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  • Locke and the Legislative Point of View

    Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law

    by Alex Tuckness ...
    Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness argues that John Locke's potential contribution to this debate--what Tuckness terms the "legislative ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Morality as Legislation

    Rules and Consequences

    by Alex Tuckness ...
    'What would happen if everyone acted that way?' This question is often used in everyday moral assessments, but it has a paradoxical quality: it draws not only on Kantian ideas of a universal moral law but also on consequentialist claims that what is right depends on the outcome. In this book, Alex Tuckness examines how the question came to be seen as paradoxical, tracing its history from the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Decline of Mercy in Public Life

    by Alex Tuckness, John M. Parrish ...
    The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian and non-Christian ancient traditions, along with Kantian and utilitarian strains of thought, they ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • This Is Political Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Alex Tuckness, Clark Wolf ...
    Series Book 16 - This is Philosophy
    This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. This text connects issues at the core of political philosophy with current, live debates in policy, politics, and law and addresses different ideals of political organization, such as democracy, liberty, ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Bisexuality, Religion and Spirituality

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Alex Toft ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion
    This book brings together the work of an international team of experts investigating the intersection of bisexuality, religion and spirituality. Drawing from disciplines such as sociology, psychology, theology, religious studies and literary studies, it critically examines, both theoretically and empirically, the lived experiences of bisexual people of diverse religious faiths and spiritualities, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Primers Volume Eight

    by Carl Alexandersson, Rachel Jeffcoat, Olivia Tuck ...
    In 2025, Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Laurie Bolger as selecting editor. After reading through hundreds of anonymous entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, three poets emerged as clear choices: Carl Alexandersson, Rachel Jeffcoat, and Olivia Tuck.Primers Volume Eight now showcases their ... Read more

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    A Moral Compass for a Complex World

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    An esteemed philosopher offers a vision for the central role of one of our most cherished—and controversial—ideas.In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic ... Read more

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  • Proportionality and the Rule of Law

    Rights, Justification, Reasoning

    Edited by Grant Huscroft, Bradley W. Miller, Grégoire Webber ...
    To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems such as the European Convention on Human Rights. Proportionality ... Read more

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  • Political Liberalism

    by John Rawls ...
    Series series Columbia Classics in Philosophy
    This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. ... Read more

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  • At the Pond

    Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond

    by Jessica J. Lee, Amy Key, So Mayer, Sophie Mackintosh, Ava Wong Davies, Nina Mingya Powles, Deborah Moggach, Sharlene Teo, Leanne Shapton, Esther Freud, Margaret Drabble, Eli Goldstone, Nell Frizzell ...
    Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining ... Read more

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  • The Rights Revolution

    by Michael Ignatieff ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    With an updated preface by the author.Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card in every argument. Long-standing fights for aboriginal rights, the issue of preserving the linguistic heritage of minorities, and same-sex marriage have steered our ... Read more

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  • On Human Rights

    by James Griffin ...
    What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of ... Read more

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