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By: Christopher McMahon
ISBN: 9780691603216
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Christopher McMahon
ISBN: 9780691654652
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Alan Wertheimer
ISBN: 9780691637143
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Andrew Altman
ISBN: 9780691024677
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Scholars in the 'Critical Legal Studies' movement have challenged some of the most cherished ideals of modern Western legal and political thought. This title examines the philosophical underpinnings of the CLS movement and exposes the deficiencies in the major lines of CLS argument against liberalism.
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By: George Sher
ISBN: 9780691023168
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stephen G. Salkever
ISBN: 9780691633985
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Leslie Paul Thiele
ISBN: 9780691020617
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents an essay on the Nietzsche's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. This book offers a conversation with Nietzsche rather than a consideration of the secondary literature.
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By: Gregory S. Kavka
ISBN: 9780691027654
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1987
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Yael Tamir
ISBN: 9780691001746
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Urges liberals not to surrender the concept of nationalism to conservative, chauvinist, or racist ideologies. This work attempts to tie together a wide range of issues often kept apart: personal autonomy, cultural membership, political obligations, particularity versus impartiality in moral duties, and global justice.
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By: Rodney G. Peffer
ISBN: 9780691608884
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The interpreter of Marx's writings faces the task of reconciling, on the one hand, Marx's frequent explicit condemnations and criticisms of morality and, on the other, the obvious way in which his world-view reflects substantive moral judgments. In this book R. G. Peffer tackles the challenges of finding in Marx's work an implicit moral theory, of
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By: David Braybrooke
ISBN: 9780691637846
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: A. John Simmons
ISBN: 9780691637150
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert L. Holmes
ISBN: 9780691632711
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert L. Holmes
ISBN: 9780691603377
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of "r
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By: Donald Vandeveer
ISBN: 9780691639062
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Donald Vandeveer
ISBN: 9780691611020
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Donald VanDeVeer probes the moral complexities of the question: under what conditions is it permissible to intervene invasively in the lives of competent persons--for example, by deception, force, or coercive threat--for their own good In a work with broad significance for law, public policy, professional-client relations, and private interactions
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By: Bruce James Smith
ISBN: 9780691639833
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Bruce James Smith
ISBN: 9780691611877
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors." Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library u
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By: Robert E. Goodin
ISBN: 9780691022796
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1988
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any broader commitments, and at the same time better able to withstand challenges from the New Right's moralistic political economy. This defense of the existence of the welfare state is discussed, flanked by criticism of Old Left and New Right arguments.
Speaking of Equality: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Force of 'Equality' in Moral and Legal Discourse
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By: Peter Westen
ISBN: 9780691630052
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Speaking of Equality: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Force of 'Equality' in Moral and Legal Discourse
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By: Peter Westen
ISBN: 9780691600079
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Aristotle noted that "equality" is the plea not of those who are satisfied but of those who seek change, and the word has long been invoked in the name of social reform. It retains its force because arguments for equality put arguments for inequality on the defensive. But why is "equality" laudatory and "inequality" pejorative In this first book-l
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By: Patrick Riley
ISBN: 9780691606415
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation And, if He does not, why does He will particularly" that some men be damned The theological origin of the "general will" was impo
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By: A. John Simmons
ISBN: 9780691037813
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This is a systematic, full-length study of Locke's theory of rights and of its potential for making genuine contributions to contemporary debates about rights and their place in political philosophy. Simmons refers extensively to Locke's published and unpublished works.
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By: David Johnston
ISBN: 9780691023175
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1989
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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