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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $39.95
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Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Paul Russo
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Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 001.301
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Publication Date: 2005-05-28
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Reading Level: 313
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Description: In The Future without a Past, John Paul Russo goes beyond currently given reasons for the decline of the humanities and searches out its root causes in the technologization of everyday life. His main premise is that we are undergoing a transformation at the hands of technological imperatives such as rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy. The interface between ourselves and nature has thickened to such a degree that we live increasingly within a world of technology, not a world of nature. According to Russo, technological values have actually eroded human values instead of "humanizing" them. What are the implications of this significant shift for the humanities, traditionally seen as guardian of the human? Russo addresses this question by situating the decline of the humanities within the larger social and historical panorama. He explores how technological values have infiltrated the humanities to the point of weakening their instruction and undermining their force; at the same time, he shows how the humanities have resisted these trends and can continue to do so. Russo believes that if we understand how technology "works" and the nature of its powers, we will then know in which realms it must be accepted and where it should be resisted. Russo outlines the components of the technological system and examines their impact on the educational system. He also discusses the loss of historical memory, including the so-called loss of the self and the transformation of the library. He studies the parallels between technological and literary values in criticism and theory, and he concludes with a look at the writings of Don DeLillo, one of the most prominent contemporary novelists. DeLillo's exploration of technology in American life is matched by a powerful critique from a broadly humanistic and religious perspective, serving to summarize the themes of the book as a whole. The Future without a Past will appeal to scholars and students of literary studies, intellectual and cultural history, philosophy, ethics, media studies, and American studies, as well as to general readers who are seeking deeper insights into today's cultural debates.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $11.15
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Manufacturer: Polebridge Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Don Cupitt
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Publisher: Polebridge Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 210
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Publication Date: 2006-10-01
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Reading Level: 145
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Description: According to Don Cupitt, radical theology is a personal struggle for a new and better kind of religion following the loss of the older sort of popular, traditional, ecclesiastical faith. It is, he says, inevitably, highly autobiographical. This set of eighteen unpublished or little known published essays which document his gradual radicalization over the last thirty years open a window onto the progression of his thought and demonstrate his long held desire to come up with a message that can reach and influence ordinary people. Because, in Cupitt s judgment, the real radical theology is your own voice, if you can but find it.
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Price: $125.00
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Sale: $99.93
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Philip Schofield
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.092
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Publication Date: 2006-08-24
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: This book is the first comprehensive historical account of the political thought of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the philosopher and reformer. Professor Schofield draws on his extensive knowledge of Bentham's unpublished manuscripts and original printed texts, and on the new, authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. A compelling narrative charts the way in which Bentham applied his utilitarian philosophy to the rapidly changing circumstances of his age.
Professor Schofield begins with a lucid account of Bentham's insights in the fields of logic and language, and in particular his theory of real and fictitious entities, which lie at the foundation of his thought. Professor Schofield proceeds to show how these insights brought Bentham to the principle of utility, which led him in turn to produce the first systematic defence of democracy from a utilitarian perspective. In contrast to previous scholarship, which claims that Bentham's 'conversion' or 'transition' to political radicalism took place either at the time of the French Revolution or following his meeting with James Mill in 1808 or 1809, Professor Schofield shows that the process began in or around 1804 when the notion of sinister interest emerged in Bentham's thought. Bentham appreciated that rulers, rather than being motivated by a desire to promote the greatest happiness of those subject to them, aimed to promote their own happiness, whatever the overall cost to the community.
In his constitutional writings of the 1820s, which he addressed to 'all nations professing liberal opinions', Bentham argued that the proper end of constitutional design was to maximize official aptitude and minimize government expense, and that the publicity of official actions, within the context of a republican system of government where sovereignty lay in the people, was the means to achieve it. Bentham's commitment to radical reform led him to advocate the abolition of the British monarchy and House of Lords, the replacement of the Common Law with a codified system of law, and the 'euthanasia' of the Anglican Church.
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Price: $125.00
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Sale: $44.22
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Wood Bailey
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 171.5
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Publication Date: 1997-09-04
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This compelling book advances utilitarianism as the basis for a viable public philosophy, effectively rebutting the common charge that, as moral doctrine, utilitarian thought permits cruel acts, justifies unfair distribution of wealth, and demands too much of moral agents.
James Wood Bailey defends utilitarianism through novel use of game theory insights regarding feasible equilibria and evolutionary stability, elaborating a sophisticated account of institutions that real-world utilitarians would want to foster. If utilitarianism seems in principle to dictate that we make each and every choice such that it leads to the best consequences overall, game theory emphasizes that no choice has consequences in isolation, but only in conjunction with many other choices of other agents. Viewing institutions as equilibria in complex games, Bailey negotiates the paradox of individual responsibilities, arguing that if individuals within institutions have specific responsibilities they cannot get from the principle of utility alone, the utility principle nevertheless holds great value in that it allows us to identify morally desirable institutions. Far from recommending cruel acts, utilitarianism, understood this way, actually runs congruent to our basic moral intuitions.
A provocative attempt to support the practical use of utilitarian ethics in a world of conflicting interests and competing moral agents, Bailey's book employs the work of social scientists to tackle problems traditionally given abstract philosophical attention. Vividly illustrating its theory with concrete moral dilemmas and taking seriously our moral common sense, Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice is an accessible, groundbreaking work that will richly reward students and scholars of political science, political economy, and philosophy.
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Price: $41.95
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Sale: $34.93
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Geoffrey Scarre
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 144
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Publication Date: 1996-06-26
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: A critical survey of Utilitarianism which gives a historical context to the problem. Favourite subject for courses from 1st yr to postgrad. Jo Wolff (series ed): "written in a clear and attractive style, and does a superb job of making explicit the issues in the debate."
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $0.15
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Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tal Scriven
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.1
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Publication Date: 1997-07
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Reading Level: 218
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Description: This surprising work may well change our ideas about what libertarianism is and what it can be. Tal Scriven elaborates and defends a libertarian theory of social ethics that can support welfare, reverse discrimination, and environmental preservationism; biocentrism, Nietzschean perspectivism, and laws requiring good Samaritanism; and utilitarianism, the social contract theory, and legal moralism--all at the same time. In the process, he offers strikingly original analyses of figures as varied as Plato, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Dewey. The first part of the book articulates a libertarian approach to the ethics of social policy, arguing that the principle of utility should be understood, in judging social policy, through application of the principle of harm, or wrongness. Part II draws on Plato, Nietzsche, and Mill to give an account of ideas relevant to moral reflection on individual lives, analyzing various theories of prudential wisdom that apply to the private realm of purely personal action. Part III deals with our relationship, as individuals and societies, to nature. Scriven argues that nothing logically prevents a well-constructed libertarianism from supporting environmental-ethics positions at least as radical as biocentrism, although he finds deep problems with going as far as ecocentrism and its postmodern variants.
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Price: $35.95
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Sale: $30.15
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 171.5
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Publication Date: 2006-01-13
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: The Blackwell Guide to Mill’s Utilitarianism volume is an ideal commentary for students on Mill’s classic essay.
- Contains the complete text of Utilitarianism and twelve related essays.
- Essays cover the background to Mill’s classic essay, analyses of the arguments, and contemporary debates within the utilitarian tradition.
- Also includes a case study demonstrating the application of utilitarian theory to military or non-violent responses to terrorism.
- Each contribution is an original essay written by a specialist at the cutting edge of philosophical scholarship.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $37.99
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: D. Weinstein
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51
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Publication Date: 2008-01-14
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Reading Level: 242
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Description: In this groundbreaking study, David Weinstein argues that nineteenth-century English New Liberalism was considerably more indebted to classical English utilitarianism than the received view holds. T. H. Green, L. T. Hobhouse, D. G. Ritchie and J. A. Hobson were liberal consequentialists who followed J. S. Mill in trying to accommodate robust, liberal moral rights with the normative goal of promoting self-realization. Through careful interpretation of each, Weinstein shows how these theorists brought together themes from idealism, perfectionism and especially utilitarianism to create the new liberalism. Like Mill, they were committed to liberalizing consequentialism and systematizing liberalism. Because they were no less consequentialists than they were liberals, they constitute a greatly undervalued resource, Mill notwithstanding, for contemporary moral philosophers who remain dedicated to defending a coherent form of liberal consequentialism. The New Liberals had already traveled much of the philosophical ground that contemporary liberal consequentialists are unknowingly retraveling.
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $3.98
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Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Strathern
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Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Dewey Decimal Number: 192
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Publication Date: 2002-11-25
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $14.00
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Skorupski John
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 192
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Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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Reading Level: 121
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Description: John Stuart Mill is one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. But does he have anything to teach us today? His deep concern for freedom of the individual is thought by some to be outdated and inadequate to the cultural and religious complexities of twenty first century life. In this succinct and shrewd book, John Skorupski argues that Mill is a profound and inspiring social and political thinker from whom we still have much to learn. He reflects on Mill's central arguments in his most famous works, including Utilitarianism and On Liberty
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