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Concerned with how Eastern wisdom traditions transform lives and are themselves transformed by contact with the wisdom of the West, this text deals with the personal and political impact of Buddhism on life and explores the meanings of Buddhist theology.

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A Spanish edition.

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Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions a

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Offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason. This work gives a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the arguments relating to the extent and manner to which social influences enable epistemic agents.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the arguments relating to the extent and manner to which social influences enable epistemic agents.

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Offering a field-defining survey of the topic, this is the first book to engage all the key figures in the social imaginaries field. It offers new perspectives on the productive tension between social imaginaries and the creative imagination, providing the first programmatic approach to the field as a whole.

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Offering a field-defining survey of the topic, this is the first book to engage all the key figures in the social imaginaries field. It offers new perspectives on the productive tension between social imaginaries and the creative imagination, providing the first programmatic approach to the field as a whole.

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This book provides a historical and theoretical analysis of the Ayotzinapa social movement from the perspective of Latin American philosophy. The author addresses questions such as how a social movement is born, how (and if) the distinct social movement organizations should be defined, and what (if any) should be the extent of these organizations.

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Christian ethicists from a spectrum of methods and commitments come together in arguing for some kind of social conception of the self, noticing that convergence sheds light on the range of theoretical options in Christian ethics. This book explores and evaluates five different visions of the social self from five key ethicists.

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The themes of this volume are the politics of nonconformist radicalism, the universality of natural law and the existence of a moral sense. It also includes Spencer's vision of a pure democracy, in which the vote was available to all, regardless of age, sex or property or qualification.

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This is the first English-language translation of an important book that contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy. Renault provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised.

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This is the first English-language translation of an important book that contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy. Renault provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised.

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'Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity' deals with the legacy from the classical literature of philosophy and sociology of the theorization of the idea and ideal of dignity, which is explored in the wider context of morality, ethics and the basis of the normative order.

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Originally published in 1991, this book is in three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, "The Civilizing Process", or was written along with it. Part 2 was written between 1940 and 1960. Part 3 is from 1987.

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