After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Paperback - Alasdair MacIntyre

Reducere. When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosoph...

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in cont...

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by on...

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, '...

Terry Eagleton's witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are rega...

Discussing Plato's views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Pl...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

One of the most vital and controversial works in twentieth-century world moral philosophy, After Virtue (1981) examines how we think about, talk ab...

Reducere. In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural me...

Reducere. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ...

Reducere. Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality ...

Reducere. MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods require...

Reducere. How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important ...

Contributor(s): Author: Alasdair MacIntyreAlasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argue...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 215 x 138 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

DescriptionDescription: The first edition of Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World became one of the founding and guiding texts for new monastic ...

Reducere. King Arthur would get advice from his magician, Merlyn, in the mythic stories. The real Arthur (who lived over 500 years before the period of the m...

Reducere. We have reduced all virtues to one: being nice. And, we measure Jesus by our standard instead of measuring our standard by Him. For the Christian, ...

A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Reducere. As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values i...

This book investigates the relationship between our present and future selves. It focuses specifically on diachronic self-regarding decisions: choi...

Remarkable for its vast assembly of facts and its charm of presentation, it offers the thesis that man progresses from magic through religious beli...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating graded material that encourages students to read. S...

Reducere. Based on the Sherlock Holmes film: Ellery Queen matches wits with the Baker Street sleuth to unmask Jack the Ripper. Ellery Queen is struggling ove...

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition - C. S. Lewis

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature - William James

A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- .

A TV tie-in edition of Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, a genre-defining work in which popular crime fiction was born. Features contempor...

First published in 1887, A Study in Scarlet introduced to the reading public Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, ...

First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and h...

Offers a study of the sources of the Tristan romance, tracing them through the various versions of the legend. Sigmund Eisner makes the claim that ...