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by Augustine (Author), Henry Bettenson (Translator)St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible. Pointing the way forward to a citizenship that transcends the bes...

Nature, Artforms, and the World Around Us: An Introduction to the Regions of Aesthetic Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Wood (Author)Provides a systematic approach to phenomenology and aestheticsPresents the regional ontologies of each artformProvides comprehensive view of aesthetic methodBack JacketThis book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience. Each chapter displays the regional ontology of the form considered: the co...

The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Zwolinski (Editor), Benjamin Ferguson (Editor)This handbook is the first definitive reference on libertarianism that offers an in-depth survey of the central ideas from across philosophy, politics and economics, including applications to contemporary policy issues.Author BiographyMatt Zwolinski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, USA, and Director of USD's Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy.Benjamin Ferguson is an Associ...

The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life

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Report copyright infringementby Augustin Landier (Author), David Thesmar (Author)The economic case for self-interest at the outer limits of being morally good. Modern life is an exercise in discomfort. In the face of endless injustice, how much selfishness is permissible? How do we square suffering elsewhere with our hope to thrive at home? How does one strive for the greater good while guarding one's personal interests? The Price of Our Values argues that the answers to these questions are e...

On Indigenuity: Learning the Lessons of Mother Earth - Paperback

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by Daniel R. Wildcat (Author)Mother Earth is calling on us to act--the collective wisdom of thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge can guide us. Indigenuity, or Indigenous ingenuity, stems from an ancient idea and practice that Native peoples have engaged in for millennia. It was born of a careful mindfulness and attentiveness to our planet and all of its creatures, and a recognition that human experience is intertwined with all that surrounds us. As a society, we rarely pay attention to ...

The Islamic Moral Economy: A Study of Islamic Money and Financial Instruments

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Report copyright infringementby Shafiel A. Karim (Author)The Islamic Moral Economy is an academic book that analyzes the religious permissibility or lack thereof of the existing repertoire of financial instruments used in Islamic banking and finance. The work is both timely and sound, especially considering the growth of the international Islamic banking and insurance industries, and the Great Recession of 2007-2010. The Islamic Moral Economy is an excellent introductory book for academics an...

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Report copyright infringementby Bank of Nova Scotia (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

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Report copyright infringementby General Foods Corporation General Fo (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, tha...

Microsecession: Simple Ways to Liberate Yourself, Your Family and Your Community from Government Idiocy

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan L. Bartlett (Author)Are you always trying to get ahead, but feel like you aren't gaining any ground? Tired of working for more and somehow making less? Does it seem like you're trapped in a game of economic roulette-always betting your time and energy, but ultimately paying the price from your own pocket? From the devalued dollar to the healthcare hassle, MicroSecession gives you new ways to think about money and value in an economy overrun with ridicu...

The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method - Paperback

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by Emile Durkheim (Author), Steven Lukes (With)Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim's masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes that puts Durkheim's work into context for the twenty-first century reader.The Rules of Sociological Method represents Emile Durkheim's manifesto for sociology. He argues forcefully for the objective, scientific, and methodo...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandeep Chavan (Author)The Future Knows No Lines: Imagining a Borderless World is a thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live in a world without borders. Written by Sandeep Chavan, this book takes readers on an intellectual and imaginative journey, examining the possibilities, challenges, and implications of a unified global society.The idea of a borderless world is sparked by a simple yet profound question posed by a young student: "What if there ...

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by Benedict De Spinoza (Author), Edwin Curley (Translator), Stuart Hampshire (Introduction by)A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical ...

EMERGENCE Rational Optimism in the Age of Hyper-Progress

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Report copyright infringementby Horton (Author)In a world saturated with dire predictions and cultural cynicism, Emergence offers a compelling counter-narrative. Dr. Anthony Horton weaves insights from Steven Pinker, Peter Zeihan and Yuval Noah Harari into an optimistic exploration of humanity's trajectory. By combining empirical data, historical analysis and critical synthesis, this essay challenges readers to reconsider their perspectives on progress, resilience and the potential of human i...

Selected Philosophical Writings - Paperback

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by Thomas Aquinas (Author), Timothy McDermott (Translator)St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it--to explore, for example, spiritual revelation--makes his work as fresh and readable today as it was seven centuries ago.This accessible new translation offers thirty-eight substantial passages not only from the indispensable Summa Theologicae, but...

Free Will: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Thomas Pink (Author)Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of choices: some trivial, others so consequential that they change the course of one's life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free, or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we could have made different decisions just an illusion? And if our choices are not free, is it legitimate to hold people morally responsible for their actions?Thomas Pink lo...

One Water: An Integrated and Adaptive Approach for Rural Wastewater Management in the People's Republic of China

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This report shows how adopting the One Water holistic water management approach could help the People's Republic of China (PRC) analyze rural wastewater issues and build cost-effective circular solutions based on the specific needs of each village. The report explains how the One Water method can be used to effectively assess water resources in rural communities, see how they are interconnected, and develop integrated and adaptive...

Journey of an Ideal State: Statecraft and Economics

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Report copyright infringementby Abhay Desai (Author)History has taught us lot of lessons on how to or not to run a state. The statecraft and economic ideologies employed over past century, have resulted in many tumultuous events which had a lasting impact on the governance as well as economy. Irrespective of the style and philosophy adopted from time to time, human nature has been always a predominant factor in determining successes and failures of these systems.This book discusses the histor...

Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Beaney (Author)Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the Second World War, it developed further in North America, in the rest of Europe, and is now growing in influence as the dominant philosophical tradition right across the world, from Latin America to East Asia. In this Very...

Ideology: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Freeden (Author)Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores the changing understandings of ideology as a concept, and the arguments...

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Robert Wokler (Author)One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's life and works, Robert Wolker shows how his philosophy of history, his the...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Ridley (Author)Where God confronts darkness: The Book of Outcomes is a blueprint for the survival of humanity and the battle between Light and dark. It contains key messages of The Golden Rule - treating others as you would wish to be treated. The Book of Outcomes integrates Eastern and Western philosophies and addresses all the required components, including leadership, socio-economics, the environment, technology and climate change. This is where God,...

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Richards (Author), Joanna Swanger (Author), Ivo Coelho (Editor)"Here then is a book that gently, persistently and, I think, solidly makes a case for incorporating Gandhi's insights into mainstream economics. Gandhi and the Future of Economics is not meant to be a research study of Gandhian economics. It is rather that kind of felicitous publication that breathes new life into a known theme, and, in doing so, brings out its implications for praxis. Even b...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Trader (Author)Why does it seem like the more we think, the less we know? Why does the search for new horizons of the mind always bring us back to the ruins of the past? Is there really nothing new under the sun? In "Growing Past Kant," Jim Trader provides original and insightful answers to these questions. Through analyzing foundational work done in fields as diverse as philosophy, biology, physics, psychology, and economics, this scholarly tour de force r...

The Purpose of the Environmental Crisis: A Reinterpretation of Holderlin's Philosophy

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Paul Cummins (Author)The German Romantic Friedrich Holderlin developed a unique perspective on the relationship between humankind and the rest of nature. He believed that humanity has a positive role to play in cosmic evolution, and that modernity is the crucial stage in fulfilling this role. In this book the author views Holderlin's ideas from the perspective of the environmental crisis of modernity. From this perspective the environmental crisis has a pu...

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Report copyright infringementby B. Barry (Author), R. I. Sikora (Author), Richard Sikora (Editor)When this seminal collection of essays was first published in 1978, the philosophical 'problem' of obligations to fixture generations was not widely recognised. But as the contributors point out, the theories that have constituted the stock-in-trade of moral philosophers for the past two hundred years often produce weird and counter-intuitive results when they are extended to try to include those ...

The Problem with Money Volume II: Solving the Problem

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Report copyright infringementby Tobias Thornes (Author)The way in which our society treats our planet and its people needs to change. We cannot continue to live as we do today. But things can be made better. Our problems can be solved. Without money. The Problem with Money is a two-volume book that explores why money is at the heart of today's social and environmental crises. Volume I explored the reasons why money has such a hold on our society, and why it is so problematic, calling for a ne...

Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Sue Hamilton (Author)India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions. In this intriguing introduction to Indian philosophy, the diversity of Indian thought is emphasized. It is structured around six schools of thought that have received classic status. Sue Hamilton explores how the traditions have attempted to understand the nature of reality in terms of inner or spiritual que...

Ethics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Simon Blackburn (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Here, Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire, and freedom, showing us how we should think abo...

Philosophical Enquiry Sublime and Beautiful - Paperback

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by Burke (Author)Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's 'Enquiry', focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin and Nietzsche. Number of Pages: 154 Dimensions: 0.4 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2015

Logic: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Graham Priest (Author)Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explain...

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Barnes (Author)Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-opti...