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Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality...

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is considered to be the father of modern philosophy.  Kant’s writings continue to influence the philosophy in many fields including metaphysics, ethics, and political theory.  This edition of Perpetual Peace includes a table of contents.

Ethics are more than a personal philosophy. From the crimes of Bernie Madoff to the accusations of war crimes and torture to the massive greed-inspired fraud perpetrated by the financial institutions around the world, this new edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Ethics,...

It is a satire on the power that technology has or could have on us all. The story is projected in the future to better narrate the present. It is not a science fiction book, but a pamphlet to stimulate our intuition and reflections on the life under surveillance which we are already beginning to...

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Nietzche contre Wagner de Friedrich Nietzsche augmentée d'annexes (Nietzsche, sa vie et sa pensée par Andler; La philosophie de Nietzsche par Lichtenberger; La jeunesse de Nietzsche par Lizewa). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis...

David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon philosophical...

Edition Complète de " Traité sur la Tolérance - Illustré - Voltaire ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. Ce texte vise la réhabilitation de Jean Calas, protestant faussement accusé et exécuté pour avoir assassiné...

Before Marcuse and Laing, before Heidegger and Sartre, even before Freud, the way was prepared for the anarcho-psychological critique of economic man, of all codes of ideology or absolute morality, and of scientific habits of mind. First published in 1974, this title traces this philosophical tradition...

On m’a assez souvent, et toujours avec une profonde surprise, déclaré qu’il y avait quelque chose de commun et de caractéristique dans tous mes ouvrages, depuis la Naissance de la tragédie jusqu’au dernier publié, le Prélude à une philosophie...

If "two are better than one," then many brains will be better than none, right? It is going to seem bizarre and this is not going to go down well with the intellectually proud, but scientists are discovering that microbes without brains can make decisions that are wiser than those made by humans....

Many great thinkers have wrestled with the topic of evil. St. Thomas Aquinas's disputed question On Evil merges as the longest and most comprehensive study on the subject of evil available. This long-awaited translation is based on the critical edition of the Latin text published by the Leonine Commission...

The search for happiness has been an enduring quest for us all. The greatest minds from history--Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Gandhi, Einstein and many others—all confirm that happiness is the one thing we all crave after. The Wild Longing of the Human Heart is divided into...

This macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. The macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest...

W. Cleon Skousen leads off with the question, “Are there prophets living today?” and discusses how we can learn about God. He covers many of the stumbling blocks to faith in our times. He rips open the secret weapon of materialist thinking and shows how to successfully combat it. This...