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Cambridge University Press The Dappled World A Study of the Boundaries of Science
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Cambridge University Press Rawlss A Theory of Justice
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Cambridge University Press Genes Genesis and God Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History
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Cambridge University Press Women and Human Development The Capabilities Approach 3 The Seeley Lectures Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Ronald Dworkin
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Moral Capital
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Moral Capital
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Cambridge University Press Ronald Dworkin Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
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Cambridge University Press Objectivity and the Rule of Law Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
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Cambridge University Press The Family and the Political Self
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Cambridge University Press Ethics and Politics Volume 2
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Cambridge University Press The Intrinsic Worth of Persons
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Cambridge University Press Evil and Human Agency Understanding Collective Evildoing Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Book SynopsisEvil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing. He argues that such evildoing, pitting whole groups against each other, springs from a combination of character, situation, and social structure. By combining a philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman, and bringing these to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims, and bystanders interact, and how aspects of human agency are recognized, denied, and projected by different agents.Trade Review'This book is an excellent and brave contribution to a complex topic - balanced, well-argued, informative. I recommend it to all philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists who have research interests in understanding large-scale atrocities.' Claudia Card, Philosophy Review'Vetlesen has developed a solid, well-structured and groundbreaking argument that merits a core position in the literature on collective evildoing and genocide.' Journal of Peace Research'Vetlesen brings to light the paradox of moral responsibility in Arendt's analysis of Eichmann's actions. … Evil and Human Agency is both timely and deserving of wide readership, not only by sociologists, philosophers, and psychologists, but also by politicians and political scientists. Vetlesen stresses the moral failure of bystanders who, in wishing to remain neutral and impartial, did nothing to stop atrocities from occurring. … Vetlesen's thoughtful approach in Evil and Human Agency challenges both the Aristotelian and the Kantian view that egoism is at the root of evildoing …Vetlesen's approach to evildoing, then, is useful to show how we might avoid such atrocities in the future.' The Journal of Value InquiryTable of Contents1. The ordinariness of modern evildoers: a critique of Zygmunt Bauman's The Modernity and the Holocaust; 2. Hannah Arendt on conscience and the banality of evil; 3. The psycho-logic of wanting to hurt others; 4. The logic and practice of collective evil: ethnic cleansing in Bosnia; 5. Responses to collective evil; 6. A political postscript: globalization and the discontents of the self.
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Cambridge University Press Agents Structures and International Relations Politics as Ontology 101 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 101
Book SynopsisThe agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations. In his comprehensive 2006 analysis of this problem, Colin Wight deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR theories and, on the basis of this analysis, explores the implications of ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. Wight argues that there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood by focusing on the ontological differences that construct the theoretical landscape. By integrating the treatment of the agent-structure problem in IR theory with that in social theory, Wight makes a positive contribution to the problem as an issue of concern to the wider human sciences. At the most fundamental level politics is concerned with competing visions of how the world is and how it should be, thus politics is ontology.Trade Review'This deeply learned, richly referenced book should become both the Hollis and Smith and the Lakatos and Musgrave of the next generation of serious IR scholars and teachers. …Colin Wight … helps heal recurring epistemological and methodological lesions within the disciplinary body of International Relations.' Hayward R. Alker, School of International Relations, University of Southern California and Adjunct Professor, The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University'No one in International Relations is more philosophically aware than Colin Wight. The 'ontological investigations' Colin Wight undertakes in this magnificent book give scientific realism the depth needed to make sense of important issues: levels, emergent structures, causality and constitution, agency and identity, states as persons. Most of all, he sets up the agent-structure problem, not as a problem per se, but as a map for developing theories and choosing methods. Even if he doesn't change your mind, you will have to rethink almost everything.' Nicholas Onuf, Professor Emeritus, Florida International University'Colin Wight's book is a comprehensive tour de force in reviewing and assessing the ontological underpinnings of social and international theory. Importantly, it also explains why a general theory of international relations is not possible. Highly recommendable!' Heikki Patomäki, Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki and Research Director, Network Institute for Global DemocratisationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. IR: a science without positivism?; 2. The agent-structure problem: from social theory to IR theory; 3. The agent-structure problem in IR theory; 4. Structure; 5. Agency; 6. The agent-structure problem: epistemology; 7. The agent-structure problem: methodology; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Plato Laws
Book SynopsisPlato''s Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek political thought. It offers sustained reflection on the enterprise of legislation, and on its role in the social and religious regulation of society in all its aspects. Many of its ideas were drawn upon by later political thinkers, from Aristotle and Cicero to Thomas More and Montesquieu. This book presents the first translation of the complete text of the Laws for thirty-five years, in Tom Griffith''s readable and reliable English. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of Greek philosophy, introduces the main themes and characteristics of the work, as well as supplying authoritative notes on the structure and detail of Plato''s argument, together with a guide to further reading. The book will be a key resource for those interested in Greek philosophy and of the history of political thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Synopsis; Principal dates; A guide to further reading; The Laws: Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Book 11; Book 12; Appendix; Index.
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Cambridge University Press JS Mills Political Thought A Bicentennial Reassessment
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Cambridge University Press Is the Welfare State Justified
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Ecology of Markets
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Cambridge University Press Actual Ethics
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Cambridge University Press Political Constitutionalism A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy
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Cambridge University Press I Was Wrong The Meanings of Apologies
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Cambridge University Press Taxation Economic Prosperity and Distributive Justice
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Cambridge University Press The Economy of the Earth
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Cambridge University Press Force and Legitimacy in World Politics
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Cambridge University Press Just Health
Book SynopsisIn this book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key questions: what is the special moral importance of health? When are health inequalities unjust? How can we meet health needs fairly when we cannot meet them all? Daniels' theory has implications for national and global health policy: can we meet health needs fairly in ageing societies? Or protect health in the workplace while respecting individual liberty? Or meet professional obligations and obligations of justice without conflict? When is an effort to reduce health disparities, or to set priorities in realising a human right to health, fair? What do richer, healthier societies owe poorer, sicker societies? Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly explores the many ways that social justice is good for the health of populations in developed and developing countries.Trade Review'Daniels does us a great service by his introduction of an ethical dimension to his discussion of population health and the allocation of resources. His call for action on the social determinants of health to reduce avoidable inequalities in health is very welcome.' The Lancet'… Daniels' work is one of the most complete attempts to date to provide an integrated theory for promoting health and distributing it fairly … this book makes compelling reading for anyone concerned about the need to address the growing demands for global justice regarding health care.' Medicine, Health Care and PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. A Theory of Justice and Health: 1. Three questions of justice; 2. What is the special moral importance of health?; 3. When are health inequalities unjust?: the social determinants of health; 4. How can we meet health needs fairly when we can't meet them at all?; 5. What do we owe each other?: implications of an integrated theory; Part II. Challenges: 6. Global ageing and intergenerational equality; 7. Consent to workplace risk and health protection; 8. Medical professionalism and the care we should get; Part III. Uses: 9. Fairness in health sector reform; 10. Accountability for reasonableness in developing countries: two applications; 11. Reducing health disparities: no simple matter; 12. Priority setting and human rights; Part IV. A Concluding Challenge: 13. International health inequalities and global justice.
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Cambridge University Press The Globalization of Ethics
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics
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Cambridge University Press Demystifying Legal Reasoning Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
Book SynopsisDemystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common law reasoning when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practise special forms of reasoning is false.Table of ContentsPart I. Law and its Function: 1. Moral controversy; Part II. Common Law Reasoning: Deciding Cases When Prior Judicial Decisions Determine the Law: 2. Ordinary reason applied to law: natural reasoning and deduction from rules; 3. The mystification of common-law reasoning; 4. Common law practice; Part III. Reasoning from Canonical Legal Text: 5. Interpreting statutes and other posited rules; 6. Infelicities of the intended meaning of canonical texts and norms constraining interpretation; 7. Non-intentionalist interpretation; 8. Is constitutional interpretation different? Why it isn't and is; 9. All or nothing.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Book SynopsisLeo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.Trade Review"This collection of essays is learned, well argued, intelligent, and written by fine scholars from departments of philosophy and political science who are clearly independent thinkers...For those who are interested in Strauss's critique of modernity, or the nature of his debt to Heidegger, or his Spinozistic tendencies, this volume offers a very good place to start, especially for insiders." Perspectives on Politics, John R. Wallach, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNYTable of Contents1. Introduction: Leo Strauss today Steven B. Smith; 2. Leo Strauss: the outlines of a life Steven B. Smith; 3. Leo Strauss and the theologico-political predicament Leora Batnitsky; 4. Strauss's recovery of esotericism Laurence Lampert; 5. Strauss's return to pre-modern thought Catherine Zuckert; 6. Leo Strauss and the problem of the modern Stanley Rosen; 7. The medieval Arabic enlightenment Joel Kraemer; 8. 'To spare the vanquished and crush the arrogant': Leo Strauss's lecture on 'German nihilism' Susan Shell; 9. Leo Strauss's qualified embrace of liberal democracy William A. Galston; 10. Strauss and social science Nasser Behnegar; 11. The complementarity of political philosophy and liberal education in the thought of Leo Strauss Timothy Fuller; 12. Straussians Michael Zuckert.
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Cambridge University Press Race Equality and the Burdens of History
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Cambridge University Press Morality and Political Violence
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Cambridge University Press Causation in International Relations Reclaiming Causal Analysis 108 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 108
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Cambridge University Press The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
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Cambridge University Press The Autonomy of Morality
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Cambridge University Press Aquinas Aristotle and the Promise of the Common Good
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Cambridge University Press Truth Error and Criminal Law
Book SynopsisBeginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth, Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system.Trade Review'Laudan has written an estimable book, one that deserves a wide audience. His arguments are of consistently high calibre and his conclusions are provocative.' Criminal Law and PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Thinking about error in the law; 2. The unraveling of reasonable doubt; 3. Fixing the standard of proof; 4. Innocence, the burden of proof, and the puzzle of affirmative defenses; 5. Evaluating evidence and procedures; 6. Silent defendants, silent witnesses, and lobotomized jurors; 7. Confessions, poison fruit, and other exclusions; 8. Double jeopardy and false acquittals: letting felons and judges off the hook?; 9. Dubious motives for flawed rules: the clash between values.
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Cambridge University Press Rejecting Rights Contemporary Political Theory
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Cambridge University Press Civil Religion
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Cambridge University Press To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Book SynopsisThe book demonstrates the vital role of played by legal imagination in the history of European State-formation in 13001870. After lawyers had learned to connect sovereignty with property rights at home, both ideas would eventually expand and lay the groundwork for the modern international order and global capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Legal Imagination in a Christian World – Ruling France, c. 1300; 2. The Political Philosophy of jus gentium – the Expansion of Spain, 1524–1559; 3. Italian Lessons – ius gentium and Reason of States; 4. The Rule of Law – Grotius; 5. Governing Sovereignty – Negotiating French 'Absolutism' in Europe, 1625–1715; 6. Reason, Resolution, Restoration – European Public Law, 1715–1804; 7. Colonies, Companies, Slaves – French dominium in the World, 1627–1804; 8. The Law and Economics of State-Building – England, c. 1450–c. 1650; 9. 'Giving Law to the World – England, c. 1635–c. 1830; 10. Global Law – Ruling the British Empire; 11. A Science of State-Machines – ius naturae et gentium as a German Discipline, 1500–1758; 12. The End of Natural Law – German Freedom, 1734–1821; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Locke A Biography
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Roger Woolhouse interweaves an account of Locke's life with a summary and development of his ideas in theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, medicine, economics, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. Systematic and encyclopedic in its coverage, Woolhouse's biography offers both an account and explanation of Locke's ideas, while treating seriously his emotional relationship with Elinor Parry. Based on broad research and many years of study of Locke's philosophy, this volume is an authoritative biography on one of the most significant early modern philosophers.Trade Review'If one loves Locke, or liberty, or, indeed, Somerset, this is a book one cannot comfortably live without. Roger Woolhouse is a professor of philosophy, so he can explain the full development of Locke's philosophical works. He combines that with a warm and fascinating account of Locke's personal and political life.' The Times'Woolhouse has produced an outstanding work of scholarship. … it will be an indispensable resource for many years to come.' Locke Studies'… neat and lucid account …' The Times Literary Supplement'In this excellent biography, the author is keen to show how Locke's philosophy was based on the events through which he lived: the Civil War … Whilst he discusses those works with great care and clarity, he is always keen to give readers a portrait of Locke the man with his strengths and weaknesses.' Contemporary Review'Woolhouse's portrait supersedes the 1957 definitive biography by mining a multivolume collection of Locke's correspondence published since then, providing this opportunity for active philosophy collections to freshen their Locke section.' Booklist'Woolhouse weaves compelling critical readings of Locke's works into events in Locke's life that prompted them, also showing the extent to which many of Locke's key ideas emerged early in his life. Woolhouse combines engaging writing with lucid insights into Locke's times to create not only an elegant critical biography but also a first-rate social history.' Library Journal'Woolhouse has produced a fascinating portrait of Locke which will be required reading for all those interested in Locke the philosopher and Locke the man, for many years to come' Chris R. Kyle, Renaissance Quarterly'Now we can be grateful not only for the life and works of this profoundly influential man but for Woolhouse's gift of him to us anew.' Library Journal'Relying on Locke's correspondence, manuscripts, and mostly unpublished journals, Woolhouse pieces together a detailed quilt that exhibits the tremendous variety of Locke's interests and activities … [a] judicious and engaging biography.' Michael Losonsky, Journal of the History of Philosophy'… a valuable tool for any scholar interested in Locke or the intellectual history of the late seventeenth century.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy'Roger Woolhouse, a professor of philosophy emeritus at York and a specialist of the period, has supplied the new version. … there are wonderful passages in Woolhouse's account.' Robert Mankin'… impressive … This tour de force appeared in hardback two years ago and must now rank as the definite biography of the one British philosopher whose legacy has proved most enduring.' Contemporary ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: a man of versatile mind; 1. Upbringing and education (1632–58); 2. College offices and medical studies (1659–67); 3. Exeter House, London (1666–75); 4. France (November 1675–May 1679); 5. Thanet House and London (May 1679–September 1683); 6. Holland and the United Provinces (1683–8); 7. London (February 1689–December 1690); 8. Oates (January 1691–December 1695); 9. 'A gentleman's duty' (December 1695–March 1700); 10. 'Laying down his place' (March 1700–October 1704).
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Cambridge University Press Becoming a Candidate
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Cambridge University Press Rationality and the Genetic Challenge Making People Better Cambridge Law Medicine and Ethics Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Making the Political Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao Cambridge Studies in American
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Cambridge University Press Insurrection and Intervention The Two Faces of Sovereignty
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Cambridge University Press Cosmopolitan Regard
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Cambridge University Press Global Justice and Due Process
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Cambridge University Press Rationality and the Genetic Challenge Making People Better Cambridge Law Medicine and Ethics Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Poverty and Morality Religious and Secular Perspectives Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics Hardcover
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