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Presents an application of Ricoeur's principles of non-exclusive capability justice to contemporary debates surrounding recognitive and redistributive justice.

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In Righting Health Policy, MacDougall argues that bioethics has not developed the tools best suited for justifying health law and policy. Using Kants practical philosophy as an example, he explores the promise of political philosophy for making normatively justified recommendations about health law and policy.

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A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots.

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America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice. We hear these phrases together so often. This book focuses on the unfolding debates about how to pursue war and justice in the age of terrorism. It seeks to explain why Americans - for so many years cynical about war - have found war so appealing.

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The political philosophy of the 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau has long been associated with the dramatic events of the French Revolution. This book examines the connection between Rousseau's thought and the revolutionary traditions of modern Europe.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an enigmatic figure in many ways. This book explains Rousseau's true place in the Enlightenment by paying particular attention to his account of virtue. It shows that Rousseau shares important characteristics with his contemporaries as well as with the tradition of Aristotle.

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Rousseau's "The Social Contract" is one of the most important works of political thought in the history of philosophy. Since its publication in 1762, it has been profoundly influential in shaping the historical developments of many societies. This book offers guidance on philosophical and historical context of the work.

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Rousseau's "The Social Contract" is one of the most important works of political thought in the history of philosophy. This book offers guidance on philosophical and historical context, key themes, reading the text, reception and influence and advice on further reading.

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Combines political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's stories of sex and sexuality offer insights into the paradoxes of democratic consent. Drawing on a variety of Rousseau's political and literary writings, this book shows how consensual nonconsensuality organizes his representations of desire and identity.

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Offers an interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. The author gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty.

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This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the worlds ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre-modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistry, contemporary Judaism and the Islamic sharia.

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Attempts to re-examine and evaluate the development of Russell's concept of perception and the relation of perception to our knowledge of the external world. This book focuses on Russell's work from 1905 to 1919, during which period Russell attempted a reductionist analysis of empirical knowledge.

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Offers a biographical and contextual sketch, introducing Sartre's novels and political activism. This book also includes an overview of contemporary French philosophy and the influence of World War II. It gives a view of the topics discussed in "Being and Nothingness" by taking them as answers to the problem of human freedom.

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Tackles one of Sartre's challenging works "Being and Nothingness". This book gives a unified view of the (seemingly disparate) topics discussed in "Being and Nothingness" by taking them as answers to the problem of human freedom. It also shows how Sartre's work can be placed in a tradition of philosophical reflection deriving from Kant.

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There are perpetual debates about the extent of freedom in politics. Are we free to choose Are we overdetermined by our material conditions Some hybrid between the two In this text, Austin Hayden Smidt analyzes an oft-overlooked text by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to ground a logical framework for exploring this problem.

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