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Includes author's concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom - views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics.

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John Lemos' Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism offers an up-to-date introduction to free will (and associated) debates in an engaging, dialogic format that recommends it for use by beginning students in philosophy as well as by undergraduates in intermediate courses in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and action theory.

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John Lemos' Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism offers an up-to-date introduction to free will (and associated) debates in an engaging, dialogic format that recommends it for use by beginning students in philosophy as well as by undergraduates in intermediate courses in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and action theory.

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Should governments save people from themselves Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or taking marijuana--or does this create a nanny state, leading to infantilization, demotivation, and breaches in individual autonomy Looking at examples fro

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Plato's "Republic", Hobbes' "Leviathan", and Marx's "Communist Manifesto" are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being This book shows where and why they fail.

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Presents the defense of the intuitive nature of art in Western philosophical thought.

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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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