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Serve and Protect
(Hardcover)
Tobias Winright; Foreword by Todd Whitmore
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THEÂ SUNDAY TIMESÂ BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically
optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book
on ‘ethical living’ I’ve ever read.' Oliver
Burkeman, Guardian ‘A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman,
author of Humankind ‘A book of great daring, clarity,
insight and imagination. To be simultaneously so realistic and so
optimistic, and always so damn readable… well that is a miracle
for which he should be greatly applauded.’ Stephen Fry In
What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively
argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the
distant future is a moral priority of our time. It isn’t enough
to mitigate climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must
ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; cultivate
value pluralism; and prepare for a planet where the most
sophisticated beings are digital and not human. The challenges we
face are enormous. But so is the influence we have.Â
In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and
function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of
virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and
theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough
and incisive accounts of virtue in the history of Christian
philosophy. John Oesterle's accurate and elegant translation makes
this enduring work readily accessible to the modern reader.
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