Benjamin - Ethics & Moral Philosophy 1

A coleção Uma breve imersão é dirigida a todas as pessoas que desejam começar a entender ou se aprofundar em temas atuais sobre ciência, filosofia, humanidades e ciências políticas e sociais. São li……続きを見る

How do we engage in public debate with those who do not share our faith commitments? And how do we reason effectively about ethical and political issues that are not directly addressed by Scripture?……続きを見る

"The Way to Wealth" is an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758. It is a collection of adages and advice presented in Poor Richard's Almanac during its first 25 years of publication, organized ……続きを見る

How should we understand promises as public, private, or political commitments? What are the conditions for promise-making in religiously diverse societies with competing jurisdictions and sovereign……続きを見る

Does only the present exist? Or does the past exist as well? This classic question of philosophy is discussed in an accessible manner, which does not presume special prior knowledge. Instead, the bo……続きを見る

Gibt es nur die Gegenwart? Oder gibt es die Vergangenheit immer noch? Diese Grundfrage der Philosophie wird auf eine zugängliche Art und Weise diskutiert, die kein Fachwissen voraussetzt. Stattdesse……続きを見る

This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotle’s value theory and correctl……続きを見る

Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as “bodies,” exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality. The book centers……続きを見る

Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about what makes something an act of discrimination, as well as precisely why (and ……続きを見る

Is it appropriate to honour and admire people who have created great works of art, made important intellectual contributions, performed great sporting feats, or shaped the history of a nation if tho……続きを見る

La fascinante historia de cómo cuatro pensadoras modificaron la historia intelectual del siglo XX. "El cuarteto de Oxford me tuvo enganchado durante semanas" ー Tom Stoppard, Times Literary Suppleme……続きを見る

This book argues that Simone Weil’s short life (1909–1943) is best understood as deeply invested in and engaged with the world around her, which she knew she would leave behind sooner rather than la……続きを見る

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inq……続きを見る

Dans "L'homme sauvage", Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil explore les thèmes de la nature humaine, de la civilisation et de l'instinct primal à travers le personnage d'un homme qui se réveille dans la f……続きを見る

This book uses powerful concepts borrowed from computer science and a myriad of real-world examples to help the reader think clearly and logically in our politically-polarized environment. Principle……続きを見る

Human genetic enhancement, examined from the standpoint of the new field of political bioethics, displaces the age-old question of truth: What is human nature? This book displaces that question with……続きを見る

In den 'Gesammelten Werken von Walter Benjamin' taucht der Leser ein in das umfassende Schaffen des bedeutenden deutschen Philosophen und Kulturkritikers. Benjamins literarischer Stil ist geprägt vo……続きを見る

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitles……続きを見る

The philosophers who preceded Socrates (469 - 399 BC), the PreSocratics, were the first recorded individuals to reject mythological explanations for the unknown. Aristotle called the PreSocratics ph……続きを見る

Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational. The Normativity of Rationality is concerned with the question of whether we ought to avoid such irrationalit……続きを見る

Poor Richard’s Almanack contained the calendar, weather, poems, sayings and astronomical and astrological information that a typical almanac of the period would contain. It was a best seller for a p……続きを見る

Lectures from the late period of Fichte's career, never before available in English. Translated here for the first time into English, this text furnishes a new window into the final phase of Fichte'……続きを見る

A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology. In his last book, Towards a Relational Ontology, Andrew Benjamin provided a philosophical account of what h……続きを見る

Extrait : "Voici encore une année qui finit. Si tu es un bon commerçant, un homme entendu en affaires, tu vas arrêter tes comptes pour savoir si tu as gagné ou perdu durant cette année, et combien ?……続きを見る

Two preeminent legal scholars explain what tort law is all about and why it matters, and describe their own view of tort’s philosophical basis: civil recourse theory. Tort law is badly misunderstood……続きを見る

Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answ……続きを見る

In this book, Law of Attraction: Secrets for Successfully Attracting and Manifesting Abundance in Your Life Using the Law of Attraction, you will get to learn the guiding principle within the law of……続きを見る

This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academ……続きを見る

"À proporção que nos embebemos da Filosofia – na melhor acepção do verbete – encabeçada pelo Espírito Eugênia, que, a seu turno, se faz estafeta de uma Rede Ascendente Infinita de Gênios Celestes (o……続きを見る

Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communities to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral sham……続きを見る