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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daniel star”
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  • History of Ethics

    Edited by Daniel Star, Roger Crisp ...
    Series series Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy
    Is there an objective moral standard that applies to all our actions? To what extent should I sacrifice my own interests for the sake of others? How might philosophers of the past help us think about contemporary ethical problems?As the most recent addition to the Blackwell Readings in Philosophy series, History of Ethics: Essential Readings with Commentary brings together rich and varied excerpts ... Read more

    $41.00 USD

  • The True Story of Pocahontas

    The Other Side of History

    by Dr. Linwood "Little Bear Custalow ...
    For 400 years, her story was told by her captors. Now, it is told by her people.Behind the romanticized myths of Disney and the colonial accounts of John Smith lies a far more profound and tragic reality. The True Story of Pocahontas is the first written history of the legendary figure provided by the Mattaponi Tribe, one of the core tribes of the Powhatan Chiefdom. Passed down through centuries ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Knowing Better

    Virtue, Deliberation, and Normative Ethics

    by Daniel Star ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Monographs
    Knowing Better presents a novel solution to the problem of reconciling the seemingly conflicting perspectives of ordinary virtue and normative ethics. These two perspectives appear to tell us incompatible things about the practical reasons that guide our deliberation and justify our actions. Normative ethics is a sophisticated, open-ended philosophical enterprise that attempts to articulate and ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity

    Edited by Daniel Star ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it. Few concepts have received as much attention in recent philosophy as the concept of a reason to do or believe something. And one of the most contested ideas in philosophy is normativity, the 'ought' in claims that we ought to do or believe something. This is the first ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

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  • Reasons without Rationalism

    by Kieran Setiya ...
    Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "Why should I be moral?" and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. In Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya shows that these doubts rest on a mistake. The "should" of practical reason cannot be understood apart from the virtues of character, including such moral virtues as justice and benevolence, and the considerations to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Survival

    Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism

    by Lara Trout ...
    Series series American Philosophy
    How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy - human embodiment - in order to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism. This compatibility, which ... Read more

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  • Moral Contexts

    by Margaret Urban Walker ...
    Series series Feminist Constructions
    Many contexts shape and limit moral thinking in philosophy and life. Human conditions of vulnerability and interdependency, of limited awareness and control, of imperfect insight into ourselves and others are inevitable contexts that neither moral thought nor theory should forget. To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics

    Edited by Dr Christian B. Miller ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics offers the definitive guide to this key area of contemporary philosophy. Covering all the fundamental questions asked by meta-ethics and normative ethical theory, thirteen specially commissioned chapters from an international team of experts explore the central ideas, terms and case studies in the field, and new directions in ethics as a whole. Now available in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Thomas Nagel

    by Alan Thomas ...
    In the first systematic study of the philosophy of Thomas Nagel, Alan Thomas discusses Nagel's contrast between the "subjective" and the "objective" points of view throughout the various areas of his wide ranging philosophy. Nagel's original and distinctive contrast between the subjective view and our aspiration to a "view from nowhere" within metaphysics structures the chapters of the book. A ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Target Centred Virtue Ethics

    by Christine Swanton ...
    Virtue ethics in its contemporary manifestation is dominated by neo Aristotelian virtue ethics primarily developed by Rosalind Hursthouse. This version of eudaimonistic virtue ethics was ground breaking, but has been subject to considerable critical attention. Christine Swanton shows that the time is ripe for new developments and alternatives. The target centred virtue ethics proposed by Swanton ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Mayflower

    A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    **"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--**The New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History**New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the YearWith a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.**How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and V.. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ethics

    The Fundamentals

    by Julia Driver ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Philosophy
    Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics.The first volume in the new Fundamentals of Philosophy series.Presents lively, real-world examples and thoughtful discussion of key moral philosophers and their ideas ... Read more

    $30.00 USD