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Orion Publishing Co The Choice Of Hercules Pleasure Duty And The Good
Book SynopsisDuty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A.C. Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book.He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today''s moral challenges. Above all, he explores the idea that certain demands and certain pleasures are necessary, not just because of their intrinsic merits but because of what they do for each other. With exceptional clarity and unrivalled prose, Grayling addresses the everyday ethical choices which confront us all.Trade Reviewpersuasve and strangely consoling * OBSERVER *an important, thought-provoking, kind and life-enhancing book... general philosophy at its accessible best * TIMES *an admirably sensible book, soemtimes stirringly written -- Nicholas Lezard * GUARDIAN *An enriching and thought-provoking read, it will leave you wondering about what a good and happy life really is. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death Dying and the Ending of Life Volumes I and
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Correctional Ethics The International Library of
Book SynopsisCorrectional Ethics gathers the most prominent contributions to this burgeoning field, ranging from the philosophy of punishment through to ethical appraisals of incarceration, the professional responsibilities of prison personnel, and formative work in restorative justice. In addition, it provides an annotated research agenda to help shape the development of a comprehensive correctional ethic. For those working in correctional ethics, this collection provides an essential resource.Trade Review'This volume is a useful resource for those involved in correctional practice, policy-making, and research, as well as academics, students of criminology and criminal justice and those interested in applied ethics and the issues relating to crime and justice more generally.' Margarita Zernova, lecturer in criminology, University of HullTable of ContentsContents: Series preface. Wrongdoing, Crime and Punishment: Prolegomenon to the principles of punishment, H.L.A. Hart; Persons and punishment, Herbert Morris; Marxism and retribution, Jeffrie G. Murphy; The moral education theory of punishment, Jean Hampton; Justice, civilization and the death penalty: answering van den Haag, Jeffrey H. Reiman; Civil disqualifications attending a conviction: a suggested conceptual framework, Andrew von Hirsch, Martin Wasik. Punishment and Imprisonment: Imprisonment, Anthony O'Hear; Retribution and incarceration, Richard L. Lippke. The Restorative Challenge and Challenges in Restoration: Reason for emotion: reinventing justice with theories, innovations and research, Lawrence W. Sherman; New wine and old wineskins: four challenges of restorative justice, Daniel W. van Ness; Restoration and retribution, Antony Duff; Prosecuting violence: a colloquy on race, community and justice, Richard Delgado; Conditions of successful reintegration ceremonies: dealing with juvenile offenders, John Braithwaite and Stephen Mugford; Setting standards for restorative justice, John Braithwaite. Correctional Policy: Prison reform amid the ruins of prisoners' rights, James B. Jacobs; Cell out: renting out the responsibility for the criminally confined, Jess Maghan; The hardness of hard treatment, John Kleinig; Penal 'austerity': the doctrine of less eligibility reborn?, Richard Sparks; The virtuous prison: toward a restorative rehabilitation, Francis T. Cullen, Jody L. Sundt and John F. Wozniak; The correction officer subculture and organizational change, David Duffee . Correctional Ethics as Professional Ethics: Appreciative inquiry and relationships in prison, Alison Leibling, David Price and Charles Elliott; Health care in the corrections setting: and ethical analysis, Kenneth Kipnis; Brokering correctional health care, John Kleinig; Management-staff relations: issues in leadership, ethics, and values, Kevin N. Wright; The ethical dilemmas of corrections managers; confronting practical and political complexity, Michael Jacobson; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Work Ethics The International Library of
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays highlights ethical issues in social work which are often overlooked as well as recurring clashes that influence how they play out, for example among different values and related moral judgements. A wide range of ethical issues are addressed such as the types of technologies incorporated into social work; issues raised by the common position of social workers as ''double agents'' required to carry out state mandates while also honoring obligations to clients; and issues concerning the distribution of scarce resources. These topics are integrally related to other often neglected concerns such as harming in the name of helping; the ethics of claims making regarding what is true and what is not, and related concerns regarding empowerment and social justice. This collection, which includes essays from an array of professions and disciplines, is designed to bring these neglected topics to the attention of readers and to offer suggestions for addressing them in a manTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Ethical Obligations and Related Values: The reality principle: realism as an ethical obligation, Chris Beckett; What social workers should know about ethics: understanding and resolving practice dilemmas, Elaine P. Congress; A client-focused definition of social work practice, Eileen Gambrill; Moral foundations of social welfare and social work: a historical view, James Leiby; Responsibility and excuses, Banks McDowell; The evolution of social work ethics, Frederic G. Reamer. Part II Recurrent Clashes and Their Ethical Implications: Social work and social reform: an arena of struggle, Mimi Abramovitz; Mary Richmond and Jane Adams: from moral certainty to rational inquiry in social work practice, Donna L. Franklin; Putting Humpty together again: treatment of mental disorder and pursuit of justice as part of social work's mission, Jerome C. Wakefield. Part III Ethical Dilemmas of Being a Double Agent: The professional as double-agent, Israel Goldiamond; Organizational forms as moral practices: the case of welfare departments, Yeheskel Hasenfeld; Power in social work practice, Yeheskel Hasenfeld. Part IV Ethical Issues Regarding the Allocation of Scarce Resources: The artificial duties of contemporary professionals, Russell Hardin; Phantom welfare: public relief for corporate America, Daniel D. Huff and David A. Johnson. Part V Competence and Accountability as Ethical Issues: Program evaluation: arduous, impossible and political, Donald M. Baer; Trying to do more good than harm in policy and practice: the role of rigorous transparent, up-to-date evaluations, Iain Chalmers; Defining an acceptable treatment environment, Judith E. Favell and James F. McGimsey; Ethical dilemmas and the most effective therapies, Peter Sturmey. Part VI Ethical Obligations to Involve Clients as Informed Participants: A model consent form for psychiatric drug treatment, David Cohen and David Jacobs; Respecting autonomy: the struggle over rights and capacities, Jay Katz; Towards the 'tipping point': decision aids and informed patient choice, Annette M. O'Connor, John E. Wennberg, France Legare, Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas, Benjamin W. Moulton, Karen R. Sepucha; Andrea G. Sodano and Jaime S. King; What is a good treatment decision? The client's perspective, William O'Donohue, Jane E. Fisher, Joseph J. Plaud and William Link. Part VII The Ethics of Claims Making: Problematic phrases in the conclusions of published outcome studies: implications for evidence-based practice, Allen Rubin and Danielle Parrish; Fraudulent misrepresentation and eating disorder, Patricia E. O'Hagan; Science and ethics in conducting, analyzing, and reporting psychological research, Robert Rosenthal; 'Sanctified snake oil': ideology, junk science, and social work practice, Susan Kiss Sarnoff; Addendum 2: Some principles for a new professional ethics based on Xenophanes' theory of truth, Karl R. Popper. Part VIII Ethical Issues Regarding Professional Education and Schools of Social Work: Believing and doing: values in social work education, Helen Harris Perlman; The relationship between schools of social work, social research, and social policy, Richard M. Titmus; An innovative approach to educating medical students about pharmaceutical promotion, Michael S. Wilkes and Jerome R. Hoffman. Part IX The Obligation to Attend to Harming in the Name of Helping: Reification of psychiatric diagnoses as defamatory: implications for ethical clinical practice, Sonja Grover; Cures that harm: unanticipated outcomes of crime prevention programs, Joan McCord; Confidentiality in a preventive child welfare system, Eileen Munro; How to win friends and not influence clients: popular but problematic ideas that impair treatment decisions, William O'Donohue and Jeff Szymanski. Part X The Ethics of Technology: Screening for depression: preventive medicine or telemarketing?, David Cohen and Keith Hoeller; Viagra: medical technology constructing aging masculinity, Gregory Gross and Robert Blundo; Did I make the grade? Ethical issues in psychological screening of children for adoption placement, Sonja Grover; 'Problematics of government', (post)modernity and social work, Nigel Parton. Part XI Promising Directions for the Future: Ethical decisionmaking, Martin Leever, Gina DeCiani, Ellen Mulaney and Heather Hasslinger; The impact of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 on decision making in adult social care in England and Wales, Ann McDonald; Toward embracing clinical uncertainty. Lessons from social work, optometry and medicine, Marlee M. Spafford, Catherine F. Schryer, Sandra L. Campbell and Lorelei Lingard; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Teaching The International Library
Book SynopsisEducation is at a crossroads. While bureaucrats and teachers fight over the best way to structure and deliver education to students, much of the friction generated relates to the different conceptions of what education is about in the first place. The crisis in education is therefore of key importance and demands careful attention in order to formulate the best possible response. But before policies can be formulated, there needs to be a clear agreement on what education should be about. To this end, this collection of previously published essays facilitates just such discussion. The anthology is designed to give a snapshot of the seminal work in the philosophy of education and the input of ethical issues upon that work. It provides an authoritative tour of the profession and pivotal issues that confront it, written from a variety of international and critical perspectives.Trade Review'...a highly useful and comprehensive resource for any research institution with an emphasis in education...' IFLA BulletinTable of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I the Philosophy of Education: Classic readings on the Purpose of Education: Democracy and educational administration, John Dewey; The justification of education, R.S. Peters; What is teaching?, Paul H. Hirst; Learning and teaching, Michael Oakeshott. Contemporary Readings on the Purpose of Education: Colleges must reconstruct the unity of knowledge, Vartan Gregorian; The true scholar, Robert N. Bellah; The corporate university and the politics of education, Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux; Re-education of humankind: globalizing the curriculum and teaching international ethics for the new century, Roseann Runte. Part II The Process of Education: Critical Thinking: A concept of 'critical thinking', Robert H. Ennis; Critical thinking and the 'trivial pursuit' theory of knowledge, John E. McPeck; Format effects on critical thinking test performance, Stephen P. Norris. Aesthetics: The something more, Sharon Bailin; Social vision and the dance of life, Maxime Green. Part III Ethics and Social Responsibility: Toward a philosophy of moral education, William K. Frankena; Introducing ethics into every department: an overview, Michael Boylan and James A. Donahue; The primacy of political education, Amy Gutmann; Access to the university and the problem of racial inequality, Derek Bok; Liberal civic education and religious fundamentalism: the case of God v. John Rawls, Stephen Macedo; Justice and the threshold of educational equality, Randall R. Curren); Non-exclusion is not the same as inclusion: a response to Curren, Kenneth R. Howe; Human rights and academic freedom, Alan Gewirth. Part IV Students and Teachers: Cheating and Plagiarism: In other (people's) words: plagiarism by university students - literature and lessons, Chris Park; Academic dishonesty: a plague on our profession, Kenneth C. Petress (2003); Dishonesty in academic environments: the influence of peer reporting requirements, Donald L. McCabe, Linda Klebe Trev
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Police Ethics
Book SynopsisThis important volume brings together many of the most influential articles and essays in the emerging field of police ethics, and specifically the philosophical literature on ethical issues that arise in policing. Topics covered include theories of policing; police authority and police discretion; police culture; corruption; deadly force and rights of suspects.Trade Review'a welcome contribution to the literature on police ethics and especially the philosophical literature on ethical issues that arise in policing...an important addition ...' Ethical PerspectivesTable of ContentsContents: Series preface; introduction. Part I Theories of Policing: The capacity to use force as the core of the police role, Egon Bittner; A social contract perspective on the police role, Howard S. Cohen and Michael Feldberg; Moral foundations of policing, John Kleinig; Human rights and the institution of the police, Seumas Miller. Part II Police Authority and Police Discretion: 2 principles of policing, Lord Scarman; The police and their rules of office: an ethical analysis, William C. Heffernan; Police discretion, Laurence Lustgarten; The pervasive false pretense of full enforcement, K.C. Davis; police discretion, legality and morality, James F. Doyle; Is police discretion justified in a free society?, Jeffrey Reiman; Selective enforcement and the rule of law, John Kleinig. Part III Police Culture: A sketch of the policemen's 'working personality', Jerome H. Skolnick; Police culture, Steve James and Ian Warren; Loyalty: the police, R.E. Ewin; The problematic virtue of loyalty, John Kleinig; 3 types of leadership, William C. Heffernan. Part IV Police Corruption: Becoming bent: moral careers of corrupt policemen, Lawrence Sherman; Exploiting police authority, Howard Cohen ; The Dirty Harry problem, Carl B. Klockars; Tragedy and 'noble cause' corruption, Edwin J. Delattre. Part V Deadly Force: Tennessee v. Garner, US Supreme Court; Deadly force, P.A.J. Waddington; Shootings by police in Victoria: the ethical issues, Seumas Miller. Part VI Rights of Suspects: Deception by police, Jerome Skolnick; Who really gets stung? Some issues raised by the new police undercover work, Gary T. Marx; The serpent beguiled me and I did eat: entrapment and the creation of crime, Gerald Dworkin; The ethics of deceptive interrogation, Jerome H. Skolnick and Richard A. Leo; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Research Ethics The International Library of
Book SynopsisThis volume includes more than 40 important articles on integrity and misconduct, biomedical research, the social and disciplinary contexts of science, research in the social sciences, the social responsibility of science and scientists, and other core issues in research ethics. A new introduction by the editor places these articles in their historical and conceptual context. The volume provides a rich library of resources, ideas and challenges in the ethics of research for any scholar concerned with such issues.Trade Review'...an excellent and useful reference for those academics, professionals and students engaged in the study and examination of research ethics irrespective of whether they are new to the field or have an established interest in it. ' Public Health Ethics '...invaluable as a source of inspiration and challenge to any student or professional engaged in a study of research ethics...' Research Ethics Review 'There is much of interest and value in this collection...' Cyrstallography ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Foundations: Ethics and clinical research, Henry K Beecher; Experimentation in children: a re-examination of legal ethical principles, William J. Curran and Henry K. Beecher; Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects, Hans Jonas; Clarifying the concepts of research ethics, Robert J. Levine. Part II Integrity and Misconduct: Fraud and the structure of science, William J. Broad; Misrepresentation and responsibility in medical research, Robert L. Engler, James W. Covell, Paul J. Friedman, Philip S. Kitcher and Richard M. Peters; Deception in scientific research, Patricia Woolf; Research integrity, Kenneth J. Ryan; From Baltimore to Bell Labs: reflections on 2 decades of debate about scientific misconduct, David B. Resnik; Trust and the future of research, Caroline Whitbeck; How to blow the whistle and still have a career afterwards, C.K. Gunsalus. Part III Biomedical Research: The conflict between randomized clinical trials and the therapeutic obligation, Fred Gifford; False hopes and best data: consent to research and the therapeutical misconception, Paul S. Appelbaum, Loren H. Roth, Charles W. Lidz, Paul Benson and William Winslade; Equipoise and the ethics of clinical research, Benjamin Freedman; Community equipoise and the ethics of the randomized clinical trials, Fred Gifford; Of mice but not men: problems of the randomized clinical trial, Samuel Hellman and Deborah S. Hellman; Randomized, controlled trials, observational studies, and the hierarchy of research designs, John Concato, Nirav Shah and Ralph I. Horwitz; A comparison of observational studies and randomized, controlled trials, Kjell Benson and Arthur J. Harz; Participation in biomedical research: the consent process as viewed by children, adolescents, young adults, and physicians, Elizabeth J. Susman, Lorah D. Dorn and John C. Fletcher; What makes clinical research ethical?, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David Wendler and Christin Grady; What makes clinical research in developing countries ethical? The benchmarks of ethical research, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David Wendler, Jack Killen and Christin Grady. Part IV Contexts of Science: The social process of science, Gerard Piel; Science as a vocation in the 1990s: the changing organizational culture of academic science, Edward J. Hackett; Fraud, ethics, and the disciplinary contexts of science and scholarship, Mary Frank Fox; Misconduct and social control in science: issues, problems, solutions, Mary Frank Fox and John M. Braxton; The role of culture in research misconduct, Mark S. Davis; Scientific societies as sentinels of responsible research conduct, Mark S. Frankel; Scientific societies and research integrity: what are they doing and how well are they doing it?, Margot Iverson, Mark S. Frankel, and Sanyin Siang. Part V Social Research: Psychology in action: some thoughts on the ethics of research: after reading Milgram's Behavioral Study of Obedience, Diana Baumrind; On the ethics of intervention in human psychological research: with special reference to the Stanford prison experiment, Philip G. Zimbardo; Learning to deceive, Thomas H. Murray; Observing abuse: professional ethics and personal morality in field research, Steven J. Taylor. Part VI Social Responsibility: The social responsibilities of scientists, Bertrand Russell; Notes of a biology-watcher: the hazards of science, Lewis Thomas; 2 aspects of scientific responsibility, John T. Edsall. Part VII Authorship and Data: Statistics and ethics in medical research, David L. DeMets; Problems in research integrity arising from misconceptions about the ownership of research, Kay L. Fields and Alan R. Price; The contributions of authors, Drummond Rennie, Annette Flanagin and Veronica York; Who did what? Authorship and contribution in 2001, Drummond Rennie; Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations, Mark A. Fine and Lawrence A. Kurdek. Part VIII Animals in Research: The rights of humans and other animals, Tom Regan; The case for the use of animals in biomedical research, Carl Cohen; Rethinking the morality of animal research, Jerrold Tannenbaum and Andrew N. Rowan; The moral status of mice, Harold A. Herzog Jr; Harry F. Harlow and animal research: reflection on the ethical paradox, John P. Gluck. Part IX Financial Conflicts of Interest: University research and the wages of commerce, Michael Davis; Understanding financial conflicts of interest, Dennis F. Thompson; Perception, reality, and the political context of conflict of interest in university-industry relationships, Mark S. Frankel; Is academic medicine for sale?, Marcia Angell; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Civil Rights and Security The International
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published work on security and rights focuses on the appropriate relationship between rights and what we can think of as counterterrorism policy. Such a focus might seem both necessary, because of 9/11, and unfortunate, because there are other causes of insecurity besides terrorism. However, the intensity of the 'war on terror' has created an ongoing surge of scholarship on the relationship between security and human rights that either has indirect implications for debates about security where terrorism is not in issue, or has directly led to an attempt to rethink more generally the idea of security and its relationship to rights.Trade Review'...the book makes available many of the key writings in this field, it is to be warmly welcomed.' Commonwealth Lawyer '...this is a most important book. It brings to the table some of the greatest thinkers on the subject of civil rights and security.' The Criminal LawyerTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Image of Balance: Security and liberty: the image of balance, Jeremy Waldron; Emergencies, tradeoffs, and deference, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule. Part II Institutional Models: The Emergency Constitution: This is not a war, Bruce Ackerman; The priority of morality: the emergency constitution's blind spot, David Cole; Weak Constitutionalism: Minimalism at war, Cass R. Sunstein; Strong Constitutionalism: Securing liberty in the face of terror: reflections from criminal justice, Lucia Zedner; Must we trade rights for security? The choice between smart, harsh, or proportionate security strategies in Canada and Britain, Kent Roach; Keeping control of terrorists without losing control of constitutionalism, Clive Walker; Equality in the war on terror, Neal Katyal. Part III Civilizing Security?: World citizens between freedom and security, Klaus Günther; The cultural lives of security and rights, Ian Loader and Neil Walker; Name Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of the Environment The International
Book SynopsisThis book brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field. It also unites them through an innovative introductory essay which appraises both strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive view of the subject. Areas covered include the land ethic, Deep Ecology, biocentric approaches, environmental virtue ethics, feminist contributions, debates on equity and on the interests and representation of future generations, preservation, sustainability and sustainable development. The importance of attempts to discover a comprehensive ethic relevant both to the environment and other key areas of ethical debate is highlighted. Robin Attfield has been working in this field for thirty years, and has published several related collections and monographs, of which the latest is Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, published by Polity in 2003. The Ethics Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Values and the Environment: Is there a need for a new, an environmental, ethic?, Richard Sylvan (Routley); Is there an ecological ethic?, Holmes Rolston III; Anthropocentrism, atomism, and environmental ethics, Donald Scherer; Postmodernism, value, and objectivity, Robin Attfield; Why environmental ethics shouldn't give up on intrinsic value, Katie McShane; Nature - every last drop of it - is good, Alan Holland. Part II The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology: The land ethic, Aldo Leopold; The shallow and the deep, long range ecology movement: a summary, Arne Naess; Hume's Is/Ought dichotomy and the relation of ecology to Leopold's land ethic, J. Baird Callicott; The land ethic and Callicott's ethical system (1980-2001): an overview and critique, Y.S. Lo; The inadequacy of Callicott's ecological communitarianism, Darren Domsky; Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: a 3rd World critique, Ramachandra Guha; Nature, self and gender; feminism, environmental philosophy and the critique of rationalism, Val Plumwood; Beasts versus the biosphere?, Mary Midgley. Part III Biocentric Approaches: On being morally considerable, Kenneth E. Goodpaster; The ethics of respect for nature, Paul W. Taylor; The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic, Tom Regan; Biocentric individualism, Gary Varner; A biocentrist strikes back, James B. Sterba. Part IV Virtue Ethics and Human Values: Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments, Thomas E. Hill Jr; Environmental ethics and weak anthropocentrism, Bryan G. Norton; Must a concern for the environment be centred on human beings?, Bernard Williams; When utilitarians should be virtue theorists, Dale Jamieson. Part V Equity and the Future: Nuclear energy and obligations to the future, R. and V.Routley; Why care about the future?, Ernest Partridge; Global environment and international inequality, Henry Shue; Adaptation, mitigation and justice, Dale Jamieson; Giving a
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Development Ethics The International Library of
Book SynopsisThe traditional definition of development ethics considers the 'ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning and practice' (Goulet 1977: 5). The field parallels the traditional question of ethics 'How ought one to live as an individual?' by asking in addition 'How ought a society exist and move into the future?' This interdisciplinary field is well represented by a substantial collection of previously-published articles and papers. The volume illustrates a wide range of academic and practitioner writings on the theories and concepts of development ethics as well as ethical development policy and practice.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Field of Development Ethics: History and Agenda: The invention of development, Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton; The West and its others, Bhikhu Parekh; Tasks and methods in development ethics, Denis Goulet; Denis Goulet and the project of development ethics: choices in methodology, focus and organization, Des Gasper. Part II Development and Underdevelopment: Experiences, Meanings and Evaluations: The concept of development, Amartya Sen; Famines, Amartya Sen; Poverty is powerlessness and voicelessness, Deepa Narayan; On the ethics of development planning, Denis Goulet; Development experts: the one-eyed giants, Denis Goulet; Development as practice in a liberal capitalist world, Alan Thomas. Part III Ethical Principles: Needs, Capabilities, Rights: Development and human needs, Manfred Max-Neef; Women's capabilities and social justice, Martha Nussbaum; What is the capability approach? Its core, rationale, partners and dangers, Des Gasper; Development, common foes and shared values, Mozaffar Qizilbash; A deliberative ethic for development: a Nepalese journey from Bourdieu through Kant to Dewey and Habermas, John Cameron and Hemant Ojha; The right to development and its corresponding obligations, David Beetham. Part IV Methodologies: Approaches to evaluation of development interventions: the importance of world and life views, Roland Hoksbergen; The implications and value added of a rights-based approach, Jakob Kirkemann Hansen and Hans-Otto Sano; Human security - national perspectives and global agendas: insights from national human development reports, Richard Jolly and Deepayan Basu Ray; A methodologically pragmatist approach to development ethics, Asunción Lera St Clair. Part V Ethical Development Policy and Practice: Hunger, capability and development, David A. Crocker; Democracy and the right to food, Jean Drèze; How much debt must be cancelled?, Joseph Hanlon; Development, displacement and international ethics, Peter Penz; G
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethics and International Relations The Library of
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a new dimension to realist theories about world politics. It questions both the theoretical and empirical foundations of much of traditional realist thought by offering realist-oriented analyses that emphasize the possibilities of cooperation and accommodation through agreement over common motivations and concerns. The articles in this volume demonstrate that moral considerations can and do play a significant role in shaping state behavior and that despair about the possibility of improving the systems and institutions within which we live is unwarranted. Specific points of normative convergence are raised in some detail, especially on issues of war, membership and authority, humanitarian concern and the social consequences of globalization. Three ethical concepts form the core of the ''realism reconsidered'' argued for here, namely, the ideas of pluralism, rights and fairness.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Pluralism, Rights and Fairness: Basic moral values: a shared core, Frances V. Harbor; Morality and foreign policy, George F. Kennan; Moral skepticism and international relations, Marshall Cohen; International ethics and international law, Terry Nardin; The law of peoples, John Rawls; Human rights and capabilities, Amartya Sen; Reciprocity in international relations, Robert O. Keohane; Covenants with and without a sword: self-governance is possible, Elinor Ostrom, James Walker and Roy Gardner. Part II Just War?: Just war and human rights, David Luban; The slippery slope to preventive war, Neta C. Crawford; Political action: the problem of dirty hands, Michael Walzer; Terrorism without intention, David Rodin. Part III Intervention: The politics and ethics of military intervention, Stanley Hoffmann; Humanitarian intervention: an overview of the ethical issues, Michael J. Smith; The responsibility to protect, Gareth Evans and Mohamed Sahnoun. Part IV Nuclear Ethics: Force and diplomacy in the nuclear age, Henry A. Kissinger; NPT: the logic of inequality, Joseph S. Nye Jr. Part V Human Rights and Citizenship: The relative universality of human rights, Jack Donnelly; Patriotism and cosmopolitanism, Martha C. Nussbaum; Aliens and citizens: the case for open borders, Joseph H. Carens. Part VI Ethical Globalization: Moral universalism and global economic justice, Thomas W. Pogge; International liberalism and distributive justice: a survey of recent thought, Charles R. Beitz; Debate: global poverty relief: more than charity: cosmopolitan alternatives to the 'Singer solution', Andrew Kuper and Peter Singer; An equal-opportunity approach to the allocation of international aid, Humberto G. Llavador and John E. Roemer; Fairness considerations in world politics: lessons from international trade negotiations, Ethan B. Kapstein; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Distributive Justice The Library of Essays on
Book SynopsisA central component of justice is how the economic goods are distributed in a society. Philosophers contribute to distributive justice debates by providing arguments for principles to guide and evaluate the allocation of economic goods and to guide the design of institutions to achieve more just distributions. This volume includes both seminal and recent work by philosophers, covering a range of representative positions, including libertarian, egalitarian, desert, and welfare theorists. The introduction to the volume and the selections themselves are designed to allow students and professionals to see some of the most influential pieces that have shaped the field, as well as some key critics of these positions. The articles intersect in such a way as to develop an appreciation of the types of theories and the central issues addressed by theories of distributive justice. Furthermore, the choice of authors in this collection reflects an appreciation of the influence of institutions in general, markets in particular, and even luck on the distribution of economic goods.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Right Libertarianism and Its Critics: Distributive justice, Robert Nozick; Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: how patterns preserve liberty, G.A. Cohen; Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality, G.A. Cohen; Taking responsibility, David Schmidtz. Part II Distributive Justice, Fairness and Equality: Distributive justice: what the people think, David Miller; A critical introduction to Rawls' theory of justice, Allen Buchanan; Equal opportunity and moral arbitrariness, Brian Barry; Egalitarian opportunities, Marc Fleurbaey; Complex equality, Michael Walzer. Part III Desert, Distributive Justice and the Market: Distributive justice, David Miller; Justice under capitalism, Jonathan Riley; Incentive income, deserved income, and economic rents, Julian Lamont. Part IV Welfarism and Needs: A skeletal theory of institutions, James Wood Bailey; Basic distributive institutions, James Wood Bailey; Why all welfare states (including laissez-faire ones) are unreasonable, Gerald F. Gaus; Why surfers should be fed: the liberal case for an unconditional basic income, Philippe Van Parijs; The right to an adequate standard of living: justice, autonomy, and the basic needs, David Copp; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Justice The Library of Essays on Justice
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of influential essays by distinguished philosophers and political theorists on the issue of global justice. Global justice concerns the search for ethical norms that should govern interactions between people, states, corporations and other agents acting in the global arena, as well as the design of social institutions that link them together. This volume includes articles that engage with major theoretical questions such as the applicability of the ideals of social and economic equality to the global sphere, the degree of justified partiality to compatriots, and the nature and extent of the responsibilities of the affluent to address global poverty and other hardships abroad. It also features articles that bring the theoretical insights of global justice thinkers to bear on matters of practical concern to contemporary societies, such as policies associated with immigration, international trade and climate change.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Standards of Global Justice: Assistance-Based Responsibilities to the Global Poor: Famine, affluence and morality, Peter Singer; We don't owe them a thing! A tough-minded but soft-hearted view of aid to the faraway needy, Jan Narveson; Does distance matter morally to the duty to rescue? Frances Myrna Kamm; Contribution-Based Responsibilities to the Global Poor: 'Assisting' the global poor, Thomas W. Pogge; Should we stop thinking about poverty in terms of helping the poor?, Alan Patten; Poverty and the moral significance of contribution, Gerhard Øverland; Cosmopolitans, Global Egalitarians, and Its Critics: The one and many faces of cosmopolitanism, Catherine Lu; Cosmopolitan justice and equalizing opportunities, Simon Caney; The problem of global justice, Thomas Nagel; Against global egalitarianism, David Miller; Egalitarian challenges to global egalitarianism: a critique, Christian Barry and Laura Valentini. Part II Pressing Global Socioeconomic Issues: Governing the Flow of People: Immigration and freedom of association, Christopher Heath Wellman; Democratic theory and border coercion: no right to unilaterally control your own borders, Arash Abizadeh; Justice in migration: a closed borders utopia?, Lea Yp; Climate Change: Global environment and international inequality, Henry Shue; Valuing policies in response to climate change: some ethical issues, John Broome; Saved by disaster? Abrupt climate change, political inertia, and the possibility of an intergenerational arms race, Stephen M. Gardiner; Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change, Elinor Ostrom; International Trade: Responsibility and global labor justice, Iris Marion Young; Property rights and the resource curse, Leif Wenar; Fairness in trade I: obligations from trading and the pauper-labor argument, Mathias Risse; Name index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Digital Stimulation
Book SynopsisMimi Marinucci is Professor of Philosophy and of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Washington University, USA. Marinucci is the author of Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory (Bloomsbury, 2010)
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Hamilton Books Gold Stripe on a Jackass
Book SynopsisGold Stripe on a Jackass is a conceptually rich description of one naval officer''s career journey. Author Stephen B. Sloane began his career in Annapolis, where the commandment of obedience holds sway, and finished in Berkeley, a place where questioning authority is woven deeply into the cultural fabric. Sloane rejects the conventional role of corporate, government, and military ideals by demonstrating that efficiency can be attained without sacrificing morality. He maintains that the person who dons the gold stripe of authority should reject the role of jackass and strive for moral efficiency by regarding the expenditure of human life as a cost rather than the utilization of a tangible resource. Inspired by Admiral James Bond Stockdale''s experience as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam, Sloane asserts that a man''s ethical posture and philosophical outlook can enable him and others to survive even the direst conditions with honor. Gold Stripe on a Jackass provides readers with a guide Trade ReviewStephen Sloane puts his many years of military experience under the microscope of a scholar's intellect to pin down the essence of an ideal morality—a morality that transcends ubiquitous societal, political, and organizational constraints. In our time, we suffer the effects of self-serving decision criteria that pollute the ethical foundations of our military, government, and business sectors. Sloane shows us why we need to redefine our concept of leadership to include the consideration of questioning authority by speaking truth to power. -- Lawrence Korb, Former Assistant Secretary of DefenseDr. Sloane is one of those rare academics with the gift of producing a "read" that is both entertaining and edifying. His point of view on organizational processes is sorely needed at a time when having aimed at "front line empowerment," we've remained in a "because I'm the boss" reality. Dr. Sloane, a military leader tried in fray, brings a refreshing perspective on how managers can actually accomplish what they need to despite restrictions. -- G. Miki Hayden, former editor, Creative ManagementTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Part 2 Part I: Naval Academy Days Chapter 3 1 A Salty Chief Chapter 4 2 Sensemaking Chapter 5 3 A Mixed Marriage Chapter 6 4 The Golden Rule Chapter 7 5 A Million Laughs Chapter 8 6 A Final Exam Part 9 Part II: Wings of Gold Chapter 10 7 Airborn Chapter 11 8 A Big Half Stripe Chapter 12 9 Keeping the Jackass From Busting His Ass Chapter 13 10 Bishop's Revenge Chapter 14 11 Deployed to the Med Chapter 15 12 Using My Discretion Part 16 Part III: Neither a Young Stud nor an Old Fud Chapter 17 13 You Can't Win Chapter 18 14 Going to War; Barco Redux Chapter 19 15 Safety is Paramount —or Is It? Part 20 Part IV: At Sea Chapter 21 16 Becoming a Black Shoe and a Carrier Pilot Chapter 22 17 Cheating the Computer; The Creative Rebel Chapter 23 18 A Great Need for Refreshing Chapter 24 19 Welcome to Jamaica; Have a Nice Day Part 25 Part V: My Own Command Chapter 26 20 A Mid-Career Disappointment Chapter 27 21 A Command Tour: Fun and Rum in the Sun Chapter 28 22 You're Fired! Chapter 29 23 Hoe Does Not Like Me . . . At All! Chapter 30 24 A Hard Landing Made Easy Chapter 31 25 One More Flight Part 32 Part VI: War College Chapter 33 26 Can a Jackass Think? Chapter 34 27 A Letter To The Editor Part 35 Part VII: Berkeley Chapter 36 28 The Golden Bear Meets Golden Stripes Chapter 37 29 The Military-Academic Partnership Chapter 38 30 The Bare Facts Chapter 39 Part VIII: After All Is Done, Something Needs to Be Said Chapter 40 31 The Road to Understanding Chapter 41 32 Moral Efficiency Chapter 42 Reference Chapter 43 Index
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Random House USA Inc Ethics
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Random House USA Inc The Road to Character
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Interrupting Auschwitz Art Religion Philosophy Continuum Guide to Holocaust Studies S
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Law Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Hogrefe Publishing Positive Psychology at the Movies: Using Films to Build Character Strengths and Well-Being
Book SynopsisMovies are a powerful and enjoyable medium for learning. This book shows exactly how to use film to learn about the concepts and the real-life benefits of positive psychology, both for self-improvement and in classes or seminars.Trade Review"Positive Psychology at the Movies 2 is an easy, convenient, and fun but serious way to learn about Positive Psychology. Importantly, it provides resources for applying the science to one's own life and for bringing it to others so that all may flourish." Jeanette Biermann, PhD, Cleveland, OH, in The Ohio Psychologist Review (Nov./Dec. 2014) "Positive Psychology at the Movies provides a creative way to explore positive psychology principles through the exploration of films [and] an impressive approach to teaching. Any psychology educator will find a plethora of films to use to teach a wide array of psychological concepts and principles that extend beyond Positive Psychology and are legitimised by rigorous research. This book could be used as a form of cinematherapy [and] would certainly be a useful tool to consolidate psychological concepts and inspire behavior change. "The new inclusions of film exemplars and extended appendices add to the quality of teaching resources that the book provides. "In addition, its stimulating and contemporary presentation should encourage a broader audience including lay people who want to evaluate the meaning of movies." Melissa Monfries, Counselling and Psychological Health, La Trobe University, in Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, vol 14, 2014 "Need a dose of courage? An injection of humility? A dram of teamwork? Then look no further than the movies for inspiration. Positive Psychology at the Movies: Using Films to Build Character Strengths and Well-Being (2nd ed.) is a tightly organized, thematically interesting, and, of course, utterly positive guide to viewing films through the lens of flourishing. Film is a natural medium by which to illustrate psychological concepts and bear witness to the experiences of (fantastical) others. The book's purpose is to highlight films that 'portray and inspire character strengths', and it succeeds - exemplar films are discussed and dissected according to their respective key concept, relevant research, signature strengths, strength dynamics, benefits, and coping. The book lends itself to classroom use, as evidenced by Appendix E, "Questions for Classroom, Therapy, and Movie Group Discussions", and by Appendix G, "Syllabus of a Positive Psychology Course That Uses Movies". As well, it can be a tool in individual and/or group therapy. Prof. Debra Merskin, PhD, Associate Professor of Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, in PsycCRITIQUES, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 28, Article 6 "Ryan Niemiec and Danny Wedding's updated edition of Positive Psychology at the Movies is an exploration of the ways that movies can illuminate and portray the principles of positive psychology, especially character strengths... "[The authors] encourage the reader to watch films with an eye on strengths and well-being. They ask us to watch mindfully instead of passively, and to take lessons from the films and apply them to our own lives... [They] also give practical applications for mining the most character strength knowledge from a film and ways to bring that learning into daily life. There is a great deal of information here. "The most intriguing part of [the] 470-page book ... focuses on the ways in which movies can support Martin Seligman's PERMA model of human flourishing... The learning possibilities are endless." Bright Dickson, MAPP, Theano Coaching LLC, in Psychology News Daily, 2013 "[A] valuable book. As a business consultant and leadership coach, I continually look for ways to help my clients increase their awareness of their leadership style, and how their personality and sense of self informs this awareness. The use of films and clips (including examples from television) are a valuable tool. I have already shared this book with my peers..." Howard A Fox, MA, Fielding Graduate University, in Doody's Listings and Reviews, 2013Table of ContentsTable of Contents About the Authors ... ii Dedication ... v In Memoriam ... vii Foreword to this Second Edition ... viii Foreword to the First Edition ... ix Preface ... x Acknowledgments ... xiii Section I: Introduction and Background ... 1 1. Introduction ... 3 Section II: Character Strengths at the Movies ... 27 The Virtue of Wisdom and Knowledge ... 29 2. Wisdom and Knowledge I: Creativity and Curiosity ... 31 3. Wisdom and Knowledge II: Judgment , Love of Learning , and Perspective ... 54 The Virtue of Courage ... 83 4. Courage I: Bravery and Perseverance ... 85 5. Courage II: Honesty and Zest ... 108 The Virtue of Humanity ... 131 6. Humanity I: Love ... 133 7. Humanity II: Kindness and Social Intelligence ... 151 The Virtue of Justice ... 177 8. Justice: Teamwork , Fairness , and Leadership ... 179 The Virtue of Temperance ... 215 9. Temperance: Forgiveness , Humility , Prudence , and Self-Regulation ... 217 The Virtue of Transcendence ... 259 10. Transcendence I: Appreciation of Beauty/Excellence and Gratitude ... 261 11. Transcendence II: Hope and Humor ... 285 12. Transcendence III: Spirituality ... 310 Section III: PERMA at the Movies ... 333 13. Positive Relationships ... 337 14. Achievement, Positive Emotions, Engagement, and Meaning ... 348 15. Mindfulness and Resilience ... 361 Section IV: Conclusion ... 371 16. Conclusion and Future Directions ... 373 xvi Positive Psychology at the Movies Appendices ... 377 Appendix A: Exemplars in Positive Psychology at the Movies ... 379 Appendix B: The Positive Psychology Film Awards ... 380 Appendix C: Positive Psychology Movies for Children, Adolescents, and Families ... 381 Appendix D: Positive Psychology Shorts ... 383 Appendix E: Questions for Classroom, Therapy, and Movie Group Discussions ... 385 Appendix F: Positive Psychology Movie Clips ... 386 Appendix G: Syllabus of a Positive Psychology Course That Uses Movies ... 387 Appendix H: Website Resources: Movies, Positive Psychology, and Character Strengths ... 390 Appendix I: 100 Years ... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies ... 391 Appendix J: Positive Psychology Movies: Films That Portray and Inspire Character Strengths ... 393 References ... 409 Film Index ... 443 People Index ... 459
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Open Gate Press The Universal Kinship Kinship Library
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Rationalist Press Association Ltd Humanism An Introduction
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Academy of Kemetic Education & Wellness, Inc. Secrets of Race Consciousness Revealed in Ka Ab Ba Kabala The Tree Of Life Afrikan Cosmology of Kemet
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Cambridge University Press Unruly Children
Book SynopsisHow do we become moral persons? What about children''s active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. Jing Xu skillfully reinterprets the Wolfs'' extensive fieldnotes, employing a unique blend of humanistic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine-learning techniques. Through a lens of social cognition, this book unravels the complexities of children''s moral growth, exposing instances of disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics. Writing through and about fieldnotes, the author connects the two themes, learning morality and making ethnography, in light of social cognition, and invites all of us to take children seriously. This book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students of anthropology and educational studies.
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Legare Street Press Ueber Gesellschaft Und Einsamkeit Volume 2
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Cambridge University Press Augustines Theology of Angels
Book SynopsisAlthough the angels feature prominently in Augustine's works, little scholarly work has appeared on the topic. This book offers the first comprehensive account of Augustine's theology of the angels and its importance for Augustine's thought. The book is also foundational for those studying the history of Christian angelology.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Angels and creation; 2. Angelic community; 3. Angels in salvation history; 4. Augustine and spiritual warfare; Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Animals in the Writings of C. S. Lewis
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Genesis and Peaceful Coexistence.- 3.Genesis and Humanity's Dominion.- 4. Genesis and Paradise Lost.- 5. Genesis and Food.- 6. Genesis and the Animal-Human Community.Table of Contents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Perspectives on HumanAnimal Communication
Book SynopsisDespite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a discipline too long defined by that fallacy of division, human or nonhuman, into conversation with animal studies, biosemiotics, and environmental communication, as well as other recent intellectual and activist movements for reconceptualizing relationships and interactions in the biosphere. This book is a much-needed point of entry for future scholarship on animal-human communication, as well as the whole range of communication possibilities among the more-than-human world. It offers a groundbreaking transformation of higher education by charting new directions for communication research, policy formation, and personal and professional practices involving animals.Trade Review"Plec’s anthology is organized around three ideas that deeply engage the reader, complicity, implication, and coherence. [...] In addition to implicating the reader, Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication would be a great text to teach from at any level. [...] The issues raised on these pages are imperative for creating a sustainable and humane world." --Julie Kalil Schutten, Environmental Communication"Emily Plec’s collection of essays on human-animal communication presents a variety of views on the borderlands where species meet and interact, and how humans communicate on behalf of animals, about animals, and sometimes with animals. These interactions present a rich tapestry of persuasive efforts – some performed by agents, others by mediators for those perceived as voiceless in the mainstream of human communications theory." --Alex C. Parrish, Journal for Critical Animal StudiesTable of Contents1. Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: An Introduction Part I: Complicity 2. Animals as Media: Speaking Through/With Nonhuman Beings 3. Beached Whales: Tracing the Rhetorical Force of Extraordinary Material Articulations 4. Framing Primate Testing: How Supporters and Opponents Construct Meaning and Shape the Debate 5. Absorbent and Yellow and Porous is He: Animated Animal Bodies in SpongeBob Squarepants Part II: Implication 6. Stepping Up to the Veggie Plate: Framing Veganism as Living Your Values 7. The "Golden" Bond: Exploring Human-Canine Relationships with a Retriever 8. Communicating Social Support to Grieving Clients: The Veterinarians’ View 9. Flocking Bird-Human Ritual Communication 10. Banging on the Divide: Cultural Reflection and Refraction at the Zoo Part III: Coherence 11. Listening with the Third Eye: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Animal Communicators 12. Thinking through Ravens: Human Hunters, Wolf-birds, and Embodied Communication 13. Un-defining Man: The Case for Symbolic Animal Communication 14. Difference without hierarchy: Narrative Paradigms and Critical Animal Studies, A Meditation on Communication
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith blends the rich intellectual heritage of the hermeneutic tradition with the methods and concepts of psychoanalysis, in order to examine the seminal works of Adam Smith. This is the first book on Smith to analyse the works of the groundbreaking moral theorist and founding father of economics from a psychoanalytic perspective, whilst also examining the human capacities and skills that are necessary to put Smith's ideas into practice. Starting with a detailed discussion of the psychological difficulties that afflicted Smith, Özler and Gabrinetti examine the influence that Smith's life had on the ideas that are found in his major works. The authors explore the sympathetic process in Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) from an intersubjectivist perspective and use ideas from developmental psychology to argue that sympathy leads to morality. This book contains a thorough analysis of the defences that are usedTrade Review‘This provocative and rich book offers not uncritical re-readings of Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments from multiple psychoanalytic perspectives in order to reveal that the father of homo economicus anticipates important elements of Freudian moral psychology and social theory. The argument also reveals the humanity and generosity of the authors who invite us to reflect not just on the foundations of Smith's system, but also on our own reactions to his writings.’ - Eric Schliesser, Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.‘Şule Özler and □Paul A. Gabrinetti have written a wonderful book inter-translating Adam Smith and psychoanalysis. Explaining Freud’s work on empathy by Smith’s on sympathic is deeply helpful. This opens up opportunities for exploration since they tell us Freud himself knew Smith’s Weath of Nations as that of "a great philosopher and wit." For me, the most illuminating aspect the work is their use of Jung’s doctrine – all humans have a mix of feminine and masculine – to explain Smith’s difficult doctrine that "humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity if a man" without having to appeal to innate differences among humans. Smith takes pains to assert the observed difference of the philosopher and the street porter are not fixed by nature but set by incentives, history, and luck, so Özler and Gabrinetti have offered a reading coherent with Smith’s larger doctrine.’ - David M. Levy, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, USA. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. An Intersubjective Interpretation of Sympathy 3. Sympathy, Empathy and Evidence from Developmental Psychology 4. The Impartial Spectator, Conscience and Morality 5. The Role of the Deity in Smith’s Moral System 6. A Known World: an Analysis of Defenses in Adam Smith’s the Theory of Moral Sentiments 7. Defenses and Morality: Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud and Contemporary Psychoanalysis 8. An Evolutionary Psychological and Adaptive Defenses View of Relations between Markets and Morality 9. On Dependency 10. On Friendship 11. A Jungian Interpretation of the Place of Women in Smith’s Works 12. Conclusions
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Islam and Morality
Book SynopsisIslam and Morality considers how Islam, the Qur'an, and other Islamic texts have approached the ethics of a variety of contemporary and historical issues. Oliver Leaman provides a varied, balanced, and thought-provoking account of how Islamic thinkers discussed medical ethics, wealth, poverty, the environment, and law. He explores the work of a range of Islamic thinkers, including Rumi, Ibn al-Arabi, al-Ghazali, Mutahhari and Barlas, while taking into consideration the different branches of Islam and Islamic theology and law. The book also considers how Islam understands the concept of free will, the relationship between good and evil, and far less abstract topics like what we should eat and drink.Aimed at upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers working in Islamic Studies and ethics, this is one of the first books to provide a sustained reading of the importance of ethics within Islam.Trade ReviewLeaman’s style of philosophic writing draws readers into discussions of justice, conflict, health, bodies, nature, and choice as moral issues with stimulus from the Koran and rational inquiry. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers; general readers. * CHOICE *This is a very accessible book, which treats a significant issue relating to Islam and morality. Professor Leaman’s analysis, especially the complex relationship between law and ethics, will surely stimulate further scholarly discussion of the principles of ethics and the theory behind its formulation in Islam and in its foundational scripture. His book will be a welcome contribution to Islamic studies and to ethics. -- Nuha Alshaar, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK and Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Note on transliteration 1. Justice 2. Conflict 3. Sins 4. Health 5. Bodies 6. Nature 7. Choice 8. Sufis 9. Principles Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nussbaums Politics of Wonder
Book SynopsisIn an unconventionally written book that challenges the literary imagination of its readers, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer explores how wonder is central to Martha C. Nussbaum's normative project. Nussbaum's work is opposed to the emotional and political conditions of narcissism' the tendency to seek to control the wills of others in order to defend oneself against perceived vulnerabilities. Our capacity for wondering is important for growing beyond narcissism. Bendik-Keymer elaborates a politics of wonder that is consistent with understanding this idea. Taking issue with understandings of wonder viewing it as an emotion of surprise or delight, he develops an alternate tradition finding wonder in concert with the freedom of imagination found by degrees within much of human understanding. The result is a constructive rereading of Nussbaum's oeuvre, surprising for how it disencumbers her work of some falsehoods surrounding anxiety and anger and for the ways it implies an egalitarian politicTrade ReviewProvides a remarkable phenomenology of the polyphonic gist of wondering, consisting of four mutually related motets (essays) on different aspects of wondering’s genealogy ... Inspiring and thought-provoking. * Journal of Ethical Studies *A very timely call for the revival of politics through our ability to wonder, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer’s book proves that philosophy should have a robust place in public life. * Urszula Lisowska, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Wroclaw, Poland *Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder is the first book to notice and develop the crucial importance of wonder to Nussbaum’s political philosophy. At one stroke, it makes an important contribution to Nussbaum scholarship and a novel contribution to the ongoing recovery of the political importance of wonder. * Anders Schinkel, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands *In an individual voice, but with a wide range of reference that includes literature, music, and film, Bendik-Keymer has more than vindicated Plato's saying that philosophy begins in wonder. He explores what wonder means, why it should inform our lives, and how it can inspire a new vision of politics. * Charles Larmore, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University, USA *Table of ContentsPROLOGUE SETTING – WHEN PEOPLE NO LONGER WONDER, DOMINATION’S HOLDING DOWN THE SYSTEM IN THE READER’S VOICE MOTET 1 – WONDER IS THE MIND’S EXCITEMENT AND PROCEEDS BY GETTING LOST TEXTS: Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium, Frontiers of Justice WORD: “Lostness” MOTET 2 – HUMANS ARE BORN TO WONDER HOW ANOTHER'S WORLD IS POSSIBLE TEXTS: Upheavals of Thought, Fragility of Goodness WORD: “Devotion” “LIFE CYCLE” MOTET 3 – WONDER IS POLITICAL, HONEST IN OUR RELATIONS TEXTS: Love’s Knowledge, Political Emotions WORD: “Honesty” MOTET 4 – CAN ANGER BE WONDERFUL? IT CAN SURFACE MORAL WRONGS TEXTS: Anger and Forgiveness, Therapy of Desire WORD: “Vulnerability” “WITH WONDER” THANKS SOURCES INDEX
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Morality and Ethics at War
Book SynopsisIn Morality and Ethics of War, which includes a foreword by Major General Susan Coyle, ethicist Deane-Peter Baker goes beyond existing treatments of military ethics to address a fundamental problem: the yawning gap between the diverse moral frameworks defining personal identity on the one hand, and the professional military ethic on the other. Baker argues that overcoming this chasm is essential to minimising the ethical risks that can lead to operational and strategic failure for military forces engaged in today's complex conflict environment. He contends that spanning the gap is vital in preventing moral injury from befalling the nation's uniformed servants. Drawing on a revised account of what he calls the Just War Continuum', Baker develops a bridging framework that combines conceptual clarity and rigour with insights from cutting edge psychological research and creates a practical means for military leaders to negotiate the moral chasm in military affairs.Trade ReviewDeane-Peter Baker's Morality and Ethics at War is an extraordinarily valuable addition to the field of Military Ethics. His insights on ethical leadership and moral injury are grounded in both the latest research and the lived experience of those who serve, expressed in clear, compelling prose - an absolute must read! * Shannon E. French, Inamori Professor in Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, USA *An outstanding book: perceptive, incisive, and thought provoking. Deane Peter Baker guides the reader through the deep interplay between the liberal democratic state, just war reasoning, and notions of collective and individual identity, as he explores the psychological and other harms experienced by the modern combatant in complex and evolving battlespaces. Morality and Ethics at War is essential reading for everyone who studies - or is engaged in - the politics, ethics or practice of modern war. * Peter Lee, Professor of Applied Ethics, University of Portsmouth, UK *Morality and Ethics at War markedly advances our understanding of the unseen wounds that inflict the men and women we send to fight our wars. By tracing the causes of moral injury to deeper sources than previously theorized, Baker uncovers pioneering approaches to prevention and healing. While academics will appreciate the scholarly contribution, those preparing to lead troops in combat will find this book readily accessible and abundantly practical. * CAPT Roger Herbert, Robert T. Herres Distinguished Military Professor of Ethics, United States Naval Academy, USA *Morality and Ethics at War is a must-read for students and practitioners of military ethics, but also for defence leaders and policy makers. Baker offers a compelling explanation of the uniquely human characteristics and moral dangers of modern warfighting and then persuasively argues how the Guardian ethos best endures the moral and psychological burdens of combat. * Stephen Trainor, Head of Faculty Development, The Google School for Leaders *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Moral Frameworks, Identity and Character 2. War and the (Bounded) Moral Neutrality of the Liberal Democratic State 3. Moral Pain and Moral Injury 4. Bridging the Gaps 5. Risk Factors and Risk Mitigation 6. A Common Approach to Military Ethical Decision-Making 7. Targeting, Strategic Impact and Distributing the Risk of Harm 8. Partners and Surrogates 9. Deception at War Conclusion: A Commitment to Moral Leadership in Complex Operations Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Judged
Book SynopsisEveryone worries about being judged. One foolish tweet can destroy a career, one careless image can ruin a reputation. Yet judgement is inescapable; we cannot be social beings without judging and being judged. We're stuck with judgement and all the awkwardness, embarrassment, shame, guilt and loneliness that can come with that.Yet all is not lost in this arena of snap verdicts and social misfires. In this sensitive and creative book, Ziyad Marar reclaims judgement proposing that we need it in order to value ourselves and others; we can't live abundantly without the peaks and troughs of judgement. Drawing upon psychology, philosophy, TV, Film, poetry and literature, Marar reveals a world which takes seriously our need to reach out and connect and one where hope, however tentative, can blossom.There are no easy answers here, but there are moments where our judging can become generous and forgiving; moments where the cracks in the world feel like possibilities rather than dead Trade ReviewRarely do I feel a book and author transform the way I think about myself, reputation, judgement, self and society. This one did. It’s like an invisible parrot on my shoulder telling me wise stuff, stuff that, bit, by bit, make me understand what it is to be human. Read it. Go on this exhilarating journey with the wise and wonderful author. You will find new insights, capacities and profundities, all essential for life in our times. -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, journalist and authorA fascinating and original book, Judged is characteristic of Marar’s other work in drawing on moral philosophy, psychology, history, sociology, film and literature. A cornucopia of wonderful thoughts and ideas. -- Roman Krznaric, author of Carpe Diem Regained, Empathy, and How to Find Fulfilling WorkPhilosopher, psychologist, sociologist, moralist, cutting edge cultural commentator: Marar reveals he is all these, through writing as insightful and stimulating as it is entertaining and accessible. Marar richly describes how we all swim, sink, even drown, in oceans of each other’s judgement. Judgement is heaven and hell, craved and loathed, it makes us fully human. Our being-for-others is a primeval existential truth, and social media is its new and disturbing dimension. Marar’s analysis of how e-judgement is redefining us is timely and brilliant. -- Gary Cox, author of 'How to Be an Existentialist'This is a deft, forgiving and very helpful account of how we can avoid some of the messes we invariably get into when we are judging others and being judged by them. We feel compelled to judge other people but often do so in deeply flawed ways, all the while hoping that others will judge us in ways most flattering to our needy egos. You cannot read it without stopping to think a little more reflectively and generously about what really matters in life. -- Charles Leadbeater, author of 'We Think' and 'The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur'This is a lovely book, extraordinary in its range of reference and yet written with a wonderful lightness of touch. It’s also refreshingly disorientating. You will find yourself re-examining your judgement of others. More disturbingly, you will end up reappraising your own actions and motives. Do not expect to emerge unscathed! -- David Edmonds, author (with John Eidinow) of 'Wittgenstein’s Poker' and co-host of the Philosophy Bites podcast (www.philosophybites.com)Marar writes in a lively, narrative style. Careful readers will be struck by the subtle distinctions Marar draws between various forms of judgment and the various representations of both social and personal identity. The discussion benefits from helpful endnotes and figures, references to pop culture, and autobiographical insights … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, professionals, general readers. -- CHOICEZiyad Marar is a humane writer and thinker, realising that grappling with our own nature, and reaching for objective and subjective insights, makes for the very best philosophy. -- Mark Vernon, author of 'The Idler Guide to Ancient Philosophy'Table of ContentsIntroduction Judging in the digital age A tour of this book 1. The social minefield Social pain Shame and guilt Covering up Making an impression 2. The right kind of reputation Earning a reputation ‘Nice and in control’: the twin peaks of a good reputation Trying to do both ‘Heroes’ 3. Unreliable judges How we judge: moral taste buds Judgement in context Moral luck Can we judge fairly? Reserving (or revisiting) judgement 4. Breaking Free Animals and artists Escaping the potent audience Washing off the human stain 5. The last judgement Telling tales Learning from literature Significance Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Heideggers Politics of Enframing Technology and Responsibility Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Book SynopsisJavier Cardoza-Kon is Lecturer in philosophy and communications at San Jose State University and California State University Monterey Bay, USA.Trade ReviewUnlike many scholars who have written on Heidegger, Cardoza-Kon brings to his discussion a deep knowledge of the intricate and subtle connections between Heidegger’s philosophy and his politics. This book will put to rest any doubts that Heidegger’s critique of western metaphysics is related to his far-right politics. -- Grant Havers, Professor of Philosophy and Political Studies, Trinity Western University, CanadaIn Heidegger’s Politics of Enframing: Technology and Responsibility Javier Cardoza-Kon examines the political and ethical dimensions of Martin Heidegger’s late period. Utilizing an unorthodox approach, Cardoza-Kon articulates a two-tiered political structure that underlies the late Heidegger's thoughts on technology and constitutes the possibility of ethical life in the face of technological saturation. -- Carlos A. Sanchez, Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University, USAJavier Cardoza-Kon offers a clear, patient, and insightful account of the relation between Heidegger's politics and his philosophy. Cardoza-Kon's explanation of how concrete political action is shaped by certain metaphysical assumptions is particularly illuminating, and his lucid overview of Heidegger’s thought from Being and Time to The Question Concerning Technology will be helpful to readers who are approaching Heidegger’s overtly political writings (and Heidegger’s decision to join the Nazis) for the first time. Finally, Cardoza-Kon's application of Heidegger's philosophy to our current use of internet technology indicates the importance of Heidegger's thought in an increasingly digitized world. -- Aaron James Wendland, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RussiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Cultural Identity and Two Politics Chapter 2: Polemos, Auseinandersetzung, and Unconcealment Chapter 3: Auseiandersetzung, Nietzsche, and the Politics of Nihilism Chapter 4: Technology and We Late-Moderns Chapter 5: Self Irony and Emancipation: Concluding Perspectives on Technology and Politics Afterword
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the
Book SynopsisWhat makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of humankind and humanity. Chapters investigate the philosophical concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant, Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and Renaissance predecessors. WTrade ReviewThe “human sciences” were one of the great initiatives of the European Enlightenment, and perhaps one of its foremost achievements. In this collection, an excellent group of scholars traces out through the greatest thinkers of that age the new philosophical and empirical investigation of the biological nature and cultural history of humankind. * John Zammito, Baker College Professor Emeritus for History of Science, Technology and Innovation, Rice University, USA *Kant famously stated that “out of the crooked timber of humanity nothing entirely straight can be made.” But this certainly hasn’t prevented Stefanie Buchenau and Ansgar Lyssy from putting together an outstanding collection of new essays on Enlightenment views about the multiple and complex dimensions of humanity and humankind. * Robert B. Louden, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Stefanie Buchenau (University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France) and Ansgar Lyssy (University of Leipzig, Germany) 1. The Presumptive Unity of Humankind in Locke's Essay, Philippe Hamou (Sorbonne University, France) 2. Human Nature in Montesquieu, Céline Spector ((Sorbonne University, France) 3. The Image of the Human Being in the Comte de Buffon, Catherine Wilson (York University, UK) 4. Hume on Humanity and the Party of Humankind, Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco, USA) 5. Humankind and Humanity in Diderot, Ansgar Lyssy (University of Leipzig, Germany) 6. 'How do Humans become Human(e)?' On Rousseau's Second Discourse and Émile, Gabrielle Radica (University of Lille, France) 7. ‘In the human kind, the species has a progress as well as the individual’: Adam Ferguson on the progress of mankind, Norbert Waszek (Université de Paris 8 – St. Denis, France) and Eveline Hauck (State University of Campinas, Brazil) 8. The Association of Science and Civilization in the Enlightenment, Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney, Australia) 9. Philoctetes at the Edge of Humanity: The German Enlightenment on Social Exclusion and the Education of Feeling, Stefanie Buchenau (University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France) 10. Enlightenment Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology: Baumgarten, Kant, and Herder on Moral Feeling(s) and Obligation’, Nigel DeSouza (University of Ottawa, Canada) 11. Herder on Humanity, Michael Forster (University of Chicago, USA) 12. Blumenbach on the Varieties of the Human Species, François Duchesneau (University of Montreal, Canada) 13. Can Kant’s ‘Man’ be a Woman?, Charlotte Morel (CNRS / ENS Paris, France) 14. ‘Anthroponomy’. Kant on the Natural and the Rational Human Being, Günter Zöller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) Index
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Bloomsbury Academic István Szabó
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSusan Suleiman’s book touched me deeply and it was interesting even for me. I was surprised by several connections that I had never thought of, but they are very true. * István Szabó *Drawing on her previous studies of exile and memory, and inspired by her own investigation of roots, Susan Rubin Suleiman’s engagement with István Szabó’s films presents a compelling and essential analysis of his continuing exploration of the themes of community, Hungarian-Jewish identity, and the individual’s ‘search for security’. * Peter Hames, Author of Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition (2010), and Visiting Professor in Film Studies, Staffordshire University, UK *Susan Suleiman’s landmark book, István Szabó: Filmmaker of Existential Choice, brilliantly illuminates the neglected oeuvre of a major Academy Award-winning Central European director. Foregrounding Szabó’s lifelong concern with the impact of historical forces on the fate of his protagonists, each chapter engages deeply with the urgent ethical and existential questions of our time. * Catherine Portuges, Founding Program Director and Founding Curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Encountering István Szabó 1. To Leave or to Stay? Existential Choices under Communism Getting around the Censor in the 1960s Leaving and Its Consequences in Lovefilm Those Who Stay: Visions of Home in the 1970s 2. What Price Glory? The Talented Individual and State Power Step by Step: The Road to Degradation in Mephisto Responsibility in the Rearview Mirror: Taking Sides The Parvenu’s Dilemma: Loyalty and Alienation in Colonel Redl 3. To Be or Not To Be Jewish? Identity as Choice or as Fate The “Jewish Question” for Jews Jews in Hungarian Cinema under Communism Jewish Identity and Its Vicissitudes in Sunshine 4. Living Together? The Idea of Community after Communism “A Metaphor for Europe”? Passions and Music in Meeting Venus Hanging On: Precarious Lives in Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe “Poor Hungary”: Relatives and Final Report References List of Figures Films Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Freedom After Kant
Book SynopsisFreedom after Kant situates Kant's concept of freedom in relation to leading philosophers of the period to trace a detailed history of philosophical thinking on freedom from the 18th to the 20th century. Beginning with German Idealism, the volume presents Kant's writings on freedom and their reception by contemporaries, successors, followers and critics. From exchanges of philosophical ideas on freedom between Kant and his contemporaries, Reinhold and Fichte, through to Kant's ideas on rational self-determination in Hegel and Schelling, we see Kant's original arguments transformed through concepts of autonomy, freedom and absolutes. The political aspect of Kant's freedom finds further articulation in chapters on Marx and Mill who developed their own notions of political freedom after Kant. Revealing how Kant's concept of freedom shaped the history of philosophy in the broadest sense, contributors chart the development of an ethics of freedom in the 20th century which brings KaTrade ReviewThe essays in this collection trace the emergence and expression of Kant’s own conception of freedom, its criticism and appropriation by his contemporaries, and its lasting influence on European philosophy. They are of uniformly high quality, and make important contributions to our understanding of this essential idea. * Timothy L. Brownlee, Professor of Philosophy, Xavier University, USA *This outstanding collection of essays examines the rich legacy of Kant’s conception of freedom in an impressive range of thinkers, from the German Idealists to Sartre, de Beauvoir and Murdoch. It is a very welcome contribution to the important ongoing debate about freedom, normativity and our relations to others. * Stephen Houlgate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK *This collection of exceptional essays on responses to Kant in his immediate successors, in German idealism, and in utilitarianism, pragmatism, and existentialism, focused on the issues of freedom, normativity, and their relations, is a major step in the neglected study of the influence of Kant's moral philosophy between his time and our own. * Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Brown University, USA *This important volume brings together essays from expert and emerging scholars around an enduring philosophical question: how should we understand freedom in the wake of Kant’s groundbreaking contributions to the topic? Taking up questions surrounding the relation between freedom and normativity from Kant and post-Kantian philosophy to existentialism and beyond, this collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in thinking through the problem of freedom in a post-Enlightenment world. * Karen Ng, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA *This is a timely book offering new perspectives on freedom after Kant. The book is particularly remarkable for its range (from Kant and the post-Kantians to existentialist thinkers) and for the diversity of its contributors (authorities in their field but also younger scholars). I learned a lot from reading it. * Béatrice Han-Pile, Professor of Philosophy, University of Essex, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction, Joe Saunders (Durham University, UK) PART I. The 18th Century: Kant and his Contemporaries; Freedom and Normativity 1. Freedom, Radical Evil and Ought Implies Can: A Problem for Kant, Robert Stern (University of Sheffield, UK) 2. Reinhold on Free Will and Moral Obligation: A Kantian Response, Jochen Bojanowski (University of Illinois, USA) 3. Kant and the Fate of Freedom: 1788-1800, Owen Ware (University of Toronto, Canada) 4. Fichte on Self-Sufficiency and Teleology, Gabriel Gottlieb (Xavier University, USA) PART II. The 19th Century: The post-Kantians, Idealists and Pragmatists; Nature, Politics and Experience 5. The Feeling of Freedom: Schelling on the Role of Freedom in Grasping Nature, Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney, Australia) 6. Is Autonomy sufficient for Freedom?, Charlotte Alderwick (University of the West of England Bristol, UK) 7. Freedom and Hegel’s Theory of the State, Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities, UK) 8. ‘In and Through their Association’: Freedom and Communism in Marx, Jan Kandiyali (LSE, UK) and Andrew Chitty (University of Sussex, UK) 9. Mill on Freedom, Normativity, and Spontaneity, Christopher Macleod (University of Lancaster, UK) 10. Practical Grounds for Freedom: Kant and James on Freedom, Experience, and an Open Future, Joe Saunders (Durham University, UK) and Neil Williams (University of Roehampton, UK) PART III. The 20th Century: New Developments: Freedom, The Self, and Others 11. Levinas and “Finite Freedom”, James Lewis (University of Birmingham, UK) and Simon Thornton (University of Sheffield, UK): 12. Rethinking Existentialism: From Radical Freedom to Sedimentation, Jon Webber (University of Cardiff, UK) 13. ‘Murdoch on Freedom’, Ana Barandalla (The Aga Khan University) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Practical and Professional Ethics
Book SynopsisBefore we can resolve or avoid an ethical problem, we need to understand what makes something ethical. Practical and Professional Ethics: Key Concepts introduces us to a series of real cases where the stakes can be high, the situations complex, and the ethical issues often difficult to see. Drawing on examples from medicine, law, science, and engineering, it offers a practical approach to thinking critically about the ethical problems that occur in our lives and professions, teaching us how to: focus on the ethical aspects of any situation distinguish between different kinds of ethical problems tailor our response to the kind of problem we face construct arguments we can plausibly attribute to those involved identify the role of power, discretion and moral blindnessBy guiding us through the concepts, issues and skills at play when we face an ethical problem, we learn how to find a solution. Ideal for students or professionals, this book provides the grounding required to becTrade ReviewThis book fills a needed void in teaching students how to be ethical persons and ethical reasoners—personally and professionally. Essential reading for undergraduate students about to embark on their professional careers, current practitioners who wrestle with moral dilemmas, and moral educators who teach practical or applied ethics. * Deborah Mower, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Mississippi, USA *A wise and original exploration of the habits of mind and practice that keep good professionals in the ethical zone. In a world of proliferating codes, standards, and checklists, Robison calls professionals to treasure their discretion and offers a process for making thoughtful judgments. * Clifton Guthrie, Professor and Chair of Humanities, Husson University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Objects of Ethical Concern 2. Making Ethical Judgments 3. Professions 4. Norms and Professional Codes of Ethics 5. Virgin Eyes: Seeing from Other Points of View 6. Understanding Cases 7. Kinds of Ethical Problems 8. Internal and External Moral Problems 9. Fundamental Moral Relations 10.Discretion 11.Rules of Skill 12.Rules of Skill, Yet Again 13.Professional Character 14.Social Responsibilities 15.Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition
Book SynopsisTrevor Stammers is former Associate Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies at St Mary's University, UK. He previously worked as a clinician for over 30 years. Trade ReviewProfessor Stammers provides an impressively comprehensive and in-depth account of a wide range of ethical issues in organ transplantation at individual, institutional, societal and global levels. This book sounds important warnings and is essential reading for anyone considering the ethics and law of organ transplantation, indeed, for everyone in Bioethics. * Margaret Somerville, Professor of Bioethics, University of Notre Dame, Australia *This book provides a much-needed ethics update on recent developments and emerging approaches in global organ acquisition and transplantation. Trevor Stammers is an experienced doctor and prominent ethicist whose extensive teaching experience presents in a clear manner a treasure trove of information for patients and families, students, scholars, clinicians, and policymakers. * Gerard Magill, PhD Gallagher Chair & Professor Center for Global Health Ethics, Duquesne University, USA *Bringing the debate about the ethics of organ donation and sale up to date, to include the effects of the Covid pandemic, Trevor Stammers provides a wide-ranging and well-balanced discussion of these crucial issues. Throughout this book the emphasis is on public trust and real-life cases, handled with sensitivity and careful analysis. * Donna Dickenson, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsPreface Dictionary of Abbreviations 1. The Triumph of Transplantation 2. Organs from Living Donors 3. Organs from the Dead 4. Organ Donation and Euthanasia 5. Organ Trafficking, Tourism and Trading 6. Organs from Animals and Bioengineering 7. Ethical Global Organ Acquisition Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self
Book SynopsisExploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together some of the most important and cutting-edge findings in experimental philosophy of the self to address longstanding philosophical questions about personal identity, such as: What makes us today the same person as our childhood and future selves? Can certain changes transform us into a different person? Do our everyday moral practices presuppose a false account of who we are? Chapters offer a survey of recent empirical work and foster dialogue between experimental and traditional philosophical approaches to identity, covering the moral self, dual character concepts, true self, transformative experience and the identity conditions collective entities. With novel experiments and thought-provoking applications to practical concerns including law, immigration, bioethics and politics, this collection highlights the value and implications of empirical work on personal identityTrade ReviewTheories of personal identity are unavoidably based, in part, on intuitions about what changes we could and could not survive. But discovering what our intuitions really are and understanding what they show are difficult. The essays in this brilliant collection constitute the best work to date on these important issues. * Jeff McMahan, Sekyra and White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK *The last decade has seen an explosion of work on how people think about the self. Tobia’s outstanding collection provides an ideal introduction to the state-of-the-art and an impressive set of articles by leaders in the field. It will be essential reading for anyone working on the nature of self and personal identity. * Shaun Nichols, Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University, USA) 1. For Who Do Moral Changes Matter? The Influence of Change Type, Direction, and Target on Judgments of Identity Persistence, Jim Everett (University of Kent, UK), Joshua Skorburg (Duke University, USA), Jordan Livingstone (University of Toronto, Canada), Vlad Chituc (Yale University, USA), and Molly Crockett (Yale University, USA) 2. Identity Crisis, Christina Starmans (University of Toronto, Canada) 3. Personal Identity and Dual Character Concepts, Josh Knobe (Yale University, USA) 4. What’s Left of Me? The Role of Self-Continuity in Decision Making and Judgments about Identity Persistence, Stephanie Chen (London Business School, UK) and Oleg Urminsky (University of Chicago, USA) 5. Personal Identity and Morality, Harold Noonan (University of Nottingham, UK) 6. The Whole Story: Identity and Narrative, Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) 7. What Matters in Psychological Continuity? Using Meditative Traditions to Identify Biases in Intuitions about Personal Persistence, Megan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame, USA) and Preston Greene (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 8. Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs, Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 9. The Importance of Morality for One’s Self-Concept Predicts Perceptions of Personal Change after Remembering Wrongdoings, Matthew Stanley (Duke University, USA) and Felipe de Brigard (Duke University, USA) 10. Uncomfortable Decisions, Paul Bloom (Yale University, USA) and Laurie Paul (Yale University, USA) 11. Experimental Philosophical Bioethics of Personal Identity, Brian Earp (University of Oxford, UK), Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada, Spain), Joshua Skorburg (Duke University, USA), and Jim Everett (University of Kent, UK) 12. Authenticity as a Pathway to Coherence, Purpose, and Significance, Rebecca Schlegel (Texas A&M University, USA), Joshua Hicks (Texas A&M University, USA), Patricia N. Holte (Texas A&M University, USA), Joe Maffly-Kipp (Texas A&M University, USA), Devin Guthrie (Texas A&M University, USA) 13. Corporate Identity, Mihailis Diamantis (University of Iowa, USA) 14. The Essence of an Immigrant Identity: Children’s Pro-social Responses to Others Based on Perceived Ability and Desire to Change, James Dunlea (Columbia University, USA), Redeate Wolle (Columbia University, USA). and Larisa Heiphetz (Columbia University, USA) 15.“Human” Is an Essentially Political Category, David Livingstone Smith (University of New England, USA) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cooperative Flourishing in Platos Republic
Book SynopsisIn this pathbreaking interpretation of Plato's foundational text of political philosophy, Carolina Araújo reveals how the Republic remains ripe for an interpretation grounded in notions of cooperation, flourishing and justice relevant to the diversity of contemporary life. Plato's Republic has the Greek name of Politeia that Araújo translates as the way of life of the citizens, not the State or the form of government as it more traditionally rendered. Plato's treatise, Politeia, depicts the rich array of patterns emerging from human interaction and enquires into the best amongst them. Cooperative Flourishing in Plato's Republic returns to these important questions about society how to live with a vast diversity of personalities, with different interests and abilities, all of them trying to flourish and asks how best can we share our environment? With rigorous philosophical analysis of the Greek text, accompanied by original translations of the mostTrade ReviewIs Plato’s Republic focused mainly on political institutions or on those who inhabit them? This superbly crafted book argues that Plato is most interested in who we are, as citizens, and to show how we need to cooperate with others in order not just to survive, but to thrive. * Nicholas D. Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Lewis & Clark College, USA *Thought-provoking and entirely original. Also, well-versed in an unusually wide range of scholarship. Araujo’s account yields a Platonic conception of citizenship that is likely to inspire rather than to disturb the modern reader. * G.R.F. Ferrari, Melpomene Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of California, Berkeley, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Interaction 1. Desire and Reason 2. Thumos 3. Unreasonable Belief 4. Cognition 5. Power 6. Personality Part II: Politeia 7. Thrasymachus 8. Socrates against Thrasymachus 9. Evil 10. Reasons for a City 11. Justice Part III: Citizens 12. Popular Virtue 13. Community 14. The Good 15. Philosopher-King 16. Kallipolis 17. Flourishing Conclusion References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Facilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together accounts from facilitating or ''brokering'' researchers in three settings afflicted by armed conflict, including DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Jharkhand, India. Indispensable to the research practice carried out by so-called ''contracting researchers'', who are often based in the Global North, it is these facilitating researchers who truly regulate the access and flow of knowledge, and yet are often referred to merely as ''fixers'', with their contributions systematically erased in the final research texts. This book recounts first-hand the varied and crucial roles played by such researchers, meanwhile bearing witness to the insecurities and scarce resources navigated by them in order to facilitate the research of others. By listening to and learning from their experiences, the book outlines different routes towards a more equitable fieldwork, and a more collaborative process of knowledge production.Trade ReviewFacilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones is a compelling and innovative book that highlights the unequal relationship between Contracting Researchers and Facilitating Researchers engaging in research in conflict-affected countries. Examples from experiences in Sierra Leone, India and DR Congo are used to discuss the types of inequalities in the research process, from the conceptualization of the research to the publication of the research findings and analysis, including the funding of the research. It is an invaluable resource for researchers to establish a good and equal relationship prior to future research endeavors. * Gameela Samarasinghe, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka *Facilitating Researchers sheds needed light on the plight of unsung heroes, those Global South scholars who despite their role in shaping the production of knowledge are hardly acknowledged. It is a timely decolonial intervention that charts a new course for doing ethical and more equitable fieldwork in the Global South. * Didier Gondola, Johns Hopkins University, USA *For anyone interested in global postcoloniality, this is a wonderful and must-read book by mainly Global South-based researchers on North-South knowledge production. Rooted in Global South sites of armed conflict, the book’s contributions are all the more compelling – and therefore all the more insightful – on the perils and potentialities of researcher relationships and knowledge co-production across the North-South, elite-subaltern, war-peace, and class/gender/ethnic/racial divides. * Ilan Kapoor, author of The Postcolonial Politics of Development and Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development. *This book catalyses transformative thinking about the ethics and practice of equitable research partnerships between researchers in the global north and global south. It brings together compelling chapters by researchers from Sierra Leone, Congo and Jharkhand who share their reflections of working in insecure zones through multiple relationalities between communities and institutions across diverse spatial contexts and social hierarchies. This book is a must read for scholars and practitioners of international development and international relations who are looking for practical and actionable ways for decolonising research methods in conflict and post conflict settings. * Ipshita Basu, University of Westminster, UK *This volume provides an honest, useful analysis for researchers from various disciplines on the difficult question of collaboration between research teams. The various chapters provide powerful accounts and innovative approaches to understanding the complex relationships between those who make research possible in often very difficult contexts and in some cases in their communities where research is conducted who they call ‘facilitating researchers’, and those from ‘Contracting researchers’ often from outside the researched communities. The examples drawn from lived experiences are rich as they are from various countries in Africa, and Asia but also reflect on dilemmas familiar to researchers globally. Unlike most literature on similar topics, the volume concludes with practical ideas that point to more hopeful future pathways to navigate these ethical challenges during the research process in sensitive contexts. * David Mwambari, associate professor KU Leuven University, Belgium *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Spotlight on the Research Backstage: Introduction by the editors Chapter 2: Getting and keeping engaged Chapter 3: The indispensable bridge: “without us no research” Chapter 4: Systematically silenced and non--recognized Chapter 5: Navigating insecurity with scarce resources Chapter 6: Beyond a narrow South/North divide Chapter 7: Beyond the bleak picture: Comraderie into the Future Chapter 8: Recommendations: how to bring about change?
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action
Book SynopsisWhat is self-control? Does a person need to be conscious to act? Are delusions always irrational? Questions such as these are fundamental for investigations into action and rationality, as well as how we assign responsibility for wrongdoing and assess clinical symptoms. Bridging the gap between philosophy and psychology, this interdisciplinary collection showcases how empirical research informs and enriches core questions in the philosophy of action.Exploring issues such as truth, moral judgement, agency, consciousness and cognitive control, chapters offer an overview of the current state of research, present new empirical findings and identify where future experimental work can further advance the frontier between philosophy and psychology. This is an essential resource for anyone looking to better understand how science and philosophy can meaningfully inform our knowledge of human agency.Trade ReviewThis cutting-edge collection impressively covers a wide range of topics, ranging from free will and moral responsibility to monothematic delusions. There is something here for everyone with an interest in the philosophy of action – experimental or otherwise – and for everyone with an interest in the very lively field of experimental philosophy. * Alfred Mele, William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University, USA *This impressive volume makes a powerful case for the value of experimental philosophy of action by showcasing recent experimentally-informed work on free will, self-control, moral judgment, reasoning, assertion, and animal agency. It undeniably advances our understanding of some of the most interesting questions at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and the law. * Manuel Vargas, Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, USA *This volume is a must for anyone interested in contemporary experimental work related to action theory. It beautifully illustrates ways in which a variety of experimental data can inform and constrain philosophical theorizing about action, normal and compromised agency, free will, ethics, and responsibility. * Adina L. Roskies, The Helman Family Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College, USA *Many subfields in philosophy have profited from close engagement with relevant empirical sciences. With this volume, edited by Henne and Murray, philosophy of action takes a major step in this direction. These essays seamlessly weave together philosophical and empirical perspectives as they tackle core questions about agency. * Chandra Sripada, Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction to Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action, Samuel Murray and Paul Henne 1. Consciousness, Phenomenal Consciousness, and Free Will, Justin Sytsma and Melissa Snater 2. Skilled Action and Metacognitive Control, Myrto Mylopoulos 3. Bringing Self-Control into the Future, Samuel Murray 4. Who is Responsible? Split Brains, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Implicit Attitudes, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 5. The Everyday Irrationality of Monothematic Delusion, Paul Noordhof and Ema Sullivan-Bissett 6. Truth, Perspective, and Norms Of Assertion: New Findings and Theoretical Advances, John Turri 7. The Distinct Functions of Belief and Desire in Intentional Action Explanation, Joanna Korman 8. Free Enough: Human Cognition (and Cultural Interests) Warrant Responsibility, Cory J Clark, Heather M Maranges, Brian B Boutwell, and Roy F Baumeister 9. Beyond the Courtroom: Agency and the Perception of Free Will, Edouard Machery, Markus Kneer, Pascale Willemsen, and Albert Newen 10. Do Rape Cases Sit in a Moral Blindspot? The Dual Process Theory of Moral Judgment and Rape, Katrina L. Sifferd 11. How People Think About Moral Excellence: The Role of Counterfactual Thoughts in Reasoning about Morally Good Actions, Shane Timmons and Ruth M.J. Byrne 12. Why Idealized Agency Gets Animal (and Human) Agency Wrong, Caroline T. Arruda and Daniel J. Povinelli Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics
Book SynopsisA provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to fail. Using the dialectical tensions inherent to competing moral claims as his starting point, Michael Steinmann explains what he terms the failure of morality both in classical and contemporary positions. As moral claims lead in various ways to contradictions, the history of morality presents itself as an endless series of controversies. By using dialectical thinking, which has gone out of favour in current philosophy, Steinmann shows how we can capture the limitations of moral theories in a more holistic way. Without embracing skepticism about moral claims, a non-naturalistic and non-relativistic understanding of the good emerges as the fundamental notion of moral thought.Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics reinvigorates the classical notion of the absolute good as a fruitful conceptual structure through which to understand competing moral cTrade ReviewReframing Ethics Through Dialectics is an ambitious and challenging book that addresses themes of fundamental importance to ethics. It argues that, while we ineluctably pursue the good, we must also ineluctably fail to achieve it. * James Kirwan, Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan *Michael Steinmann’s Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics represents a daring intervention in contemporary moral philosophy. Through his powerful argument that all moral theories are destined to fail because of the dialectics they inevitably fall into, Steinmann calls for a new, original approach to the practice of moral philosophy itself. * Theodore George, Professor of Philosophy and Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A&M University, USA *In Reframing Ethics through Dialectics: A New Conception of the Moral Good, Michael Steinmann offers a novel and well-argued defense of the relevance of the absolute good to contemporary debates in ethics. Steinmann reframes a quite old conception in a novel and interesting way. The idea of the good becomes the basis, as it was for Plato and for Hegel, for resolving the fundamental tensions and seeming contradictions between alternative conceptions of morals. * Pierre Keller, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, US *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Foundations 1. The Right Beginning 2. Morality as an Exception 3. A Different Type of Notion 4. Expressing the Good 5. The Reality of the Good Part II: Failures 6. Five Ways of Failing the Good 7. What Moral Theories Try to Achieve 8. The Dialectics of Generality 9. The Dialectics of Reason 10. The Dialectics of Inherent Goodness Part III: Foolishness 11. Moral Nonetheless Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Notions of George Berkeley
Book SynopsisGeorge Berkeley's doctrine of notions is often disparaged or dismissed. In a systematic interpretation and positive reconstruction of the doctrine, James Hill presents Berkeley's understanding of the inner sphere and self-awareness, and reassesses the widely held view of Berkeley as an empiricist. Examining the development of Berkeley's philosophy from the early notebooks to the late Siris, Hill sets out how knowledge by notion involves a radical rejection of the perceptual model of self-cognition and of the attempt to frame our knowledge of the inner by analogy with the outer. He points to Berkeley's divergence from the assumption among rationalists and empiricists that we know our selves and our mental acts by idea, or by an immediate presentation before the mind. Weaving together Berkeley's conception of the intellect, conceptual thought, mathematics, ethics and theology in the light of the doctrine of notions, Hill invites us to treat Berkeley's philosophy of mind as distiTrade ReviewThe Notions of George Berkeley is a major event in Berkeley studies. For no commentator before Hill has gotten as close to Berkeley on this crucial subject, or shown how encompassing it is in Berkeley’s philosophy. * David Berman, Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *A textually moored, historically contextualized and philosophically sophisticated reconstruction of Berkeley's puzzling doctrine of notions, our knowledge of ourselves, our acts, relations, number, virtue and God. Hill persuasively explains why Berkeley is part-empiricist and part-rationalist, and why his positive ontological views, not only his well-known immaterialism, deserve a closer look. * Samuel C. Rickless, Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Berkeley’s Predecessors on Self-Knowledge 3. A Notion of an Active Self 4. Notions and Innatism 5. Sense Perception: A Passive or an Active Power? 6. Berkeley’s Conceptual Dynamism 7. A Notion of Goodness 8. Number and the Notion of God Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC On the Nature Limits Meaning and End of Work
Book SynopsisArticulating an Augustinian treatment of the nature, limits, meaning, and end of work, this volume will push Augustinian studies toward a more-detailed engagement with issues of political economy. Zachary Settle argues that we inhabit a culture that insists that our life's meaning is bound up in our work; we experience constant pressures at work to be more efficient and productive; and we know the ways in which our work-structures contribute to a seemingly ever-growing, corrosive system of poverty and oppression. These cultural assumptions regarding work, along with a cluster of other labor-related problems (i.e. automation, wage depression, wage theft, the rise of a flexible labor force, a lack of worker representation, over-work, and productivism) have rightfully raised a number of questions about the nature, meaning, and limits of our working lives and working structures. This book sets out the ways in which St. Augustine offers usin piecemeal fashionelements with which we can assemTrade ReviewHow we approach and value “work” today seems primed for a radical, and spiritual, transformation. In this attentive book, Zachary Settle makes a compelling case for reading St. Augustine as a guide to our liberation from work-idolatries, who points us to a better way. -- Ian Clausen, Villanova University, USAZac Settle’s On the Nature, Limits, Meaning, and End of Work is a judicious engagement with Augustine’s texts on work and labor that not only fills an important gap in Augustinian studies, but also shows us how humanists might integrate economic data and analysis within theological treatments of work, labor, and economic action. The result is genuinely Augustinian: labor and our economic life in general is shown to be an important part of our life in liturgy and in prayer without resorting to grandiose and universalistic claims of labor and its regimes. I hope On the Nature, Limits, Meaning, and End of Work will become a model of how to engage in conversations at the intersection of theology, work, labor, and the economy. -- Jonathan D. Teubner, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: What’s Wrong With Work? Chapter 1: Being a Creature That Works Chapter 2: Working the Garden Chapter 3: The Effects of Sin on Work Chapter 4: Working in the Saeculum Chapter 5: The Abolition of Work Index Bibliography
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