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  • The Guise of the Good

    A Philosophical History

    by Francesco Orsi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy. It offers a chronological narrative exploring how the doctrine was formulated, the arguments for and against it, and the broader role it played in the thought of different philosophers.In recent years there has been a rich debate about whether value judgment or value perception must ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas

    Edited by Francesco Orsi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Transport, Environment and Development
    Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world. As visitor numbers increase, so does awareness of the harmful effects that large crowds may have on both natural resources and individuals’ recreational experience. This volume considers the challenge of transportation to and within natural and protected areas, the improvement of which has ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Modern Guise of the Good

    Edited by Francesco Orsi ...
    This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. It spans three centuries from Thomas Hobbes to Henry Sidgwick and features original contributions by some of the finest scholars.One of the staple items of Western philosophy is the idea that we can only desire, or pursue, something under the guise of the good: if we see nothing ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Value Theory

    by Dr Francesco Orsi, Prof Thom Brooks ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Ethics
    What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Francesco Orsi explores the nature of evaluative concepts used in everyday thinking and speech and in contemporary philosophical discourse. The various dimensions, structures and connections that value concepts express are interrogated with clarity and ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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    Basic Concepts

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    Spinoza is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. He has had a deep and enduring influence on a wide range of philosophical subjects, and his work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy. His Ethics is one of the seminal works of metaphysical, moral, religious and political thought; his Theological-Political Treatise inaugurated a novel method of ... Read more

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  • Back to the Rough Ground

    Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique

    by Joseph Dunne ...
    Series series Revisions: A Series of Books on Ethics
    Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of disciplines such as education, psychotherapy, medicine, management, and law. Through reflection on key modern thinkers who have revived cardinal ... Read more

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  • Spinoza: Logic, Knowledge and Religion

    by Richard Mason ...
    Approaching the central themes of Spinoza's thought from both a historical and analytical perspective, this book examines the logical-metaphysical core of Spinoza's philosophy, its epistemology and its ramifications for his much disputed attitude towards religion. Opening with a discussion of Spinoza's historical and philosophical location as the appropriate context for the interpretation of his ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Spinoza's Ethics

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Spinoza's Ethics, published in 1677, is considered his greatest work and one of history's most influential philosophical treatises. This volume brings established scholars together with new voices to engage with the complex system of philosophy proposed by Spinoza in his masterpiece. Topics including identity, thought, free will, metaphysics, and reason are all addressed, as individual chapters ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Thought of Matter

    Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence

    by Richard A. Lee Jr. ...
    Series series Philosophical Projections
    Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years. From the speculative realism/materialism of Quentin Meillassoux to the New Materialism of many modern Marxisms, the interest in a return to or rehabilitation of materialism is on the rise. What is not analyzed in many of these discussions, however, is a trenchant methodological and metaphysical problem lying at the basis of any ... Read more

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  • Moral Motivation

    A History

    Edited by Iakovos Vasiliou ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Moral Motivation presents a history of the concept of moral motivation. The book consists of ten chapters by eminent scholars in the history of philosophy, covering Plato, Aristotle, later Peripatetic philosophy, medieval philosophy, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, Fichte and Hegel, and the consequentialist tradition. In addition, four interdisciplinary "Reflections" discuss how the topic of moral ... Read more

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  • Plato and Levinas

    The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics

    by Tanja Staehler ...
    In the second half of the twentieth century, ethics has gained considerable prominence within philosophy. In contrast to other scholars, Levinas proposed that it be not one philosophical discipline among many, but the most fundamental and essential one. Before philosophy became divided into disciplines, Plato also treated the question of the Good as the most important philosophical question ... Read more

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  • The Use of Bodies

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology.Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the most influential works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of studies investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents ... Read more

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