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The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. This book traces the history of this ideal, from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and to the killing fields of World War I and the despair of Vietnam. It reminds us that the fate of honor and the fate of morality and even manners are deeply interrelated.

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Focusing on basics, including those critical thinking skills that make philosophical ethics possible,Hornbook Ethics aims to help students understand, analyze, and evaluate both philosophical work inethics and real-life ethical problems.

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Focusing on basics, including those critical thinking skills that make philosophical ethics possible,Hornbook Ethics aims to help students understand, analyze, and evaluate both philosophical work inethics and real-life ethical problems.

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Supposes that people are not usually act knowingly against their interests or other purposes. This title presents an economic account of what an individual can come to know and applies this account to many areas of ordinary life: political participation, religious beliefs, popular knowledge of science, liberalism, extremism, and moral beliefs.

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Explains why reason shows there must be a God. This title contains articles from different stages of the author's philosophical career, with pieces from 1943 to 1981 showing him defending his position against critics and struggling to improve it by correcting his earlier errors.

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Presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our practical lives. This title contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and imaginings as justified, and that hope thereby involves sophisticated reflective and conceptual capacities.

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Focuses on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. This title argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems.

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This revised edition examines different notions of rationality, such as the means-end concept, hedonism and the "evil-avoidance" view, and then rejects them in favour of the theory that to act rationally is to act "for the best", a theory the author characterises as "critical pluralism".

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This revised edition examines different notions of rationality, such as the means-end concept, hedonism and the "evil-avoidance" view, and then rejects them in favour of the theory that to act rationally is to act "for the best", a theory the author characterises as "critical pluralism".

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Here, Nicholas Rescher surveys and analyzes the different kinds of unreal possibilities and nonexistent objects, tying together all the ways in which this area has been approached by philosophers.

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How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death

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Grant Farred takes up the event as a philosophical problem from a novel perspective, examining infamous events in sport and arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it. He shows how what was inherent in the event is opened to new possibilities for understanding ontological being by thinking about sport philosophically.

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When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts What if the government commits a moral crime This book explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship.

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Negri, a leading Marxist philosopher, has inspired anti-empire movements around the world through his writings and personal example. This work, which began as a conversation between Negri and literary critic Casarino, is the most complete review of the philosopher's work.

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"Originally published in French as L'individuation a la lumiere des notions de forme et d'information, copyright Editions Jerome Millon, 2005."

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"Originally published in French as L'individuation a la lumiere des notions de forme et d'information, copyright Editions Jerome Millon, 2005."

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Who is the most truly heroic--Captain America or Iron Man The writers in this book try to answer that question from many diverse viewpoints.

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Isaiah Berlin, a prominent public intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, is examined in historical context for the first time as a thinker deeply influenced by, and deeply reactive against, the British Idealists.