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Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, this book traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.

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What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth This title draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value.

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Discussion of John Stuart Mill's ethics has been dominated by concern with right and wrong action as determined by the principle of utility. This book unearths the context of moral and socio-political debate that Mill did not have to make explicit to his Victorian readers.

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Gives an overview of the work of both figures, tracing the origins and development of their principal ideas, and identifying key similarities and differences. This book identifies and explores the key philosophical influences upon their work such as: Descartes; Kant; Nietzsche; Husserl; Freud; Marcel; and Jaspers.

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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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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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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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This book represents the first comprehensive anthology of papers designed to explore both the state of scientific progress and the ethics, law and history of scientific research. It will appeal to a very wide international audience, offering a truly multidisciplinary analysis of many facets of scientific research.

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Cultures around the world have regarded self-fulfillment as the ultimate goal of human striving and as the fundamental test of the goodness of a human life. The ideal has also been criticized, however, as egotistical and value-neutral. This book seeks to overcome these and other arguments.

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My hope is that this small book will act as a life-affirming guidebook, inspiring you to ask some big questions of your own. Join with me, on a journey to ask what it means to be alive, and maybe, what it means to live by your own personal philosophy!

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Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, the author surveys the entire field of sexuality. Dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break. Upholding traditional morality - his argument gravitates to that which is consoling in the experience of sexual love.

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'Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity' deals with the legacy from the classical literature of philosophy and sociology of the theorization of the idea and ideal of dignity, which is explored in the wider context of morality, ethics and the basis of the normative order.

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This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.

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A guide to Spinoza's masterpiece of Rationalist thought. It offers reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of emotions and a prescription for human virtue and blessedness. It explains the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text.

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A guide to Spinoza's masterpiece of Rationalist thought. It offers reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a prescription for human virtue and blessedness. It explains the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text.

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