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An introduction to the thought of Paul Ricoeur, focusing on the early writings to reveal Ricoeur's capacity as an ethical, social, and political philosopher.

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In Righting Health Policy, MacDougall argues that bioethics has not developed the tools best suited for justifying health law and policy. Using Kants practical philosophy as an example, he explores the promise of political philosophy for making normatively justified recommendations about health law and policy.

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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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In this book, James Dunson explores end-of-life ethics including physician-assisted suicide and continuous sedation. He argues that debates ignore the experience of the dying patient in an effort to focus on policy creation, and proposes that the dying experience should instead be prioritized and used to inform policy development.

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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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This book explores the multiple meaning of the notion of otherness in Sren Kierkegaards thought. Leo Stan discusses in detail the threefold structure of human existence in Kierkegaards authorship as a whole, both pseudonymous and self-signed.

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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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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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