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  • Just People

    Virtue, Equality, and Respect

    by Mark LeBar ...
    We often think of justice as a virtue that belong to states, societies, and institutions. It has not always been that way. Justice began as something between individual people, and only recently has its application to larger groups become predominant. In Just People, Mark LeBar makes a case for recovering the original priority of justice in and between individual people, as a virtue of character. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Justice

    Edited by Mark LeBar ...
    Series series The Virtues
    A blindfolded woman holding a balance and a sword personifies one of our most significant virtues. We find Lady Justice in statues and paintings that adorn courts and other institutions of law, symbolizing strength and impartiality. Yet why do we valorize this virtue primarily as a quality of societies, and secondly as one of individual character? We can trace the virtue of justice to ancient ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy

    Edited by Ben Colburn ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The question of autonomy is fundamental to understanding some of the most important questions and debates in contemporary political and moral life, from freedom of the individual, free will and decision-making to controversies surrounding medical ethics, human rights and the justifications for state intervention. It is also a crucial concept for understanding the development of liberalism.The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility

    Edited by Maximilian Kiener ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in thesocial, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible.The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these issues. Comprised of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Moral Nexus

    by R. Jay Wallace ...
    Series series Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
    A new way of understanding the essence of moral obligationThe Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of morality—namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations. According to this relational interpretation, moral demands are directed to other individuals, who have claims that the agent comply with these demands. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Morality and Responsibility

    by T. M. Scanlon ...
    T. M. Scanlon is one of the world’s leading philosophers, widely known for his contractualist moral theory and his distinctive account of moral responsibility and blame. In these important essays, written between 2001 and 2021, Scanlon reflects on the lines of thinking that led him to these views, considers objections to them, and locates them in relation to the views of others, including Derek ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Children, Family and the State

    by David William Archard ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. This book critically examines the moral and political status of the child by a consideration of three interrelated questions: What rights if any does the child have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child do parents have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child does the state have? David Archard adopts three areas for particular ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Reciprocity (Routledge Revivals)

    by Lawrence C. Becker ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The tendency to reciprocate – to return good for good and evil for evil – is a potent force in human life, and the concept of reciprocity is closely connected to fundamental notions of ‘justice’, ‘obligation’ or ‘duty’, ‘gratitude’ and ‘equality’.In Reciprocity, first published in 1986, Lawrence Becker presents a sustained argument about reciprocity, beginning with the strategy for developing a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Pragmatist Ethics

    A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters

    by James Jakób Liszka ...
    Series series SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
    Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.Grounded in American pragmatism, Pragmatist Ethics proposes a rethinking of ethics. Rather than looking to the good-a concept for which consensus is difficult to achieve-pragmatists ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Nel Noddings ...
    The first edition of Nel Noddings' Philosophy of Education was acclaimed as the 'best overview in the field' by the journal Teaching Philosophy and predicted to 'become the standard textbook in philosophy of education' by Educational Theory. This classic text, originally designed to give the education student a comprehensive look at philosophical thought in relation to teaching, learning, research ... Read more

    $59.99 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

    $165.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics

    Edited by Daniel C. Russell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral ... Read more

    $36.89 USD