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Ethics & moral philosophy
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
€ 74.95
€ 74.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 279 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1965
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401185370
- ISBN
- 9789401185370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Mary Warnock steers a clear path through the web of complex issues underlying the issues surrounding the right to have children. She begins by analysing what it means to claim something as a "right", and goes on to discuss the cases of different groups of people. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; MFKC; PDR; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0006199
- ISBN
- 9780192803344
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPA; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1998
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048150427
- ISBN
- 9789048150427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.14
€ 194.14
Hardback. Tries to show that problematic evaluations of new technologies such as IVF may be as dangerous as no evaluation at all. This book offers an extensive evaluation of four prominent institutional assessments of IVF. It reveals how inadequate assessments may produce policies that are not in the public's best interests. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792351160
- ISBN
- 9780792351160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.28
€ 198.28
Paperback. Explains that, though we sometimes act out of depravity and despair, we do know in our heart of hearts that we are not as we were meant to be, and were created to be so much more. This book shows how we can find our way back to goodness by changing our attitudes, by practising forgiveness, and by prayer. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846042638
- ISBN
- 9781846042638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPQ; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166744
- ISBN
- 9780231166744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.56€ 80.25
€ 104.56
€ 80.25
Hardback. Editor(s): van Rysewyk, Simon Peter; Pontier, Matthijs. Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Num Pages: 382 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC; MBNH9; TJFM1; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 781.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319081076
- ISBN
- 9783319081076
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.44
€ 129.44
Paperback. Challenges the entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the 'Machiavellian' maxim that the ends justify the means. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPQ; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141770
- ISBN
- 9780691141770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Editor(s): DeLapp, Kevin. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624664502
- ISBN
- 9781624664502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.80
€ 25.99
€ 19.80
Hardback. Editor(s): DeLapp, Kevin; Henkel, Jeremy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624664519
- ISBN
- 9781624664519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.41€ 46.96
€ 59.41
€ 46.96
Hardback. As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326096
- ISBN
- 9781137326096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459650
- ISBN
- 9781349459650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Paperback. This philosophical analysis of new technologies leads to a novel metaphysical framework in which understanding of reality shifts from materialistic to informational. In this world, all entities, natural or artificial, are analyzed as informational entities. Editor(s): Demir, Hilmi. Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ; J; UNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400791978
- ISBN
- 9789400791978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. Presents diverse perspectives on dilemmas posed by potential conflicts between loyalties to specific institutions or professional roles and more universalistic conceptions of moral duty Editor(s): Woodruff, Paul; Parker, Joel; Levinson, Sanford V. Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814785935
- ISBN
- 9780814785935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.29
€ 77.29
Hardback. Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life clarifies the nature of loyalty and its role in ethical living, employing the philosophy of Josiah Royce as a theoretical frame. Loyalty to Loyalty provides original and extensive analysis of Royce's philosophy of loyalty, including applications to contemporary moral problems. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 451.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242696
- ISBN
- 9780823242696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Probes Aristotle's view that desire is crucial to decision making and to the formation of moral habits, pinpointing the "love of the fine" as the starting point of any argument for ethics. This book is of interest to students of virtue ethics and the history of philosophy. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268034023
- ISBN
- 9780268034023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.75
€ 30.99
€ 27.75
Hardback. Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. This title offers a fresh way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148724
- ISBN
- 9780691148724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.47€ 42.58
€ 53.47
€ 42.58
Paperback. Although the two great commandments to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves are central to Christianity, few theologians or spiritual writers have undertaken an extensive account of the meaning and forms of these loves. This title develops an original account of love as the theological foundation for Christian ethics. Series: Moral Traditions Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878406272
- ISBN
- 9780878406272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.96
€ 75.96
Hardcover. This book debates the controversy over whether or not it is possible to love God more than oneself through natural powers alone. Thirteenth-century philosophers and theologians study how one's own good is achieved through virtuous action and how to adapt Aristotle's philosophical insights to a Christian framework. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268037239
- ISBN
- 9780268037239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.40
€ 134.40