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John Wiley & Sons No Duty to Retreat
Book SynopsisWhen faced with a deadly threat, Americans have the right to stand their ground and fight - that is, they have no duty to retreat. This study of violence and American values examines violence not only on the American frontier and in American society at large, but in American jurisprudence as well.
£22.61
Penguin Random House LLC The Coming of Lilith
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Random House USA Inc The Second Mountain The Quest for a Moral Life
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view .
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Basic Books Do Unto Others
Book SynopsisA passing motorist stops to help the passengers of a car that has crashed into an embankment. A hospice volunteer begins her shift in hospital ward caring for people with AIDS. A Vietnam chopper pilot stops the brutal execution of innocent civilians at Mylai by American soldiers. A firefighter responds to a routine call. All of these people are considered heroes, but what motivates such brave and altruistic acts, whether by trained professionals or just ordinary people? In Do Unto Others , Holocaust survivor and sociologist Samuel Oliner explores what gives an individual a sense of social responsibility, what leads to the development of care and compassion, and what it means to put the welfare of others ahead of one''s own. Having been saved himself from the Nazis at age 16 as the result of one non-Jewish family''s altruism, Oliner has made a lifelong study of the nature of altruism. Weaving together moving personal testimony and years of observation, Oliner makes sense of the factors
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Liturgical Press The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics Scripture
Book SynopsisFrom the Book of Job to Modern GeneticsTrade ReviewCovering a wide array of authors as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, the Marquis de Sade, and Flannery O'Connor, Dr. Kelly offers a comprehensive overview of how the problem of evil has been addressed in Western literature from earliest times to today. Remarkably lucid in style considering the complexity of the subject matter, it is accessible to scholarly and non-academic audiences alike and will prove useful in a variety of educational and pastoral contexts. Having read the book in the immediate aftermath of the recent attacks in New York and Washington, I cannot think of a more timely aid for thoughtful persons struggling to make sense of these horrendous events.Kelley Spoerl, St. Anselm CollegeJoseph Kelly's description and analysis of 'Evil' offers the reader a challenging and provocative journey through the corridors of the 'Western Tradition,' be it religion, literature, art, economics, politics, philosophy, or science. With an always interesting, lucid narrative, Kelly offers a critique securely anchored in an historical context. This book is a truly exciting instrument of learning for the classroom, the seminar, discussion groups wherever - to the barricades!Harry Rosenberg, Colorado State UniversityIt is cogent, up-to-date, and very clearly written. I learned a great deal from it throughout. . . . It's a very important, excellent and really needed book.Jeffrey B. Russell, University of CaliforniaIt has always puzzled me that so many accounts of 'the good' have been written about and discussed in academic circles for 'lo these many years, while the contents of most informal conversations are about evil - 'the bad' if you will - in its many forms. Finally, a treatise on evil. What a good read about such a dark subject! And not only a good read but a trenchant intelligence at work on the best material that could be gathered on the subject.John C. Haughey, S.J., Loyola University of Chicago. . . provides a fast-moving and sweeping survey of the myriad approaches to the mystery of evil in the Western tradition. The book is a timely, worthwhile contribution. . . . What is unique to Kelly's work is his wide-ranging inclusion of literary classics that have evil as their theme: Dante, Marlowe, Milton, Pope, Goethe, M. Shelley, Dostoyevsky, and others.America. . . provides a 'good run around the bases': a view of the problem of evil in a range of Western religious and quasireligious literature, including Blake and Milton, concluding with a prospectus on how our perspective of sin is likely to change in the face of the altered and multicultural world in which we live.Library JournalJoseph Kelly presents an interesting study about humanity's understanding of evil from the books of Job and Revelation, through key Christian thinkers, to present scientific researchers. . . . Teachers will find it quite useful as a textbook.Theological StudiesThe breadth will be attractive to a general student audience. I think they will be able to engage the material nicely.Donald Musser, Sam R. Marks Professor, Religious Studies Department, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Animals and Why They Matter
Book SynopsisExamines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination.Trade ReviewThis is a good and readable, though not easy, book, and it is written with such sincerity that it will force readers to consider more deeply the question of exactly what sort of rights animals—human beings included—have." — Christian Science Monitor"Midgley demolishes some of the most frequently heard arguments against the protection of animals." — New York Review of Books
£23.50
LUP - University of Georgia Press Values at Sea Ethics for the Marine Environment
Book SynopsisWhile the field of environmental ethics has explored rights and duties for land use, stewardship and policy, relatively little attention has been given to comparable issues of marine environments. Aiming to fill this gap, this book collects 15 papers on a broad array of ethical and policy issues.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sacred Cows and Golden Geese The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals
Book SynopsisChallenging the belief that the use of animals in biomedical research is necessary for the advancement of human medical knowledge, the authors of this text assert that the use of animals in medical research is unethical because faulty science underpins such experimentation.Trade Review"Beautifully written, urgently conceived, comprehensively researched, Sacred Cows and Golden Geese is a desperately needed book that has the potential to incite a major shift in the thinking of millions of people. By relentlessly accessing the data with a stern objectivity, and compassionate embrace of the issues, Ray and Jean Greek have done what no other authors have yet accomplished: calmly, powerfully, convincingly explained why invasive animal research is a monstrous deception. The Greeks are likely to find themselves in the midst of a firestorm. What they have uncovered will make countless industries, universities, foundations, and institutions as grand as the National Institutes of Health quake in their sleep."--Michael Tobias "Everyone should read this book! Exposing the colossal corruption and bogus science behind much of the pharmaceutical industry, it amazes, enrages, and inspires. With countless clear, scientific examples the authors...dispel the myth that animal experiments have contributed to medical progress....It is imperative that animal-rights campaigners are well-versed in the wealth of information revealed here to prove that animal research is bad science and that far more sophisticated alternatives are available."--OutrageTable of Contents-How It All Began-Legislated Ineptitude-White Coat Welfare-Alternatives-The Real Origin of New Medications-Disease of the Cardiovascular System-Cancer, Our Modern-Day Plague-AIDS and Xenotransplantation
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Animal Philosophy
Book SynopsisA collection of classic readings, supported by commentary and analysis from contemporary scholars, on continental philosophy's treatment of the animal question. It brings together contributions from a variety of key continental thinkers including: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille and Foucault.Trade Review"In Animal Philosophy: Ethics and Identity, editors Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco collect some of the more germane writings on animals from a range of prominent Continental philosophers...The collection introduces novel approaches to lingering philosophical questions about animals' ontological and ethical status, but it also included hermeneutic approaches to our deployment of animal symbols, phenomenological reflections on human encounters and relationships with animals, and deconstructive linguistic analyses of designations such as "animal." Animal Philosophy fills a gap in literature, for while most of the works excerpted here have been available in translation for some time, no entire volume had been dedicated explicitly to how these writers address these questions...The commentary contains helpful measure of exegesis and critique. The essays offered by the editors are exceptionally valuable...For readers interested in Continental philosophy, "the animal question," or both, this volume is a welcome arrival." --Janus Head, Summer 2005 -- Janus Head"Animal Philosophy is a collection of essential primary and secondary readings on the animal question.... Animal Philosophy was in many ways inspired by the tremendous advances the Anglo-American philosophical tradition has made regarding the animal question over the last thirty years or so... The selections Atterton and Calarco have chosen are not exhaustive, but they are exemplary, and they constitute in every case their most sustained treatments of the animal topic. They set out the terms of the debate in a way that is most likely to be useful for scholars and students working in the field of Continental philosophy and/or coming to the animal question for the first time. They open up new vistas for research... The quality of originality about each of the readings is what prompted the editors to provide a critical commentary by distinguished scholars in the field following each reading....On ethics and identity, this anthology, Animal Philosophy, is an invaluable one-stop resource for anyone researching, teaching or studying animal ethics and animal rights in the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, environmental studies and gender and women's studies. The coverage of the subject is exceptionally broad, ranging across perspectives that include existentialism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, phenomenology and feminism. Readers will find Animal Philosophy stimulating and provocative." -SirReadaLot.org, August 27, 2004 -- SirReadALot.org"This much-needed volume will hopefully serve to encourage interest in the zoopolitical impact of these thinkers. Overall, the collected abstracts are generally well chosen. The range is broad.... The commentaries vary in their clarity and helpfulness, but on the whole are excellent. Animal Philosophy successfully accomplishes its goal - to be, as its blurb says, ‘an invaluable one-stop resource for anyone researching, teaching or studying animal ethics'. In assembling these various writings, whose dispersion has too often allowed them to go unnoticed, the editors have provided a means by which the Continental voice can be more fully heard in philosophical debates regarding animals. Indeed, if we take as criteria not simply the presence of concern for animals, but rather the potential for incisive theoretical tools - ethical theories that include the nonhuman, social analytics that see the nonhuman, literary methods that write the nonhuman - we may find the diverse and difficult modes of thought offered to be uniquely valuable sources of insight." - The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2005 -- The Bible and Critical TheoryTable of ContentsPreface; Editors' Introduction: The Animal Question in Continental Philosophy; 1. Friedrich Nietzsche; O My Animals; Nietzsche and Animals; 2. Martin Heidegger; The Animal is Poor on World; Heidegger's Zoontology; 3. George Bataille; Animality; Bataille and the Poetic Fallacy of Animality; 4. Emmanuel Levinas; The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights; Ethical Cynicism; 5. Michel Foucault; Animality and Insanity; Madness and Animality in Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization; 6. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; Becoming Animal; Animal Becomings; 7. Jacques Derrida; The Animal That Therefore I Am; Thinking with Cats; 8. Luc Ferry; Neither Man nor Stone; Manly Values: Luc Ferry's Ethical Philosophy; 9. Helene Cixous; Birds, Women and Writing; The Writing of Birds, in My Language; 10. Luce lrigaray; Animal Compassion; With commentaries by: Peter Atterton - University of California, San Diego, USA; Matthew Calarco - Sweet Briar College, USA; Verena Conley - Miami University, Ohio and Visisting Professor at Harvard, USA; Alphonso Lingis - Penn State, USA; Jill Marsden - Bolton Institute; Clare Palmer - Lancaster University; Stephen David Ross - Binghampton University, USA; James Urpeth - University of Greenwich; David Wood - Vanderbilt University, USA
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rethinking Mills Ethics Character and Aesthetic Education Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
Book SynopsisDiscussion of John Stuart Mill's ethics has been dominated by concern with right and wrong action as determined by the principle of utility. This book unearths the context of moral and socio-political debate that Mill did not have to make explicit to his Victorian readers.Trade Review"'Colin Heydt's work is a rich and original contextual study of John Stuart Mill's political philosophy, ethics and moral psychology. Heydt has a keen eye for the aesthetic dimensions of Mill's ideas of character and moral education and this has led to a great deal of clarification of Mill's more well-known moral ideas. It has also enabled Heydt to situate Mill more interestingly than is common in the context of predecessors and contemporaries, crossing many of the traditional disciplinary boundaries.' Knud Haakonssen, University of Sussex 'Colin Heydt's investigation of Mill is an original, engaging, and illuminating study of unduly neglected aspects of Mill's thought. I learned a great deal from it - not only about Mill and his views but also about aesthetic education and character development.' David Lyons, Boston University"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking the Place of the Principle of Utility in Mill's Ethics; Chapter 1: The Ethics of Aesthetics and Life as Art; Chapter 2: Mill, Bentham, and 'Internal Culture'; Chapter 3: Narrative, Imagination, and the Religion of Humanity in Mill's Ethics; Chapter 4: Social and Political Dimensions of Aesthetic Education: Family, Marriage, and Gender Relations; Chapter 5: Social and Political Dimensions of Aesthetic Education: The Industrial Economy and the Workplace; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£161.50
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Thomas Reids Ethics Moral Epistemology on Legal Foundations Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
Book SynopsisThomas Reid (1710-96) was one of the most daring and original thinkers of the eighteenth century. His work became the cornerstone of the Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy. This book begins by characterizing the state of moral epistemology at the time when Reid was writing. It offers an assessment of the success of Reid's ethical project.Trade Review"'This is a splendid account and defence of Reid's theory of moral knowledge, a first-rate contribution both to the history of ethics and to the substantive philosophical issues.' Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame"Table of ContentsCh 1: Background to Reid's moral epistemology; Ch 2: Reid's puzzling account of the moral faculty; Ch 3: Reid's legal conception of evidence; Ch 4: Reid's epistemology. Ch 5: Practical reason and the moral sense analogy; Ch 6: Moral knowledge; Ch 7: Queerness, disagreement, and conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£161.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Utilitarianism A Guide for the Perplexed
Book SynopsisUtilitarianism is the ethical theory advanced by Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, and Henry Sidgwick and has contributed significantly to contemporary moral and political philosophy. Yet it is not without controversy and is a subject that students can often find particularly perplexing. Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed offers a concise, yet fully comprehensive introduction to utilitarianism, its historical roots, key themes, and current debates. Krister Bykvist provides a survey of the modern debate about utilitarianism and goes on to evaluate utilitarianism in comparison with other theories, in particular virtue ethics and Kantianism. Bykvist offers a critical examination of utilitarianism, distinguishing problems that are unique to utilitarianism from those that are shared by other moral theories. Focusing on the problems unique to utilitarianism, the book provides a well-balanced assessment of where the theory goes astray and is in need of revision. Geared towards the sTrade Review"This volume, written in a clear and accessible style, is an excellent introduction to the main contemporary debates about utilitarianism. A special virtue of the book is that utilitarianism is not evaluated in isolation but by comparing it with other theories, in particular, virtue ethics, deontology, and Kantianism. In doing so, Bykvist convincingly shows that many of the problems afflicting utilitarianism are actually problems for all plausible moral theories. Hence, this book will be very useful reading for friends and foes of utilitarianism alike." - Gustaf Arrhenius, Stockholm University, SwedenTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. How to Assess Normative Theories; 3. The Basic Elements of Utilitarianism; 4. Well-being; 5. Aggregation; 6. Utilitarianism as a User-Friendly Guide to Action; 7. Is Utilitarianism Too Demanding?; 8. Is Utilitarianism Too Permissive?; 9. Outcomes; 10. The Place of Rules in Utilitarianism; 11. Conclusion.
£29.44
Vanderbilt University Press Politics and the Human Body
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Vanderbilt University Press Making Morality Pragmatist Reconstruction in Ethical Theory Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
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Vanderbilt University Press Making Morality
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought
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Society of Biblical Literature The Cynic Epistles A Study Edition 12 Sources for Biblical Study
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Springer Advances in Animal Welfare Science 1984
Book SynopsisThe many interfaces between us and the billions of animals under our dominion (as well as the environment upon which the welfare of human and non-human animals alike is ultimately de pendent) have their separate features: trapping and wildlife manage ment;Table of ContentsList of Contents.- I. Animal Awareness.- The Question of Animal Awareness.- II. Human/Animal Relationships.- The Origins of Empathy and Altruism.- Attitudes Toward Animals: Age-Related Development Among Children.- Empathy, Humaneness and Animal Welfare.- Human/Animal Communication: Cetacean Roles in Human Therapeutic Situations.- III. Animal Rights.- Logic and Limits of Animal Liberation.- Whales are not Cetacean Resources.- IV. Animal Management.- Animal Boredom: Is a Scientific Study of the Subjective Experiences of Animals Possible?.- Evils of Modern Stables.- Stereotype Behaviour in Sows and Gilts Housed in Stalls, Tethers, and Groups.- V. Appendix.- American Attitudes Toward and Knowledge of Animals: An Update.- Instructions to Authors.
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Springer Advances in Animal Welfare Science 1985 2
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The Mouse That Spins What I Did In My Holidays essays on black magic Satanism devil worship and other niceties
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Anno Mundi Books Restoring the Ethics of Creation
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Scar Garden Books Fain the Sorcerer
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Sankofa International Press BUTTING HEADS Testifying and Rescuing African Minds Worldwide with Traditional Yoruba Philosophy
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Rose Circle Publications Of Errors Truth Man Restored to the Universal Principle of Knowledge
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Proven Publishing howtohustleandwin
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Information Philosopher Free Will The Scandal in Philosophy
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I-Phi Press Why We are Free Consciousness free will and creativity in a unified scientific worldview
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Erebus Society Marcus Aurelius Meditations The Original Ancient Greek Text with English Translation
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Manticore Press Nihilism A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
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En Route Books and Media Does God Exist A Socratic Dialogue on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas
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Cambridge University Press Reviving Jewish Theology
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Cambridge University Press Attention to Virtues
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Cambridge University Press Moral Heroism Without Virtue
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Legare Street Press Lectures and Essays by William Kingdon Clifford 2
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Legare Street Press Sketches From Life Being Tales on the Ten Commandments and Various Texts of Scripture Intended for the Use of the Elder Classes in Sabbath Schools microform
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