Etik & moralfilosofi

Förtjänade Peter Handke Nobelpriset? Var det rätt att ge Roman Polanski Césarpriset 2020? Och hur ska man egentligen se på all våldsförhärligande hiphop? Frågan om förhållandet mellan upphovsmannens moral och moralen i verket har återkommit med me...

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Med den tredje delen av Avhandling om den mänskliga naturen avslutar Hume sitt projekt att utveckla en samlad teori om alla viktiga aspekter av mänskligt tänkande och handlande. I början av Om Moralen ger Hume den klassiska formuleringen av en pri...

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The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in a highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by philosophy scholar Pierre Baumann. The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to...

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HAPPINESS, SERENITY AND FULFIMENT ARE ALL WITHIN YOUR CONTROL 365 WAYS TO BE MORE STOIC is a full year's worth of daily inspiration, tools, stories, actions, and rituals that will guide you to a meaningful life, filled with happiness. It is a...

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This radical critique of traditional philosophy is as insightful today as when it was first written.

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'One of the most important thinkers to emerge on the world stage for many years' SpectatorWhat are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of perso...

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Kloning, genterapi, genmodifiering och stamcellsforskning är ord och begrepp som under senare år införlivats i vårt ordförråd. Många förhoppningar knyts till nya möjligheter de erbjuder. Men hur bedömer vi användningen av dem och vad bestämmer vår...

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Inspired by thousands of years of Chinese thought, an enchanting and heart-opening illustrated fable about a young boy who explores the many ways to make meaning and find joy in the everyday. Sometimes you can only do a small, small thing. And tha...

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Emily Austin walks readers through exactly how Epicureanism might help them in daily life in practical, practicable ways: valuing friendships, giving advice, combatting imposter syndrome, pursuing life goals, and thinking about everything from din...

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VAD ÄR KRISTDEMOKRATI? Samhällsgemenskap. Kristen etik och naturrätt. Mänskliga rättigheter och skyldigheter. Solidaritet utan socialism. Naturliga gemenskaper och subsidiaritet. Frihet och personligt ansvar. Förvaltarskap och miljöhänsyn.Etik för...

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This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death, the holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. The essays are all addressed to a general audi...

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A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes th...

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A thinking persons guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about l...

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As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even mur...

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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confiden...

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An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of dec...

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The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform political decisions. It is, rather, the conceptual primacy of political discourse that rescues ethics f...

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Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thin...

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From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, consent is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a t...

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In this elegantly written (and produced) work, Josef Pieper introduces the reader to an understanding that leisure is nothing less than "an attitude of mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the wo...

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Adamsom offers a lively and accessible tour through 600 years of intellectual history, offering a feast of new ideas in every area of philosophy. He introduces us to some of the greatest thinkers of the Western tradition including Abelard, Anselm,...

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How the new conspiracists are undermining democracyand what can be done about it Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something newconspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from th...

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For thousands of years extraordinary phenomena have been studied, investigated, and generalised; the whole ground of the religious faculties of man has been analysed, and the practical result is the science of Raja Yoga. Raja Yoga does not, after ...

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From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is"selfish," do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas li...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER We all want to lead a happy life. Traditionally, when in need of guidance, comfort or inspiration, many people turn to religion. But there has been another way to learn how to live well - the humanist way - and in today...

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Charts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment. The term resentment, often casually paired with words like hatred, rage, and fear, has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despit...

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This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (18331911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the huma...

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Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avo...

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An Instant  New York Times  Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as amb...

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