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On What Matters
Two-volume set
Av Derek Parfit
2011
1099 kr
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On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical …
On What Matters
Volume One
Av Derek Parfit
Häftad, 2013
420 kr
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On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical …
On What Matters
Volume Two
Av Derek Parfit
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
420 kr
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On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical …
Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Av Jeremy Waldron, Meir Dan-Cohen
Häftad, 2015
528 kr
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Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron …
Politics of Worlding
An Anthropological Contribution to Cosmopolitics
Av Philippe Descola, William F. Hanks
Inbunden, 2026
323 kr
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The Politics of Worldling presents Philippe Descola's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers a highly readable précis of some of the central ideas that animate Descola's work, and an excellent gateway into a new vision of anthropology …
Democratic Law
Inbunden, 2021
634 kr
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In this book, based on her 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers an original, deontological account of democracy, law, and their interrelation. Her central thesis is that democracy and democratic law have intrinsically valuable, interconnected communicative functions. …
The Trolley Problem Mysteries
Inbunden, 2016
656 kr
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Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a bystander in front of the trolley so that his body stops it but he dies? May you use a device to …
The Weight of All Flesh
On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
Av Eric Santner, Kevis Goodman
Inbunden, 2015
821 kr
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Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterized as the dual character of the labor embodied in the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's Two …
Death and the Afterlife
Av Samuel Scheffler, Niko Kolodny
Häftad, 2016
528 kr
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Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would scientists still search for a cure for cancer? …
The Will to Punish
Av Didier Fassin, Christopher Kutz
Inbunden, 2018
461 kr
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Over the last few decades, most societies have become more repressive, their laws more relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of the evolution of crime. In The Will to Punish, using an approach both genealogical and ethnographic, distinguished anthropologist Didier Fassin …
The Birth of Ethics
Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
Av Philip Pettit, Kinch Hoekstra
Inbunden, 2018
715 kr
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Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge …
The Trolley Problem Mysteries
Häftad, 2019
362 kr
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Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a bystander in front of the trolley so that his body stops it but he dies? May you use a device to …
Another Cosmopolitanism
Av Seyla Benhabib, Robert Post
Inbunden, 2006
840 kr
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In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice--norms which are difficult for some to …
Another Cosmopolitanism
Av Seyla Benhabib, Robert Post
Häftad, 2008
438 kr
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In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice -- norms which are difficult for some to …
Reconciling Our Aims
In Search of Bases for Ethics
Av Allan Gibbard, Barry Stroud
Inbunden, 2008
1848 kr
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In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics. In the first lecture he explores the role of intuitions in moral thinking and offers a way of thinking about the intuitive method of moral inquiry that both …
Rules for Wrongdoers
Law, Morality, War
Av Arthur Ripstein, Saira Mohamed
Inbunden, 2021
543 kr
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Arthur Ripstein's lectures focus on the two bodies of rules governing war: the jus ad bellum, which regulates resort to armed force, and the jus in bello, which sets forth rules governing the conduct of armed force and applies equally to all parties. Ripstein argues that recognizing both sets of …
The Birth of Ethics
Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
Häftad, 2021
491 kr
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Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge …
On the Grid
Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy
Av Michael Warner, Michael Lucey
Inbunden, 2026
292 kr
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What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about? On the Grid, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in environmental thought which addresses climate change through the form of a new power grid, driven by …
For the People?
Democratic Representation in America
Av Charles R. Beitz, Henry E. Brady
Inbunden, 2024
260 kr
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Many scholars of American government believe representative democracy is failing more systematically than even the recent spectacle of political extremism suggests. Unprecedented levels of elite polarization, severe partisan gerrymandering, weakened party institutions, easing of restrictions on …
The Practice of Value
Inbunden, 2003
1319 kr
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and England, are among the most prestigious and notable events of the academic year. This volume inaugurates a new interdisciplinary series of books based on the Tanner Lectures given …
The Practice of Value
Häftad, 2005
764 kr
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which honor the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and Great Britain. They were established at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning in the …
Reconciling Our Aims
In Search of Bases for Ethics
Av Allan Gibbard, Barry Stroud
Häftad, 2011
487 kr
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In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics. In the first lecture he explores the role of intuitions in moral thinking and offers a way of thinking about the intuitive method of moral inquiry that both …
Reification
A New Look at an Old Idea
Av Axel Honneth, Judith Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
601 kr
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In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukács to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part …
Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Av Jeremy Waldron, Meir Dan-Cohen
Inbunden, 2012
895 kr
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Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron …
Death and the Afterlife
Av Samuel Scheffler, Niko Kolodny
Inbunden, 2013
840 kr
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We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "collective afterlife" in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Samuel …
On What Matters
Volume Two
Av Derek Parfit
Inbunden, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
734 kr
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On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical …
