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  • One Life to Lead

    The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    It is a truism that each of us has one life to lead--yet we rarely ask what it means to lead a life. The answer may seem obvious, but leading one's life is actually a complex, multifaceted undertaking, which requires us to negotiate deeply puzzling aspects of our experience and overcome profound challenges to our sense of ourselves and our place in the world. In One Life to Lead, Samuel Scheffler ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Death and the Afterlife

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would scientists still search for a cure for cancer? Would couples still want children? In Death and the Afterlife, philosopher Samuel Scheffler poses this ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Boundaries and Allegiances

    Problems of Justice and Responsibility in Liberal Thought

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    This book, a collection of eleven essays by one of the most interesting moral philosophers currently writing, is written from a perspective that is at once sympathetic towards and critical of liberal political philosophy. The essays explore the capacity of liberal thought, and of the moral traditions on which it draws, to accommodate a variety of challenges posed by the changing circumstances of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Equality and Tradition

    Questions of Value in Moral and Political Theory

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human valuing, the role of partiality in ethics, and the significance of the distinction between doing ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Why Worry About Future Generations?

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Equality and Tradition

    Questions of Value in Moral and Political Theory

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human valuing, the role of partiality in ethics, and the significance of the distinction between doing ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning

    The Primacy of Dispositions

    by Hugh Sockett ...
    The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.It offers a powerful example of how philosophy of education can be brought to bear on real problems of educational ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Kantian Ethics and Economics

    Autonomy, Dignity, and Character

    by Mark White ...
    This book introduces the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant—in particular, the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character—to economic theory, explaining the importance of integrating these two streams of intellectual thought. Mainstream economics is rooted in classical utilitarianism, recommending that decision makers choose the options that are expected to generate the largest net benefits. For ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Life Cycle Completed

    by Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson ...
    "This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert ColesFor decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with new material by Joan M. Erikson, is an expanded edition of his final work. The Life Cycle Completed eloquently closes the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • In a Different Voice

    Psychological Theory and Women’s Development

    by Carol GILLIGAN ...
    This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than 700,000 copies sold around the world, In a Different Voice ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Justice and the Politics of Difference

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

    $16.99 USD