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This book explains why it is important to identify legally accepted corruption and provides a series of examples of corruption using this perspective. It argues that political corruption is the exclusion of those who are affected by a particular policy and that democratic inclusion and engagement are central to public integrity.

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This book explains why it is important to identify legally accepted corruption and provides a series of examples of corruption using this perspective. It argues that political corruption is the exclusion of those who are affected by a particular policy and that democratic inclusion and engagement are central to public integrity.

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Provides both an elucidation and reinterpretation of a number of concepts central to Leibniz's work, such as "richness", "simplicity", "harmony" and "incompossibility". This book provides an reinterpretation of many of the core themes of Leibniz's philosophy. It serves as a useful entry point into this philosophy.

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Gottfried Leibniz is one of the most influential and important European philosophers of the early modern period. This work gives an account of Lebniz's philosophy. It examines his ideas, including the intersections between his metaphysics, epistemology, ethical and political thought and his famous claim that reality consists of monads (unities).

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Gottfried Leibniz is one of the most influential and important European philosophers of the early modern period. This work gives an account of Lebniz's philosophy. It examines his ideas, including the intersections between his metaphysics, epistemology, ethical and political thought and his famous claim that reality consists of monads (unities).

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Compares the respective oeuvre of two seminal thinkers of 20th century, Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus. This title explores each thinker's congruent and complimentary metaphysical and political rationale in opposing tyranny. It emphasises the religious component in Levinas's depiction of Hitlerism as paganism.

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Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging - or, indeed, downright bewildering.

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Value pluralism is the view that fundamental human goods, such as liberty, equality and justice, are irreducibly plural and incommensurable. Where such goods conflict, we must make choices between them. This book looks at the implications of value pluralism for political theory and liberalism.

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Liberation and Authority provides original, comparative readings of Platos Gorgias, the first book of the Republic, and Thucydides History, arguing that they share similarities not only in the oft-noted natural justice of Callicles, Thrasymachus, and the Melian Dialogue, but also in a development that runs through the whole of each.

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Presents a perspective on political philosophy, arguing against the conventional political philosophy pieties and defending a specific political position, which is identified as libertarian anarchy. This book includes a history of the concept of anarchy, and an examination of the possibility of anarchic societies.

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Political philosophy is dominated by a myth, the myth of the necessity of the state. The state is considered necessary for the provision of many things, but primarily for peace and security. This book presents a novel perspective on political philosophy, arguing against the conventional political philosophy pieties.

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A comprehensive interpretation of John Locke's solution to one of philosophy's enduring problems: free will and the nature of human agency. It shows us that Locke conceived free agency not just as the freedom to express oneself, but as including also the freedom to transcend oneself and act in accordance with "the good."