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In a fresh reading of Montaigne's Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political thinker concerned with the ethical basis of society and civil discourse. From the first essay, Montaigne places the reader in a world of violent political conflict reminiscent of the French Wars of Religi

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Gives an account of the political meaning of the "Essais" in the context of Montaigne's life and times. This work argues, Montaigne's "Essais" very much reflect his ongoing involvement and preoccupation with contemporary politics - particularly the politics of France's civil wars between Catholics and Protestants.

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The six overlapping studies that make up this book on the poetry of Eugenio Montale analyze a large number of individual poems and, with Le occasioni (1939) as a point of reference, show how they shape and are shaped by changes and continuities that extend from the earliest poems of Ossi di seppia (1925) to the notoriously difficult poems in his cu

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Integrating the study of both music and art into an exploration of the early poetry of Eugenio Montale (1896-1982), this book situates Italy's premier poet of the twentieth century within the Modernist movement. Gian-Paolo Biasin finds in Montale's poetry broad resonances, reverberations, and comparisons that involve it in the European culture of i

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Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished Would God be unjust if he failed to punish and reward And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities This book presents a study of Mu'tazilite ethics.

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Attempting to steer moral philosophy away from abstract theorizing, Moral Disquiet and Human Life argues that moral philosophy should be a practical, rational, and argumentative engagement with reality, and that moral reflection should have direct effects on our lives and the world in which we live. Illustrating her discussion with vivid examples f

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Graham Walker boldly recasts the debate over issues like constitutional interpretation and judicial review, and challenges contemporary thinking not only about specifically constitutional questions but also about liberalism, law, justice, and rights. Walker targets the "skeptical" moral nihilism of leading American judges and writers, on both the p

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Offers a window into gray zones through its look at the manufacture and exchange of illegal goods called homers, tolerated in a French aeronautic plant. This book argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the production of homers offer workplaces balanced opportunities for supervision as well as expression.

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Argues that market exchange works only because most people, most of the time, act virtuously. This book shows how the rules of market exchange have evolved to promote moral behavior and how exchange itself may make us more virtuous. It examines the biological basis of economic morality and traces the connections between morality and markets.

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We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively moral responses In this book, Robert Audi develops an original account of moral perceptions, shows how they figure in human experience, and argues that they provide moral knowledge. He offers a theory of

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Develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Addressing general readers as well as scholars, this two-part work concentrates on social morality, establishing the conditions all good lives must meet; and discusses personal morality, the sphere of individuality.

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Can moral vision influence the dynamics of the world system This inquiry into the evolving foreign aid policies of eighteen developed democracies challenges conventional international relations theory and offers a framework of testable hypotheses about the ways ethical commitments can help structure global politics.

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In Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of conscience, such as arti