Are you irritated by dogmatic religious belief on the one hand and by close-minded, pompous atheism (of the angry Richard Dawkins variety) on the other? Would you be interested in a more intelligent……続きを見る
A dark portrayal of a thoughtful, intelligent man appalled by the stupidity and conformism of the grotesque inhabitants of the society in which he lives. He rants to himself and ruminates on his dis……続きを見る
Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker’s Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bi……続きを見る
著者:Leo Bersani
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2015年01月13日
Leo Bersani’s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fieldsーincluding French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer……続きを見る
In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of t……続きを見る
The editors of the Philosophy and Medicine series recognize with grat itude the foresight, understanding, hard labor, and patience of Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino. It is his perseverance that has made thi……続きを見る
著者:Simon F. Oliai
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年12月30日
Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox. It is a world where interaction among societies of different cultural traditions has never been easier. A world in which modern tech……続きを見る
The world of dog adoption is not all sunshine and roses. Puppy mill farmers abuse dogs and treat them like cattle, forcing them to produce litters that are torn away and sold. Physically "undesirabl……続きを見る
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an ……続きを見る
This study of the political philosophy of William Ernest Hocking be gan as a doctoral dissertation at Tulane University. Hocking (1873- 1966) was for many years Alford Professor of Natural Religion,……続きを見る
Liberty is perhaps the most praised of all social ideals. Rare is the modern political movement which has not inscribed "liberty," "freedom," "liber ation," or "emancipation" prominently on its bann……続きを見る
著者:Inazo Nitobé
出版社: Wilder Publications, Inc.
発売日: 2013年07月24日
Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up specimen of an antique virtue preserved in the herbarium of our history. It is ……続きを見る
著者:Stanley Cavell
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Reissued with an additional preface to sit alongside the volume on Stanley Cavell in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical……続きを見る
¿Cuáles son los principales debates éticos a inicios del siglo XXI? ¿Tiene el nuevo siglo características propias, diferenciadas en el debate ético? ¿Son enteramente nuevas las cuestiones planteadas……続きを見る
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Chr……続きを見る
Contents
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics (1780)
The Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)
The Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
The Critique ……続きを見る
David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist natura……続きを見る
A chance discovery. Words of wisdom buried in a box of papers.
Prior to his death, a father shares his life lessons through colorful anecdotes of a well-lived life. Some are humorous, some profound,……続きを見る
Personal Self Protection - Sleeping with Guns is an epic book that examines the art of self-protection in today's world by examining such topics as guns, guns and crime, guns freedom and terrorism, ……続きを見る
The Analects of Confucius guided Chines culture for well over a thousand years and though Confucianism has diminished dramatically, The Analects still have a tremendous influence on Chinese and East……続きを見る
The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza. Although published after Spinoza's death, in 1677, it is considered his greatest and most famous work. In it, Spinoza tries to se……続きを見る
The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise written by René Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of See……続きを見る
Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does t……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Lear
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年01月09日
In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting im……続きを見る
Forgiveness and Retribution: Responding to Wrongdoing argues that ultimately, forgiveness is always the appropriate response to wrongdoing. In recent decades, many philosophers have claimed that unl……続きを見る
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a novel by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, ……続きを見る
Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue et……続きを見る
One of the great polemics and the key founding anarchist text, Godwin's Enquiry is his major work of political philosophy.
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chie……続きを見る
The primary contributions of this work are in three overlapping categories: (i) the history of ideas (and in particular the history of the idea of value) and moral philosophy in both continental and……続きを見る
From the magisterial to the mundane, achievements play a role in the best kind of human life, and many people think that they are of such importance that they are worth pursuing at the expense of se……続きを見る