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Twenty-one philosophers investigate the implications of the Jurassic Park franchise for our lives, our values, and our future. Human beings live and thrive by modifying nature, but when do the risks of changing nature outweigh the likely benefits

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Tells the biography of Karl Marx who has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. This book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context.

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Based on a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) designed for both military personnel and non-specialists across the globe, Key Concepts in Military Ethics is structured as a series of mini-chapters that cover a huge range of topics and issues: moral dilemmas, military and civilian interactions, freedom of the press, peacekeeping, terrorism and humanitarian intervention.

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A reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life. It offers a collection of sardonic aphorisms that include essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer's Diary".

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Presented with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by FWJ Schelling, this book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. It concentrates on Socrates, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories.

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"Prefaces" was the last of four books by Soren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Shortly after publishing "Prefaces", Kierkegaard began to prepare "Writing Sampler" as a sequel. Although "Writing Sampler" remained unpublished during his lifetime, this title presents it here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it.

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Offers a poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. This book begins with a banquet scene patterned on Plato's "Symposium". Next is a discourse by "Judge William" in praise of marriage "in answer to objections."

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After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. This work comments on the Danish novel "Two Ages", which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism.

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The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early "Either/Or", through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. This work presents an analysis of the forms and sources of love.

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Presents the author's story of a lifetime of writing and his understanding of the maze of greatly varied works that make up his oeuvre.

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Features Leibniz's writings including letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific questions.

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The author was able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest. It offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

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Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love - and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. This title states that this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life.

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Descartes' Mediations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress' completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even closer to Descartes' original, while maintaining its clear and accessible style.