The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, Paperback - Deirdre N. McCloskey

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers a...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Deirdre N. McCloskeyNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 218 x 141 x 16Cover ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 15Co...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 22Co...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Victoria (University of Westminster, UK) BrooksNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

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DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

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"Magnanimity is in short supply, " writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, "but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): John LieNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 18Cover type: Paperba...

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"First published as Metaphilosophy volume 49, no. 3 (April 2018)."

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

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In presenting four substantial, historically valuable collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book illustrates how understand...