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Schwabe Verlag Basel Erinnerungsethik III
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Mohr Siebeck Leiblichkeit
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Transcript Publishing Collecting Seeds Assembling Worlds
Book SynopsisIf crop diversity loss is a product of modern agriculture, is freezing seed diversity to adapt modern agriculture to changing conditions the answer?
£41.24
V&R Unipress Verwandlungen: Dichter ALS Leser Kants
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Sexkauf: Eine Rechtliche Und Rechtsethische
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Brill U Mentis Philosophische Spharen Des Rechts: Rechtsethische
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Brill U Mentis Der Maastab Der Autonomie
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Mentis Verlag GmbH Genome Editing
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Mentis Verlag GmbH Universelle Prinzipien Und Kulturelle Bedingtheit
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Mentis Verlag GmbH Verstoß und Verzeihen
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Eichmann en Jerusalén / Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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Ediciones La Tempestad Adagia Selecta: & Julio rechazado del cielo
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Brill Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on
Book SynopsisSpanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), José de Acosta (1540–1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke (1632–1704), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Robert Persons (1546-1610), Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), and, later, William Robertson (1721–1793), Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). An influence that was sometimes hidden and always controversial. This work highlights the importance of this influence regarding thought on politics, law and natural rights. A constitutionalist understanding of political power, the recognition and promotion of innate rights and the necessary subjection of rulers to the law, all form part of the important legacy of these scholastic doctors for European intellectual heritage. Contributors to this volume: Rafael Alé Ruiz, Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz, Francisco Castilla Urbano, José Luis Cendejas Bueno, Alfonso Díaz Vera, Francisco Javier Gómez Díez, Cecilia Font de Villanueva, León M. Gómez Rivas, Fermín del Pino Díaz, Leopoldo J. Prieto López, Daniel Schwartz, Lorena Velasco Guerrero, and María Idoya Zorroza Huarte.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Introduction: Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought: New Horizons in Politics, Law, and Rights Leopoldo José Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno 1 Francisco Suárez and the Whig Political Tradition: The Case of Algernon Sidney Leopoldo José Prieto López 2 Subjective Rights, Political Community, and Property in Francisco Suárez’s and John Locke’s Theories of the State of Nature José Luis Cendejas Bueno 3 Traces of the Jesuit José de Acosta in the Scottish Enlightenment Thinker William Robertson Fermín del Pino-Díaz 4 Natural History: From José de Acosta’s Model to Francis Bacon’s Proposals Francisco Castilla Urbano 5 Understanding Thomas De Quincey’s Kantian Defense of Casuistry Daniel Schwartz 6 Francisco Suárez and John Locke: Notes on the Diffusion of Suarezian Thought in Seventeenth-Century England Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz 7 Tyranny and the Usurpation of Spiritual Power: Pedro de Ribadeneyra, Francisco Suárez, and Robert Persons Francisco Javier Gómez Díez 8 Francisco Suárez and the “Distributist Movement”: From Jesuit Political Philosophy to Post-Scholastic Economics Alfonso Díaz Vera 9 Ethics, Money, and Finance in the Late Scholastics: Francisco Suárez on Taxation León M. Gómez Rivas 10 The Binding Nature of Civil Norms on Foreigners in the Treatise De legibus ac Deo legislatore by Francisco Suárez Lorena Velasco Guerrero 11 Monetary Alterations in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Castile and England: Juan de Mariana and John Locke Cecilia Font de Villanueva 12 On John Locke, Francisco Suárez, and a Revision of Property in the Enterprise Model Rafael Alé-Ruiz and Mª. Idoya Zorroza Conclusion Leopoldo José Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno Bibliography Index
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Brill Willing and Understanding: Late Medieval Debates
Book SynopsisWilling and Understanding elucidates a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the will-intellect interplay in the late Middle Ages. Authored by prominent scholars in the field, the contributions offer different perspectives on the development of late medieval theories of the will. Charting a dense map of voluntarist and epistemological ideas—entrenched leitmotifs of late medieval philosophy, seminal insights sparking original trends, and ephemeral novelties—the volume is a testimony to the conceptual multidimensionality and ethical complexity of the past and present iterations of the debate on the will. Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Magdalena Bieniak, Michael W. Dunne, Riccardo Fedriga, Giacomo Fornasieri, Tobias Hoffmann, Severin V. Kitanov, Monika Michałowska, Riccardo Saccenti, Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Szlachta, Łukasz Tomanek, and Francesco Omar Zamboni.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors 1 The Complexity of Late Medieval Debates on the Will Introduction Riccardo Fedriga and Monika Michałowska 2 Fear and Conditional Will in Stephen Langton’s Quaestiones and in the Summa Halensis Magdalena Bieniak 3 What Tips the Scales? Volition, Motivation, and Choice in Faḫr al-Din al-Razi Francesco Omar Zamboni 4 How Do Intellect and Will Interact? Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines, and the Determination-Exercise Distinction Michael Szlachta 5 Understanding and Acting Deliberation, the Practical Intellect, and Moral Science at the University of Bologna (Gentile da Cingoli, Angelo d’Arezzo, and Cambiolo da Bologna) Riccardo Saccenti 6 John of Pouilly’s Intellectualist Reading of the March 7, 1277 Condemnation Tobias Hoffmann 7 Cognitive Attention and Impressions The Role of the Will in Peter Auriol’s Theory of Concept Formation Giacomo Fornasieri 8 Dissolving the Air of Inconsistency William Ockham on Virtuous Volitions and Cognitive Error Sonja Schierbaum 9 Hybernicus contra Thomam Richard FitzRalph on the Will and His Critique of Aquinas on the Primacy of the Intellect over the Will Michael W. Dunne 10 Cracking the Code of the Will Richard Kilvington on the Will and Logic Monika Michałowska 11 Adam Wodeham’s Analysis and Defense of Free Will Severin V. Kitanov 12 Gregory of Rimini and the Augustinian Theory of the Will Examples of a Mediaeval Reading of Augustine’s De libero arbitrio Pascale Bermon 13 Necessity, Contingency, and Free Will in John of Jandun and John Aurifaber of Halberstadt The Transmission of Ideas from Paris to Erfurt in the 14th Century Łukasz Tomanek Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names Index of Modern Names
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Brill The Ethics of John Retrospect and Prospects
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Regulating Human Embryonic Stem Cell in China: A Comparative Study on Human Embryonic Stem Cell’s Patentability and Morality in US and EU
Book SynopsisThe general scope of the book is the patentability and morality of human embryonic stem cell research in US, EU and China. The book observes fraudsters operate unsafe human embryonic stem cell therapies and officialdom turns a blind eye to the immoral human embryonic stem cell research in China. The book highlights that both patent control and federal funding control are inefficient and ineffective way to monitoring human embryonic stem cell research. The book finally proposed an approach for china to regulating human embryonic stem cell research-regulating research itself at the reconciled international regime. The potential reader includes academics and practitioners dealing with intellectual property, patent law and stem cell inventions. The topic discussed will also be interesting to a broad readership, including experts, regulators, policy makers and medical researchers in both ethical and legal disciplines in the field of embryonic stem cell research.Table of ContentsValues of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, the phenomenon of “Stem Cell Tourism” and Inadequate regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell in China.- The Moral Maze In Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: the moral status of human embryo and the moral source of human embryonic stem cell.- China: inconsistent moral standards of human embryonic stem cell research between patent law and practical application.- The United States: Inconsistent policies on federal funding control of human embryonic stem cell research.- The European Union: Inconsistent interpretations of moral provisions in Patent Convention addressing human embryonic stem cell research.- A proposal for controlling human embryonic stem cell research in China: regulate research itself in a reconciled human embryonic stem cell regulation at the international regime.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Rowman Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics
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Draft2digital Cómo hacer que te pasen cosas malas
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Global Ethics in a Time of Crises
Book SynopsisGöran Collste is Emeritus Professor of Applied Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden. He was 2011-2015 President of Societas Ethica, the European Society for Research in Ethics and is currently expert member of the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics.Torbjörn Lodén is Emeritus Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He is presently representing the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) at the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).
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Oxford University Press Childhood in Liberal Theory
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The University of Chicago Press Speaking Respect Respecting Speech
Book SynopsisIntense passions are aroused by hurtful speech. In this study Richard Abel offers an original framework for understanding and attempting to resolve these conflicts and seeks to expose the inadequacies of the conventional responses to speech.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Fighting Words 2: Pornography, Racial Hatred, and Blasphemy 3: Theorizing the Contest 4: The Politics of Respect 5: The Poverty of Civil Libertarianism 6: The Excesses of State Regulation 7: Taking Sides Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Why Niebuhr Now
Book SynopsisFor a theologian who died in 1971, Reinhold Niebuhr is maintaining a remarkably high profile in the twenty-first century. This book tackles the complicated question of why, at a time of great uncertainty about America's proper role in the world, leading politicians and thinkers are turning to Niebuhr for answers.Trade Review"A good introduction to the works of a complex man, it adroitly places Niebuhr's thought among the twentieth-century intellectual milieu that Mr. Diggins spent a lifetime studying." (Economist)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Bad Conscience Emersion Emergent Village
Book SynopsisVladimir Jankelevitch was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century philosophy. In The Bad Conscience, Vladimir lays the foundations for his later work, Forgiveness, grappling with the conditions that give rise to the moral awareness without which forgiveness would make no sense. This is an English-language translation of his work.Trade Review"One of the most singular voices of twentieth-century French philosophy." (Critical Inquiry)"
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The University of Chicago Press Terrorism Ticking TimeBombs and Torture A
Book SynopsisExamining the way terrorism challenges traditional norms, this title discusses the morality of various practices of torture, and explores the infamous ticking time-bomb scenario. It addresses criticisms of torture, analyzing the impact its adoption could have on democracy, institutional structures, and foreign policy.Trade Review"Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture adds much to current discussion of a great many issues. Fritz Allhoff broadens the torture and terrorism debate, deftly analyzes exceptionalism and absolutism, probes the ticking time-bomb scenario to surprising and controversial effect, and offers novel empirical data and a trenchant interpretation of complex legal issues." (Michael L. Gross, University of Haifa)"
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics
Book Synopsis"The Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel, "the Politics", is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called 'the Philosopher'. This title presents a translation of the Ethics.Trade Review"This translation will easily be the best available English version of the Nicomachean Ethics." (Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College) "The translators have achieved their goal of providing a translation that is very readable while remaining faithful to Aristotle's Greek. This will be a real service to scholars and students." (Gerald Mara, Georgetown University)"
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The University of Chicago Press A Commentary on Kants Critique of Practical
Book SynopsisIn this critique Kant weaves his thoughts on practical reason into a unified argument. Lewis White Beck offers an examination of this argument and places it in the context of Kant's philosophy, and of the moral philosophy of the 18th century.Table of ContentsI: The Writing of the "Critique of Practical Reason" II: The Limits of Theoretical Reason III: Thought, Action, and Practical Reason IV: Name, Purpose, and Structure of the "Critique"; Commentary on Preface and Introduction V: Survey of the Analytic of Practical Reason VI: The Postulates of Pure Practical Reason; Commentary on Dialectic, Chapter II, Sections IV and V; and Conclusion Bibliography I: Texts of "Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft" Bibliography II: Translations of the "Critique of Practical Reason" Bibliography III: Translations of Other Works by Kant as Cited in Commentary Bibliography IV: Studies of Kant Index of Passages Cited from "Critique of Practical Reason" Index of Names and Subjects
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The University of Chicago Press Dialectical Necessity of Morality An Analysis and
Book SynopsisAlan Gewirth's Reason and Morality, in which he set forth the Principle of Generic Consistency, is a major work of modern ethical theory that, though much debated and highly respected, has yet to gain full acceptance. Deryck Beyleveld contends that this resistance stems from misunderstanding of the method and logical operations of Gewirth's central argument. In this book Beyleveld seeks to remedy this deficiency. His rigorous reconstruction of Gewirth's argument gives its various parts their most compelling formulation and clarifies its essential logical structure. Beyleveld then classifies all the criticisms that Gewirth's argument has received and measures them against his reconstruction of the argument. The overall result is an immensely rich picture of the argument, in which all of its complex issues and key moves are clearly displayed and its validity can finally be discerned. The comprehensiveness of Beyleveld's treatment provides ready access to the entire debate surrounding the
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The University of Chicago Press The Dialectical Necessity of Morality An Analysis
Book SynopsisAlan Gewirth's Reason and Morality, in which he set forth the Principle of Generic Consistency, is a major work of modern ethical theory that, though much debated and highly respected, has yet to gain full acceptance. Deryck Beyleveld contends that this resistance stems from misunderstanding of the method and logical operations of Gewirth's central argument. In this book Beyleveld seeks to remedy this deficiency. His rigorous reconstruction of Gewirth's argument gives its various parts their most compelling formulation and clarifies its essential logical structure. Beyleveld then classifies all the criticisms that Gewirth's argument has received and measures them against his reconstruction of the argument. The overall result is an immensely rich picture of the argument, in which all of its complex issues and key moves are clearly displayed and its validity can finally be discerned. The comprehensiveness of Beyleveld's treatment provides ready access to the entire debate surrounding the
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The University of Chicago Press Troubling Confessions Speaking Guilt in Law and
Book SynopsisThis text juxtaposes cases from law and literature to view the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. By questioning the truths of confession, Brooks challenges us to reconsider how we demand confessions and what we do with them.
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The University of Chicago Press Virtue Is Knowledge
Book SynopsisCan Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"Virtue Is Knowledge is an extraordinary accomplishment: suffused with insight, gracefully written, and powerfully argued. It will challenge much of the received wisdom about the meaning of the Socratic 'paradox' and set down important signposts for students of Socrates who wish to understand the full dimensions of his defense of philosophy and its significance for moral and political life. The book will easily take its place as one of the gems among the books devoted to the Platonic dialogues." (Susan D. Collins, University of Notre Dame)"
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The University of Chicago Press Freedom and the End of Reason On the Moral
Book SynopsisReconstructing the influence of Rousseau on Kant's thought, the author demonstrates that the relationship between speculative philosophy and practical philosophy in Kant is far more intimate than generally has been perceived. He offers an unusually complete account of Kant's idea of moral culture.Trade Review"Velkley has produced an outstanding philosophical work on the late modern problem of the relation between reason and freedom." (Review of Politics)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Theory of Morality
Book SynopsisLet us . . . nominate this the most important theoretical work on ethical or moral theory since John Rawls's Theory of Justice. If you have philosophical inclinations and want a good workout, this conscientious scrutiny of moral assumptions and expressions will be most rewarding. Donagan explores ways of acting in the Hebrew-Christian context, examines them in the light of natural law and rational theories, and proposes that formal patterns for conduct can emerge. All this is tightly reasoned, the argument is packed, but the language is clear.Christian CenturyThe man value of this book seems to me to be that it shows the force of the Hebrew-Christian moral tradition in the hands of a creative philosopher. Throughout the book, one cannot but feel that a serious philosopher is trying to come to terms with his religious-moral background and to defend it against the prevailing secular utilitarian position which seems to dominate academic philosophy.Bernard Gert, Journal of Medicine and Phi
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The University of Chicago Press Kants Organicism Epigenesis and the Development
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University of Chicago Press Reason and Morality
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The University of Chicago Press The Community of Rights
Book SynopsisA sequel to Reason and Morality by Alan Gewirth, this work extends his principle of equal and universal human rights, the principle of generic consistency, into the arena of social and political philosophy. It argues that the ethical principles that guide individuals apply also to the state.
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The University of Chicago Press No Smoking The Ethical Issues
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The University of Chicago Press Rights and Goods
Book SynopsisTheories of justice, argues Virginia Held, are usually designed for a perfect, hypothetical world. They do not give us guidelines for living in an imperfect world in which the choices and decisions that we must make are seldom clear-cut. Seeking a morality based on actual experience, Held offers a method of inquiry with which to deal with the specific moral problems encountered in daily life. She argues that the division between public and private morality is misleading and shows convincingly that moral judgment should be contextual. She maps out different approaches and positions for various types of issues, including membership in a state, legal decisions, political activities, economic transactions, interpersonal relations, diplomacy, journalism, and determining our obligation to future generations. Issues such as these provide the true test of moral theory, since its success is seen in the willingness ofconscientious persons to commit themselves to it by acting on it in their daily
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The University of Chicago Press Feminist Morality Transforming Culture Society
Book SynopsisThis book explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. It proposes a philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self and others; and of images of birth and death, nurturing and violence.
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The University of Chicago Press Critical Terms for Animal Studies
Book SynopsisA new critical terms volume addressing the growing, vigorously interdisciplinary field of animal studies.Trade Review"Lori Gruen has created an intellectual cafe in which leading scholars offer their insight and wisdom, in incisive and stimulating entries, on topics central to animal studies, all the while incorporating intersections with feminist, postcolonial, disability, environmental, and anti-racist scholarship. Richly textured, inviting and empowering, this is a dream book for students, academics, and activists alike."--Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and Burger "Lori Gruen, who is herself at the forefront of animal studies, has rounded up the leading scholars in the field, and together they have produced a text that will define the field for the next generation."--Dale Jamieson, New York University "This book's standout feature is its analysis of animal studies terms across a wide array of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, ranging from anthropology and activism to biology and law. Although animal studies has been interdisciplinary from its beginnings, this volume considerably expands and deepens that interdisciplinary vision. Lori Gruen is a highly-recognized and well-respected scholar in the field and has brought together a superb mix of authors who represent the very best of the established discourse and the most exciting members of the new generation."--Matthew Calarco, California State University, Fullerton "This volume provides an overview of the some of the most central--and some of the most contested--concepts in the rapidly emerging inter-disciplinary area of animal studies. Unlike handbooks and readers, Critical Terms for Animal Studies is not focused on a selection of definitive texts but rather on setting the terms of the language used in the field. The subject of animal studies is at a crucial stage, still being mapped out and defining itself, and this volume is very useful, given its conciseness, its all-star cast of contributors, and its breadth in providing a guide to some of the key ideas. Taken along with the editor's introduction, which nicely situates the history of animal studies and lays out some vital strands and debates, I think many animal studies scholars will see this book as an anchor text."--Colin Jerolmack, New York University
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The University of Chicago Press What Philosophy Is for
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the state of philosophy today, how it got there, and how it can be adjusted to have a more immediate relationship to daily life and the events of the world.Trade Review"Hampe offers a learned reflection on the forms philosophy has taken, providing guideposts for the future development of the field. In ways reminiscent of Hadot and Dewey, he reanimates the Socratic project of treating philosophy as an activity rather than simply a doctrine, arguing that philosophy needs a renewed commitment to non-doctrinal, agnostic thinking for an era where technoscience is creating new forms of life." --Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas
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The University of Chicago Press The Foundations of Natural Morality
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The University of Chicago Press Moral Imagination Implications of Cognitive
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: How Cognitive Science Changes Ethics 1: Reason as Force: The Moral Law Folk Theory 2: Metaphoric Morality 3: The Metaphoric Basis of Moral Theory 4: Beyond Rules 5: The Impoverishment of Reason: Our Enlightenment Legacy 6: What's Wrong with the Objectivist Self 7: The Narrative Context of Self and Action 8: Moral Imagination 9: Living without Absolutes: Objectivity and the Conditions for Criticism 10: Preserving Our Best Enlightenment Moral Ideals Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution
Book SynopsisAmid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mindguidance for living a good life. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in part from their understanding of mathematics and science as cognitive and spiritual exercises that could create a truer mental and spiritual nobility. In portraying the rich contexts surrounding Descartes' geometry, Pascal's arithmetical triangle, and Leibniz's calculus, Matthew L. Jones argues that this drive for moral therapeutics guided important developments of early modern philosophy and the Scientific Revolution.
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The University of Chicago Press Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition
Book SynopsisFor thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder. He argues that the Ciceronian tradition is based on practical or rhetorical politics, rather than on idealistic visions of a politics-that-never-was a response that is ethically sound, if not altogether morally pure. Remer's study is distinct from other works on political morality in that it turns to Cicero, not Aristotle, as the progenitor of an ethical rhetorical perspective. Contrary to many, if not most, studies of Cicero since the mid-nineteenth century, which have either attacked him as morally indifferent or have only taken his persuasive ends seriously (setting his moral concerns to the side), Ethics and the Orator demonstrates how Cicero presents his ideal orator as exemplary not only in his ability to persuade, but in his capacity
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The University of Chicago Press Sharing Responsibility
Book SynopsisIn this work, the author departs from the traditional Western view that moral responsibility is limited to the consequences of overt individual action. He argues that individuals share responsibility for various harms perpetrated by their communities.
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The University of Chicago Press Interpretations of Conflict Ethics Pacifism and
Book SynopsisWith today's world torn by violence and conflict, Richard B. Miller's study of the ethics of war could not be more timely. Miller brings together the opposed traditions of pacifism and just-war theory and puts them into a much-needed dialogue on the ethics of war. Beginning with the duty of nonviolence as a point of convergence between the two rival traditions, Miller provides an opportunity for pacifists and just-war theorists to refine their views in a dialectical exchange over a set of ethical and social questions. From the interface of these two long- standing and seemingly incompatible traditions emerges a surprisingly fruitful discussion over a common set of values, problems, and interests: the presumption against harm, the relation of justice and order, the ethics of civil disobedience, the problem of self-righteousness in moral discourse about war, the ethics of nuclear deterrence, and the need for practical reasoning about the morality of war. Miller pays critical attention to thinkers such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, as well as to modern thinkers like H. Richard Niebuhr, Paul Ramsey, Martin Luther King, Jr.,James Douglass, the Berrigans, William O'Brien, Michael Walzer, and James Childress. He demonstrates how pacifism and just-war tenets can be joined around both theoretical and practical issues. Interpretations of Conflict is a work of massive scholarship and careful reasoning that should interest philosophers, theologians, and religious ethicists alike. It enhances our moral literacy about injury, suffering, and killing, and offers a compelling dialectical approach to ethics in a pluralistic society. Richard B. Miller is assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University.
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The University of Chicago Press Everyone Is NOT Doing It Abstinence and Personal
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with individuals who abstain from habits as diverse as sex, cigarettes, sugar, and technology, this book identifies four different types of abstainers: quitters; those who have never done something and never will; those who haven't done something yet, but might in the future; and those who are not doing something temporarily.Trade Review"Everyone is NOT Doing it offers an enjoyable meditation on the nature of abstinence - what it is, what it means, and what it signifies. Here, Jamie Mullaney gets a variety of people to talk candidly about all types of abstinence, how and why they do it, and its placement in their lives. As a result, she makes us aware of commonalities we all share with a wide and diverse set of abstainers." - Daniel F. Chambliss, Hamilton College"
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The University of Chicago Press Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination
Book SynopsisSpinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work. Other readers have looked at the imagination to account for Spinoza's understanding of politics and religion, but this is the first inquiry to see it as central to the Ethicsas a wholeimagination as a quality to be cultivated, and not simply overcome. Spinoza initially presents imagination as an inadequate and confused way of thinking, always inferior to ideas that adequately represent things as they are. It would seem to follow that one ought to purge the mind of imaginative ideas and replace them with rational ideas as soon as possible, but as Garver shows, the Ethics don't allow for this ultimate ethical act until one has cultivated a powerful imagination. This is, for Garver, the cunning of imagination. The simple plot of progress becomes, because of the imagination, a complex journey full of reversals and discoveries. For Garver, the cunning of the imagination resides in our ability to use imagination to rise above it.
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