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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christine korsgaard”
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  • The Sources of Normativity

    by Christine M. Korsgaard ...
    Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Fellow Creatures

    Our Obligations to the Other Animals

    by Christine M. Korsgaard ...
    Series series
    Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words, its aim is to identify and corroborate the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. He argues that human beings are ends in themselves ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

    How Human Values Evolve

    by Ian Morris, Richard Seaford, Jonathan D. Spence, Christine M. Korsgaard, Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human valuesMost people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

    Critical Essays

    by Paul Guyer, Paul Guyer, Henry Allison, Dieter Henrich, Barbara Herman, Thomas Hill Jr., Christine Korsgaard, Onora O'Neill, Thomas Pogge, Nelson Potter, J B. Schneewind0, Tom Sorrell1, Allen Wood2 ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. This collection of essays, the first of its kind in nearly thirty years, introduces the reader to some of the most important studies of the book from the past two decades, arranged in the form of a collective commentary. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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