Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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  • Cover scan of Reid On Ethics
    Reid On Ethics - Hardback
    This is an edited collection to bring together classic pieces and new work by leading scholars of Thomas Reid. The contributors explore key elements of Reid's ideas about moral epistemology, moral emotions, moral agency and practical ethics.
  • Cover scan of The Impartial Spectator
    The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy - D. D. Raphael - Paperback
    The author examines the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, best known for his famous work on economics, 'The Wealth of Nations', and shows that his thought still has much to offer philosophers today. He gives particular attention to Smith's original theory of conscience, with its emphasis on the role of 'sympathy'.
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    The Ethics Of Peacebuilding - Timothy Murithi - Paperback
  • Cover scan of An Inquiry Into The Original Of Our Ideas Of Beauty And Virtue
    An Inquiry Into The Original Of Our Ideas Of Beauty And Virtue: In Two Treatises - Francis Hutcheson - Paperback
    Francis Hutcheson's first book, 'An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue', was published in 1725, when its author was only 31. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
  • Cover scan of Understanding Ethics
    Understanding Ethics: An Introduction To Moral Theory - Torbjörn Tännsjö - Paperback
    This non-technical introduction to ethics explores how we find true or reasonable moral principles, applicable to practical cases. The reader is presented with seven different basic moral theories. Each attempts to provide an ultimate answer to the question, what ought to be done - and why?
  • Cover scan of An Inquiry Into The Original Of Our Ideas Of Beauty And Virtue
    An Inquiry Into The Original Of Our Ideas Of Beauty And Virtue: In Two Treatises - Francis Hutcheson - Hardback
    Francis Hutcheson's first book, 'An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue', was published in 1725, when its author was only 31. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
  • Cover scan of Two Texts On Human Nature
    Two Texts On Human Nature - Francis Hutcheson - Paperback
    Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was the first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, and one of the great thinkers in the history of British moral philosophy. This volume collects two of his texts and presents a mass of information on his life and times.
  • Cover scan of Ethics, Economics And International Relations
    Ethics, Economics And International Relations: Transparent Sovereignty In The Commonwealth Of Life - Peter G. Brown - Paperback
    Peter G. Brown shows how we can reconceptualise economics as an economics of stewardship; how governments can be thought of as trustees to protect human rights; and how civil society can be organised and property rights reconceptualised in service of these objectives.
  • Cover scan of World Ethics
    World Ethics: The New Agenda - Nigel Dower - Paperback
    Defending the claim that we are world citizens with global duties, Dower takes the reader through the current theories of world ethics, scrutinizing the environment, the United Nations, world poverty, and war and peace as he relates current theory with social reality.
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    David Hume: Moral And Political Theorist - Russell Hardin - Hardback
    By placing Hume in the developing tradition of social science, as a strong forerunner of his younger friend Adam Smith, Hardin shows Hume's strong strategic sense, his powerful theory of convention as a main source of social and political order, and his recognition of moral and political theory as a single enterprise.

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