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Human Life, Action and Ethics
Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
by Edmond Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Are you prepared, either as an atheist or a religious believer, to have your ideas of God, the self, other people, the body, the soul, spirituality, and faith challenged in an unexpected and original way? Here is a book that moves out from under and away from the received notions of those ponderous...
Independent
The Rise of the Non-Aligned Politician
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Martin Bell, Ken Livingstone and Richard Taylor (the doctor who became an MP to save his local hospital) are the best known of a growing band of British politicians making their mark outside the traditional party system. Some (like Livingstone) have emerged from within the old political system that...
Panic on a Plate
How Society Developed an Eating Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Food in Britain today is more plentiful, more nutritious, more varied, and much more affordable than ever in our history. This is something to celebrate, and Rob Lyons does exactly that. In a series of short up-beat chapters he challenges head on the fashionable critics of so-called junk food and...
Knowing, Doing, and Being
New Foundations for Consciousness Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Between 1965 and 2002 several key lines of research emerged which, taken together, can potentially revolutionise our understanding of the place of consciousness in the universe. Two of these are crucial: first, the analyses of human mental processes by Barnard, and independently by McGilchrist, revealing...
Ways of Knowing
Science and Mysticism Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The world faces a crisis of meaning. The old stories - whether the exclusive claims of rival religions or the grand schemes of perennial philosophy - seem bankrupt to many. The editorial stance of this book is that mysticism and science offer a way forward here, but only if they abandon the idol of a...
by Graham Long
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Moral relativism is often regarded as both fatally flawed and incompatible with liberalism. This book aims to show why such criticism is misconceived. First, it argues that relativism provides a plausible account of moral justification. Drawing on the contemporary relativist and universalist analyses...
Intimations Pursued
The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In this book Andrew Sullivan examines Oakeshott's transition from his original emphasis on philosophy as providing what was ultimately satisfactory in experience to his later emphasis on practical life. This satisfaction is best achieved by a fusion of the modes of poetry and practice, leading the...
The Woman Racket
The New Science Explaining How Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
His first book, The Great Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office and led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at the time by the government and the 'liberal' media for alarmism, Moxon's analysis has now been adopted...
The Landscape of Humanity
Art, Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics and tradition.
Arthur Balfour's Ghosts
An Edwardian Elite and the Riddle of the Cross-Correspondence Automatic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book tells the incredible story of the cross-correspondence automatic writings, described by one leading scholar of the field, Alan Gauld, 'as undoubtedly the most extensive, the most complex and the most puzzling of all ostensible attempts by deceased persons to manifest purpose, and in so doing...
Citizens of Character
New Directions in Character and Values Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The contributors discuss why character education is considered valuable, what character education is taken to mean, and identify and test hypotheses about various influences (schools, families, communities, employers) on the development of character through reporting on our research in UK schools, universities and businesses.
The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott
Discourse, Contingency, and 'The Politics of Conversation'
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
his book offers a description, explanation, and evaluation of Michael Oakeshott’s democratic theory. He was not a democratic theorist as such, but as a twentieth-century English political theorist for whom liberal theory held deep importance, his thought often engaged democratic theory implicitly,...
by Joseph Femia
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The working hypothesis of this book is that the issue of leadership is neglected by mainstream democratic and liberal theories. This deficiency has especially become evident in the last three or four decades, which have witnessed a revival of deontological liberalism and radical theories of participatory...