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  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Bernard Williams is an eloquent member of that small but important group of distinguished thinkers who are trying to erase the borders between the experts and all of us who grapple with moral issues in our own lives. In this book he delivers a sustained indictment of systematic moral theory from Kant onward and offers a persuasive alternative.Kant’s ideas involved a view of the self we can no ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Truth and Truthfulness

    An Essay in Genealogy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine.Modern culture exhibits two ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    Seven Classic Plays

    by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Euripedes1, Henrik Ibsen2, various authors7, Molière8, Alexandre Dumas9 ...
    Narrated by Yuri Rasovsky, a full cast, John Glover, Nicholas Kepros, Barry Morse, Brian Murray0, F. Murray Abraham3, Rosemary Harris4, Lois Nettleton5, Fritz Weaver6 ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.A superb repertory company with ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Problems of the Self

    Philosophical Papers 1956–1972

    by Bernard Williams ...
    This is a volume of philosophical studies, centred on problems of personal identity and extending to related topics in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Morality

    An Introduction to Ethics

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyses and distinguishes a number of key positions, from the purely amoral to notions of subjective or relative morality, testing their coherence ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy.Presenting a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, Williams reorients ethical theory towards ‘truth, truthfulness and ... Read more

    $171.99 USD

  • Moral Luck

    Philosophical Papers 1973–1980

    by Bernard Williams ...
    A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both broadened and deepened ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Truth and Truthfulness

    An Essay in Genealogy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine.Modern culture exhibits two ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Vietnam Studies - Cedar Falls-Junction City: A Turning Point [Illustrated Edition]

    by Lieutenant General Bernard William Rogers ...
    [Includes 1 charts, 17 map, 8 diagrams and 33 illustrations]."Operations CEDAR FALLS and JUNCTION CITY took place during the first five months of 1967 and were the first multidivisional operations in Vietnam to be conducted according to a preconceived plan. They were to result in a turning point in the war: they confirmed that such operations do have a place in counterinsurgency warfare today; ... Read more

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  • Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books

    A Cross-Cultural Anthology of Virtue, Duty, Self-Mastery, Social Justice, and Moral Philosophy

    by Booker T. Washington, Richard Baxter, James Harold Romain, Cora May Williams, John Hamilton Moore, Aristotle, John H. Stapleton, Franz Brentano, Margaret Slattery, G. E. Moore, T. De Witt Talmage, Bernard Mandeville, William De Witt Hyde, Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby, J. M. Judy, Thomas Fowler, M. Valentine, John Dewey, W. R. Sorley, Kenneth Ingram, S. A. D. Tissot, Robert Chenault Givler, James Hayden Tufts, Goldwin Smith, Mabel Anne McKee, Malcolm Guthrie, Maurice Francis Egan, Alfred Russel Wallace, S. M. I. Henry, Rudolf Eucken, Horatio Robinson Storer, Edward Abbott Sir Parry, Epictetus, Emil Edward Kusel, Stephen S. Wise, H. G. Wells, John Bunyan, George Horace Lorimer, Oliver Optic, Horatio Jr. Alger, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Plutarch, Arthur Christopher Benson, Benedictus de Spinoza, Felix Adler, Iamblichus, W. R. Washington Sullivan, Laurence Housman, Upton Sinclair ...
    Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books assembles a capacious library of moral inquiry, bringing philosophical argument, religious meditation, social criticism, self-culture, political reflection, and popular instruction into sustained conversation. Its range extends from classical accounts of virtue and discipline to modern discussions of conscience, education, reform, labor, peace, and public ... Read more

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  • Moral Luck / Moralischer Zufall

    Englisch/Deutsch. [Great Papers Philosophie]

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Translated by Stefan Riedener ...
    Series series Reclams Universal-Bibliothek
    Einer der ganz großen Essays der philosophischen Ethik in neuer Übersetzung, mit Kommentar und einführendem NachwortWilliams' Text diskutiert eines der faszinierendsten Probleme der Ethik: Wir bewerten uns als Handelnde oft danach, ob unser Handeln erfolgreich war – auch wenn dieser Erfolg jenseits unserer Kontrolle lag. Es scheint also vom Zufall abzuhängen, ob wir mit uns in Bezug auf unser ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Utilitarianism

    For and Against

    by J. J. C. Smart, Bernard Williams ...
    Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate a consistent and persuasive elaboration of the doctrine that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by their consequences, and in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD