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The Social Contract (Hardcover): Jean Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (Hardcover)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Trajectories of Governance - How States Shaped Policy Sectors in the Neoliberal Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Giliberto... Trajectories of Governance - How States Shaped Policy Sectors in the Neoliberal Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Giliberto Capano, Anthony R. Zito, Federico Toth, Jeremy Rayner
R3,802 Discovery Miles 38 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations - England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands - between 1970 and 2018. More specifically, it examines how the governance approaches and the sets of policy tools used to govern have altered with respect to four public policy sectors that represent core responsibilities of the modern OECD state: education, energy, environment and health. To structure this analytical approach, the book harnesses sociological institutionalism in the area of 'policy sequencing' to trace both the motivations and the consequences of policy-makers' altering governance approaches and the resulting policy tools. Combining a comparative and international focus, this book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy and governance.

Trust, Ethics and Human Reason (Hardcover): Olli Lagerspetz Trust, Ethics and Human Reason (Hardcover)
Olli Lagerspetz
R4,463 Discovery Miles 44 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The variety of approaches to the concept of trust in philosophy reflects the fact that our worries are diverse, from the Hobbesian concern for the possibility of rational cooperation to Wittgenstein's treatment of the place of trust in knowledge. To speak of trust is not only to describe human action but also to take a perspective on it and to engage with it. Olli Lagerspetz breathes new life into the philosophical debate by showing how questions about trust are at the centre of any in-depth analyses of the nature of human agency and human rationality and that these issues, in turn, lie at the heart of philosophical ethics. Ideal for those grappling with these issues for the first time, Trust, Ethics and Human Reason provides a thorough and impassioned assessment of the concept of trust in moral philosophy.

Applying Principles - Short Essays Based on the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Economics of Ludwig von Mises, and Psychology of Edith... Applying Principles - Short Essays Based on the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Economics of Ludwig von Mises, and Psychology of Edith Packer (Hardcover)
Jerry Kirkpatrick
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Jnana Yoga - The Path of Knowledge (Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Jnana Yoga - The Path of Knowledge (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Between Discipline and a Hard Place - The Value of Contemporary Art (Hardcover): Alana Jelinek Between Discipline and a Hard Place - The Value of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
Alana Jelinek
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is. Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential. Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts. A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.

Hegel's Conscience (Hardcover): Dean Moyar Hegel's Conscience (Hardcover)
Dean Moyar
R3,187 R2,783 Discovery Miles 27 830 Save R404 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for specialists in German Idealism, but also to provide an analysis that makes Hegel's ethics accessible for all scholars working in ethical and political philosophy. While Hegel's political philosophy has received a good deal of attention in the literature, the core of his ethics has eluded careful exposition, in large part because it is contained in his claims about conscience. This book shows that, contrary to accepted wisdom, conscience is the central concept for understanding Hegel's view of practical reason and therefore for understanding his ethics as a whole. The argument combines careful exegesis of key passages in Hegel's texts with detailed treatments of problems in contemporary ethics and reconstructions of Hegel's answers to those problems. The main goals are to render comprehensible Hegel's notoriously difficult texts by framing arguments with debates in contemporary ethics, and to show that Hegel still has much to teach us about the issues that matter to us most. Central topics covered in the book are the connection of self-consciousness and agency, the relation of motivating and justifying reasons, moral deliberation and the holism of moral reasoning, mutual recognition, and the rationality of social institutions.

The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback): Joost Elffers, Robert Greene The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
Joost Elffers, Robert Greene 1
R871 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R310 (36%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real life. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded--or been victimized by--power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

The Penumbra of Personhood - 'Anti-Humanism' reconsidered (Hardcover): G.V. Loewen The Penumbra of Personhood - 'Anti-Humanism' reconsidered (Hardcover)
G.V. Loewen
R882 Discovery Miles 8 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (Hardcover): Tom L. Beauchamp, R. G. Frey The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (Hardcover)
Tom L. Beauchamp, R. G. Frey
R6,083 R5,778 Discovery Miles 57 780 Save R305 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.
Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and vegetarianism, but only around the last quarter of the twentieth century did a significant philosophical literature begin to be developed on both the scientific study of animals and the ethics of human uses of animals. This literature had a primary focus on discussion of animal psychology, the moral status of animals, the nature and significance of species, and a number of practical problems. This Oxford Handbook is designed to capture the nature of the questions as they stand today and to propose solutions to many of the major problems. Several chapters in this volume explore matters that have never previously been examined by philosophers.
The authors of the thirty-five chapters come from a diverse set of philosophical interests in the History of Philosophy, the Philosophy of Mind, the Philosophy of Biology, the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, the Philosophy of Language, Ethical Theory, and Practical Ethics. They explore many theoretical issues about animal minds and an array of practical concerns about animal products, farm animals, hunting, circuses, zoos, the entertainment industry, safety-testing on animals, the status and moral significance of species, environmental ethics, the nature and significance of the minds of animals, and so on. They also investigate what the future may be expected to bring in the way of new scientific developments and new moral problems.
This book of original essays is the most comprehensive single volume ever published on animal minds and the ethics of our use of animals.

Politics as Radical Creation - Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt on Political Performativity (Hardcover, New): Christopher... Politics as Radical Creation - Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt on Political Performativity (Hardcover, New)
Christopher Holman
R2,289 Discovery Miles 22 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Politics as Radical Creation examines the meaning of democratic practice through the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School. It provides an understanding of democratic politics as a potentially performative good-in-itself, undertaken not just to the extent that it seeks to achieve a certain extrinsic goal, but also in that it functions as a medium for the expression of creative human impulses. Christopher Holman develops this potential model through a critical examination of the political philosophies of Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt. Holman argues that, while Arendt and Marcuse's respective theorizations each ultimately restrict the potential scope of creative human expression, their juxtaposition - which has not been previously explored - results in a more comprehensive theory of democratic existence, one that is uniquely able to affirm the creative capacities of the human being. Yielding important theoretical results that will interest scholars of each theorist and of theories of democracy more generally, Politics as Radical Creation provides a valuable means for rethinking the nature of contemporary democratic practice.

The Solidarity Solution - Principles for a Fair Income Distribution (Hardcover): Kristi A Olson The Solidarity Solution - Principles for a Fair Income Distribution (Hardcover)
Kristi A Olson
R3,109 R1,914 Discovery Miles 19 140 Save R1,195 (38%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Kristi A. Olson asks: What is a fair income distribution? She rejects equal income shares: equal pay undercompensates workers in dangerous and onerous jobs. The envy test, which takes both income and work into account, fares better. Yet, a distribution in which no one prefers someone else's circumstances to her own-as the envy test requires-is unlikely to exist, and even when it does exist, the normative connection between envy and fairness has not been established. After critiquing existing answers, Olson invokes the idea of mutual justifiability: when someone claims that her situation should be improved at someone else's expense, she must be able to give a reason that cannot be reasonably rejected by a free and equal individual who regards everyone else as the same. To give the answer bite, Olson distinguishes two types of envy. Reasons based on personal envy can be reasonably rejected; reasons based on impersonal envy cannot. Olson then tests the solidarity solution against the theories of Ronald Dworkin, Philippe Van Parijs, and Marc Fleurbaey and applies it directly to the concrete issues of the gender wage gap and taxation. By providing a new approach to problems of fair resource allocation, The Solidarity Solution establishes philosophical discussion as critical to today's fight to end economic injustice.

Empathy and Indifference - Philosophical Reflections on Schizophrenia (Hardcover): Ignace Haaz Empathy and Indifference - Philosophical Reflections on Schizophrenia (Hardcover)
Ignace Haaz
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Proposed Roads to Freedom - A Philosophy of Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism as Man's Perfect Government and... The Proposed Roads to Freedom - A Philosophy of Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism as Man's Perfect Government and Society (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Bertrand Russell
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Proposed Roads to Freedom is a treatise by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, which contemplates a society in which anarcho-communism is coupled with worker syndicalism. Russell discusses various aspects of socialist-communist and syndicalist thought, and applies them to the various portions of civil society. Beginning with an examination of the history of the political theories and their potential for success, Russell proposes a sort of 'guild socialism' whereby workers are organized into different groupings and specialisms, as opposed to the centralized, bureaucratic system advocated by state socialism. Although Russell believes that the socialist system would be the closest to perfection, he does not believe that it would be entirely lacking of flaws. Furthermore, Russell attributes many problems of the theory as solvable over time; a fine-tuning of the technical implementation of socialist economics would, so the author proposes, iron out the problems and inefficiencies in the system.

Between Speech and Silence (Hardcover): Stephen J. Costello Between Speech and Silence (Hardcover)
Stephen J. Costello
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Jesus Christ, Eternal God - Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter (Hardcover): Stephen H. Webb Jesus Christ, Eternal God - Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter (Hardcover)
Stephen H. Webb
R2,814 R2,453 Discovery Miles 24 530 Save R361 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H. Webb offers a new theological understanding of the material and spiritual: that, far from being contradictory, they unite in the very stuff of the eternal Jesus Christ.
Accepting matter as a perfection (or predicate) of the divine requires a rethinking of the immateriality of God, the doctrine of creation out of nothing, the Chalcedonian formula of the person of Christ, and the analogical nature of religious language. It also requires a careful reconsideration of Augustine's appropriation of the Neo-Platonic understanding of divine incorporeality as well as Origen's rejection of anthropomorphism. Webb locates his position in contrast to evolutionary theories of emergent materialism and the popular idea that the world is God's body. He draws on a little known theological position known as the ''heavenly flesh'' Christology, investigates the many misunderstandings of its origins and relation to the Monophysite movement, and supplements it with retrievals of Duns Scotus, Caspar Scwenckfeld and Eastern Orthodox reflections on the transfiguration. Also included in Webb's study are discussions of classical figures like Barth and Aquinas as well as more recent theological proposals from Bruce McCormack, David Hart, and Colin Gunton. Perhaps most provocatively, the book argues that Mormonism provides the most challenging, urgent, and potentially rewarding source for metaphysical renewal today.
Webb's concept of Christian materialism challenges traditional Christian common sense, and aims to show the way to a more metaphysically sound orthodoxy.

Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism (Hardcover, New): Richard Fumerton Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism (Hardcover, New)
Richard Fumerton
R2,049 Discovery Miles 20 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind.

Responsible AI - Implementing Ethical and Unbiased Algorithms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Sray Agarwal, Shashin Mishra Responsible AI - Implementing Ethical and Unbiased Algorithms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Sray Agarwal, Shashin Mishra
R2,618 Discovery Miles 26 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is written for software product teams that use AI to add intelligent models to their products or are planning to use it. As AI adoption grows, it is becoming important that all AI driven products can demonstrate they are not introducing any bias to the AI-based decisions they are making, as well as reducing any pre-existing bias or discrimination. The responsibility to ensure that the AI models are ethical and make responsible decisions does not lie with the data scientists alone. The product owners and the business analysts are as important in ensuring bias-free AI as the data scientists on the team. This book addresses the part that these roles play in building a fair, explainable and accountable model, along with ensuring model and data privacy. Each chapter covers the fundamentals for the topic and then goes deep into the subject matter - providing the details that enable the business analysts and the data scientists to implement these fundamentals. AI research is one of the most active and growing areas of computer science and statistics. This book includes an overview of the many techniques that draw from the research or are created by combining different research outputs. Some of the techniques from relevant and popular libraries are covered, but deliberately not drawn very heavily from as they are already well documented, and new research is likely to replace some of it.

You Asked for It - Selected Interviews, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Greg Johnson You Asked for It - Selected Interviews, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Greg Johnson
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Understanding Hope (Hardcover): Philip D. Smith Understanding Hope (Hardcover)
Philip D. Smith
R909 R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Save R148 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems - Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato (Hardcover,... Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems - Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato (Hardcover, New)
Robert Lamberton
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Proclus's Commentary on the Republic of Plato contains in its fifth and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist. In the context of defending Homer against the criticisms leveled by Socrates in the Republic, Proclus, a late-antique polytheist thinker, provides not only a rich selection of interpretive material, but also an analysis of Homer's polysemous text whose influence can be observed in the work of the founder of modern semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. This first modern translation into English, with Greek text facing and limited commentary, makes it possible to appreciate the importance of Proclus in the history of both hermeneutics and semiotics

Hegel and Resistance - History, Politics and Dialectics (Hardcover): Bart Zantvoort, Rebecca Comay Hegel and Resistance - History, Politics and Dialectics (Hardcover)
Bart Zantvoort, Rebecca Comay
R4,132 Discovery Miles 41 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The concept of resistance has always been central to the reception of Hegel's philosophy. The prevalent image of Hegel's system, which continues to influence the scholarship to this day, is that of an absolutist, monist metaphysics which overcomes all resistance, sublating or assimilating all differences into a single organic 'Whole'. For that reason, the reception of Hegel has always been marked by the question of how to resist Hegel: how to think that which remains outside of or other to the totalizing system of dialectics. In recent years the work of scholars such as Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Zizek, Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda has brought considerable nuance to this debate. A new reading of Hegel has emerged which challenges the idea that there is no place for difference, otherness or resistance in Hegel, both by refusing to reduce Hegel's complex philosophy to a straightforward systematic narrative and by highlighting particular moments within Hegel's philosophy which seem to counteract the traditional understanding of dialectics. This book brings together established and new voices in this field in order to show that the notion of resistance is central to this revaluation of Hegel.

Seeing Through the Bumpf - A Practical Guide to Being Rational in a Confusing World (Hardcover): Gerry Ewert Seeing Through the Bumpf - A Practical Guide to Being Rational in a Confusing World (Hardcover)
Gerry Ewert
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Badiou and Indifferent Being - A Critical Introduction to Being and Event (Hardcover, HPOD): William Watkin Badiou and Indifferent Being - A Critical Introduction to Being and Event (Hardcover, HPOD)
William Watkin
R3,132 Discovery Miles 31 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: "I had inscribed my name in the history of philosophy". Later he was brave enough to admit that this inscription needed correction. The central elements of Badiou's philosophy only make sense when Being and Event is read through the corrective prism of its sequel, Logics of Worlds, published nearly twenty years later. At the same time as presenting the only complete overview of Badiou's philosophical project, this book is also the first to draw out the central component of Badiou's ontology: indifference. Concentrating on its use across the core elements Being and Event-the void, the multiple, the set and the event-Watkin demonstrates that no account of Badiou's ontology is complete unless it accepts that Badiou's philosophy is primarily a presentation of indifferent being. Badiou and Indifferent Being provides a detailed and lively section by section reading of Badiou's foundational work. It is a seminal source text for all Badiou readers.

Space, Time and Deity [microform] - the Gifford Lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 (Hardcover): S 1859-1928 Alexander Space, Time and Deity [microform] - the Gifford Lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 (Hardcover)
S 1859-1928 Alexander
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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