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Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare(2009) RUSSELL, BERTRANDWritten at the height of the Cold War, Russell argues that the only way to end the threat of nuclear war is to end war itself, making this highly controversial text as relevant today as it was on first publication.Vezava: Mehka28,50 € -
Utilitarianism and On Liberty(2002) MILL, JOHN STUARTIncluding three of his most famous and important essays, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham, along with formative selections from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, this volume provides a uniquely perspicuous view of Mill's ethical and politicaVezava: Mehka19,52 € -
When Elephants Weep(1996) MASSON, JEFFREY,MCCARTHY, SUSANFor more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers, giraffes, elephants and many other creatures exhibit all kinds oVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Fable of the Bees and Other Writings(1997) MANDEVILLE, BERNARDPublished anonymously in 1723, "The Fable of the Bees" by Bernard Mandeville came to be regarded as the epitome of immorality. It is a naturalistic account of the mechanism of human desire. This abridged edition also includes "The Fable" and background reVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
Assholes(2013) JAMES, AARONAaron James gives us the concepts to think or say why a**holes disturb us so, and explains why such people seem part of the human social condition, especially in an age of raging narcissism and unbridled capitalism.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
Radical Hope(2008) LEAR, JONATHANPlenty Coups, last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.” In Lear’s view, this story raises an ethical question thatVezava: Mehka34,95 € -
Enchantment of Modern Life(2001) BENNETT, JANEIt is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted - that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. This title challenges that view. It seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is posVezava: Mehka59,50 € -
Oneself as Another(1995) RICOEUR, PAUL (PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS X AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals. Focusing on the conVezava: Mehka51,32 € -
Moral Clarity(2011) NEIMAN, SUSANIn Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman shows how the philosophical resources of the eighteenth-century Englightenment can help us to construct a politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the temptation of a cynicism that masquerade as reVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Short Treatise On Great Virtues(2003) COMTE-SPONVILLE, ANDREComte-Sponville offers the reader both a thoughtful and accessible introduction to the history of Western ethics and an exploration of the ways in which the views and claims of the great philosophers can apply - and fail to apply - to our lives today.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Theory of Moral Sentiments(2010) SMITH, ADAMInvestigating the flip side of economic self-interest, this title advances ideas about conscience, moral judgement and virtue that have taken on the importance in business and politics.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals(2003) MURDOCH, IRISHere, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians - from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida - to provide fresh andVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
On the Genealogy of Morality(1998) NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICHThe text contains some of Nietzsche's most disturbing ideas, including the "slave revolt" in morality, which he claims began with the Jews and has now triumphed, and the "blond beast" that must erupt, which he claims to find behind all civilisation.Vezava: Mehka31,59 € -
Engineering Ethics(2013) FLEDDERMANN, CHARLESFor use in undergraduate engineering programs incorporating ethics topics. Engineering Ethics serves as both a textbook and a resource for the study of engineering ethics. It is written to help future engineers be prepared for confronting and resolvinVezava: Mehka144,57 € -
Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity(2013) ZYGMUNT BAUMANVezava: Mehka30,28 € -
Self-Constitution(2009) KORSGAARD, CHRISTINE M. (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation, based on a new theory of action and interaction. She proposes that the function of an action is to constitute the agency and therefore the identity of tVezava: Mehka66,51 €











