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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: Kim-chong Chong
ISBN: 9780812695359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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If ethics encompasses not just a concern for self and family but also for a wider circle of others, what resources do Chinese and Western ethics offer to motivate and guide this expansion of concern This question is the theme uniting these essays by leading Chinese and Western philosophers.
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By: R. Jay Wallace
ISBN: 9780691172170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Jennifer Welchman
ISBN: 9780872208094
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Presents an anthology to cover the virtue ethics component of an ethics course, either in conjunction with one of the larger ethics texts, as the centrepiece of a course devoted to virtue theory, or as a component of an introductory course that includes a section on ethics.
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By: Jennifer Welchman
ISBN: 9780872208100
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Includes readings from five classic thinkers with importantly distinct approaches to virtue, and five essays from contemporary thinkers that apply virtue theories to the resolution of practical moral problems. This book provides an introduction to the history of virtue theory, highlights the distinctive aspects, and suggests further readings.
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By: Michael Macomber
ISBN: 9780812696776
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Claire Ortiz Hill
ISBN: 9780812695861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Heidi M. Ravven
ISBN: 9781595585370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: The New Press
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"A critique of 'free will' that draws on neuroscience, philosophy, and religion"--Provided by publisher.
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By: Emrys Westacott
ISBN: 9780691155081
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Steven Nadler
ISBN: 9780691218885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David Wood
ISBN: 9781517907211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology"--
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By: David Wood
ISBN: 9781517907228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology"--
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By: Raja Halwani
ISBN: 9780812695434
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Author Raja Halwani discusses how virtue ethics illuminates three central areas of our lives: care, love and sex. He concludes that virtue ethics allows for those sexual lifestyles that are deemed by traditional morality to be wrong, such as promiscuity, open relationships, and sex work.
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By: Norman Melchert
ISBN: 9780872202719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1994
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: Norman Melchert
ISBN: 9780872202726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1994
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: Joanna Macy
ISBN: 9781897408018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: New Society Publishers
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The autobiography of one of this eras most revered environmental and spiritual leaders
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By: Christian Cotton
ISBN: 9780812699883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Philosophers put WikiLeaks on trial, with various writers taking different positions as to the rights or wrongs of their actions.
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By: lisabeth de Fontenay
ISBN: 9780816676057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: David Edmonds
ISBN: 9780691154022
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. Would you kill the fat man The question may seem bizarre.
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By: Mary Warnock
ISBN: 9780715635308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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Debates several difficult moral issues, exploring the nature of ethics and the ways that we make moral decisions. This book explains how to distinguish right from wrong in areas ranging from euthanasia and abortion, Down's Syndrome and education, to genetic engineering.
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By: Mark Dawidziak
ISBN: 9781250082374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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A guide to life's most important lessons inspired by The Twilight Zone
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By: Jonathan Sacks
ISBN: 9781529342635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Internationally acclaimed thought-leader Jonathan Sacks demonstrates how we can build a strong collective morality for the modern era.
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By: Kathryn Paige Harden
ISBN: 9780691232935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Simon Blackburn
ISBN: 9781781257227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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One of the world's leading thinkers on truth explains what it is, the different ways of approaching and understanding it, and why it matters.
