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By: Kwame Anthony Appiah
ISBN: 9780691254074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Jonathan Israel
ISBN: 9780691195933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Israel
ISBN: 9780691176604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Revised edition)
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: Avram Alpert
ISBN: 9780691254685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9798888975985
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Mint Editions
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Hailed as one of the greatest works of literature ever written, The Divine Comedy is a highly influential poem that has dazzled readers for over five centuries, with its' first book, The Inferno, being one of the most recognizable pieces of fiction ever published. Revisit Dante's journey through the nine circles of Satan's domain in a prose translation for the ages.
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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: 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: 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: 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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By: Jason Read
ISBN: 9781642599220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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By: Frederick C. Beiser
ISBN: 9780691600543
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition. Frederick Beiser argues that the main thre
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By: Ian Birchall
ISBN: 9781608466054
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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Gracchus Babeuf has long been recognized as an important precursor of the revolutionary socialist tradition.
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By: Pascal Bruckner
ISBN: 9780691154305
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, and imperialism - the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. This title argues that obsessive guilt has obscured important realities.
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By: Gerald Gaus
ISBN: 9780691183428
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Abraham Flexner
ISBN: 9780691174761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"Original essay 'The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge' copyright A1939 by Harper's Magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduced from the October issue by special permission"--Title page verso.
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By: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
ISBN: 9780872200371
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1987
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Eric Schwitzgebel
ISBN: 9780691215679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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