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  • Reverence : Renewing A Forgotten Virtue

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. Like an important engine part that has rusted over time, the idea of reverence has become increasingly foreign. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Ajax Dilemma

    Justice, Fairness, and Rewards

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out. In The Ajax Dilemma, Paul Woodruff examines one of today's most pressing moral issues: how to distribute rewards and public ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Reverence

    Renewing a Forgotten Virtue

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Living Toward Virtue

    Practical Ethics in the Spirit of Socrates

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    In Living toward Virtue, Paul Woodruff shows how we can set about living ethically through self-questioning, which enables us to avoid moral injury by getting clear about what we are doing and why we are doing it. Self-questioning also helps us recognize the limits of our knowledge and so to avoid the danger of self-righteousness. Using real-life examples, Woodruff shows how we can nurture our ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Reverence

    Renewing a Forgotten Virtue

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Ajax Dilemma

    Justice, Fairness, and Rewards

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out. In The Ajax Dilemma, Paul Woodruff examines one of today's most pressing moral issues: how to distribute rewards and public ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Garden of Leaders

    Revolutionizing Higher Education

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on cultivating leadership in students. Woodruff advances a new view of liberal arts education that places leadership at the root of ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Necessity of Theater

    The Art of Watching and Being Watched

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Necessity of Theater

    The Art of Watching and Being Watched

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Ethics of Giving

    Philosophers' Perspectives on Philanthropy

    Edited by Paul Woodruff ...
    In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good that we care more about? On such issues, ethical theory can have momentous practical effects. This volume is a unique collection of new papers on philanthropy from a range of philosophical perspectives. The authors are among the best-regarded philosophers writing on ethics today and include a number of thinkers ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Woodruff ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
    Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as an exile he will do nothing to save them from their enemies. Faced with a damning prophecy, he tries to take destiny into his own hands and fails. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Loyalty

    NOMOS LIV

    Edited by Sanford V. Levinson, Paul Woodruff, Joel Parker ...
    Series Book 14 - NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    Few topics are more ubiquitous in everyday life and, at the same time, more controversial in practice, than that of one’s moral obligation to loyalty. Featuring essays by scholars working in a variety of subjects from law to psychology, Loyalty presents diverse perspectives on dilemmas posed by potential conflicts between loyalties to specific institutions or professional roles and more ... Read more

    $62.99 USD