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Love and the Soulby Robert Sardello; Robert Simmons
North Atlantic Books 2011; US$ 18.95With economies in peril, war in the Middle East, genocides, global warming, and a host of other grim phenomena, the world has never seemed so besieged. The solution, says Robert Sardello, lies with the individual. In this timely, thoughtful book, he explains how the soul can engage with the outer world to produce radical change. Because we think of the world as a vast mechanism and behave as mechanical objects in it, the results are devastation and dysfunction. The key is to learn to identify with the plight of the Earth by developing a true sense of individual imagination and conscious awareness of inner purpose and beauty in conjunction with the soul of the world. Sardello shows how to achieve this awareness and bring what is inside out into... more...
Justifying Emotionsby Kristjan Kristjansson
Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95The emotions of pride and jealousy have long been controversial in both ethics and moral psychology. This text argues that emotions are central to morality and jealousy is an ingredient of a well-rounded virtuous life. more...
Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and Historyby Alan Chan; Sor-Hoon Tan
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 195.00This is a multi-disciplinary survey that combines historical studies with philosophical analysis from an international team of respected contributors. more...
Ancient Ethicsby Susan Suave Meyer
Routledge 2004; US$ 37.95This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek ethics, covering the ethical theories of all the major philosophers (including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) and schools (Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, Pyrrhonism) from the earliest times to the Hellenistic philosophers analyzing their main arguments and assessing their legacy. more...
Why Courage Mattersby Mark Salter; John Mccain
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 7.99“Courage,” Winston Churchill explained, is “the first of human qualities . . . because it guarantees all the others.” As a naval officer, P.O.W., and one of America’s most admired political leaders, John McCain has seen countless acts of bravery and self-sacrifice. Now, in this inspiring meditation on courage, he shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear. “We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action despite our fears,” McCain reminds us, as a way of introducing the stories of figures both famous and obscure that he finds... more...
Uneasy Virtueby Julia Driver; Ernest Sosa; Jonathan Dancy; John Haldane; Gilbert Harman; Frank Jackson; William G. Lucan
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 37.00Driver challenges Aristotle's classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues which do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. She argues that we should abandon the highly intellectualist view of virtue and instead adopt a consequentialist perspective which holds that virtue is simply a character trait which systematically produces good consequences. more...
Bounds of Justiceby Onora O'Neill
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 26.00In this collection of essays Onora O'Neill argues for an account of justice that is fundamentally cosmopolitan rather than civic, yet takes serious account of institutions and boundaries, and human diversity and vulnerability. Bounds of Justice will appeal to a wide range of readers in philosophy, politics and international relations. more...
Disgraceful Mattersby Janet M. Theiss
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity - such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines - in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases, regulations, and policies to illustrate the social and political processes through which female virtue was defined, enforced, and contested. Along the way, she provides rich details of social life and cultural practices among ordinary Chinese people through narratives of criminal cases of sexual assault, harassment, adultery, and domestic violence. more...
Cool Conductby Helmut Lethen; Don Reneau
University of California Press 2002; US$ 50.00Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible. more...
The Early History of Greedby Richard Newhauser; Alastair Minnis
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00In this first full study of the early history of greed Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for possessions, was increasingly dominant in a wide range of theological and literary texts from the first century CE to the end of the tenth century. more...









