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By: Peter Singer
ISBN: 9780691150697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What is ethics Where do moral standards come from Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong This title argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral concern.
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By: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9780872203747
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Published anonymously in 1723, "The Fable of the Bees" by Bernard Mandeville came to be regarded as the epitome of immorality. It is a naturalistic account of the mechanism of human desire. This abridged edition also includes "The Fable" and background readings from two sources.
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By: Stephen Gaukroger
ISBN: 9780691241746
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Steven A. Benko
ISBN: 9780812694765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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A humorous and philosophical look at life in Heaven, or is it Hell
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By: Osho
ISBN: 9781938755903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Osho International
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"Extemporaneous talks given by Osho at the OSHO International Meditation Resort, Pune, India"--P. facing t.p.
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
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By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
ISBN: 9780691192284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Justin Smith-Ruiu
ISBN: 9780691235219
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Justin Smith-Ruiu
ISBN: 9780691212326
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A history of the internet, uncovering its origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of improving the quality of human life by creating thinking machines and allowing for communication across vast distances. Looks at what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us.
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By: Luke Cuddy
ISBN: 9780812696547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Sren Kierkegaard
ISBN: 9780691180830
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: J. M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9780691173900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The author of these lectures uses fiction to present a discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. The story draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals and her alienation from humans.
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By: William Irwin
ISBN: 9780812695021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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The cult sci-fi movie, "The Matrix", presented a fake world made of nothing but perceptions. This text contains 20 essays on philosophical problems raised by the film, which focus on the issue, "Can we be sure the world is really there, and if not, what should we do about it".
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By: Ted Toadvine
ISBN: 9781517916008
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Sam Harris
ISBN: 9780552776387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 12th April 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith.
In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge.
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By: David Edmonds
ISBN: 9780691164908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert C. Solomon
ISBN: 9780872202269
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with a preface and a conclusion by the author.
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By: Thomas Nail
ISBN: 9781517917456
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Plotinus
ISBN: 9781624668951
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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"This title contains revised translations of Plotinus's opus. In addition to the translations, included is an appendix of Classical sources. Also included is a glossary of important terms in English to help the reader with Plotinus's difficult and somewhat technical vocabulary. Extensive cross-references in footnotes help the reader navigate through Plotinus's writings"--
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By: David Beaver
ISBN: 9780691181981
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Thomas Nagel
ISBN: 9780691020020
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1979
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which altruism is included among the basic rational requirements on desire and action.
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By: Jean-Francois Lyotard
ISBN: 9780816611737
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1984
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Simon May
ISBN: 9780691181813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Robert B. Talisse
ISBN: 9780691137063
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Challenges the notion that pragmatism fell into a midcentury decline and was dormant until the advent of 'neopragmatism' in the 1980s. This title reveals an influential tradition running unbroken through twentieth-century philosophy and continuing today.
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By: Desiderius Erasmus
ISBN: 9780691165646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of
