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Price: $39.90
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Sale: $24.25
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Manufacturer: Imprint Academic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Steve Moxon
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Publisher: Imprint Academic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.701
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Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Steve Moxon's first book, The Great Immigration Scandal, led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. But immigration was never his primary interest: he joined the Home Office in order to study its HR policy, as part of a decade-long investigation of men-women relations. Not withstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age ??? that women are oppressed by the 'patriarchal' traditions of Western societies. Drawing on the latest developments in evolutionary psychology, Moxon finds that the opposite is true ??? men, or at least the majority of ordinary males ??? have always been the victims of deep-rooted prejudice. As the prejudice is biologically derived, it is unconscious and can only be uncovered with the tools of scientific psychology.The book reveals this prejudice in fields as diverse as healthcare, employment, family policy and politics.
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $7.89
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Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Immanuel Kant
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 149
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Publication Date: 2008-03-18
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Reading Level: 136
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Description: Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound. But this makes imperatgvive a specific distinction on the part of the concepts by which the principles of this rational cognition get their object assigned to them, for if the concepts are not distinct they fail to justify a division, which always presupposes that the principles belonging to the rational cognition of the several parts of the science in question are themselves mutually exclusive.
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Price: $160.00
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Sale: $156.00
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Manufacturer: Dartmouth Publishing Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tom D. Campbell
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Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Group
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Dewey Decimal Number: 340.112
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Publication Date: 1996-04
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: In legal theory, legal positivism is generally taken to be the view that the concept of law can be elucidated without reference to morality. It is the thesis of this book that such a belief in the amoralism (and certainly the immoralism) of legal positivism is mistaken.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $16.50
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Manufacturer: Polity
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pauline Phemister
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Publisher: Polity
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 149.7
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Publication Date: 2006-09-21
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz stand out among their seventeenth-century contemporaries as the great rationalist philosophers. Each sought to construct a philosophical system in which theological and philosophical foundations serve to explain the physical, mental and moral universe. Through a careful analysis of their work, Pauline Phemister explores the rationalists seminal contribution to the development of modern philosophy.
Broad terminological agreement and a shared appreciation of the role of reason in ethics do not mask the very significant disagreements that led to three distinctive philosophical systems: Cartesian dualism, Spinozan monism and Leibnizian pluralism. The book explores the nature of, and offers reasons for, these differences. Phemister contends that Spinoza and Leibniz developed their systems in part through engagements with and amendment of Cartesian philosophy, and critically analyses the arguments and contributions of all three philosophers. The clarity of the authors discussion of their key ideas including their views on knowledge, universal languages, the nature of substance and substances, bodies, the relation of mind and body, freedom, and the role of distinct perception and reason in morals will make this book the ideal introduction to rationalist philosophy.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $3.96
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Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas M. Lennon
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 194
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Publication Date: 1999-08-07
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) has been described by Richard Popkin as the key intellectual figure at the outset of the eighteenth century. Examinations of libraries from the period show him to have been by far the most successful author of the century, and his Historical and Critical Dictionary is in fact the philosophy best-seller of all time. The concepts, distinctions, and arguments found in his work were so widely adopted by later authors that Bayle came to be known as the 'Arsenal of the Enlightenment'. Despite his universally acknowledged importance, however, there has been from his own time to the present much disagreement about how Bayle is to be interpreted. The title of this work is deliberately ambiguous, reflecting the multiple levels on which its argument is conducted. One aim is to indicate how a reading of Bayle might be made possible-how the initial impenetrability of his writings and their world might be overcome. On another level, the book offers an interpretation of Bayle's writings. Finally, it is a record of the author's own thoughts upon reading Bayle-what he finds himself thinking about as he looks at Bayle and his world. This work is a critical but sympathetic treatment of this neglected thinker. It will engage anyone interested in the history of modern philosophy, the history of ideas, literary criticism, and the history of seventeenth-century French culture.
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Price: $12.99
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Sale: $12.85
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Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Immanuel Kant
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 170
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Publication Date: 2008-11-24
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Reading Level: 114
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Description: Collected here in this omnibus edition are Immanuel Kant's three most important works on the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics. Included are Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, and The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. In Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals Kant states: "All duties are either duties of right, that is, juridical duties, or duties of virtue, that is, ethical duties. Juridical duties are such as may be promulgated by external legislation; ethical duties are those for which such legislation is not possible." In The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics states: "If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for this philosophy a system of pure rational concepts, independent of any condition of intuition, in other words, a metaphysic. It may be asked whether metaphysical elements are required also for every practical philosophy, which is the doctrine of duties, and therefore also for Ethics."
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $13.40
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Manufacturer: Akal Ediciones Sa
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Publisher: Akal Ediciones Sa
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Edition: Tra
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Dewey Decimal Number: 149
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Publication Date: 1984-06-30
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Reading Level: 190
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Price: $80.00
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Sale: $72.17
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Manufacturer: Lexington Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brayton Polka
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Publisher: Lexington Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 199.492
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Publication Date: 2007-03-28
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works - on religion, politics, and ethics - in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. This book and its companion volume will be essential reading for any scholar of Spinoza.
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Price: $24.99
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Fogelin
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 128.33
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Publication Date: 2004-12-16
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Human beings are both supremely rational and deeply superstitious, capable of believing just about anything and of questioning just about everything. Indeed, just as our reason demands that we know the truth, our skepticism leads to doubts we can ever really do so.
In Walking the Tightrope of Reason, Robert J. Fogelin guides readers through a contradiction that lies at the very heart of philosophical inquiry. Fogelin argues that our rational faculties insist on a purely rational account of the universe, yet at the same time, the inherent limitations of these faculties ensure that we will never fully satisfy that demand. As a result of being driven to this point of paradox, we either comfort ourselves with what Kant called "metaphysical illusions" or adopt a stance of radical skepticism. No middle ground seems possible and, as Fogelin shows, skepticism, even though a healthy dose of it is essential for living a rational life, "has an inherent tendency to become unlimited in its scope, with the result that the edifice of rationality is destroyed." In much Postmodernist thought, for example, skepticism takes the extreme form of absolute relativism, denying the basis for any value distinctions and treating all truth-claims as equally groundless. How reason avoids disgracing itself, walking a fine line between dogmatic belief and self-defeating doubt, is the question Fogelin seeks to answer.
Reflecting upon the ancient Greek skeptics as well as such thinkers as Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Whitman, this book takes readers into--and through--some of philosophy's most troubling paradoxes.
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $7.54
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Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Immanuel Kant
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 170
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Publication Date: 2008-11-24
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Reading Level: 78
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Description: Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues.
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