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Det bästa i livet
AvThomas Hurka
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
228 kr
Hur lever man det bästa livet? Vad skulle det innehålla? Kan vem som helst leva ett sånt liv? I så fall – lever du det livet? Det här är några av de frågor som den framstående kanadensiske filosofen Thomas Hurka ställer sig i denna bok. Svaren formulerar han med hjälp av både klassiska tänkare som Aristoteles och Nietzsche och samtida kollegor som Derek Parfit och Thomas Nagel. Lite mer oväntat är kanske att han även tar hjälp av Wayne Gretzky, Shakespeare och Tiger Woods, för att nämna några. Resultatet är en ovanligt livfull modern analytiskfilosofisk bok om det goda livet och hur man kan leva det. Thomas Hurka är professor emeritus i filosofi vid universitetet i Toronto, ledamot vid Royal Society of Canada och har i flera decennier påverkat den moralfilosofiska diskussionen med sina originella perspektiv. Bland hans böcker märks även Perfectionism (1993), Virtue, Vice, and Value (2001) och British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing (2015).
Spårvagnsproblemens mysterier
AvFrances Kamm,Judith Thomsonm. fl.
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
225 kr
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Spårvagnsproblemet – tankeexperimentet som Philippa Foot formulerade på 1960-talet och som Judith Thomson namngav på 1970-talet – vad ska man egentligen säga om det? Vad handlar det om och kan vi lära oss något av det? I "Spårvagnsproblemens mysterier" får vi några exempel på det bästa tänkandet från de ledande rösterna på området. F.M. Kamms Tannerföreläsningar från Berkeley 2013 följs av ett intensivt replikskifte om problemet med kommentarer av Judith Thomson, Thomas Hurka och Shelly Kagan. Kanske kommer detta utbyte, som bokens redaktör Eric Rakowski skriver i sin inledning, bli ovärdeligt för framtida arbeten om spårvagnsproblemet.
The Best Things in Life
A Guide to What Really Matters
AvThomas Hurka
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
222 kr
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For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities bring us the most joy? While religion, literature, popular psychology, and everyday wisdom all grapple with these questions, philosophy more than anything else uses the tools of reason to make important distinctions, cut away irrelevancies, and distill these issues down to their essentials. Hurka argues that if we are to live a good life, one thing we need to know is which activities and experiences will most likely lead us to happiness and which will keep us from it, while also reminding us that happiness isn't the only thing that makes life good. Hurka explores many topics: four types of good feeling (and the limits of good feeling); how we can improve our baseline level of happiness (making more money, it turns out, isn't the answer); which kinds of knowledge are most worth having; the importance of achieving worthwhile goals; the value of love and friendship; and much more. Unlike many philosophers, he stresses that there isn't just one good in life but many: pleasure, as Epicurus argued, is indeed one, but knowledge, as Socrates contended, is another, as is achievement. And while the great philosophers can help us understand what matters most in life, Hurka shows that we must ultimately decide for ourselves. This delightfully accessible book offers timely guidance on answering the most important question any of us will ever ask: How do we live a good life?
British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
390 kr
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Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground.Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.
British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
390 kr
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Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground.Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.
Underivative Duty
British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
951 kr
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These ten new essays by leading contemporary philosophers constitute the first collective study of a group of British moral philosophers active between the 1870s and 1950s, including Henry Sidgwick, Hastings Rashdall, G.E. Moore, H.A. Prichard, W.D. Ross, and A.C. Ewing. The essays help recover the history of this neglected period: they treat it as a unity, draw out the connections between the thinkers, engage philosophically with their ideas, and in so doing showhow much they can contribute to present-day philosophical debates
Games, Sports, and Play
Philosophical Essays
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2019
1 012 kr
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This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that''s been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play. Some contributions address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common and that distinguishes them from other activities; here many take their start from Bernard Suits''s celebrated analysis of game-playing in his book The Grasshopper and either elaborate it or propose an alternative to it. Other essays discussnormative issues that arise within games and sports, such as about fairness, for example in the treatment of male and female athletes. Yet others consider broader evaluative questions about the value of games and sports, which some see as enabling the display of distinctive excellences. Games, Sports, andPlay includes a posthumous essay by Suits defending his claim, in The Grasshopper, that life in utopia would consist primarily in playing games. The volume''s chapters approach the topic of games, sports, and play from different angles but always in the belief that there is rich terrain here for philosophical investigation.
Games, Sports, and Play
Philosophical Essays
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
Engelska, 2019
1 023 kr
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This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that''s been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play. Some contributions address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common and that distinguishes them from other activities; here many take their start from Bernard Suits''s celebrated analysis of game-playing in his book The Grasshopper and either elaborate it or propose an alternative to it. Other essays discussnormative issues that arise within games and sports, such as about fairness, for example in the treatment of male and female athletes. Yet others consider broader evaluative questions about the value of games and sports, which some see as enabling the display of distinctive excellences. Games, Sports, andPlay includes a posthumous essay by Suits defending his claim, in The Grasshopper, that life in utopia would consist primarily in playing games. The volume''s chapters approach the topic of games, sports, and play from different angles but always in the belief that there is rich terrain here for philosophical investigation.
Perfectionism
AvThomas Hurka
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
940 kr
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Perfectionism is one of the great moralities of the Western tradition. It holds that certain states of humans, such as knowledge, achievement, and friendship, are good apart from any pleasure they may bring, and that the morally right act is always the one that most promotes these states. Defined more narrowly, perfectionism identifies the human good by reference to human nature: if knowledge and achievement are good, it is because they realize aspects of human nature. This book gives an account of perfectionism, first in the narrower sense, analysing its central concepts and defending a theory of human nature in which rationality plays a central role. It then uses this theory to construct an elaborate account of the intrinsic value of beliefs and actions that embody rationality, and applies this account to political questions about liberty and equality. The book attempts to formulate the most defensible version of perfectionism, using contemporary analytic techniques. It aims both to regain for perfectionism a central place in contemporary moral debate and to shed light on the writings of classical perfectionists such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and T.H. Green.
Virtue, Vice, and Value
AvThomas Hurka
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
1 306 kr
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What are virtue and vice, and how do they relate to other moral properties such as goodness and rightness? Thomas Hurka defends a distinctive perfectionist view according to which the virtues are higher-level intrinsic goods, ones that involve morally appropriate attitudes to other, independent goods and evils. He develops this highly original view in detail and argues for its superiority over rival views, including those given by virtue ethics.
The Best Things in Life
A Guide to What Really Matters
AvThomas Hurka
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
285 kr
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For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities bring us the most joy? While religion, literature, popular psychology, and everyday wisdom all grapple with these questions, philosophy more than anything else uses the tools of reason to make important distinctions, cut away irrelevancies, and distill these issues down to their essentials. Hurka argues that if we are to live a good life, one thing we need to know is which activities and experiences will most likely lead us to happiness and which will keep us from it, while also reminding us that happiness isn't the only thing that makes life good. Hurka explores many topics: four types of good feeling (and the limits of good feeling); how we can improve our baseline level of happiness (making more money, it turns out, isn't the answer); which kinds of knowledge are most worth having; the importance of achieving worthwhile goals; the value of love and friendship; and much more. Unlike many philosophers, he stresses that there isn't just one good in life but many: pleasure, as Epicurus argued, is indeed one, but knowledge, as Socrates contended, is another, as is achievement. And while the great philosophers can help us understand what matters most in life, Hurka shows that we must ultimately decide for ourselves. This delightfully accessible book offers timely guidance on answering the most important question any of us will ever ask: How do we live a good life?
Virtue, Vice, and Value
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2000
845 kr
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What are virtue and vice, and how do they relate to other moral properties such as goodness and rightness? Thomas Hurka defends a distinctive perfectionist view according to which the virtues are higher-level intrinsic goods, ones that involve morally appropriate attitudes to other, independent goods and evils. He develops this highly original view in detail and argues for its superiority over rival views, including those given by virtue ethics.
Games, Sports, and Play
Philosophical Essays
AvThomas Hurka
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 207 kr
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This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that's been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play. Some contributions address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common and that distinguishes them from other activities; here many take their start from Bernard Suits's celebrated analysis of game-playing in his book The Grasshopper and either elaborate it or propose an alternative to it. Other essays discuss normative issues that arise within games and sports, such as about fairness, for example in the treatment of male and female athletes. Yet others consider broader evaluative questions about the value of games and sports, which some see as enabling the display of distinctive excellences. Games, Sports, and Play includes a posthumous essay by Suits defending his claim, in The Grasshopper, that life in utopia would consist primarily in playing games. The volume's chapters approach the topic of games, sports, and play from different angles but always in the belief that there is rich terrain here for philosophical investigation.
British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
AvThomas Hurka
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
467 kr
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Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground.Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.
British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
AvThomas Hurka
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 395 kr
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Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground.Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.
Drawing Morals
Essays in Ethical Theory
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
852 kr
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This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. The essays address a wide variety of topics, from the well-rounded life and the value of playing games to proportionality in war and the ethics of nationalism. They also share a common aim: to illuminate the surprising richness and subtlety of our everyday moral thought by revealing its underlying structure, which they often do by representing that structure on graphs. More specifically, the essays all give what the first in the volume calls "structural" as against "foundational" analyses of moral views. Eschewing the grander ambition of grounding our ideas about, say, virtue or desert in claims that use different concepts and concern some other, allegedly more fundamental topic, they examine these ideas in their own right and with close attention to their details. As well as illuminating their individual topics, the essays illustrate the insights this structural method can yield.
Underivative Duty
British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing
AvThomas Hurka
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 688 kr
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These ten new essays by leading contemporary philosophers constitute the first collective study of a group of British moral philosophers active between the 1870s and 1950s, including Henry Sidgwick, Hastings Rashdall, G.E. Moore, H.A. Prichard, W.D. Ross, and A.C. Ewing. The essays help recover the history of this neglected period: they treat it as a unity, draw out the connections between the thinkers, engage philosophically with their ideas, and in so doing show how much they can contribute to present-day philosophical debates
Best Things in Life
A Guide to What Really Matters
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
96 kr
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For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities bring us the most joy? While religion, literature, popular psychology, and everyday wisdom all grapple with these questions, philosophy more than anything else uses the tools of reason to make important distinctions, cut away irrelevancies, and distill these issues down to their essentials. Hurka argues that if we are to live a good life, one thing we need to know is which activities and experiences will most likely lead us to happiness and which will keep us from it, while also reminding us that happiness isn''t the only thing that makes life good. Hurka explores many topics: four types of good feeling (and the limits of good feeling); how we can improve our baseline level of happiness (making more money, it turns out, isn''t the answer); which kinds of knowledge are most worth having; the importance of achieving worthwhile goals; the value of love and friendship; and much more. Unlike many philosophers, he stresses that there isn''t just one good in life but many: pleasure, as Epicurus argued, is indeed one, but knowledge, as Socrates contended, is another, as is achievement. And while the great philosophers can help us understand what matters most in life, Hurka shows that we must ultimately decide for ourselves. This delightfully accessible book offers timely guidance on answering the most important question any of us will ever ask: How do we live a good life?
Drawing Morals
Essays in Ethical Theory
AvThomas Hurka
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 619 kr
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This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. The essays address a wide variety of topics, from the well-rounded life and the value of playing games to proportionality in war and the ethics of nationalism. They also share a common aim: to illuminate the surprising richness and subtlety of our everyday moral thought by revealing its underlying structure, which they often do by representing that structure on graphs. More specifically, the essays all give what the first in the volume calls "structural" as against "foundational" analyses of moral views. Eschewing the grander ambition of grounding our ideas about, say, virtue or desert in claims that use different concepts and concern some other, allegedly more fundamental topic, they examine these ideas in their own right and with close attention to their details. As well as illuminating their individual topics, the essays illustrate the insights this structural method can yield.
Best Things in Life
A Guide to What Really Matters
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
96 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities bring us the most joy? While religion, literature, popular psychology, and everyday wisdom all grapple with these questions, philosophy more than anything else uses the tools of reason to make important distinctions, cut away irrelevancies, and distill these issues down to their essentials. Hurka argues that if we are to live a good life, one thing we need to know is which activities and experiences will most likely lead us to happiness and which will keep us from it, while also reminding us that happiness isn''t the only thing that makes life good. Hurka explores many topics: four types of good feeling (and the limits of good feeling); how we can improve our baseline level of happiness (making more money, it turns out, isn''t the answer); which kinds of knowledge are most worth having; the importance of achieving worthwhile goals; the value of love and friendship; and much more. Unlike many philosophers, he stresses that there isn''t just one good in life but many: pleasure, as Epicurus argued, is indeed one, but knowledge, as Socrates contended, is another, as is achievement. And while the great philosophers can help us understand what matters most in life, Hurka shows that we must ultimately decide for ourselves. This delightfully accessible book offers timely guidance on answering the most important question any of us will ever ask: How do we live a good life?
Drawing Morals
Essays in Ethical Theory
AvThomas Hurka
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
852 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. The essays address a wide variety of topics, from the well-rounded life and the value of playing games to proportionality in war and the ethics of nationalism. They also share a common aim: to illuminate the surprising richness and subtlety of our everyday moral thought by revealing its underlying structure, which they often do by representing that structure on graphs. More specifically, the essays all give what the first in the volume calls "structural" as against "foundational" analyses of moral views. Eschewing the grander ambition of grounding our ideas about, say, virtue or desert in claims that use different concepts and concern some other, allegedly more fundamental topic, they examine these ideas in their own right and with close attention to their details. As well as illuminating their individual topics, the essays illustrate the insights this structural method can yield.
Nacionalismo: a favor y en contra
AvStephen Nathanson,Judith Lichtenbergm. fl.
E-bok
Spanska, 2014
68 kr
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A lo largo de los últimos siglos, los movimientos nacionalistas han dejado una indiscutible huella política en nuestra historia reciente. Los argumentos a favor o en su contra han movilizado emociones y polarizado posturas. Su auge también acompaña a un proceso de globalización que ha cuestionado soberanías estatales, ha debilitado fronteras para los movimientos de capital y mercancías, y ha puesto a competir a trabajadores y territorios a escala mundial. En esta situación paradójica nos preguntamos: ¿hasta qué punto las personas deben mayor solidaridad para con los miembros de su comunidad? ¿Existen formas positivas y negativas de nacionalismo? ¿Deberían los liberales rechazar el nacionalismo? ¿Cómo conjugar intereses de grupo y derechos humanos universales? Esta obra nos ofrece reflexiones imprescindibles para la comprensión de un tiempo que demanda ser interpretado. Los autores, expertos en derecho y filosofía, examinan los orígenes, la psicología y trasfondo a veces poco consciente de este fenómeno moderno, así como la complejidad respecto a la parcialidad del nacionalismo y de su compatibilidad con un humanismo global. Thomas Hurka es profesor de Filosofía en la Universidad de Calgary. Es autor de numerosos artículos de filosofía moral, particularmente en teoría de los valores. Judith Lichtenberg es profesora de Filosofía en el College Park de la Universidad de Maryland. Ha centrado sus análisis en ética internacional, inmigración, nacionalismo y otras cuestiones de filosofía moral. Jeff McMahann es profesor de Filosofía en la Universidad de Illinois. Ha escrito extensamente sobre ética política y filosofía aplicada. Stephen Nathason es profesor de Filosofía en la Universidad de Northwestern. Ha escrito numerosas obras sobre terrorismo, patriotismo y otras dimensiones de la filosofía política.

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Thomas Hurka – författare

Det bästa i livet

Spårvagnsproblemens mysterier

The Best Things in Life

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

Underivative Duty

Games, Sports, and Play

Games, Sports, and Play

Perfectionism

Virtue, Vice, and Value

The Best Things in Life

Virtue, Vice, and Value

Games, Sports, and Play

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing

Drawing Morals

Underivative Duty

Best Things in Life

Drawing Morals

Best Things in Life

Drawing Morals

Nacionalismo: a favor y en contra

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