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Impossible Dreams : Rationality, Integrity, and Moral Imagination
Susan E. Babbitt
Paperback - $75.95
Both contemporary philosophy and commonsense morality presuppose a personal autonomy and integrity that an unjust social system may make impossible for some people. Babbit examines the implications of this insight, drawing on feminist and antiracist ...
Ethics : An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Alain Badiou
Paperback - $27.95
Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of ...
Torture : When the Unthinkable Is Morally Permissible
Mirko Bagaric
Paperback - $30.95
Argues that there are moral grounds to use torture where the lives of the innocent are at stake.
Making Sense : Philosophy Behind the Headlines
Julian Baggini
Paperback - $38.95
In Making Sense, Julian Baggini examines the philosophical issues and disputes that lie behind such news stories as the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, the war against terrorism, the siege at Waco, genetically modified foods, and advances in human therapeut ...
The Ethics Toolkit : A Compendium of Ethical Concepts and Methods
Julian Baggini
Hardcover - $138.95
"The Ethics Toolkit" provides an accessible and engaging compendium of concepts, theories, and strategies that encourage students and advanced readers to think critically about ethics so that they can engage intelligently in ethical study, thought, a ...
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten : 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
Julian Baggini
Paperback - $23.95
Both entertaining and startling, this volume offers 100 philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas and encourage readers to draw their own conclusions.
