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Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics

In the years shortly before and after the publication of his classic Truth and Method (1960), the eminent German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer returned often to questions surrounding religion and ethics. In this selection of writings from Gesammelte...

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Morality and Contemporary Warfare

When is the use of military force by a nation morally justified? Why has the long accepted moral requirement to protect civilians from intentional attack eroded in recent years? How can the tendency toward unrestrained warfare between parties with major...

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The Thread of Life

In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Richard Wollheim offers an original approach to the philosophical understanding of a person. Countering prevailing theories on the nature of persons, Wollheim submits an account of the mind dynamically...

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Say You Love Satan

The author draws on months of research and exclusive interviews to provide an account of the involvement of three Long Island teenagers with a deadly Satanic cult and the brutal torture-murder of one of the boys

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Introduction to Metaphysics

Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics is one of the most important works written by this towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. It includes a powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought, a sweeping vision of Western history, and a glimpse of...

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Philosophy of Sex and Love: A Reader

The human experience of sex and love has direct impact on our social well-being. By studying sexual philosophy, we allow ourselves, through exposure to a variety of alternative belief systems, to consider new possibilities and options as well as to develop...

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The Meaning of Truth

In this sequel to Pragmatism, one of America's outstanding philosophers, William James ( 1842-1910), responds to absolutist critics -- believers in immutable truth and innate or inherited knowledge -- who misrepresent the philosophy of pragmatism as just...

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Made in Whose Image: Genetic Engineering and Christian Ethics

The ability of medical science to clone and perhaps even predetermine characteristics of certain species conflicts dramatically with many claims of the religious establishment. Opening with a description of various developments in plant, animal, and human...

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Interpretation, Relativism, and the Metaphysics of Culture: Themes in the Philosophy of Joseph Margolis

A number of scholars of diverse philosophical persuasions have come together in this volume to debate the strengths and weaknesses of Margolis' metaphysics and logic as he applied them throughout a variety of cultural spheres. The essays broach the topics...

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The Restitution of Metaphysics

The twentieth century has been marked by widespread attacks upon, if not the complete repudiation of, metaphysics. This has been due largely to the influence of empiricism, inspired by the presuppositions of Newtonian science. Some scientists refuse to...

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Men's Feminism: August Bebel and the German Socialist Movemnet

August Bebel (1840-1913) was Europe's foremost theorist of feminism and socialism and, as the author of the widely read Women and Socialism, was the popularizer of a set of politics as seductive and contested today as they were in the last century. In...

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Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History

History begins inseparably with the birth of the polis and of philosophy. Both represent a unity in strife. History is life that no longer takes itself for granted. To speak, then, of the meaning of history is not to tell a story with a projected happy...

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A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger

Beginning with a confrontation in 1929 in Switzerland, Michael Friedman examines how the work of three pivotal philosophers evolved and intertwined over several years, ultimately giving rise to two very different schools of thought -- analytic philosophy...

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Kierkegaard and the Art of Irony

The tendency of many scholars to interpret Kierkegaard's works as a unified system of 'indirect communication' that obliquely hints at an underlying ontology or a set of ethical principles is fundamentally misguided, says philosopher Roy Martinez. Kierkegaard's...

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Living Responsibly in Community: Essays in Honor of E. Clinton Gardner

These essays critically appropriate the concepts of responsibility and covenant by reconceptualizing them within diverse Christian ethical traditions (virtue ethics, feminist ethics, African-American) and by discerning their implications for critical...

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