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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: 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: 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: Emrys Westacott
ISBN: 9780691180823
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David Stove
ISBN: 9781594035234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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By: David Edmonds
ISBN: 9780691165639
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the best-selling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with the ethical dilemma posed by the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy.
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By: Frdric Gros
ISBN: 9781788736329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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Following his best-selling A Philosophy of Walking Gros explores the philosophy of disobedience.
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By: Peter Singer
ISBN: 9780691172477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Editors of Chartwell Books
ISBN: 9780785845409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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With a brief introduction to the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, profiles of its major thinkers, inspiring quotes, and exercises that allow you to reflect on your own life, Everyday Stoicism Journal sets you on a course to a well-lived life.
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By: A. C. Grayling
ISBN: 9780861545155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.
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By: John Cottingham
ISBN: 9780691174426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9780785845553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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In this heirloom edition of the classic text Meditations, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180 CE, reflects on the philosophical idea of Stoicism, offering timeless guidance that still resonates strongly today.
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By: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9781577154617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Meditations with an introduction by Pierre Baumann.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Simon Critchley
ISBN: 9781910695067
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 23rd September 2015
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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'We have to look suicide in the face, long and hard, and see what features, what profile, what inherited character traits and wrinkles emerge.'
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By: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9780486478418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
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Drawn from Parerga and posthumously published works, these six essays offer an accessible approach to the author's philosophy. Topics include government, free will and fatalism, character, moral instinct, and ethics.
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By: Peter Singer
ISBN: 9781920885397
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: Text Publishing
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Considers the ethical issues surrounding globalisation. The key debates, Singer argues, cut across national boundaries. He addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterises international theory and relations today.
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By: Professor Patricia MacCormack
ISBN: 9781350081109
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Peter Salmon
ISBN: 9781837994281
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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This accessible and thought-provoking guide will take you on a captivating exploration of the fundamental questions that form our decisions and actions, asking, what is the right thing to do in a certain set of circumstances What can we base our decision on Is there always a correct decision, or is it always a bit unclear
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By: Julian Baggini
ISBN: 9781803510477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Granta Books
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A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain.
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780785845560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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In the definitive philosophic work TheRepublic, now available in this beautifully redesigned hardcover, Plato ponders the idea of justness through a Socratic dialogue.
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By: Robert P. George
ISBN: 9798888451700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Post Hill Press
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By: Dr James Mumford
ISBN: 9781472966346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: William MacAskill
ISBN: 9780861546138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Should our priorities change when we consider allthe lives yet to come
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By: Sohrab Ahmari
ISBN: 9781529364514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Sohrab Ahmari challenges the postmodern Western worldview by asking 12 timeless, fundamental questions about life - and reveals that true freedom and happiness is found in the wisdom of traditional thought.
