of abortion and refutes them point by point. It presents a case for the pro-life position and a challenge to the philosophical arguments on behalf of the pro-choice position. Num Pages: 177 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813217307
- ISBN
- 9780813217307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.31
€ 31.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; HPQ; JPA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349505043
- ISBN
- 9781349505043
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Condition: New
€ 52.36
€ 52.36
Paperback. Paul B. Thompson covers diet and health issues, livestock welfare, world hunger, food justice, environmental ethics, Green Revolution technology and GMOs in this concise but comprehensive study. He shows how food can be a nexus for integrating larger social issues in social inequality, scientific reductionism, and the eclipse of morality. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFCV; JFFZ; JFMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199391691
- ISBN
- 9780199391691
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.81
€ 34.99
€ 32.81
Paperback. Undeniably, life is unfair. So, why play fairly in an unfair world? The answer comes from combining the ancient Greek conception of happiness with a modern conception of self-respect. The book is about why it is bad to be bad and good to be good, and what happens in between. Series: Oxford Moral Theory. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190612009
- ISBN
- 9780190612009
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Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Paperback. Examines how theatre - which expressed a political dynamic both in the Renaissance and the twentieth century - lays open the impulses that instigated modernity and, ultimately, unparalleled levels of violence and destruction. This book traces the emergence of an unrestrained pursuit of power and the utopian desire for perfection. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: AN; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022952
- ISBN
- 9780268022952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Camenisch, Paul F. Series: Theology and Medicine. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 563.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048142354
- ISBN
- 9789048142354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 237.77
€ 237.77
Paperback. World Ethics and Climate Change combines the science of climate change with ethical critique to expose its impact, the increasing intensity of dangerous trends, particularly growing global affluence, material consumption and pollution and the intensifying moral dimensions of changes to the environment. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Global Ethics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; RNPG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474403993
- ISBN
- 9781474403993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39