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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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Through fourteen original essays, the book seeks to understand the viability of the notion of sovereignty in a globalized world, thus taking into account the inclusion of a language of rights, limitation and legitimacy. It examines sovereignty using a normative approach.

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This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza.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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This book takes steps to develop a philosophy of engineering not to promote an ideology for engineering but to stimulate critical reflection among engineers and non-engineers alike about our engineering lifeworld.

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This book takes steps to develop a philosophy of engineering not to promote an ideology for engineering but to stimulate critical reflection among engineers and non-engineers alike about our engineering lifeworld.

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Moving toward, not away from, the vexing array of discouraging crises of our time, and drawing on a number of innovative but congruent concepts, this short book offers to focus our path toward deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems.

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Moving toward, not away from, the vexing array of discouraging crises of our time, and drawing on a number of innovative but congruent concepts, this short book offers to focus our path toward deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems.

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Presenting an account of 'Aristotle's Ethics', this book argues for the importance of the concept of 'techne' in constructing an understanding of Aristotle's moral philosophy. It explores the importance of 'techne' in the Platonic and pre-Platonic intellectual context in which Aristotle was writing.

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Examining issues surrounding developments in technology, the contributors consider topics such as the effects on privacy of the widespread use of computers to store and retrieve personal information, and the ethics of genetic engineering.

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A team of renowned philosophers and a new generation of thinkers come together to offer the first book-length examination of the relationship between philosophical anthropology and animal studies.

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Presents a philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's "Othello". This book opens with a portrait of Iago, and considers the nature and moral significance of the evil that he represents. It addresses the boundaries dividing normality and pathology.

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Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human This books using the Hegelian dialect to rework the philosophy of nature in order to assign a proper place to the animal.

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Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human This books using the Hegelian dialect to rework the philosophy of nature in order to assign a proper place to the animal.

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This book is a critical intervention into debate over human enhancement and engages bioethics, disability studies, and Michel Foucault. Melinda Hall employs a biopolitical framework to argue that transhumanist thinkers present diminished images of the good life and seriously devalue disabled lives by linking disability with risk and death.