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The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings. This anthology presents a selection of the moral thought of this man.

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This book considers what virtue theory can tell us about parenting in relation to both moral development and specific ethical dilemmas. It is of interest to those who work in virtue theory, applied ethics, and the ethics of parenthood.

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This book considers what virtue theory can tell us about parenting in relation to both moral development and specific ethical dilemmas. It is of interest to those who work in virtue theory, applied ethics, and the ethics of parenthood.

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An important new study offering a new historical and philosophical insight into Parmenides in light of the oral tradition of ancient Greece.

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Presents a historical and philosophical reading of Parmenides of Elea by exploring the significance and dynamics of the oral tradition of ancient Greece. This book explores the aural and oral components of the poem and its performance in terms of their significance to Parmenides' philosophy.

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The author shows that a number of ethical and epistemological imperatives can be defined through the philosophical elaboration of an ethic of care and the endeavor to know and to care well.

Can the actual experienced practices of caring and the abstract conceptual thought process of philosophy be mutually informing

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This volume represents the first attempt to comprehensively showcase the resources comparative philosophy, and in particular Chinese philosophy, can offer for understanding objectivity and impartiality in the contemporary world.

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This volume represents the first attempt to comprehensively showcase the resources comparative philosophy, and in particular Chinese philosophy, can offer for understanding objectivity and impartiality in the contemporary world.

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This book philosophically explores and works to resolve the tension between equality (impartiality) and favoritism (partiality) in light of intellectual resources in the African tradition of philosophy.

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Exploring ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel, this new edition includes critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings to fight insurgencies.

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Exploring ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel, this new edition includes critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings to fight insurgencies.

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From Kosovo to Quebec, Ireland to East Timor, nationalism has been a recurrent topic of intense debate. This book explores the power, danger, and allure of nationalism by examining its place in the thought of eight politically engaged intellectuals of nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the complexities of nationalism.

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Among the first and foremost of American continental philosophers, Alphonso Lingis refines his own thought through a topic usually deemed unworthy for philosophical examinationpassion. This book shows how Lingiss thought has not only endured over so many productive decades but how it remains vital and even continues to grow.

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History of human rights. Scholars and other researchers of the French Revolution and European political thought will find this study of particular value.

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To solve the problems of factory farming and animal experimentation, what we need is not new philosophical knowledge but a systematic exploration of how to put what we know into practice. This book argues for combining pragmatism and vision, reason and emotions, morality and politics to foster significantly better human-animal relations.

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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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Therefore, Ramsey's ethics will appeal to the 21st-century social conscience.

McKenzie grounds his theological exploration in a comprehensive history of the theological and philosophical influences on Ramsey's thought, including Jonathan Edwards' theory of natural morality.

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Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Bodys explorations into the ethical, social, cultural, and affective dimensions of our corporeal existence draw on Paul Ricoeurs reflection on the lived body. Starting with the fact that ones own body is irreducible to an object, these essays critically contribute to discourses on the body.

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Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Bodys explorations into the ethical, social, cultural, and affective dimensions of our corporeal existence draw on Paul Ricoeurs reflection on the lived body. Starting with the fact that ones own body is irreducible to an object, these essays critically contribute to discourses on the body.

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This book offers a sustained engagement with the political philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and demonstrates both the significance of the political in his own thinking throughout his career, and how his understanding of the political offers something valuable to current discussions of issues in political philosophy.