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Greed
Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95'Greed' is a visceral insult. It jabs below the belt, evoking guilty sensations of gluttony and lust. It taunts the rich and powerful, penetrating the cover of modern ideologies and institutions. Today, old-fashioned accusations of greed drag the larger-than-life corporate fat cats down to human bodily proportions, accusing them of gain without genuine... more...
Explaining the Normative
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.95Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the philosophers committed to this idea, admit that the idea of a... more...
Christianity and Morals
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 150.00A thorough examination of many aspects of morality through the lens of Christianity, this book, originally published in 1939, is philosophical in its approach to assessing religion. It compares moral traditions of many world religions and describes their changes over time as well. Written accessibly, this is a fascinating outlay of moral theology.... more...
The Society of Timid Souls
Profile 2013; US$ 20.78In 1942, a pianist from Manhattan convened the inaugural meeting of an extraordinary new fraternity, which promised to inoculate stage fright sufferers against the terrors that afflicted them. The venture, which coincided with the terrifying height of World War Two, was an astonishing success. They called it The Society of Timid Souls. Seventy years... more...
Politics and Morality
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. In this book, Susan Mendus asks if politicians can be morally good or whether politics is destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim. more...
The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory
Wiley 2013; US$ 41.50Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers. A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide , now reorganized and updated with the addition of... more...
Caring Democracy
NYU Press 2013; US$ 75.00Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public... more...
Moral Disagreements
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95Can moral disagreements be rationally resolved? Can universal human rights be defended in face of moral disagreements? The problem of moral disagreement is one of the central problems in moral thinking. It also provides a stimulating stepping-stone to some of the perennial problems of philosophy, such as relativism, scepticism, and objectivity. ... more...
Guilt About The Past
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99Guilt about the Past explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not only to individual perpetrators. It considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behavior, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, and the role of law in this process. Based on the Weidenfeld Lectures author Bernhard Schlink... more...
Ethik
C.H. Beck 2013; US$ 8.61Hauptbeschreibung Warum braucht der Mensch Moral, warum Ethik? Was unterscheidet die Moral von anderen Verbindlichkeiten menschlichen Handelns? Welche Grundmodelle der Ethik entwickelte die Philosophie im Laufe der Geschichte? Welche Fragen und Kontroversen sind in der heutigen Debatte relevant? Nicht zuletzt: Wie reagiert die Ethik auf die Herausforderungen... more...









