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  • - Theory and Practice
    av Jeffrey H. Reiman
    1 786,-

    Responds to recent assaults on liberal theory by proposing a "critical moral liberalism". This text sets forth the basic arguments for the liberal moral obligation to maximize people's ability to govern their own lives, and for the conception that the good life goes with this.

  • - Essays on Rawls
     
    553,-

    In this volume, political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his latest work. They explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal institutions, and the structure of international law.

  • - New Philosophical Readings
     
    741,-

    Is government justified? This question is central to political philosophy. These essays address the question of political authority, using up-to-date analytical tools such as game and decision theory and hindsight provided by history since the classic discussions of this question.

  • - Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics
     
    566,-

    Reflecting on such events as the Holocaust and apartheid, these essays consider how they could have been prevented and who may be to blame. A debate between individualists and collectivists is applied in the second half to cases involving harm in professional and business contexts.

  • - Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism
     
    572,-

    Contrary to the popular belief that feminism has gained a foothold in many disciplines, the essays collected in this volume argue that feminism is still actively resisted in mainstream academia. The work considers the professional, philosophical and personal backlashes against feminist thought.

  • - What It Is and Why It's Wrong
    av Ruth J. Sample
    1 479,-

    Exploitation locates what it is we recognize as bad when we judge a situation to be exploitative. Ideal for courses in social and political philosophy, public policy, or political science.

  • - The Ethics of Maintaining Planetary Life
     
    589,-

    This volume is a co-operative venture of the Global Ecological Integrity Project and the Earth Charter Initiative. Many chapters originate from an international conference held in June 2000, in which representatives of the Earth Charter Initiative took part.

  • - Confronting Issues of Global Justice
     
    589,-

    This study exposes the magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate technique and if there are alternative routes to sustainable development.

  • - Racism and Reparations
    av J. Angelo Corlett
    623 - 1 406,-

  • av Naomi Zack
    427 - 518,-

  • - The Futility of Public Political Theory
    av Michael White
    585,-

    This volume critically examines the Rawlsian ideal of a supposedly neutral political theory as a justification for contemporary constitutional democracies.

  • - A Western Perspective on What It is and Why It Matters
    av Karen J. Warren
    571 - 1 825,-

    A philosophical exploration of the nature, scope, and significance of ecofeminist theory and practice. This book presents the key issues, concepts, and arguments which motivate and sustain ecofeminism from a western philosophical perspective.

  • av Stephen Nathanson
    686,-

    'It is rare that a philosopher addresses a topic that is at once of vital interest to non-philosophers and philosophers alike.'-CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE NEWSLETTER

  • - The Rose in the Fist of the Present
    av Michael W. Howard
    533,-

    While some conclude that socialism is dead, the ideology of socialism continues. This text presents critiques of liberal, communitarian, postmodern and Marxist perspectives on self-managed market socialism, looking specifically at the global marketplace.

  • - Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality
     
    358,-

    A comprehensive anthology on homosexuality. It explores historical conceptions of homosexuality, homosexual identity, and a variety of public policy issues, ranging from gay marriage to military service. It also examines the issues from ethical, religious and scientific perspectives.

  • - From Hobbes to Contemporary Feminism
    av Philip J. Kain
    820,-

    Tracing the influences of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant and Hegel that gave rise to Marx's thought, Kain presents the development of, and tension between, concepts such as freedom and community, and sovereignty and rights. He also examines the relative strengths of social and political theory.

  • - An Introduction
    av Barry L. Gan
    410 - 1 062,-

    Barry L. Gan's Violence and Nonviolence: An Introduction introduces readers to myths about the violence taken for granted in our daily lives, and advocates for more principled, nonviolent action on moral, ethical and philosophical grounds.

  • - Why We Are Nature's Favorite
    av Tibor R. Machan
    366,-

  • - Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community
     
    1 532,-

    As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since World War II, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical debates about society. This is a picture of Gewirth's theory and its applications, including such perspectives as feminism, the Stoics, and Sartre.

  • - A Global Ethic to Restore a Fragmented Earth
    av Laura Westra
    672,-

  • - Confronting Issues of Global Justice
     
    1 909,-

    In these essays, 11 scholars and policy experts expose the racial bias masquerading as ecological, demographic and economic reason. For example, racial minorities in the US are disproportionately exposed to toxic wastes and other environmental hazards, and clean-up efforts are scant and slow.

  • av Tara Smith
    575,-

    Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith offers here a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights. The book shows what political freedom is and demonstrates why it should be protected by rights.

  • - How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking
    av Duane L. Cady
    358 - 1 395,-

    Moral Thinking is critical of mainstream academic ethics for being pretty nearly stuck on Kant and Mill, for neglecting nonviolence (Gandhi and King), for nearly neglecting the women's movement (it is not yet central to most ethics texts and courses), for largely neglecting the anti-racism movement (also marginal in academic.

  • - Ethics and Death in Westerns
    av Peter A. French
    644,-

    Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most prominent ethicists of the past three centuries.

  • - And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
    av James Rachels
    553 - 1 731,-

    A collection of 15 essays which discuss the nature and limits of moral reasoning. It argues that moral philosophy can subvert received opinion and replace it with something better. Issues such as euthanasia, the rights of animals, privacy and affirmative action are discussed.

  • - Ethical Problems with the United States' Response to Global Warming
    av Donald A. Brown
    566,-

    An examination of the United States' responses to global warming negotiations through an ethical lens. The text concludes that many of the United States' positions in global climate change negotiations are ethically bankrupt no matter what ethical theory is used in the analysis.

  • - Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World
     
    672,-

    This collection brings together fourteen contributions by authors from around the globe. Each of the contributions engages with questions about how local and global bioethical issues are made to be comparable, in the hope of redressing basic needs and demands for justice. These works demonstrate the significant conceptual contributions that can be made through feminists' attention to debates in a range of interrelated fields, especially as they formulate appropriate responses to developments in medical technology, global economics, population shifts, and poverty.

  • av Bernard P. Dauenhauer
    769,-

    This work sets out to expose the flaws in standard communitarian and liberal democratic theory, focusing on the works of Charles Taylor, John Rawls, and Jurgen Habermas. It articulates a concept of "complex citizenship" that recognises citizens' responsibilities beyond state borders.

  • - Human Obligation and Natural Community
    av Eric Katz
    668,-

    This work traces the development of an ethical policy that is not centred on human beings. It argues that nature is worthy of direct moral consideration and examines the theoretical and philosophical problems with this idea.

  • av Phillip Montague
    585,-

    People punished by law are treated in ways that we consider immoral in other contexts. This text develops a theory of punishment that, instead of justifying it on the basis of deterrence or retribution, constructs in as analogous to individual self-defence.

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