Value Inquiry Book Series – serie
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Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives
Second, revised edition
Inbunden, 2020
3117 kr
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This new and expanded edition of G. John M. Abbarno’s anthology The Ethics of Homelessness underscores what is ignored in plain sight: people without a home or dwelling are also without privacy and dignity. It is argued that they lack moral standing. The chapters uncover the harsh realities of …
Faith and Philosophy
A Historical Orientation
Inbunden, 2021
2114 kr
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The ancient religious thinker Tertullian asked: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”, implying that faith and philosophy have nothing to say to each other. The history of this dialogue has shaped the intellectual dialogue from the very beginning right up to the present. In this book, Jerry H. …
Origin and Significance of Zero
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Av Peter Gobets
Inbunden, 2024
1540 kr
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Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)Zero has been axial in human development, but the origin and discovery of zero has never been satisfactorily addressed by a comprehensive, systematic and above …
Liberalism as Responsibility: The Political Thought of Leonidas Donskis
Inbunden, 2026
1696 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive reconstruction of Leonidas Donskis’ political thought, revealing a distinctive liberalism grounded in an embrace of mutual vulnerability, moral responsibility, and human connection against the backdrop of the vicissitudes of modernity. Tracing Donskis’ …
Between Philosophy and Phenomenology of Value
The Historical Roots of the Contemporary Debate
Inbunden, 2026
2280 kr
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This book examines the convergence of emotion, reason, and culture in the development of value theory from modern phenomenology to contemporary debate. It addresses the emergence of values in lived experience and demonstrates how the various theories of value that emerged between the late …
In the Beginning Was Chiasmus: On the Epistemology of Non-quantified Modelling
Av Tom Ritchey
Inbunden, 2026
2221 kr
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Chiastic order is an ancient expression for cross-classification. As such, it is the primordial form of non-quantified modelling and combinatory heuristics. This book presents an epistemological history of non-quantified modelling: its prehistory in the form of rhetorical and epistemic chiasmus; …
Intrinsic Value of Nature
Av Leena Vilkka
Häftad, 1997
797 kr
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What is intrinsic value? What is the origin of value? Are people always superior to nature? This book is a philosophical analysis of the human relationship to the non-human world. It is a pioneering study of the philosophy of nature-conservation in relation to the discussion of intrinsic value. …
Explorations of Value
Häftad, 1997
615 kr
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The essays in Explorations of Value are drawn from work first presented at the 20th Conference of Value Inquiry. They are not mere records of conference presentations. The authors have reflected on their initial presentations. They have re-thought arguments in light of discussions at the …
Metaphysics of Cooperation
A Case Study of F.D. Maurice
Häftad, 1999
706 kr
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This book takes up the philosophical task described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and F.D. Maurice as digging toward the common humanity that is the ground of value. The book is an essay in philosophy defined by time (its focal point is the nineteenth century), space (its focal point is Britain), and …
Ethics of Homelessness
Philosophical Perspectives
Häftad, 1999
615 kr
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This book extends the study of homelessness beyond the need of shelter. Philosophical exploration exposes the fragility of human fulfillment in contemporary society. The authors weave the moral fabric of what it means to be human. They show how economic and political values compromise the dignity …
Coercion
A Nonevaluative Approach
Häftad, 2000
771 kr
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In this book, Rhodes provides a nonevaluative account of coercion. He begins with a thorough discussion of the charge that coercion is an essentially contested concept. He argues that effective communication of regulations pertaining to human conduct requires a basic level of clarity as to the kind …
Matter, Mind, and Medicine
Transforming the Clinical Method
Häftad, 2000
755 kr
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This book critically assesses the implications of modern medicine's claim to be a natural science. Medicine models its scientific and clinical self-understanding on an obsolete positivist conception of science, reality, and consciousness. In this view, the body is modeled as a biological machine, …
Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization
Häftad, 2004
1201 kr
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This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with …
Being and Authenticity
Av Xunwu Chen
Häftad, 2004
927 kr
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This book presents a creative approach to the problem of individual authenticity. What is authenticity? What are its necessary conditions? How is an authentic self possible in society? What are the relationships of authenticity, morality, and happiness? The book examines a wide range of questions …
Compassion
A New Philosophy of the Other
Häftad, 2002
914 kr
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This book makes compassionate caring and connectedness the central themes. Imbedded in the human psyche we find a deep yearning for connection. This book explores the many roadblocks that human beings put in the way of a healthy and respectful dialogue with each other, with nature, and with the …
Dimensions of Health and Health Promotion
Häftad, 2003
1045 kr
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This book contains scholarly contributions to several current debates in the philosophy of medicine and health care regarding the nature of health and health promotion, concepts and measurements of mental illness, phenomenological conceptions of health and illness, allocation of health care …
Singularity and Other Possibilities
Panenmentalist Novelties
Häftad, 2003
1175 kr
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This book elaborates the author's original metaphysics, panenmentalism, focusing on novel aspects of the singularity of any person. Among these aspects, integrated in a systematic view, are: love and singularity; private, intersubjective, and public accessibility; multiple personality; freedom of …
Radical Axiology
A First Philosophy of Values
Häftad, 2004
1866 kr
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This book treats values as the basis for all of philosophy, an approach distinct from critiquing theories of value and far rarer. “First Philosophy,” the effort to justify the foundations for a system of philosophy, is one of the main issues that divide philosophers today. McDonald’s philosophy of …
Interpretation and Its Objects
Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz
Inbunden, 2003
2030 kr
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This volume collects twenty-one original essays that discuss Michael Krausz’s distinctive and provocative contribution to the theory of interpretation. At the beginning of the book Krausz offers a synoptic review of his central claims, and he concludes with a substantive essay that replies to …
Suffering, Death, and Identity
Häftad, 2002
927 kr
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This book explores many of the issues that arise when we consider persons who are in pain, who are suffering, and who are nearing the end of life. Suffering provokes us into a journey toward discovering who we are and forces us to rethink many of the views we hold about ourselves.
Sartrean Dialectics
A Method for Critical Discourse on Aesthetic Experience
Häftad, 2000
616 kr
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This book presents a modification of the dialectical method of Jean-Paul Sartre as a tool for critical discourse on aesthetic experience. Three practical demonstrations are offered of the modified progressive-regressive method: (1) on the original location and function of a medieval altarpiece, (2) …
Earth’s Abominations
Philosophical Studies of Evil
Häftad, 2002
706 kr
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This book philosophically explores a wide range of subjects relating to evil and human wickedness, including the nature of evil, explaining evil, evil and moral responsibility, and responding to evil.
What is the Meaning of Human Life?
Häftad, 2001
806 kr
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This book examines core concerns of human life. What is the relationship between a meaningful life and theism? Why are some human beings radically adrift, without radical foundations, and struggling with hopelessness? Is the cosmos meaningless? Is human life akin to the ancient Myth of Sisyphus? …
Between Freedom and Necessity
An Essay on the Place of Value
Häftad, 2000
588 kr
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This extended essay joins an old conversation at the intersection of freedom and necessity. Though it takes place at the beginning of the twenty-first century by the “Christian” reckoning that has become an integral part of European identity, it will at times read like a conversation between …
Origin of the Human Species
Häftad, 2001
914 kr
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This book evaluates the claims of scientific creationism versus materialistic evolution, while examining other scenarios. Consistently philosophical in methodology and perspective, the book is radically interdisciplinary in content, examining data and arguments drawn from natural science, …
Anthropology in the Age of Technology
The Philosophical Contribution of Günther Anders
Häftad, 2000
914 kr
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This book is the first to discuss, for an English-speaking audience, the ideas of the German-Jewish man of letters, thinker, and activist Günther Anders. Anders is one of few philosophers to deal intensely with the moral consequences of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. He can rightly be called the …
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Existence
The Voyage of the Self
Av Avi Sagi
Häftad, 2000
914 kr
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This book is an original philosophic exploration of the meaning of Kierkegaard’s life, his thought, and his works. It makes a bold case for Kierkegaard’s recognition of the concrete existence of the individual, including Kierkegaard himself, as crucial to the spiritual life. Written with delicate …
Philosophy and Art in Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub
A Modern Sufi Odyssey
Häftad, 2002
641 kr
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This book demonstrates that the most forceful contribution to George Gurdjieff's world-view is Sufism, understood as the tradition of seeking truth wherever it can be found, especially at the meeting place of the world religions. Gurdjieff's masterpiece, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, is …
Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art
Häftad, 2002
641 kr
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This book deals with a rejection of the widespread fakeries that have emerged in twentieth-century art, which we call by their Platonic name, sophistry. The book also presents brief descriptions of some of the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Nicolas Berdyaev as to what constitutes a beautiful work of …
Max Scheler’s Acting Persons
New Perspectives
Häftad, 2002
823 kr
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This book gathers six trenchant new analyses of the idea of the person as raised by the German philosopher and social theorist Max Scheler (1874–1928). The issues raised in the volume are both timely and perennial, from considerations of postmodernity, phenomenology, and metaphysics, to sharp-edged …
