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  • Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics

    Edited by Timothy Chappell ...
    What form, or forms, might ethical knowledge take? In particular, can ethical knowledge take the form either of moral theory, or of moral intuition? If it can, should it? These are central questions for ethics today, and they are the central questions for the philosophical essays collected in this volume. Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics draws together new work by leading experts in ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Values and Virtues

    Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics

    Edited by Timothy Chappell ...
    Series series Mind Association Occasional Series
    After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound even when subterranean. Typical members of our society can often be made to see that their moral thought and action are, in crucial ways, unwittingly Aristotelian. No one in contemporary philosophical ethics can afford to ignore Aristotle. Much of the finest work in recent moral philosophy has been overtly ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Plato: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Timothy Chappell ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Plato

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Julia Annas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Ethics

    A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. MacIntyre ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: Plato

    by Professor Bernard Williams ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors'Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philosophic field. Even those thinkers who have rejected Plato's views have found themselves working ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Open Society and its Enemies

    by Karl Popper ...
    Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

    by Julia Annas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Great Philosophers:Democritus

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.Democritus c. 460-c. 370BCThe Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher'; our own age's 'Prophet of Quark': throughout the modern philosophical tradition, Democritus has been a man little known beyond his labels.Yet if the image of the cheerful ironist understates his true seriousness, that of father of modern nuclear physics - though by no means entirely unfounded ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek Philosophy

    From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers

    by Thomas A. Blackson ...
    Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD.Provides coverage of the Presocratics through the Hellenistic philosophersMoves beyond traditional textbooks that conclude with AristotleA uniquely balanced organization of ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Socrates

    A Very Short Introduction

    by C.C.W. Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been unimaginably different. Yet Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of him is derived primarily from the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues. In this Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Socrates

    Ironist and Moral Philosopher

    by Gregory Vlastos ...
    This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of ... Read more

    $51.69 USD