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Solidarity Beyond Borders - Ethics in a Globalising World (Hardcover): Janusz Salamon Solidarity Beyond Borders - Ethics in a Globalising World (Hardcover)
Janusz Salamon
R3,986 Discovery Miles 39 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Solidarity Beyond Borders is a collection on international ethics by a multidisciplinary team of scholars from four continents. The volume explores ethical and political dimensions of transnational solidarity in the emerging multipolar world. Analyzing global challenges of the world plagued by poverty, diseases, injustice, inequality and environmental degradation, the contributors - rooted in diverse cultures and ethical traditions - voice their support for 'solidarity beyond borders'. Bringing to light both universally shared ethical insights as well as the irreducible diversity of ethical perceptions of particular problems helps the reader to appreciate the chances and the challenges that the global community - more interconnected and yet more ideologically fragmented than ever before - faces in the coming decades. Solidarity Beyond Borders exemplifies an innovative approach to the key issues of global ethics which takes into account the processes of economic globalization, leading to an ever deeper interdependence of peoples and states, as well as the increasing cultural and ideological fragmentation which characterize the emerging multipolar world order.

The Philosophy of Literature (Hardcover): Donald Phillip Verene The Philosophy of Literature (Hardcover)
Donald Phillip Verene
R917 R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Save R131 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wide-Awake in God's World (Hardcover): Graham D Stanton Wide-Awake in God's World (Hardcover)
Graham D Stanton
R1,136 R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Save R181 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hardcover): David Hume An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hardcover)
David Hume
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist - The Future of a Reformation Legacy (Hardcover): Brian Brock, Michael Mawson The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist - The Future of a Reformation Legacy (Hardcover)
Brian Brock, Michael Mawson
R4,310 Discovery Miles 43 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is the significance of the Protestant Reformation for Christian ethical thinking and action? Can core Protestant commitments and claims still provide for compelling and viable accounts of Christian living. This collection of essays by leading international scholars explores the relevance of the Protestant Reformation and its legacy for contemporary Christian ethics.

Anti-Machiavel (Hardcover): Innocent Gentillet Anti-Machiavel (Hardcover)
Innocent Gentillet; Edited by Ryan Murtha; Translated by Simon Patericke
R1,933 R1,570 Discovery Miles 15 700 Save R363 (19%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Virtuous Bodies - The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics (Hardcover, New): Susanne Mrozik Virtuous Bodies - The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Susanne Mrozik
R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development. Traditionally, Buddhists assumed a close connection between body and morality. Thus Buddhist literature contains descriptions of living beings that stink with sin, are disfigured by vices, or are perfumed and adorned with virtues. Taking an influential early medieval Indian Mahayana Buddhist text-Santideva's Compendium of Training (Siksasamuccaya)-as a case study, Susanne Mrozik demonstrates that Buddhists regarded ethical development as a process of physical and moral transformation.
Mrozik chooses The Compendium of Training because it quotes from over one hundred Buddhist scriptures, allowing her to reveal a broader Buddhist interest in the ethical significance of bodies. The text is a training manual for bodhisattvas, especially monastic bodhisattvas. In it, bodies function as markers of, and conditions for, one's own ethical development. Most strikingly, bodies also function as instruments for the ethical development of others. When living beings come into contact with the virtuous bodies of bodhisattvas, they are transformed physically and morally for the better.
Virtuous Bodies explores both the centrality of bodies to the bodhisattva ideal and the corporeal specificity of that ideal. Arguing that the bodhisattva ideal is an embodied ethical ideal, Mrozik poses an array of fascinating questions: What does virtue look like? What kinds of physical features constitute virtuous bodies? What kinds of bodies have virtuous effects on others? Drawing on a range of contemporary theorists, this book engages in a feminist hermeneutics of recoveryand suspicion in order to explore the ethical resources Buddhism offers to scholars and religious practitioners interested in the embodied nature of ethical ideals.

The Mirrour Which Flatters Not. (Hardcover): M de (Jean-Puget) Ca 160 La Serre, T (Thomas) B 1605 or 6 Cary The Mirrour Which Flatters Not. (Hardcover)
M de (Jean-Puget) Ca 160 La Serre, T (Thomas) B 1605 or 6 Cary
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems - (Save Our Planet!) (Hardcover): S.T. Kimbrough A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems - (Save Our Planet!) (Hardcover)
S.T. Kimbrough
R757 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R96 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Self-Reliance, Nature, and Other Essays (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance, Nature, and Other Essays (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Post-Truth? (Hardcover): Jeffrey Dudiak Post-Truth? (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Dudiak; Foreword by Ronald A. Kuipers, Robert Sweetman
R645 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Pride, Manners, and Morals - Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour (Hardcover): Andrea Branchi Pride, Manners, and Morals - Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour (Hardcover)
Andrea Branchi
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker's philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examination of Mandeville's anatomy of early eighteenth-century beliefs, practices and manners in terms of motivating passions, the book traces the development of his thought on human nature and the origin of sociability. By making honour and its roots in the desire for recognition the central thread of Mandeville's theory of society, Andrea Branchi offers a unified reading of his work and highlights his relevance as a thinker far beyond the moral problem of commercial societies, opening up new perspectives in Mandeville's studies.

The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Volume II - New Dimensions of Forgiveness (Hardcover): Court D. Lewis The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Volume II - New Dimensions of Forgiveness (Hardcover)
Court D. Lewis
R1,448 Discovery Miles 14 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
National Socialism - Its Principles and Philosophy (Hardcover): Carlos Videla National Socialism - Its Principles and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Carlos Videla
R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confronting Religious Absolutism (Hardcover): Catherine M. Wallace Confronting Religious Absolutism (Hardcover)
Catherine M. Wallace
R907 R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Save R131 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
An Essay On the Duties of Man - Addressed to Workingmen: Written in 1844-1858 (Hardcover): Giuseppe Mazzini An Essay On the Duties of Man - Addressed to Workingmen: Written in 1844-1858 (Hardcover)
Giuseppe Mazzini
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dalit Theology, Boundary Crossings and Liberation in India - A Biblical and Postcolonial Study (Hardcover): Jobymon Skaria Dalit Theology, Boundary Crossings and Liberation in India - A Biblical and Postcolonial Study (Hardcover)
Jobymon Skaria
R2,851 Discovery Miles 28 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jobymon Skaria, an Indian St Thomas Christian Scholar, offers a critique of Indian Christian theology and suggests that constructive dialogues between Biblical and dissenting Dalit voices - such as Chokhamela, Karmamela, Ravidas, Kabir, Nandanar and Narayana Guru - could set right the imbalance within Dalit theology, and could establish dialogical partnerships between Dalit Theologians, non-Dalit Christians and Syrian Christians. Drawing on Biblical and socio-historical resources, this book examines a radical, yet overlooked aspect of Dalit cultural and religious history which would empower the Dalits in their everyday existences.

Cultural Conceptions - On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life (Paperback): Valerie Hartouni Cultural Conceptions - On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life (Paperback)
Valerie Hartouni
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examines the meaning of "life" in an era of emerging biotechnology.

What happens to prevailing beliefs about the uniqueness of individual life when life can be cloned? Or to traditional understandings of family relationships when a child can have up to five parents? These are some of the questions addressed by Valerie Hartouni in her consideration of the cultural effects of new reproductive technologies as reflected in video images, popular journalism, scientific debates, legal briefs, and policy decisions.

In Cultural Conceptions, Hartouni tracks the circulation and communication of various myths, images, and stories pertaining to new reproductive technologies and their effects, both imagined and real, during the past two decades. While addressing topics ranging from surrogacy and cloning to adoption, ultrasound imaging, and abortion, Hartouni looks to American popular culture for clues to what these new -- and not so new -- reproductive practices tell us about issues of personhood.

Hartouni investigates the emergence of new anxieties about the nature of selfhood as well as the recurrence of age-old myths regarding individuality, sexuality, property, and family. She argues that both are being played out in cultural contests over the meaning and organization of women's reproductive capacity. In her discussion of provocative issues such as The Bell Curve controversy and the Baby M. case, Hartouni traces the dialectic of crisis and containment unleashed by reproductive technologies. Ultimately, however, Cultural Conceptions argues that the anxieties that surround new reproductive technologies provide openings for alternative understandings and practices of life to emerge andchallenge those currently in place.

A thoughtful, daring, and original look at this complex set of issues, Cultural Conceptions provides an much-needed guide to our nation's psyche as we approach the new millennium.

"Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics (Hardcover): Antonios Kalatzis, Enrico Lucca "Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics (Hardcover)
Antonios Kalatzis, Enrico Lucca
R4,017 Discovery Miles 40 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The articles collected in "Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics focus on the significance of Franz Rosenzweig's work far beyond the realms of theology and philosophy of religion. They engage with a wide range of issues in philosophy and offer new insights, both by presenting an array of unpublished and underestimated sources and by bringing Rosenzweig's thought into dialogue with new approaches and interlocutors, such as Stanley Cavell, William Alston, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The result is a refreshing and original perspective on the work of one of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth century.

Advice For My Children That Aren't Born Yet (Hardcover): Luke B Sleaford Advice For My Children That Aren't Born Yet (Hardcover)
Luke B Sleaford; Illustrated by Luke B Sleaford
R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On the Nature of Things (Hardcover): Lucretius On the Nature of Things (Hardcover)
Lucretius; Translated by William Ellery Leonard
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition - : (English, Arabic, Hardcover): Mohammed Ghaly End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition - : (English, Arabic, Hardcover)
Mohammed Ghaly
R2,320 Discovery Miles 23 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be "engineered" by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by "prolonging/hastening" death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition. Contributors Amir Abbas Alizamani, Beate Anam, Hamed Arezaei, Asma Asadi, Pieter Coppens, Hans Daiber, Khalid Elzamzamy, Mohammed Ghaly, Hadil Lababidi, Shahaboddin Mahdavi, Aasim Padela, Rafaqat Rashid and Ayman Shabana. . " " . : . . .

A Battlefield of Values - America's Left, Right, and Endangered Center (Hardcover): Stephen D. Burgard, Benjamin J. Hubbard A Battlefield of Values - America's Left, Right, and Endangered Center (Hardcover)
Stephen D. Burgard, Benjamin J. Hubbard
R1,816 Discovery Miles 18 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Differing moral views are dividing the country and polarizing the left and the right more than ever before. This book offers unique solutions to improve communication and understanding between the two factions to fix our fractured political system. Morality is at the heart of political contention in American society. Unfortunately, our polarized belief systems severely inhibit the achievement of bipartisan compromises. A Battlefield of Values: America's Left, Right, and Endangered Center provides a candid but nonjudgmental examination of what people think and believe-and how this informs our divisions over core values. By addressing how individuals believe rather than how they vote, the book illuminates why 21st-century America is so conflicted politically and religiously; exposes what matters most to those on the right and left of the political, religious, and cultural spectrum; explains why the members of the endangered center in American life-the moderates-are struggling to make sense of the great divide between conflicting ideologies; and predicts how a degree of reconciliation and detente might be possible in the future. Authors Stephen Burgard and Benjamin J. Hubbard build a powerful case for how authentic communication between political factions is integral to bettering our society as a whole. Along the way, they illustrate the impact of religion and media on American belief systems and also explore the inability of news media to serve as mediators of this dilemma. This work will fascinate lay readers seeking perspective on our current political stalemate as well as serve college students taking courses in political science, communications, journalism, anthropology, or religious studies. Provides a unique analysis that shows how our seemingly irreconcilable differences can be turned into assets for transforming the United States into a better country Offers informed perspectives of American conflict from authors with more than 50 years of experience combined in their respective fields Explores a future using religion, technology, and science to mend distrust and tune up our political system Presents information and concepts appropriate for an academic lesson plan or for any civics-savvy reader

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