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Thoreau's Living Ethics
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Philip Cafaro |
*Thoreau's Living Ethics* is the first full account of Henry Thoreau's ethical philosophy. Focused on *Walden* but ranging widely across his writings, the study situates Thoreau within a long traditi… |
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The question of God
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Armand M. Nicholi |
"Many of history's greatest thinkers have wrestled with the ultimate question of belief and nonbelief in God. Though it might seem unlikely that any new arguments could possibly be raised on either s… |
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Coornhert in het klein
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D. V. Coornhert |
Summary: Een belangrijk deel van het oeuvre van de Nederlandse voorvechter van tolerantie Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert (1522-1590) handelt over ethiek. Als overkoepelende gedachte daarbij geldt dat w… |
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Ethics and integrity of governance
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Carole L. Jurkiewicz |
"This book provides critical, up-to-date reviews on the field of ethics and integrity of governance, along with fresh future perspectives. Focusing on Europe and the US, it addresses the key dimensio… |
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On moral fiction
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John Gardner |
Argues that great moral fiction has open-mindedly tested human values in an attempt to discover what best promotes human fulfillment and that current fiction fails to do so and, thus, undermines our … |
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The Truth About the Drug Companies
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Marcia Angell |
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from … |
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De mooiste van het land
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Mark Traa |
In 1929 wordt de Zaandamse serveerster Johanna 'Jopie' Koopman door een jury van oudere heren verkozen tot de allereerste Miss Holland. In Amerika doet ze zelfs mee aan de Miss Universe-verkiezing. M… |
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Moral knowledge?
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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Mark Timmons |
In Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology, editors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons bring together eleven newly written essays by distinguished moral philosophers exploring the … |
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The specter of speciesism
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Paul Waldau |
"This new study looks at how non-human animals have been viewed in the Buddhist and Christian religious traditions. The concept of speciesism, coined in 1970 as an analogy to racism and discussed alm… |
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Godless Morality
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Richard Holloway,Holloway, Richard |
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. We can argue with one another as to whether this or that alleged claim genuinely emanated from God, but surely it is better… |
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Gij zult gelukkig zijn!
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Pascal Bruckner |
Cultuurkritisch essay over de veronderstelde maakbaarheid van het menselijk geluk. |
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Ethiek de basis
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Wieger van Dalen |
Studieboek voor HO-studenten. |
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Totalité et Infini
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Emmanuel Levinas |
**Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority** (French: *Totalité et Infini: essai sur l'extériorité*) is a 1961 book about ethics by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Highly influenced by phenom… |
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The morality of law
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Lon L. Fuller |
xi, 262 pages ; 22 cm |
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On The Take
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Jerome P. Kassirer |
We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Me… |
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Causing death and saving lives
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Jonathan Glover |
The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices. |
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The Nazi Conscience
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Claudia Koonz |
The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic communi… |
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The theory of moral sentiments
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Adam Smith |
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops… |
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Nicomachean Ethics
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Hye-Kyung Kim,Aristotle,J. A. Smith,Robert C. Bartlett,Joe Sachs,Susan D. Collins,L H. G. ed Greenwood |
An detailed examination of what the best life might be for human beings. In order to anwer this question, Aristotle finds he also has to examine what virtue itself is and all of the various virtues … |
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Appealing to Scripture in Moral Debate
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Charles H. Cosgrove |
Arguing from scripture is one of the ways that Christians test their moral judgments. But are all methods of appealing to the Bible equally valid and effective? In this book, Charles Cosgrove looks a… |
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