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Business Ethics - A Philosophical and Behavioral Approach

In this textbook we examine the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for companies and the economy as a whole, a...

Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea t...

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

This volume depicts methods and concepts of calculated ethics and mathematized moral life at main universities in Europe of the late Midd...

Capital and Capitalism - Old Myths, New Futures

Capitalist societies need to undergo major change to provide for the material needs of all the people who work within the system, not jus...

Capitalism and Crises - How to Fix Them

The book draws on history, philosophy, psychology, and biology as well economics, law, and finance to describe what has gone wrong, what ...

Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model - A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement

This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach pre...

Changes in the image of man from the Enlightenment to the age of Romanticism

The Hungarian and German authors of this book have examined the processes that took place in 18th century philosophy, aesthetics and othe...

Chapel Perilous - The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson

The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson. Chapel Perilous: The Life and T...

Christian Wolff's German Ethics - New Essays

This volume offers a collective exploration of the moral philosophy of Christian Wolff, one of the great philosophers of the 18th century...

Classical Confucian Political Thought - A New Interpretation

"Combining deep scholarship, theoretical imagination, and lucid prose, El Amine gives us a more complex and yet more accessible Confucius...

Collected Writings of Giles Clark - Recycling Madness with Jung, Spinoza and Santayana

This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947-2019), whose original clinical the...

Concept Formation in Global Studies - Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge

This book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Euroc...

Concepts and Categories - Philosophical Essays - Second Edition

"In a dark century, he showed what a life of the mind should be: skeptical, ironical, dispassionate and free."--Michael Ignatieff

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

It is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearnes...

Confucian Role Ethics - A Moral Vision for the 21st Century?

The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic ...

CONJUGIAL LOVE

Written in 1768, presents the nature of masculine and feminine qualities, their divine origin, their correspondence, and the dynamics of ...

Consent Matters

Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person's consent, made morally permissibl...

Consider the Turkey

Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feastA turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and ...

Contemplation - The Movements of the Soul

This book offers a philosophical introduction to the theory and practice of contemplation. Kevin Hart examines a variety of religious, ae...

Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical researc...

Contemporary Debates in African and Western Philosophy - Analytic and Intercultural Approaches

Driven by an intercultural vision and comparative research, this is the first volume to bring together African and Western philosophical ...

Contemporary Debates Political

This collection of 24 essays, written by eminent philosophers and political theorists, brings together fresh debates on some of the most ...

Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics

New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. Eminent scholars and ...

Cowboy Metaphysics - Ethics and Death in Westerns

Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. I...

Creation and Metaphysics - A Genetic Approach to Existential Act

During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played...

Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes t...

Crime Prevention by Exclusion - Ethical Considerations

Critical Views of Logic

This book examines positions that challenge the Fregean logic-first view. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced ...

Dancing with the Devil - Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good

Most people think bad feelings--feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt--are obstacles to a good life. You're supposed to do your ...

dark blue is celebrating all ..... nature colourful

dark blue is celebrating all - nature colourful is a nature book and technical book and memories book and sporty book and celebrating boo...

Das Beste von Hegel - The Best of Hegel.

Zur Erinnerung an den 250. Geburtstag von Hegel versammelt dieser Band mit dem ungewöhnlichen Titel »Das Beste von Hegel - The Best of He...

David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism

Identifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace's oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction.

Death Comes for the Cathedrals

¿"Suppose for a moment that Catholicism had been dead for centuries, that the traditions of its worship had been lost. Only the unspeakin...

Debating a Post-Work Future - Perspectives from Philosophy and the Social Sciences

The book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of philosophical, social-scientific, and humanistic arguments about the design and d...

Defeating the Evil-God Challenge - In Defence of God's Goodness

Why is belief in a maximally good god significantly more reasonable than belief in a maximally evil god? Defending the view that argument...

Defending Materialism - The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely...

Der Mensch und Sein Werk 1.Band Jehuda Halevi Fünfundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte Deutsch und Hebräisch - Der sechzig Hymnen und Gedichte dritte Ausgabe

In einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Uberse...

Determinism, Death, and Meaning

This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such...

Dignity, Justice, and the Nazi Data Debate - On Violating the Violated Anew

In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn considers survivors' arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing wha...

Disability Bioethics - Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral meaning of disability in humans - beyond simply ...

Disagreement

This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types o...

Disguised Academic Plagiarism - A Typology and Case Studies for Researchers and Editors

This volume is the first book-length study of disguised forms of plagiarism that mar the body of published research in humanities discipl...

Doc-Humanity

However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that wa...

Does God Exist? - A Rational Investigation

Ever wondered if God exists? We all have our life-time to find out, so no hurry. Answering this question has involved an extensive invest...

Does Truth Matter? - Democracy and Public Space

On the political level many seem to agree that democracy doesn't need foundations, nor are its citizens expected to discuss the worth or ...

Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?

There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs p...

Double Vision - Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama

Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher a...

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide - Volume II: Theories of Specific Emotions and Major Theoretical Challenges

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide is the first interdisciplinary reference resource which authoritatively takes stock of ...

Environmental Justice in African Philosophy

This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance t...

Epistemic Blame - The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships

Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. Cam...

Epistemic Courage

Epistemic Courage is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the ethics of belief, which shows why epistemology is no mere academic...

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering - Best Practices and Insights

Creating an inclusive environment where different software developers can feel welcome and leverage their talents is an ethical imperativ...

Eroticizing Aesthetics - In the Real with Bataille and Lacan

Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics and how this can invoke the erotic process.

Error and Inference - Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science

Explores the nature of error and inference, drawing on exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity of science.

Essay on Man - An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

First published in 1944 by Yale University Press.

Essential Works of Socialism

Essential Works of Socialism is the most authoritative one-volume collection of major socialist writings to appear in English. Edited by ...

Ethical Decision-Making

Ethical decision-making challenges us every day - be it in our private or professional lives, be it on an organizational or institutional...

Ethical Theory - 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

In this new kind of introduction to ethical theory, Daniel Muñoz and Sarah Stroud present 50 of the field's most exciting puzzles, parado...

Ethics

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa, later Benedict de Spinoza; 24 November 1632 - 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Por...