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The Golden Rule - The Ethics of Reciprocity in World Religions (Hardcover): Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton The Golden Rule - The Ethics of Reciprocity in World Religions (Hardcover)
Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton
R5,607 Discovery Miles 56 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents a new examination of ethical dictum 'The Golden Rule' exploring its formulation and significance in relation to the world's major religions.The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. This ethical dictum is a part of most of the world's religions and has been considered by numerous religious figures and philosophers over the centuries. This new collection contains specially commissioned essays which take a fresh look at this guiding principle from a comparative perspective. Participants examine the formulation and significance of the Golden Rule in the world's major religions by applying four questions to the tradition they consider: What does it say? What does it mean? How does it work? How does it matter?Freshly examining the Golden Rule in broad comparative context provides a fascinating account of its uses and meaning, and allows us to assess if, how and why it matters in human cultures and societies.

Christian Bioethics: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover): Agneta Sutton Christian Bioethics: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
Agneta Sutton
R4,226 Discovery Miles 42 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a new "Guide for the Perplexed" title providing an examination of bioethics that will couple Christian and philosophical perspectives.In this "Guide for the Perplexed", Agneta Sutton understands Bioethics in a wide sense which includes issues in medical ethics and questions concerning our relationship with animals, plants and, indeed, the whole planet Earth. The key question is that of the value of life. This, then, yields the questions of what respect we owe to human and other forms of life and of how we should care for the world in general.These questions are approached from a Christian perspective and also from more strictly philosophical perspectives. Thus, arguments from a Christian perspective regarding our relationships with fellow humans, other creatures and the planet, are coupled with discussions of different kinds of argument and counter-argument.Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging - or indeed downright bewildering. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.

The Desperately Wicked - The Changing Face of Christian Communication (Paperback, Print-On-Demand): Patrick Downey The Desperately Wicked - The Changing Face of Christian Communication (Paperback, Print-On-Demand)
Patrick Downey
R705 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is the human heart like? Theologians and philosophers have attempted to address this question, not just in the abstract, but concretely in personal, as well as social and political, dimensions. Patrick Downey explores the biblical writings of Genesis and the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah, the Greek tragedies, Plato, Aristotle, and political philosophers--such as Rousseau, Hobbes, Nietzsche and Rene Girard--to seek answers to this profound question. Recognizing our resistance to know the truth about our own hearts, Downey calls his readers to join with these thinkers in the search for truth and serious self-reflection. Not for the faint of heart, this book courageously addresses the most foundational question of our existence as individuals in community. What is the nature of the human heart and can we, will we, know it?

Ethics for Disaster (Hardcover): Naomi Zack Ethics for Disaster (Hardcover)
Naomi Zack
R2,443 Discovery Miles 24 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ethics for Disaster addresses the moral aspects of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, plane crashes, Avian Flu pandemics, and other disasters. Naomi Zack explores how these catastrophes illuminate the existing inequalities in society. By employing the moral systems of utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics to analyze the consequences of recent natural disasters, Zack reveals the special plight of the poor, disabled, and infirm when tragedy strikes. Zack explores the political foundations of social contract theory and dignitarianism and invites readers to rethink the distinction between risk in normal times and risk in disaster. Using both real life and fictional examples, Zack forcefully argues for the preservation of normal moral principles in times of national crisis and emergency, stressing the moral obligation of both individuals and government in preparing for and responding to disaster..

Finding Meaning and Beauty in an Idiotic World (Hardcover): Wei-Ching Chang Finding Meaning and Beauty in an Idiotic World (Hardcover)
Wei-Ching Chang
R835 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R101 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Living Vocationally (Hardcover): Paul J. Wadell, Charles R. Pinches Living Vocationally (Hardcover)
Paul J. Wadell, Charles R. Pinches
R1,047 R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Save R155 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sharing Common Ground - A Space for Ethics (Hardcover): Robert Harvey Sharing Common Ground - A Space for Ethics (Hardcover)
Robert Harvey
R4,925 Discovery Miles 49 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature, aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault, Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben, among a host of others. Construction sites, concentration camps, cemeteries, slums-such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call "cultural memory." Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit together, is critically important to human beings, artistically, culturally, and ethically.

An Essay on the Principle of Population - The Original 1798 Edition (Hardcover): Thomas Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population - The Original 1798 Edition (Hardcover)
Thomas Malthus
R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Global Justice - A Cosmopolitan Account (Hardcover): Gillian Brock Global Justice - A Cosmopolitan Account (Hardcover)
Gillian Brock
R3,996 Discovery Miles 39 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gillian Brock develops a viable cosmopolitan model of global justice that takes seriously the equal moral worth of persons, yet leaves scope for defensible forms of nationalism and for other legitimate identifications and affiliations people have. Brock addresses two prominent kinds of skeptic about global justice: those who doubt its feasibility and those who believe that cosmopolitanism interferes illegitimately with the defensible scope of nationalism by undermining goods of national importance, such as authentic democracy or national self-determination. The model addresses concerns about implementation in the world, showing how we can move from theory to public policy that makes progress toward global justice. It also makes clear how legitimate forms of nationalism are compatible with commitments to global justice.
Global Justice is divided into three central parts. In the first, Brock defends a cosmopolitan model of global justice. In the second, which is largely concerned with public policy issues, she argues that there is much we can and should do toward achieving global justice. She addresses several pressing problems, discussing both theoretical and public policy issues involved with each. These include tackling global poverty, taxation reform, protection of basic liberties, humanitarian intervention, immigration, and problems associated with global economic arrangements. In the third part, she shows how the discussion of public policy issues can usefully inform our theorizing; in particular, it assists our thinking about the place of nationalism and equality in an account of global justice.

A Primal Wisdom (2nd Edition) - Nature's Unification of Cooperation and Competition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): V Frank Asaro A Primal Wisdom (2nd Edition) - Nature's Unification of Cooperation and Competition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
V Frank Asaro; Edited by (ghost editors) Ted Gildred
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Adam Tamas... The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Adam Tamas Tuboly
R3,405 Discovery Miles 34 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive volume on A. J. Ayer's 1936 masterpiece, Language, Truth and Logic. With eleven original chapters the volume reconsiders the historical and philosophical significance of Ayer's work, examining its place in the history of analytic philosophy and its subsequent legacy. Making use of pioneering research in logical empiricism, the contributors explore a wide variety of topics, from ethics, values and religion, to truth, epistemology and philosophy of language. Among the questions discussed are: How did Ayer preserve or distort the views and conceptions of logical empiricists? How are Ayer's arguments different from the ones he aimed at reconstructing? And which aspects of the book were responsible for its immense impact? The volume expertly places Language, Truth and Logic in the intellectual and socio-cultural history of twentieth-century philosophical thought, providing both introductory and contextual chapters, as well as specific explorations of a variety of topics covering the main themes of the book. Providing important insights of both historical and contemporary significance, this collection is an essential resource for scholars interested in the legacy of the Vienna Circle and its effect on ethics and philosophy of mind.

Jnana Yoga (Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Jnana Yoga (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Forgiveness and Moral Understanding (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Hugo Strandberg Forgiveness and Moral Understanding (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Hugo Strandberg
R3,366 Discovery Miles 33 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book sets out to deepen our moral understanding by thinking about forgiveness: what does it mean for our understanding of morality that there is such a thing as forgiveness? Forgiveness is a challenge to moral philosophy, for forgiveness challenges us: it calls me to understand my relations to others, and thereby myself, in a new way. Without arguing for or against forgiveness, the present study tries to describe these challenges. These challenges concern both forgiving and asking for forgiveness. The latter is especially important in this context: what does the need to be forgiven mean? In the light of such questions, central issues in the philosophy of forgiveness are critically discussed, about the reasons and conditions for forgiveness, but mostly the focus is on new questions, about the relation of forgiveness to plurality, virtue, death, the processes of moral change and development, and the possibility of feeling at home in the world.

African Politics and Ethics - Exploring New Dimensions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Munyaradzi Felix Murove African Politics and Ethics - Exploring New Dimensions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Munyaradzi Felix Murove
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics. Arguing that African ethics is integral to African post-colonial political contentious discourse, Murove invites the reader to reflect on various problematic political issues in post-colonial Africa and how African ethics has been applied in these situations. Starting with a succinct discussion of the scope of African ethics, he discusses how African ethical values have been applied by post-colonial politicians in the reconstruction of their societies. Further, Murove looks critically at the issue of African poverty and how the ethic of regional integration and economic cooperation among post-colonial African nation-states has been instrumental to efforts aimed at overcoming the scourge of poverty. The main question this book seeks to answer is: Are African traditional ethical values a panacea to modern African political problems?

Forgiven but Not Forgotten (Hardcover): Ambrose Mong Forgiven but Not Forgotten (Hardcover)
Ambrose Mong; Foreword by George Yeo
R1,088 R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Save R172 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Walden (Hardcover): Henry David Thoreau Walden (Hardcover)
Henry David Thoreau
R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walden was written with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. Simplicity and self-reliance were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by Transcendentalist philosophy. This book is full of fascinating musings and reflections. As pertinent and relevant today as it was when it was first written.

Stoic Quotes - 365 Daily Reflections & Thoughts of Wisdom to Strengthen your Perspective. (Hardcover): Tate Harris Stoic Quotes - 365 Daily Reflections & Thoughts of Wisdom to Strengthen your Perspective. (Hardcover)
Tate Harris
R558 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Inquiry Into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; in two Treatises. I. Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design.... An Inquiry Into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; in two Treatises. I. Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design. II. Concerning Moral Good and Evil. The Fourth Edition, Corrected (Hardcover)
Francis Hutcheson
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Between Speech and Silence (Hardcover): Stephen J. Costello Between Speech and Silence (Hardcover)
Stephen J. Costello
R867 Discovery Miles 8 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Japan's March 2011 Disaster and Moral Grit - Our Inescapable In-between (Hardcover): Michael C. Brannigan Japan's March 2011 Disaster and Moral Grit - Our Inescapable In-between (Hardcover)
Michael C. Brannigan
R3,709 R2,612 Discovery Miles 26 120 Save R1,097 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Japan's March 11, 2011 triple horror of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown is its worst catastrophe since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Recovery remains an ongoing ordeal. Japan's Responses to the March 2011 Disaster: Our Inescapable In-between uncovers the pivotal role of longstanding cultural worldviews and their impact on responses to this gut-wrenching disaster. Through unpacking the pivotal notion in Japanese ethics of aidagara, or "in-betweenness," it offers testament to a deep-rooted sense of community. Accounts from survivors, victims' families, key city officials, and volunteers reveal a remarkable fiber of moral grit and resilience that sustains Japan's common struggle to rally and carve a future with promise and hope. Calamities snatch us out of the mundane and throw us into the intensity of the moment. They challenge our moral fiber. Trauma, individual and collective, is the uninvited litmus test of character, personal and social. Ultimately, whether a society rightfully recovers from disaster has to do with its degree of connectedness, the embodied physical, interpersonal, face-to-face engagement we have with each other. As these stories bring to light, along with Michael Brannigan's extensive research, personal encounters with survivors, and experience as a volunteer in Japan's stricken areas, our degree of connectedness determines how we in the long run weather the storm, whether the storm is natural, technological, or human. Ultimately, it illustrates that how we respond to and recover after the storm hinges upon how we are with each other before the storm.

The New Intuitionism (Hardcover, New): Jill Graper Hernandez The New Intuitionism (Hardcover, New)
Jill Graper Hernandez
R5,265 Discovery Miles 52 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this title, some of the world's leading scholars in metaethics, epistemology and moral psychology explore the latest insights into and challenges to Robert Audi's intuitionism. Since his 2004 publication of the book "The Good in the Right", Robert Audi has been at the forefront of the current resurgence of interest in intuitionism - the idea that human beings have an intuitive sense of right and wrong - in ethics. "The New Intuitionism" brings together some of the world's most important contemporary writers from such diverse fields as metaethics, epistemology and moral psychology to explore the latest implications of and challenges to Audi's work. The book also includes an opening chapter that surveys the development of contemporary intuitionism and a conclusion that lays the ground for future developments and debates both written by Audi himself, making this an essential survey of this important school of ethical thought for anyone working in the field.

Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice - The V Word (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Cristina Hanganu-Bresch,... Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice - The V Word (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Kristin Kondrlik
R3,643 Discovery Miles 36 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection explores the arguments related to veg(etari)anism as they play out in the public sphere and across media, historical eras, and geographical areas. As vegan and vegetarian practices have gradually become part of mainstream culture, stemming from multiple shifts in the socio-political, cultural, and economic landscape, discursive attempts to both legitimize and delegitimize them have amplified. With 12 original chapters, this collection analyses a diverse array of these legitimating strategies, addressing the practice of veg(etari)anism through analytical methods used in rhetorical criticism and adjacent fields. Part I focuses on specific geo-cultural contexts, from early 20th century Italy, Serbia and Israel, to Islam and foundational Yoga Sutras. In Part II, the authors explore embodied experiences and legitimation strategies, in particular the political identities and ontological consequences coming from consumption of, or abstention from, meat. Part III looks at the motives, purposes and implication of veg(etari)anism as a transformative practice, from ego to eco, that should revolutionise our value hierarchies, and by extension, our futures. Offering a unique focus on the arguments at the core of the veg(etari)an debate, this collection provides an invaluable resource to scholars across a multitude of disciplines.

The King Who Would Be Man (Hardcover): Brian A Plank The King Who Would Be Man (Hardcover)
Brian A Plank
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Faulkner's Ethics - An Intense Struggle (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Michael Wainwright Faulkner's Ethics - An Intense Struggle (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Michael Wainwright
R3,632 Discovery Miles 36 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner's fiction, this study draws on The Methods of Ethics, the magnum opus of the utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. While Faulkner's Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick's work, this book traces Faulkner's moral sensitivity. It argues that Faulkner's language is a moral medium that captures the ways in which people negotiate the ethical demands that life places on them. Tracing the contours of this evolving medium across six of the author's major novels, it explores the basic precepts set out in The Methods of Ethics with the application of more recent contributions to moral philosophy, especially those of Jacques Derrida and Derek Parfit.

Images of Anarchy - The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature (Hardcover): Ioannis D. Evrigenis Images of Anarchy - The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature (Hardcover)
Ioannis D. Evrigenis
R2,824 Discovery Miles 28 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a profound impact on our understanding of human nature, anarchy, and international relations. Yet, despite Hobbes's insistence on precision, the state of nature is an elusive concept. Has it ever existed and, if so, for whom? Hobbes offered several answers to these questions, which taken together reveal a consistent strategy aimed at providing his readers with a possible, probable, and memorable account of the consequences of disobedience. This book examines the development of this powerful image throughout Hobbes's works, and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. The resulting trajectory of the state of nature illuminates the ways in which Hobbes employed a rhetoric of science and a science of rhetoric in his relentless pursuit of peace.

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