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  • Obligation and Responsibility

    by Ishtiyaque Haji ...
    Many philosophers have sought to distinguish moral obligation from moral responsibility. In this book, author Ishtiyaque Haji argues that these concepts, though still distinct, are more similar than many think. First, conceptual ties between obligation and responsibility speak largely in favor of responsibility's requiring alternatives, challenging the view that responsibility does not require ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • The Obligation Dilemma

    by Ishtiyaque Haji ...
    Can you be morally obligated to do something? To renowned philosopher Ishtiyaque Haji, the answer is guardedly no. Regardless of whether determinism is true, he argues, there is a prima facie plausibility that there are no moral obligations. Powerfully and efficiently, Haji develops a conclusion that has major implications for how we conceive issues in moral responsibility and free will. The book ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Luck's Mischief

    Obligation and Blameworthiness on a Thread

    by Ishtiyaque Haji ...
    Something is subject to luck if it is beyond our control. In this book, Haji shows that luck detrimentally affects both moral obligation and moral responsibility. He argues that factors influencing the way we are, together with considerations that link motivation and ability to perform intentional actions, frequently preclude our being able to do otherwise. Since obligation requires that we can do ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education

    by Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and other springs of action are "truly our own" or "authentic." The book progresses from analyses of the sort ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Augustine's Confessions

    by Paul Bloom, Gareth B. Matthews, Scott MacDonald, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Paul Helm, Ishtiyaque Haji, Garry Wills, Sir Richard Sorabji ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology. The Confessions discloses Augustine's views about the nature of infancy and the acquisition of language, his own sinful adolescence, his early struggle with ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Series Book 13 - Wiley Philosophy Anthologies
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  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy.Presenting a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, Williams reorients ethical theory towards ‘truth, truthfulness and ... Read more

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    $22.59 CAD

  • Hegel on Self-Consciousness

    Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Robert B. Pippin ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to ... Read more

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  • Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

    by Derk Pereboom ...
    Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic-desert sense at issue in the free will debate, but that we would also lack this kind of moral responsibility if indeterminism were true and the causes of our actions were exclusively states or events. It is possible that ... Read more

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  • Judgment, Imagination, and Politics

    Themes from Kant and Arendt

    by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, Onora O'Neill, Robert J. Dostal, Albrecht Wellmer, Seyla Benhabib, Iris Young, Leora Y. Bilsky, Dana Villa, Charles Larmore, George Kateb, Ronald Beiner ...
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