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  • Equal Freedom

    Edited by Stephen Darwall, Stephen Leicester Darwall ...
    Series series Selected Tanner Lectures In Human Values
    "Egalitarian" and "libertarian" are frequently seen as opposing political labels. These two views and their oppositions are the topic of this collection of important essays by an exceptionally distinguished group of thinkers.This collection of essays can be read as a critique of libertarianism. A libertarian, in contemporary discussion, is one who supports no more than a minimal state--a ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Philosophical Ethics

    An Historical And Contemporary Introduction

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    This book shows how Hobbes, Mill, Kant, Aristotle, and Nietzsche all did ethical philosophy? It introduces students to ethics from a distinctively philosophical perspective, one that weaves together central ethical questions. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    Stephen Darwall is a moral philosopher who has played a central role in contemporary debates around the foundation of ethics. This book is a sequel to his earlier volume Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant, and like its predecessor it explores the history of the period through its key ethical thinkers. Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche – the founding members of the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Second-Person Standpoint

    Morality, Respect, and Accountability

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this question in a compelling manner—along with the moral skepticism and ethical confusion that ensue—result, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure to appreciate the essentially interpersonal character of moral obligation. After showing how attempts to vindicate morality have tended to change the subject—falling back ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Modern Moral Philosophy

    From Grotius to Kant

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    In this magisterial study, one of our leading moral philosophers refutes the charge (originally made by Elizabeth Anscombe) that modern ethics is incoherent because it essentially depends on theological and religious assumptions that it cannot acknowledge. Stephen Darwall's panoramic picture starts with the seventeenth-century thinker Grotius and tells the story continuously down to the time of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Heart and its Attitudes

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    Philosophers don't often write about the heart. At least, analytical philosophers don't. Why is this? Philosophers are said to live life “in their heads” rather than “from their hearts.” But even if that is so, why don't they think and write about the heart? Moreover, it can hardly have escaped philosophers' attention that matters of the heart are central to what we human beings value most about ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Welfare and Rational Care

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Making Sense, Making Worlds

    Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations

    by Nicholas Onuf ...
    Series series New International Relations
    Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Ethics

    Edited by John Skorupski ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Ethics is an outstanding survey of the whole field of ethics by a distinguished international team of contributors. Over 60 chapters are divided into six clear sections:the history of ethicsmeta-ethicsperspectives from outside ethicsethical perspectivesmoralitydebates in ethics.The Companion opens with a comprehensive historical overview of ethics,... ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • 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

  • Ethics

    Inventing Right and Wrong

    by J.L. Mackie ...
    An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD