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  • When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible

    by Lisa Tessman ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    Suppose that in an emergency evacuation of a hospital after a flood, not all of the patients can make it out alive. You are the doctor faced with the choice between abandoning these patients to die alone and in pain, or injecting them with a lethal dose of drugs, without consent, so that they die peacefully. Perhaps no one will be able to blame you whatever you decide, but, whichever action you ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Burdened Virtues

    Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles

    by Lisa Tessman ...
    Series series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
    Lisa Tessman's Burdened Virtues is a deeply original and provocative work that engages questions central to feminist theory and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, she addresses the ways in which devastating conditions confronted by these selves both limit and burden their moral goodness, and affect their ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Burdened Virtues

    Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles

    by Lisa Tessman ...
    Series series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
    Lisa Tessman's Burdened Virtues is a deeply original and provocative work that engages questions central to feminist theory and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, she addresses the ways in which devastating conditions confronted by these selves both limit and burden their moral goodness, and affect their ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics

    Feminist Ethics and Social Theory

    by Jean Keller, Linda Martín Alcoff, Bat-Ami Bar On, Laura Cannon, Ann Ferguson, Marilyn Frye, Alison M. Jaggar, Alison Kafer0, Sarah Clark Miller1, Michele Moody-Adams2, Lisa Tessman3, Shelley Wilcox4 ...
    Series series Feminist Constructions
    This collection breaks new ground in four key areas of feminist social thought: the sex/gender debates; challenges to liberalism/equality; feminist ethics; and feminist perspectives on global ethics and politics in the 21st century. Altogether, the essays provide an innovative look at feminist philosophy while making substantive contributions to current debates in gender theory, ethics, and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal

    Edited by Lisa Tessman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal is a collection of feminist essays that self-consciously develop non-idealizing approaches to either ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy as marked by a tendency to be non-idealizing serves to thematize the volume, while still allowing the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Virtue and the Moral Life

    Theological and Philosophical Perspectives

    by Mark A. Wilson, Julie Hanlon Rubio, Mary M. Doyle Roche, Jamie Schillinger, Jean Porter, Edmund N. Santurri, Jennifer A. Herdt, Lisa Tessman, James F. Keenan, Margaret Urban Walker ...
    The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Center Must Not Hold

    White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy

    by Barbara Applebaum, Berit Brogaard, Lisa Heldke, Sarah Hoagland, Crista Lebens, Alexis Shotwell, Audrey Thompson, Alison Bailey, Susan E. Babbitt, George Yancy, Cynthia Kaufman, Cris Mayo, Shannon Sullivan, Lisa Tessman ...
    The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within this text, white women philosophers critique the field of philosophy for its complicity with ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    The Fundamentals

    by Julia Driver ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Philosophy
    Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics.The first volume in the new Fundamentals of Philosophy series.Presents lively, real-world examples and thoughtful discussion of key moral philosophers and their ideas ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Cultivating Humanity

    A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” ... Read more

    $36.09 CAD

  • Rawls

    by Samuel Freeman ...
    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
    In this superb introduction, Samuel Freeman introduces and assesses the main topics of Rawls' philosophy. Starting with a brief biography and charting the influences on Rawls' early thinking, he goes on to discuss the heart of Rawls's philosophy: his principles of justice and their practical application to society.Subsequent chapters discuss Rawls's theories of liberty, political and economic ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism

    Edited by Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Utilitarianism, the approach to ethics based on the maximization of overall well-being, continues to have great traction in moral philosophy and political thought. This Companion offers a systematic exploration of its history, themes, and applications. First, it traces the origins and development of utilitarianism via the work of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others. The ... Read more

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  • John Rawls

    by Catherine Audard ...
    Series series Philosophy Now
    John Rawls (1921-2002) is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Contemporary political philosophy has been reshaped by his seminal ideas and most current work in the discipline is a response to them. This book introduces his central ideas and examines their contribution to contemporary political thought. In the first part of the book Catherine Audard focuses on Rawls' ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD