Clarendon Press: 55 books
Open Fields
Science in Cultural Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1999
Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These acclaimed and challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Gillian Beer tracks encounters...
Playing by the Rules
A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1991
This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule. Although focused somewhat on the role of rules in the legal system, it is also relevant to the place of rules in morality, religion, etiquette, games, language, and family governance. In both explaining the idea of a rule...
Value Judgement
Improving Our Ethical Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1998
James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. So Value Judgement includes discussion of what...
by George Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1984
A scholarly edition of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The Concealed Art of the Soul
Theories of Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal the truth about the nature of the soul, but should...
by J. L. Ackrill
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1997
J. L. Ackrill's work on Plato and Aristotle has had a considerable influence upon ancient philosophical studies in the late twentieth century. In his writings the rigour and clarity of contemporary analytical philosophy are brought to bear upon ancient thought; in many cases he has provided the first...
by Michael Stocker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. This book rejects this view. The author first demonstrates why it is so important to understand the issues raised by plural and conflicting...
by Jonathan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1995
The Act Itself offers a deeper understanding of what is going on in our own moral thoughts about human behaviour. Many of the descriptions of behaviour on which our moral thoughts are based are confused; others may be free of confusion, but still we are not clear in our minds about what thoughts they...
Making Men Moral
Civil Liberties and Public Morality
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1993
Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that `moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in...
Problems and Process
International Law and How We Use It
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 1994
Based upon the revised text of her Hague Academy lectures, Professor Higgins presents an original and thought-provoking study of the nature and processes of international law, and reveals the complex relationship between legal norms and the policy objectives which lie at the heart of this subject.
by Ian Simpson Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1995
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is perceived, through his best-known book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, as the founder of economics as a science. His thought has shaped modern ideas about the market economy and the role of the state in relation to it. Yet Smith needs to be recognized...
Fear of Knowledge : Against Relativism and Constructivism
Against Relativism and Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a particular perspective. He demonstrates...
Poesies choisies de Andre Chenier
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Au début nous retrouvons des muses, des héros, des poètes grecs et bien que la langue soit très belle cela manque un peu de coeur. Mais au fur et à mesure du récit on se recentre sur l'Europe puis sur la France puis sur le poète et ses textes gagnent en profondeur.
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