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Ethics & moral philosophy

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Ethics & moral philosophy

Paperback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347255
ISBN
9780822347255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138827066
ISBN
9781138827066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.12

Paperback. This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. We learn too about Seneca's personal and political life in the time of Nero. Translator(s): Fantham, Elaine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BJ; HBLA1; HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199533213
ISBN
9780199533213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardcover. We live in a world increasingly governed by technology-but at what cost? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDR; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393078992
ISBN
9780393078992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. "Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethics examines an act's rightness or wrongness in terms of such factors as consequences, harm, and consent. She" Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Westview Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813308463
ISBN
9780813308463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.22

Hardback. .
Publisher
University Press of America
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761865155
ISBN
9780761865155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.39

Paperback. The world's leading thinker on truth explains what it is and why it matters in every important aspect of life Series: Ideas in Profile. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781257227
ISBN
9781781257227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192853776
ISBN
9780192853776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTZ1; HPQ; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Schocken Books
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Revised and Expanded Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780805210606
ISBN
9780805210606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.38

Paperback. Written by a great scholar, this is a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. It presents the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Series: British Moral Philosophers S. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199252657
ISBN
9780199252657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

paperback. Draws on the psychological insights provided by the Hebrew Bible, the Gospels, Aristotle, Maimonides, Aquinas and others to show what we can learn from their teachings about the relationship between virtue and psychological well-being and vice and emotional distress. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 pp halftones. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; HRLB; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780195119459
ISBN
9780195119459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.72

Paperback. For Aristotle being hopeful was part of a well-lived life, a virtue. For Aquinas it was a fundamentally theological virtue and for Kant a basic moral motivation. Drawing on everyday examples as well as discussion of hope in the arenas of medicine, politics and religion, this title shows how hopefulness in not the same as hope. Series: The Art of Living. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 218. Series: Art of Living. 176 pages. For Aristotle being hopeful was part of a well-lived life, a virtue. For Aquinas it was a fundamentally theological virtue and for Kant a basic moral motivation. Drawing on everyday examples as well as discussion of hope in the arenas of medicine, politics and religion, this title shows how hopefulness in not the same as hope. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HPQ. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 12. Weight: 218.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844652600
ISBN
9781844652600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; HPN; HPQ; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138796850
ISBN
9781138796850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Paperback. Series: The Routledge Philosophers. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415782753
ISBN
9780415782753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415531054
ISBN
9780415531054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.29

Paperback. Shows how the philosophical resources of the eighteenth-century Englightenment can help us to construct a politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the temptation of a cynicism that masquerade as realism. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526278
ISBN
9780099526278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.70

paperback. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love - and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. This title states that this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life. Series: The University Center for Human Values Series. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691154503
ISBN
9780691154503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 19.65

Hardcover. The Trolley Problem is an ethical thought experiment dreamed up in 1967 by British philosopher Philippa Foot, and further developed by American thinker Judith Jarvis Thomson in the '70s. Since then, philosophers have devised a variety of iterations of the problem. This book explores these through the lens of a trial in the court of public opinion. Num Pages: 112 pages, black and white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761175131
ISBN
9780761175131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.63

Paperback. 'What does it mean to be lonely?' This book takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. It shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047884
ISBN
9780674047884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.52

Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
171
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195394115
ISBN
9780195394115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.05

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