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  • An Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue

    by Jon W. Thompson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis. Instead, he suggested, if one wanted to build a rational theory for morality and moral actions, one would have to go all the way back to Aristotle. To ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of G.E.M. Anscombe's Modern Moral Philosophy

    by Jonny Blamey, Jon W. Thompson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Elizabeth Anscombe’s 1958 essay “Modern Moral Philosophy” is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills.Though only 16 pages long, Anscombe’s paper set out to do nothing less than reform the entire field of modern moral philosophy – something that could only be done by carefully examining the existing arguments ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

    by Jon W. Thompson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a new account of the emergence of the philosophy of personal identity in the early modern period. Reflection on personal identity is often thought to have begun in earnest with John Locke’s famous consciousness-based account, published in the 2nd Edition of the Essay in 1694. The present work argues that we ought to understand modern notions of personal identity, including Locke ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue

    by Jon W. Thompson ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

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    One of the most vital and controversial works in twentieth-century world moral philosophy, After Virtue (1981) examines how we think about, talk about, and act out our moral views in the modern world. ¶Finding that modern moral reasoning has no common standard of judgment, MacIntyre challenges many contemporary moral theories and their emphasis on the individual. He asks what it means to live a ... Read more

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    by Howard Williams, E Gwynn Matthews, David Sullivan ...
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    Fukuyama’s concept of the End of History has been one of the most widely debated theories of international politics since the end of the Cold War. This book discusses Fukuyama’s claim that liberal democracy alone is able to satisfy the human aspiration for freedom and dignity, and explores the way in which his thinking is part of a philosophical tradition which includes Kant, Hegel and Marx. Two ... Read more

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  • On Society

    by Anthony Elliott, Bryan S. Turner ...
    ‘Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord. For others, the idea of ‘society' is oppressive - the very notion, so some argue, is dismissive of ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality

    Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge

    by Rachele Dini, Chiara Briganti ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his death in 1984.Central to Foucault’s appeal is the creativity of his thought. Creative thinking takes ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures

    Selected Essays

    by Abena Dadze-Arthur ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Clifford Geertz has been called ‘the most original anthropologist of his generation’ – and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation of Cultures.The centrality of interpretative skills to anthropology is uncontested: in a subject that is all about understanding mankind, and ... Read more

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  • Interpreting International Politics

    by Cecelia Lynch ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods
    Interpreting International Politics addresses each of the major, "traditional" subfields in International Relations: International Law and Organization, International Security, and International Political Economy. But how are interpretivist methods and concerns brought to bear on these topics? In this slim volume Cecelia Lynch focuses on the philosophy of science and conceptual issues that make ... Read more

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  • Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

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  • Habermas

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Gordon Finlayson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly ... Read more

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  • Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

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    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. In ... Read more

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