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HarperCollins Publishers Cash Cow
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Rivers Oram Press The Case for Physician Assisted Suicide Pandora
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Quality An Inquiry into Excellence Unpublished
Book SynopsisTrade Review"On Quality, a collection of Pirsig’s speeches, fiction, letters, and musings ... reads like a notebook from a life spent pondering: What does 'quality' mean? Why are some things better than others? What is it about humans that causes us to recognize the difference?" — The New Yorker
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Penguin Putnam Inc Moral Tribes
Book Synopsis“Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground. A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward. Greene compares the human brain to a dual-mode camera
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Oxford University Press On Believing Being Right in a World of
Book SynopsisDeveloping original accounts of the many aspects of belief, On Believing puts the believer at the heart of the story. Developing a novel account of the normativity of belief, Hunter argues that the ethics of belief concern how a believer ought to be positioned in a world of possibilities.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: On the Nature of Believing 2: The Ontology of Believing 3: The Objects of Believing 4: Believing without Representing 5: Objectivity and Credal Illusions 6: Subjectivity and Credal Necessities 7: Credal Agency 8: Credal Norms
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Oxford University Press Inc Civic Solitude
Book SynopsisAn internet search of the phrase this is what democracy looks like returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action. But is group collaboration truly the defining feature of effective democracy? Robert B. Talisse suggests that while group action is essential to democracy, action without reflection can present insidious challenges, as individuals'' perspectives can be distorted by group dynamics.The culprit is a cognitive dynamic called belief polarization. As we interact with our political allies, we are exposed to forces that render us more radical in our beliefs and increasingly hostile to those who do not share them. What''s more, the social environments we inhabit in our day-to-day lives are sorted along partisan lines. We are surrounded by triggers of political extremity and animosity. Thus, our ordinary activities encourage the attitude that democracy is possible only when everyone agrees--a profoundly antidemocratic stance. Drawing on extensive research about polarization and partisanship, Talisse argues that certain core democratic capacities can be cultivated only at a distance from the political fray. If we are to meet the responsibilities of democratic citizenship, we must occasionally step away from our allies and opponents alike. We can perform this self-work only in secluded settings where we can engage in civic reflection that is not prepackaged in the idiom of our political divides, allowing us to contemplate political circumstances that are not our own.
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Oxford University Press Learning to Live Naturally Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance
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MIT Press Ltd Absolutely Essential
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ABC-CLIO Victims and Values
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Principles of New Ethics I
Book SynopsisFrom Descartes to Spinoza, Western philosophers have attempted to propose an axiomatic systemization of ethics. However, without consensus on the contents and objects of ethics, the system remains incomplete. This fourvolume set presents a model that highlights a Chinese philosopher's insights on ethics after a 22-year study. Three essential components of ethics are examined: metaethics, normative ethics, and virtue ethics.This volume mainly studies meta- ethics. The author not only studies the fi ve primitive concepts of ethics value, good, ought, right, and fact and reveals their relationship, but also demonstrates the solution to the classic Hume's guillotine whether ought can be derived from fact. His aim is to identify the methods of making excellent moral norms, leading to solutions on how to prove ethical axioms and ethical postulates.Written by a renowned philosopher, the Chinese version of this set sold more than 60,000 copies and has exerted tremendous infl uTable of ContentsPart One: Categories of Metaethics. 1 The Starting Concept of Ethics. 2 Primitive Concept of Ethics. Part Two: The Metaethical Proof. 3 The Axiom of the Existence of Value and the Postulate of the Existence of Moral Value in Ethics. 4 The Deductive Axioms and Deductive Postulates in Ethics.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc What Money Cant Buy
Book SynopsisIn What Money Can''t Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can''t Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn''t there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don''t belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can''t Buy, he provokes a debate that''s been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Is Science Value Free Values and Scientific
Book SynopsisExploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuses on discussions of 'development', especially in Third World countries. This paperback edition includes a new preface.Trade Review'Lacey's book must be considered a major contribution and should be of interest to all philosophers of science and others interested in the role of values in supposed rational thought.' - Stephen Mumford, Mind'Lacey's arguments are readily accessible and do not require a specialist's knowledge - the book can easily serve as an introduction to the topical and controversial question of the role of values in scientific inquiry as well as challenging taken-for-granted positions of specialists.' - James Sauer, Research in Philosophy and Technology'Adds richness to the terms of the debate and intriguing philosophical framework for the problems that arise ... This work will raise important questions for anyone who has wondered, not whether science currently is value-free, but what such an ideal would be and whether the idea is defensible.' - Heather Douglas, Philosophy of ScienceTable of Contents1 Introduction: the idea that science is value free 2 Values 3 Cognitive values 4 Science as value free: provisional theses 5 Scientific understanding 6 The control of nature 7 Kuhn: scientific activity in different ‘worlds’ 8 A “grassroots empowerment” approach 9 A feminist approach 10 Science as value free: revised theses 11 Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis collection gathers classic, influential, and important papers in environmental philosophy from the late 1960s and early 1970s (when academic environmental philosophy began to coalesce) to the present. The volumes explore environmental ethics, epistemological, metaphysical, and comparative worldview questions raised by environmental concerns. The set also represents a genuinely global and international focus.The set includes a full index and new introductions by the editors.
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Taylor & Francis The Ethics of Need
Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care ethics to establish that our mutual and inevitable interdependence gives rise to a duty to care for the needs of others. Further, she argues that we are obligated not merely to meet othersâ needs but to do so in a manner that expresses dignifying care, a concept that captures how human interactions can grant or deny equal moral standing and inclusion in a moral community. She illuminates these theoretical developments by examining two cases where urgent needs require a caring and dignifying response: the needs of the elderly and the needs of global strangers. Those working in the areas of feminist theory, womenâs studies, aging studies, bioethics, and global studies should find thisTrade Review"...a thought-provoking book. It takes positions that arise out of recent discussions of the ethic of care and defends them in careful and thorough ways that make these positions available for the attention and scrutiny they deserve. Whether or not one is fully persuaded by this account, anyone interested in the possibilities of an ethics of need will benefit from reading it." – Grace Clement, Salisbury University, USA, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Moral Significance of Needs 2. The Duty to Care 3. the Manner of Meeting Needs 4. The Margins of Agency: Caring for the Fundamental Needs of Old Age 5. Global Needs and Care: Introducing Cosmopolitan Care 6. Future Needs. Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Virtue as Social Intelligence An Empirically
Book SynopsisVirtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory takes on the claims of philosophical situationism, the ethical theory that is skeptical about the possibility of human virtue. Influenced by social psychological studies, philosophical situationists argue that human personality is too fluid and fragmented to support a stable set of virtues. They claim that virtue cannot be grounded in empirical psychology. This book argues otherwise. Drawing on the work of psychologists Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda, Nancy E. Snow argues that the social psychological experiments that philosophical situationists rely on look at the wrong kinds of situations to test for behavioral consistency. Rather than looking at situations that are objectively similar, researchers need to compare situations that have similar meanings for the subject. When this is done, subjects exhibit behavioral consistencies that warrant the attribution of enduring traits, and virtuesTrade Review"Reports of the death of character are greatly exaggerated. Nancy Snow does a wonderful job of defending the empirical viability of virtue ethics, not by dismissing or ignoring the importance of the social psychological literature, but by properly understanding its significance. This is a must-read for anyone interested in psychologically realistic ethics."-Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia, Canada"Snow’s book is fascinating and timely. No other book on virtue ethics goes nearly so far in dealing with psychological studies. A must-read for anyone interested in virtue as a category for moral evaluation."-Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma, USA "Nancy Snow’s book, with its focus on the social psychological underpinnings of virtue ethics, is a major contribution to virtue ethical theorizing. In a much needed and insightful discussion, and opposing the situationist critique, she shows how character traits as traditionally conceived have reality and importance."-Christine Swanton, University of Auckland, New ZealandTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter One, "In Search of Global Traits"Chapter Two, "Habitual Virtuous Actions and Automaticity"Chapter Three, "Social Intelligence and Why It Matters"Chapter Four, "Virtue as Social Intelligence"Chapter Five, "Philosophical Situationism Revisited"Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC On Agamben Arendt Christianity and the Dark Arts
Book SynopsisPeter Iver Kaufman is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and holds the George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA.Trade ReviewKaufman presents a rich, dense amount of quality content and context. I found new illuminating insights, quotations, and cross-references on most pages. * Reading Religion *Peter Kaufman is one of our most venerable interpreters of Augustine’s political thought. In this creative volume, he continues his quarrel with Augustine’s optimists through a series of illuminating and provocative forays into Agamben and Arendt. Kaufman’s communitarian alternative may be the antidote we need for these cynical and lonely times. * Gregory W. Lee, Associate Professor of Theology and Urban Studies, Wheaton College, USA *In a creative juxtaposition that leverages Augustine’s political theology for both modern and postmodern critiques of citizenship and sovereignty, Kaufman has managed to locate in the early Christian monastic movement some paradigms of countercultural identity formation in the figure of the practicing Christian who lives as a pilgrim, exile, and “other.” Augustine is here interpreted as a theologian whose early, short-lived fantasy of an alternative community at Cassiacum left an indelible imprint on his imagination, even as he became a central figure in the shaping and definition of what Christian “conformity” should look like. This is a study that will challenge many assumptions of patristic scholars, one that recuperates Augustine as a thinker who can be placed in a critical tradition of resistance and non-conformity. * W. Scott Blanchard, Professor of English, Misericordia University, USA *This volume is a great addition to the series, Reading Augustine edited by Miles Hollingworth ... The genius of this book lies in its invitational style. It forces nothing on Augustine, and does not force Augustine on anyone. * Augustiniana *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: Augustine and Agamben Chapter 2: Glory, Glory: Agamben: The Coming Overcoming Chapter 3: Arendt’s Augustine: To Augustine and Not to Augustine Index
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Penguin Putnam Inc Beyond Order
Book SynopsisThe companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.In12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologistand celebrated professor at Harvard andthe University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B.Peterson helped millions of readers imposeorder on the chaos of their lives. Now, inthis bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelvemore lifesaving principles for resisting theexhausting toll that our desire to order theworld inevitably takes.In a time when the human will increasinglyimposes itself over every sphere oflife?from our social structures to our emotionalstates?Peterson warns that too muchsecurity is dangerous. What?s more, he offersstrategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific,and psychological forces causing us totend toward tyranny, and teaches us how torely insteadon our instinct to find meaningand purpose, even?and especially?when wefind ourselves powerless.While chaos, in excess, threatens us withinstability and anxiety, unchecked order canpetrify us into submission.Beyond Order providesa call to balance these two fundamentalprinciples of reality itself, and guidesus along the straight and narrow path thatdivides them.
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Random House USA Inc How to Know a Person
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second MountainAs David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s s
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Princeton University Press Life Is Short
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Illuminating. . . . Rickles aims to provide a panacea for those facing death anxiety. . . . Bound to be ameliorative for any member of the human species."---Skye C. Cleary, Times Literary Supplement"Rickles, a philosophy of modern physics professor at the University of Sydney, investigates how to live a meaningful life in this charming and profound outing. . . . This brief volume packs a punch." * Publishers Weekly *"A meditative gem that is as intellectually astute as it is accessible. Readers will find much to help them in their efforts to live more mindfully—and with significantly greater appreciation." * Shelf Awareness starred review *"Engaging."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"A sophisticated yet accessible reflection on how the reality of death makes human choices meaningful." * Choice Reviews *
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Hachette Australia Right and Wrong How to decide for yourself make
Book SynopsisHow can you be sure you''re doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong? What are the rights and wrongs of leaving a relationship? Are the rules different for sex? Is it always wrong to tell a lie? Why be good?No one pretends that making moral choices is easy. In this updated edition, which includes a new prologue on the moral minefields of power and wealth, Hugh Mackay argues that because morality is all about the way we treat each other, we make our best decisions - at work, among friends, in the neighbourhood, in a marriage or a family - when we imagine how our actions might affect the wellbeing of others. Our moral choices actually help shape the kind of society we live in, for better or worse.At a time when many of us are struggling to navigate an ever more complex world, Right & Wrong offers you the essential tools for making confident moral choices, and for deciding what''s right for you and for the people around you.Trade ReviewMackay writes about complex issues in a wise and deceptively simple way - Anne Deveson, Sydney Morning Herald challenges us to face the future with more imagination and optimism - Maggie Hamilton, Good Reading
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Rlpg/Galleys Ontology and Ethics in Sartres Early Philosophy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewZheng's work brings fresh insights and critical perspectives to bear on the question of the relation between Sartre's early ethics and ontology. The clarity and precision of his analysis and textual exegesis is impressive. His book calls into question much of what has passed as received wisdom in Sartrean studies on many of these issues and is bound to stimulate argument and raise our consideration of Sartre's early ethics to a new level of sophistication. -- Steven Hendley, Executive Editor, Sartre Studies InternationalYiwei Zheng convincingly argues that Sartre's ethical views do not follow from his ontology, contrary to Sartre's own claim. Zheng clearly and carefully guides the reader through difficult texts covering such central Sartrean notions as consciousness, intentionality, and authenticity, arguing that Sartre's theory of authenticity does not follow from the ontology developed in Being and Nothingness. This is an important and sophisticated work that should be read by any Sartre scholar, as well as anyone interested in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and ethics. -- Rocco J. Gennaro, Indiana State UniversityZheng's provocative critique of Sartre's early philosophy helps us to understand why Sartre, though a passionately committed moralist, was unable to work out a systematic ethical theory in support of his moral judgments. Zheng's analyses shed new light on some of the murkier aspects of Being and Nothingness, clarify Sartre's relationship to Husserl's phenomenology, and call into question the interpretations of earlier Sartre scholars. -- David Detmer, Calumet/PurdueTable of ContentsChapter 1 Basic Terminologies Chapter 2 Sartre versus Husserl: A Study of the Doctrine of Intentionality Chapter 3 Freedom in Sartre's Being and Nothingness Chapter 4 Bad Faith in Sartre's Being and Nothingness Chapter 5 Pure Reflection in Sartre's Being and Nothingness Chapter 6 Authenticity I: Do We Abandon ... in Authenticity Chapter 7 Authenticity II: Reconstructing the Childish Heart Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Relation Between Sartre's Ontology and Ethics
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Rowman & Littlefield Feminists Doing Ethics Feminist Constructions
Book SynopsisThe essays collected within explore the intricacies and impact of reasoned moral action, the virtues of character, and the empowering responsibility that comes with morality. They were taken from "Feminist Ethics Revisited: An International Conference on Feminist Ethics" held in October 1999.Trade ReviewWhat a remarkably lively collection of essays DesAustels and Waugh have brought together in this text! Succinct and engaging, each essay provides creative new insights into feminist theorizing about ethics. This text is delightfully tantalizing, highlighting the very best of current feminist theorizing. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Feminists Doing Ethics is an outstanding collection of essays by feminist scholars that can quite effectively supplement both beginning and more advanced thinking about morality. Perhaps one of its greatest contributions tot he field is the way these authors and editors conceive of moral philosophy itself. * APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy *These exciting, cutting-edge essays reconceive issues, from struggle against multiple oppressions to responses to hate crimes in our own communities and to global humanitarian appeals to uninformed compassion for victims. An outstanding collection. Excellent teaching material and required reading for all with an interest in practical ethics. -- Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin at MadisonTable of ContentsPart 1 Theory Matters Chapter 2 Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics Chapter 3 The Scope of Our Concerns: Reflections on 'Woman' as the Subject of Feminist Politics Part 4 Forming Selves, Being Agents Chapter 5 Social Groups and Individuals - Individuality, Agency, & Theory Chapter 6 Identity and Free Agency Chapter 7 Violent Bodies Part 8 Character and Its Virtues Chapter 9 Critical Virtue Ethics: Understanding Oppression as Morally Damaging Chapter 10 Feminist Ethics: Care as a Virtue Chapter 11 Angels, Rubbish Collectors, and Pursuers of Erotic Joy: The Image of the Ethical Woman Chapter 12 Is Refusing to Forgive a Vice? Part 13 Thinking Right, Feeling Good Chapter 14 Gender and Moral Reasoning Revisited: Re-Engaging Feminist Psychology Chapter 15 Constructing Feelings: Jane Austen and Naomi Scheman on the Moral Role of Emotions Part 16 Taking Responsibility Chapter 17 Does Managing Professionals Affect Professional Ethics Chapter 18 Political Care and Humanitarian Response Chapter 19 Taking Responsibility for Community Violence
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of Peace and War
Book SynopsisThis book looks at three key theories which have implications for the role of ethics in war and armed conflict: cosmopolitanism; internationalism; and political realism.Trade ReviewThis is a useful and stimulating book on a topical subject, clear and non-technical enough for a wide range of readers. Political Studies Review This is a useful and stimulating book on a topical subject, clear and non-technical enough for a wide range of readers.Table of ContentsTable of Contents; Chapter 1; Introduction; Part 1: International politics and the morality of peace and war; Chapter 2; Political realism and state violence; Chapter 3; Internationalism and the rule of law; Chapter 4; Cosmopolitanism and armed conflict; Part 2: Ethical approaches to peace and war; Chapter 5; Just war and the state; Chapter 6; The politics of pacifism; Part 3: Cosmopolitan strategies; Chapter 7; Post-modern war; Chapter 8; Human security, human rights and human development; Chapter 9; Humanitarian intervention, cosmopolitanism and pacifism; Chapter 10; Peacebuilding and international conflict management; Chapter 11; Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press After the Terror
Book SynopsisA philosophical reflection on morality and terrorism by one of the most remarkable thinkers of our day.Trade ReviewIn these bad times, when many intellectuals have become the spear-carriers of the new order, reading the words of Ted Honderich is a rare delight. This uncompromising and courageous philosopher continues the dissenting tradition of Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, more needed now than ever before. -- Tariq Ali Everyone who was appalled by the events of September llth 2001 must read this book. You are addressed personally, in urgent, passionate talk. Not everyone will like his conclusions, yet even those who are prepared to take no responsibility for the Terror are bound to reflect on the historical causes of these and other attacks. The book contains, as well as some brisk moral and original philosophy, some important insights into the centrality of the Israel/Palestine conflict to any future freedom from terrorism. -- Baroness Warnock In the flood of literature on terrorism, this essay stands out as unusual, and unusually enlightening and provocative. It guides the reader, lucidly and forcefully, from basic ideas about a good and decent life to contemplation of concrete and immediate issues that are or should be at the center of attention. It is a compelling and impressive contribution to thinking about problems that are complex, painful, and urgent. -- Noam Chomsky Honderich's brilliant After the Terror attempts to provide the conceptual and moral tools for self-perception and resolution to change, to make moral contemplation a matter of the living present and the future. The whole book is a marvellous example of what good philosophy can do to puncture the complacency of received moral and political ideas. -- Professor Richard Norman, University of Kent In these bad times, when many intellectuals have become the spear-carriers of the new order, reading the words of Ted Honderich is a rare delight. This uncompromising and courageous philosopher continues the dissenting tradition of Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, more needed now than ever before. Everyone who was appalled by the events of September llth 2001 must read this book. You are addressed personally, in urgent, passionate talk. Not everyone will like his conclusions, yet even those who are prepared to take no responsibility for the Terror are bound to reflect on the historical causes of these and other attacks. The book contains, as well as some brisk moral and original philosophy, some important insights into the centrality of the Israel/Palestine conflict to any future freedom from terrorism. In the flood of literature on terrorism, this essay stands out as unusual, and unusually enlightening and provocative. It guides the reader, lucidly and forcefully, from basic ideas about a good and decent life to contemplation of concrete and immediate issues that are or should be at the center of attention. It is a compelling and impressive contribution to thinking about problems that are complex, painful, and urgent. Honderich's brilliant After the Terror attempts to provide the conceptual and moral tools for self-perception and resolution to change, to make moral contemplation a matter of the living present and the future. The whole book is a marvellous example of what good philosophy can do to puncture the complacency of received moral and political ideas.Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONE: GOOD LIVES, BAD LIVES; Living Longer; Other Great Goods; Half-Lives and Under-Fives; Necessary Inquiry; Less than Half-Lives, and a Reason; Reassuring Ourselves; Quarter-Lives; Larger Numbers; Great Goods Again?; More Reassurance?; Not an Omission; CHAPTER TWO: NATURAL AND OTHER MORALITY; Natural Morality; More to Natural Morality, and Its Inescapability; Worked-Out Moralities; Libertarianism; Liberalism; The Principle of Humanity; CHAPTER THREE: DID WE WRONG THEM? DO WE WRONG THEM?; Political Realism; A Morality of Relationship; A General Distinction, and a Mystery; Libertarianism, Liberalism, Humanity Again; Acts and Omissions; Causes and Conditions; Good Intentions; Another Hope, and a Conclusion or Two; CHAPTER FOUR: THE TWIN TOWERS, AND DEMOCRACY; Oneness in Extremity; Definitions of Violence; Terrorism Defined; Why Some Say It Was Wrong; Democracy; Hierarchic Democracy; Why September 11 Was Wrong; CHAPTER FIVE: OUR RESPONSIBILITY, AND WHAT TO DO; Moral Confidence; Our Share in September 11; Capitalism; Our Counter-Attack; What Is To Be Done.
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Edinburgh University Press Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics
Book SynopsisThis collection reconstructs Thomas Reid's philosophy of practical ethics from his lecture manuscripts and papers dating from his tenure as professor of moral philosophy in Glasgow from 1764.Table of ContentsContents; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; 1. REID'S REPUTATION; 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 3. THE COHERENCE OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 4. REID'S MANUSCRIPTS AND THE EDITOR'S COMMENTARY; 5. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; 6. DIAGRAMS OF REID'S SYSTEM; Thomas Reid; Lectures and Papers on; Practical Ethics; I. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE; II. DUTIES TO GOD; III. DUTIES TO OURSELVES: PRUDENCE, TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE; IV. DUTIES TO OTHERS: JUSTICE; V. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN PRIVATE JURISPRUDENCE; VI. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN OECONOMICAL; JURISPRUDENCE; VII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; VIII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: STATES; IX. SUPPLEMENT TO DUTIES TO OURSELVES; X. NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS; XI. PROPERTY; XII. SUCCESSION; XIII. ON DISSOLUTION OF OBLIGATIONS AND ON INTERPRETATION; XIV. OECONOMICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XV. SOCIAL CONTRACT AS IMPLIED CONTRACT; XVI. POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XVII. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF STATES; Commentary; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; TEXTUAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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Edinburgh University Press Euthanasia Choice and Death
Book SynopsisThe pressing and universally relevant issue of euthanasia is debated in this volume.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary contribution in this area, providing insight into the many dilemmas faced by individuals, families and professionals. This work offers not only the opportunity to understand such debates but also provides numerous landmark case studies that will be useful for teachers and students alike. -- Wendy Moyle, PhD, RN Assoc Professor of Nursing and Chair of Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee, Brisbane, Australia A great book, easy to read and well-thought-through ! Well worth reading.Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Contents; PART ONE; 1. Choice and Death; 2. Stark Choices; PART TWO; 3. Death and Dying in America; 4. Legal Disputes over Death in England; 5. Legalising Euthanasia in The Netherlands; 6. A Legislative Experiment in Australia; Conclusion; List of References; Further Reading; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Just War Theory
Book SynopsisThis book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.Trade ReviewA timely work that engages with many important issues of the day ! In many respects the most salient aspect of this volume is its ability to dissect the moral rhetoric increasingly espoused by the Bush administration ! If just war is to be more than simply a rhetorical device then this exploration of its applicability to current policy is welcome and necessary. A timely work that engages with many important issues of the day ! In many respects the most salient aspect of this volume is its ability to dissect the moral rhetoric increasingly espoused by the Bush administration ! If just war is to be more than simply a rhetorical device then this exploration of its applicability to current policy is welcome and necessary.Table of ContentsContributors; Preface; Introduction: Moral Theory and the Idea of a Just War; Mark Evans (University of Wales, Swansea); Part 1: Just Cause; 2. The Justice of Preemption and Preventive War Doctrines; Neta C. Crawford (Brown University, RI); 3. Punitive Intervention: Enforcing Justice or Creating Conflict?; Anthony F. Lang Jr (University of St Andrews); 4. In Humanity's Name: Democracy and the Right to Wage War; Mark Evans (University of Wales, Swansea); Part 2: Justice in the Conduct of War; 5. The Concept of Proportionality: Old Problems, New Ambiguities; Kateri Carmola (Middlebury College, Vermont); 6. Just War? Just Children?; Helen Brocklehurst (University of Wales, Swansea); 7. Is There a Supreme Emergency Exemption?; Brian Orend (University of Waterloo, Western Ontario); Part 3: Justice and the End of War; 8. Security Beyond the State: Cosmopolitanism, Peace and the Role of Just War Theory; Patrick Hayden (Victoria University, Wellington); 9. Forgiveness and Reconciliation in 'Jus Post Bellum'; Andrew Rigby (Coventry University); 10. Conclusion: In Defence of Just War Theory; Mark Evans (University of Wales, Swansea); Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Just War Theory
Book SynopsisThis book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.Trade ReviewA timely work that engages with many important issues of the day ! In many respects the most salient aspect of this volume is its ability to dissect the moral rhetoric increasingly espoused by the Bush administration ! If just war is to be more than simply a rhetorical device then this exploration of its applicability to current policy is welcome and necessary. A timely work that engages with many important issues of the day ! In many respects the most salient aspect of this volume is its ability to dissect the moral rhetoric increasingly espoused by the Bush administration ! If just war is to be more than simply a rhetorical device then this exploration of its applicability to current policy is welcome and necessary.Table of ContentsContributors; Preface; Introduction: Moral Theory and the Idea of a Just War; Mark Evans (University of Wales, Swansea); Part 1: Just Cause; 2. The Justice of Preemption and Preventive War Doctrines; Neta C. Crawford (Brown University, RI); 3. Punitive Intervention: Enforcing Justice or Creating Conflict?; Anthony F. Lang Jr (University of St Andrews); 4. In Humanity's Name: Democracy and the Right to Wage War; Mark Evans (University of Wales, Swansea); Part 2: Justice in the Conduct of War; 5. The Concept of Proportionality: Old Problems, New Ambiguities; Kateri Carmola (Middlebury College, Vermont); 6. Just War? Just Children?; Helen Brocklehurst (University of Wales, Swansea); 7. Is There a Supreme Emergency Exemption?; Brian Orend (University of Waterloo, Western Ontario); Part 3: Justice and the End of War; 8. Security Beyond the State: Cosmopolitanism, Peace and the Role of Just War Theory; Patrick Hayden (Victoria University, Wellington); 9. Forgiveness and Reconciliation in 'Jus Post Bellum'; Andrew Rigby (Coventry University); 10. Conclusion: In Defence of Just War Theory; Mark Evans (University of Wales, Swansea); Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of Peace and War
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Edinburgh University Press Euthanasia Choice and Death
Book SynopsisTrade Review"'An extraordinary contribution in this area, providing insight into the many dilemmas faced by individuals, families and professionals.' Wendy Moyle, Assoc Professor of Nursing and Chair of Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee, Australia"
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of Peacebuilding
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ethical dimension of peacebuilding. In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order was rapidly dissolved by the internecine conflicts that plagued all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides demonstrated the challenge of promoting peace in a world increasingly defined by intra-state conflict and sub-national groups confronting nation-states. Murithi interrogates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding and presents a synthesis of moral philosophy and international relations and an analysis of the ethics of negotiation, mediation, forgiveness and reconciliation. In its attempt to explore the extent to which ethical concerns influence and inform peacebuilding this book contributes to a growing body of literature on ethics and international relations which will enable students, scholars and practitioners to ground their understanding of a principled peacebuilding.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Moral Knowledge and Peace Research; 3. The Morality of Conflict Resolution: A Critique of the State System and its Management of Sub-national Conflict; 4. The Utility of Negotiation and Mediation; 5. The Virtue of Forgiveness; 6. The Value of Reconciliation; 7. Toward an Agenda for Ethical Peacebuilding; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press World Ethics
Book SynopsisIdentifies different ways of thinking about ethics, and of thinking ethically about international and global relations.Table of ContentsPreface; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; Part I: Theories; 1. World Ethics: An Ethical Taxonomy; 2. International and Global Scepticism; 3. Internationalism and Communitarianism; 4. Cosmopolitan Theories; 5. Cosmopolitanism and Community; Part II: Applications; 6. Peace and War; 7. Aid, Trade and Development; 8. The Environment; 9. Which Way Forward? Globalisation, Global Governance and Global Ethics; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press World Ethics
Book SynopsisIdentifies different ways of thinking about ethics, and of thinking ethically about international and global relations.Table of ContentsPreface; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; Part I: Theories; 1. World Ethics: An Ethical Taxonomy; 2. International and Global Scepticism; 3. Internationalism and Communitarianism; 4. Cosmopolitan Theories; 5. Cosmopolitanism and Community; Part II: Applications; 6. Peace and War; 7. Aid, Trade and Development; 8. The Environment; 9. Which Way Forward? Globalisation, Global Governance and Global Ethics; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Understanding Torture
Book SynopsisDespite Victor Hugo''s 19th-century proclamation that torture no longer exists, we still find it even now, even in those nations that claim to be paradigms of civility. Why is it that torture still exists in a world where it is routinely regarded as immoral? Is it possible to eliminate torture, and if so, how? What exactly does it mean to call something ''torture'', and is it always morally reprehensible?Arguments in favour of torture abound, but in this important new book, J. Jeremy Wisnewski examines and explains the moral dimensions of this perennial practice, paying careful attention to what lessons torture can teach us about our own moral psychology. By systematically exposing the weaknesses of the dominant arguments for torture, drawing on resources in both analytic and continental philosophy and relevant empirical literature in psychology, Wisnewski aims to provide an over-arching account of torture: what it is, why it''s wrong, and why even the most civilized people can nevertheless engage in it.Trade ReviewWisnewski has written a wonderful book to serve as a basis for seminar discussions. The level of detailed discussion of standard arguments and the richness of the references and substantial quotations make this an ideal primer; and the impassioned, principled stance combined with a clear intent to be fair minded about the reach of arguments makes it a great example to students. Those minded to agree or disagree will have received plenty of material to help them form and refine their positions and arguments. -- Brian Feltham, University of Reading Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Wisnewski has written a wonderful book to serve as a basis for seminar discussions. The level of detailed discussion of standard arguments and the richness of the references and substantial quotations make this an ideal primer; and the impassioned, principled stance combined with a clear intent to be fair minded about the reach of arguments makes it a great example to students. Those minded to agree or disagree will have received plenty of material to help them form and refine their positions and arguments.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. The Persistence of Torture: An Affliction That Won't Go Away; 2. The History of Torture: A Sketch; 3. The Wrongness of Torture: Identifying Torture's Unique Despicability; 4. How Torture Unmakes Worlds; 5. Thinking Through Torture's Temptations, Part One: Arguments for Torture; 6. Thinking Through Torture's Temptations, Part Two: Arguments Against Torture; 7. The Psychology of Torture; 8. The Politics of Torture: Orwellian Themes in the Bush League; 9. Hope Amid Pessimism: Concluding Reflections on Ending Torture; Bibliography; Useful Websites; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Understanding Torture
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Torture surveys the massive literature surrounding torture, arguing that, once properly understood, there can be no defence of torture in any circumstances. By exploring the history, psychology, and politics of torture ù as well as the current philosophical defences of it ù Wisnewski provides a comprehensive account of why torture ought to be categorically rejected.Trade ReviewWisnewski has written a wonderful book to serve as a basis for seminar discussions. The level of detailed discussion of standard arguments and the richness of the references and substantial quotations make this an ideal primer; and the impassioned, principled stance combined with a clear intent to be fair minded about the reach of arguments makes it a great example to students. Those minded to agree or disagree will have received plenty of material to help them form and refine their positions and arguments. -- Brian Feltham, University of Reading Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Wisnewski has written a wonderful book to serve as a basis for seminar discussions. The level of detailed discussion of standard arguments and the richness of the references and substantial quotations make this an ideal primer; and the impassioned, principled stance combined with a clear intent to be fair minded about the reach of arguments makes it a great example to students. Those minded to agree or disagree will have received plenty of material to help them form and refine their positions and arguments.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. The Persistence of Torture: An Affliction That Won't Go Away; 2. The History of Torture: A Sketch; 3. The Wrongness of Torture: Identifying Torture's Unique Despicability; 4. How Torture Unmakes Worlds; 5. Thinking Through Torture's Temptations, Part One: Arguments for Torture; 6. Thinking Through Torture's Temptations, Part Two: Arguments Against Torture; 7. The Psychology of Torture; 8. The Politics of Torture: Orwellian Themes in the Bush League; 9. Hope Amid Pessimism: Concluding Reflections on Ending Torture; Bibliography; Useful Websites; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Ethics
Book SynopsisDeleuze is perhaps best known for his influential works in philosophical interpretation; epistemology; metaphysics; and political economy. The essays in this collection explore, uncover, and trace the ethical dimension of Deleuzian philosophy along diverse trajectories and, in so doing, endeavour to reclaim that philosophy as moral philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction, Nathan Jun; 1. Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism, Jeffrey Bell; 2. The Ethics of the Event: Deleuze and Ethics Without ????, Levi R. Bryant; 3. While Remaining on the Shore: Ethics in Deleuze's Encounter with Antonin Artaud, Laura Cull; 4. Responsive Becoming: Ethics Between Deleuze and Feminism, Erinn Gilson; 5. Deleuze, Values, and Normativity, Nathan Jun; 6. Ethics and the World Without Others, Eleanor Kaufman; 7. Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics, Daniel W. Smith; 8. "Existing Not as a Subject But as a Work of Art" - The Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?, Kenneth Surin; 9. Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology and Art, Anthony Uhlmann; 10. Never Too Late? On the Implications of Deleuze's Work on Death For a Deleuzian Moral Philosophy, James Williams; 11. Ethics Between Particularity and Universality, Audron? ae'ukauskait?; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Evil in Contemporary Political Theory
Book SynopsisExplores the actual and possible roles of evil in contemporary political theoryTable of ContentsNotes on the Contributors; 1. Introduction, Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts, Peter Sutch; 2. Darkness and Silence: Evil in the Western Legacy, John Milbank; 3. Constructivism and Evil, Peri Roberts; 4. Systemic Evil and the Limits of Pluralism, Bruce Haddock; 5. Unreasonable or Evil?, Kerstin Budde; 6. Evil in Contemporary International Political Theory: Acts that Shock the Conscience of Mankind, Peter Sutch; 7. Doing Evil Justly? The Morality of Justifiable Abomination, Mark Evans; 8. Evil and the Left, Eve Garrard; 9. The Glamour of Evil: Dostoyesvsky and the Politics of Transgression, John Horton; 10. The Rhetoric of Moral Equivalence, Richard Shorten; 11. Banal but not Benign: Arendt on Evil, David Boucher; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Cinema of the Dark Side
Book SynopsisA few days after 9/11, US Vice-President Dick Cheney invoked the need for the USA to work ''the dark side'' in its global ''War on Terror''. In Cinema of the Dark Side, Shohini Chaudhuri explores how contemporary cinema treats state-sponsored atrocity, evoking multiple landscapes of state terror. She investigates the ethical potential of cinematic atrocity images, arguing that while films help to create and confirm normative perceptions about atrocities, they can also disrupt those perceptions and build different ones. Asserting a crucial distinction between morality and ethics, the book proposes a new conceptualisation of human rights cinema that repositions human rights morality within an ethical framework that reflects upon the causes and contexts of violence. It builds upon theories of embodied spectatorship to explore how films can implicate us in histories that may appear to be distant and unrelated to us, and how they draw connections between past and present patterns of oppression.The book covers a diverse spectrum of 21st century cinema dealing with documentary or fictional representations of atrocity such as state-sanctioned torture, genocide, enforced disappearance, deportation, and apartheid, including Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Standard Operating Procedure (2008), Hotel Rwanda (2004), Sometimes in April (2005), Nostalgia for the Light (2010), Chronicle of an Escape (2006), Children of Men (2006), District 9 (2009), Waltz With Bashir (2008), and Paradise Now (2005). Cinema of the Dark Side provides readers with fresh insights into how we respond to atrocity images and the ethical issues at stake.
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Edinburgh University Press Kants Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals An
Book Synopsis"Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" is considered a standard text in the history of moral philosophy as well as a classic work of moral philosophy in its own right. This guide provides a paragraph-by-paragraph account of the main themes of Kant's moral philosophy and a clear statement of his overall philosophical aims and arguments.
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Edinburgh University Press Islamic and Ethical Finance in the United Kingdom
Book SynopsisWhat exactly is ethical finance? Is Islamic finance ethical? Is ethical finance Islamic? This title examines a range of financial institutions in Britain within the ethical sector, considering the nature of their principles and practices, and how they relate to Islamic models and to Muslim communities.
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of the Global Environment
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of the Global Environment
Book SynopsisGiving you new reflections on global environmental issues, this title looks at issues such as climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Concepts, Theories and Values; 1. Nature and the Global Environment; 2. Global Ethics and Environmental Ethics; 3. Trustees of the Planet; 4. The Ethics of Extinction; Part II: Applications and Issues; 5. Global Resources and Climate Change; 6. Sustainable Development; 7. Population and Poverty; 8. Biodiversity and Preservation; Part III: Global Justice and Global Citizenship; 9. Environmental Justice and World Order; 10. Sustainability: Perspectives and Principles; 11. The Ethics of Climate Change; 12. World Citizenship in a Precarious World; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Ethics and Politics After Poststructuralism
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on ethics and politics after poststructuralism. Madeleine Fagan argues that the ethical should not be understood as a label; it does not mean good or right, and is not an evaluation or guide. Rather, both the ethical and the political are descriptions of the context in which we find ourselves. Fagan offers an account of the inseparability of ethics and politics that challenges existing accounts of poststructuralist ethics and shows the need for a practice-based rethinking of the ethico-political. Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism puts forward a radical and far-reaching critique of both foundational and non-foundational ethical theory.
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Edinburgh University Press Modern Thought in Pain
Book SynopsisThrough a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. This book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory terms, than an experience of thought that participates in the forms of pain and suffering about which it speaks. Perhaps surprisingly, the question of pain establishes a ground from which to examine key debates in twentieth-century European philosophy, most recently between forms of post-structuralist and ethical thinking imagined to be in crisis and the resurgence of discourses of political emancipation arising from traditions of thought associated with Marxism. Key features: Offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition''s relationship to the question of pain and suffering Suggests new readings of ''ethics'' and ''evil'' Evaluates the politics of contemporary critical theory Sets new agendas for reading post-Kantian philosophy
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Edinburgh University Press Narrative Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self
Book SynopsisExplores pressing issues in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. This title engages with a range of questions about narrative selfhood and demonstrates authors discussions across a range of traditions. It explores contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death.
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