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In a world that continues to be riven by armed conflict, the fundamental moral and political questions raised by warfare are as important as ever. Under what circumstances are we justified in going to war? Can conflicts be waged in a ‘moral’ way? Is war an inevitable...
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Polity
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2019-05-07
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And Political Theory
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This volume covers the philosophical, historical, religious, and interpretative aspects of the ancient Guodian bamboo manuscripts (????) which were disentombed in the Guodian Village in Hubei Province, China, in 1993. Considered to be the Chinese equivalent of the Dead...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-03
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The present book intends to approach the problem of mind, meaning and consciousness from a non-naturalist or transcendental point of view.The naturalization of consciousness has reached a dead-end. There can be no proper solution to the problem of mind within the...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-25
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The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. Such an explosion carries with it a number of great possibilities, as well as risks. This volume has been written to contribute a multi-faceted perspective to the current...
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Springer
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2019-04-24
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Originally published in 1972, The Development of Kant's Ethics is Keith Ward's exceptional analysis of the history of Kant's ideas on ethics and the emergence of Kantian ethics as a mature theory. Through a thorough overview of all of Kant's texts written between 1755...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-18
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Njoh Mouelle deploys an analysis intended to clarify his position on various aspects of this movement. He analyses ethical notions and highlights unsuspected issues, on the difficult question of regulating the exploitation of the results of convergent NBIC research,...
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Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2019-04-17
Collection :
Harmattan Cameroun
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This book investigates humanities, social sciences and politics from the perspective of the concept of creation order. It is the second volume in a series that provides a unique and topical overview of attempts to assess the current health of the concept of creation...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-16
Collection :
New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion
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This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic, acerbic, loquacious, impassioned, and marshaling a considerable array of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-15
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A polymorphous concept, power has imposed itself since ancient times. Whether it characterizes the phenomena of domination, exclusion or voluntary submission, it illuminates social relations and, since the 20th Century, interpersonal relations. This book offers, first...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-04-10
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Investigate the challenging and nuanced philosophy of the long nineteenth century from Kant to Bergson Philosophy in the nineteenth century was characterized by new ways of thinking, a desperate searching for new truths. As science, art, and religion were transformed by...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit’s highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field’s most important readings in a single volume Unparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-08
Collection :
Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
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Lively debates on controversial and compelling questions in the philosophy of religion — an updated edition of the bestselling title Building upon the reputation of the first edition, the extensively revised second edition of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-08
Collection :
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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Is there an objective moral standard that applies to all our actions? To what extent should I sacrifice my own interests for the sake of others? How might philosophers of the past help us think about contemporary ethical problems? As the most recent addition to the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-08
Collection :
Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy
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This book addresses the metaphysics of Armstrongian states of affairs, i.e. instantiations of naturalist universals by particulars. The author argues that states of affairs are the best candidate for truthmakers and, in the spirit of logical atomism, that we need no...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-06
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Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind is the third volume of a four-volume analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, consisting of two parts. Part 1 is a sequence of fifteen essays that examine in detail all the major topics discussed in...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-05
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WITTGENSTEIN MEANING AND MIND Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Part II – Exegesis §§243-427 explores and clarifies the patterns, developments, and conclusions of Wittgenstein’s arguments in §§243-427 of Philosophical Investigations. Each numbered remark in Wittgenstein’s...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-05
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This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women. Its range is global and far reaching in terms of the number of victims. There are deeply entrenched values that need to be rooted out and laid bare.This text offers a...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-01
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This book offers a much needed overview of the neglected notion of responsibility. Instead of offering vague talk about “individual responsibility” or “corporate responsibility,” Daryl Koehn examines in detail four accounts of responsibility,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-29
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics. After introducing and explaining...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-28
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This book is based on the assumption that the world is governed by a widespread field of interconnected laws. In this field man-made laws – legal laws - have to coexist with the laws of nature, the laws of science and the laws of logic. They have to find their place in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-25
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