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  • Understanding Faith

    Religious Belief and Its Place in Society

    by Stephen R.L. Clark ...
    Series Book 13 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of 'scientists' compared with the 'dogmatism' of 'believers'; the difficulty of reading 'scripture' outside 'the community of ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Instilling Ethics

    by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy, Vickie Sullivan, Clifford Orwin, Susan Neiman, Dwight Allman, Stephen R.L. Clark, Stephen K. White, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Carrol William Westfall, Michael J. Fischer, Stephanie Nelson, Walter Nicgorski ...
    Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices today. Instilling Ethics offers a new way of connecting today's ethics to the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • God at Play

    Līlā in Hindu and Christian Traditions

    by Daniel Soars, Michelle Voss, Sucharita Adluri, Ankur Barua, Stephen R.L. Clark, Francis X. Clooney, Rachel Fell McDermott, Jessica Frazier, Bernard McGinn, Douglas Hedley0, Srilata Raman1, Daniel Tolan2, Peter Tyler3, Dominic White4 ...
    Series Book 11 - Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
    The first comparative treatment of the topic of līlā in Hindu and Christian traditions, this volume explores what it means to consider divine and human action under the categories of play, wit, drama, grace, and compassionGod at Play presents a theological exploration of the multifaceted motif of līlā across diverse Hindu and Christian landscapes and its wide-ranging connections to divine and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Political Animal

    Biology, Ethics and Politics

    by Stephen R L Clark, Stephen R.L Clark ...
    People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young. Stephen Clark, grounded in biological analysis and traditional ethics, probes into areas ignored in mainstream political theory and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Money, Obedience, and Affection

    Essays on Berkeley's Moral and Political Thought

    Edited by Stephen R.L. Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy
    This book, first published in 1985, presents a key collection of essays on Berkeley’s moral and political philosophy. They form an introduction to, and analysis of, Berkeley’s immaterialist arguments, part of his consciously adopted strategy to subvert Enlightenment thought, which he saw as a danger to civil society. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Hegel

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Early Writings

    by Karl Marx ...
    Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, he dissects Hegel's thought and develops his own views on civil society, while his Letters reveal a furious intellect struggling to develop the egalitarian theory of state. Equally challenging are his ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The End of Human Rights

    Critical Thought at the Turn of the Century

    by Professor Costas Douzinas ...
    The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights, yet no sustained examination of their history and philosophy exists in the burgeoning literature. At the same time, while human rights have triumphed on the world stage as the ideology of postmodernity, our age has witnessed more violations of human rights than any previous, less enlightened one. This book ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy

    by Jonathan Wolff, Gerald A. Cohen ...
    Previously unpublished writings from one of the most important political philosophers of recent timesG. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 1

    Plato, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Hegel

    by Walther Ziegler ...
    Series Book 1 - Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
    "Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 1" comprises the five books, already published as separate volumes, "Plato in 60 Minutes", "Rousseau in 60 Minutes", "Smith in 60 Minutes", "Kant in 60 Minutes", and "Hegel in 60 Minutes". Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the question: "Of what use is this key idea to us today?" But above all the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metaphor and History

    The Western Idea of Social Development

    by Robert Nisbet ...
    The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Liberty Reader

    by David Miller ...
    For centuries past, the quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries. Now, we have Iraq and the idea of liberation through preemption. What is this liberty that is so fervently pursued? Does it mean a private space for individuals, the capacity for free and rational choice, or collective self-rule? What ... Read more

    $65.99 USD