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This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche’s unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the pe......more
This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche’s unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the pe......more
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Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation pushes critical animal stud......more
Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation pushes critical animal stud......more
The ancient Pyrrhonian skeptics suspended judgment about all philosophical views. Their main opponents were the Dogmatis......more
Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images addresses the ethicality of relations between the art, the artist and the......more
Consciousness Mattering presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are ......more
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Exploring the conditions of news reporting in today’s information-flooded society, Observing News and Media in a Complex......more
This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patočka’s seminal essay "The Phenomenology of Afterlife", as wel......more
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral p......more
Many wild animals in human care live longer than their wild counterparts because of modern care and wellbeing programmes......more
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This book argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant’s critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and ......more
This book provides a balanced and accessible introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It carefully and comprehens......more
In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, a......more
Is sexual sin sabotaging your best life? (Is sexual sin sabotaging your quest for love?) Who ever imagined that sexually......more
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"Evidences of Christianity" is a theological work written by William Paley, an English Christian apologist and philosoph......more
Structured as a series of compelling discourses, Thus Spake Zarathustra introduces Nietzsche’s famous concepts of the "Ü......more
"Common Sense & The American Crisis" presents a collection of Thomas Paine’s most influential pamphlets that ignited the......more
The Metaphysics of Practice brings together Wilfrid Sellars’s writings on topics to do with action, community, and oblig......more
In this volume, Carolina Sartorio makes the case for big-picture causalism: a naturalistic conception of agency and free......more
Part I of this book argues that we live in a dangerous world system, one that has sickened humanity. Part II argues that......more
People once believed the Earth was the center of the Universe, the Gods controlled the elements and humanity must suffer......more
"Any version of universalism, pluralistic sensitivities, and post-colonial awareness would need to balance a universalis......more
This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality a......more
Designed for undergraduate, graduate, and executive business ethics courses, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader demon......more
This book develops critical feminist animal and multispecies studies across various societal and environmental contexts.......more
In an era of short-termism that has produced disastrous long-term consequences for the planet, this book returns the con......more
The arguments of this essay cover three broadly related topics. The first is concerned with ontological thinking as it h......more
An essential study of the rule of law by one of the world’s leading liberal political and legal philosophers. The meanin......more
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A powerful argument for the essential role of morality in law, getting at the heart of key debates in public life. What ......more
This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. ......more
An analytical exploration of what it means to live a good life. Ever since Adam Smith’s musings on "the invisible hand" ......more
Of all his contributions to philosophy it is perhaps Kant s writings on ethics that are the most widely read. Kant himse......more
Cruelty is such a ubiquitous and at the same time disturbing phenomenon that we take for granted that we understand what......more
We know science is awesome, as are its achievements. Yet so far scientists have managed to sidestep the most awesome rea......more
This insightful book explores the use and application of ethics in contemporary governance and suggests necessary reform......more
Multi-disciplinary in scope, this book offers original readings of green political theory, exploring the thought of cont......more
This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and ......more
Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphys......more
Abel J. Jones’ collection of stories in which he seeks to aggregate many of his Spirituality, Nobel Laureate thoughts co......more
Leslie Stephen, a notable British philosopher and literary critic, wrote "The English Utilitarians, Volume 2" as an impo......more
Leslie Stephen, a notable British philosopher and literary critic, wrote "The English Utilitarians, Volume 1" as an impo......more
There is a substantial body of work emerging currently, seeking to address the problems caused by the economic model tha......more
"Marcus" with the aid of George Manville Fenn is an exciting motion book that centers on the primary individual, Marcus ......more
David Hume’s "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" is a philosophy work that appears into what makes humans e......more
This volume highlights interdisciplinary research on the ethical, metaphysical, and experimental dimensions of extended ......more
Our emotions, beliefs, and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does, and that this is a g......more
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In this innovative contribution, Eric S. Nelson offers a contextualized and systematic exploration of the Chinese source......more
Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action lo......more
Victims of wrongdoing are often advised not to harbour resentment or seek revenge. Instead, they are encouraged to forgi......more
How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribu......more
How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribu......more
How did Nietzsche and Sartre come to represent alternative modes of philosophy as antithetical thinkers? What exactly is......more
Whether terrorist attacks, refugee or financial crises - the challenges of globalized modernity expose those areas that ......more
Every year, millions of students in the United States and around the world graduate from high school and college. Commen......more
People are told to change the world. Disrupt the status quo. Every problem in the world is your problem, awaiting your s......more
"This book addresses one largely overlooked trend in the field of military ethics, the emergence of special operations a......more
This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contempo......more
First published in 1975, The Correspondence Theory of Truth examines the simplest statements of empirical fact and estab......more
Are you yearning for deep joy and the gift of serenity and contentment? Look no further than STOICISM, a philosophy that......more
Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional, Volume 3 combines the best articles from the first two vol......more
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In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic pr......more
This collection examines ethics in the writings of Augustine of Hippo. By placing Augustine into conversation with conte......more
This book presents a philosophical analysis of the different forms of political resistance and protest. It explores the ......more
"A how-to in becoming more understanding and considerate of others, and to find joy that comes from being seen."--...more
A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and ......more
This book presents novel approaches and perspectives to scholarship on epistemic injustice and particularly, testimonial......more
This book considers morality as a dynamic ecosystem that can change in response to its sociomaterial embedding. It parti......more
This book explores the relation between love and justice as it appears within loving relationships, between lovers and t......more
This book examines Spinoza’s ontological argument and introduces the concept of "paradoxical singularity." It explores t......more
This is a well-known translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics that is accompanied by a chapter-by-chapter commentar......more
Introduction Introduction: Ethics and expressions - by Tess Scholfield-Peters Papers Leaving Auschwitz: Exploring the co......more
Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) is a construct which has been part of the British medico-legal landsca......more
Philosophy was defined by the Stoics as ’the knowledge of things divine and human’. It was divided into three department......more
Philosophy was defined by the Stoics as ’the knowledge of things divine and human’. It was divided into three department......more
This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch’s philosophical, theological, and pol......more