This outstanding volume offers students, teachers and general readers a complete introductory survey of the major non-western philosophical traditions.
This outstanding volume offers students, teachers and general readers a complete introductory survey of the major non-western philosophical traditions...
Today democracy is increasingly recognized around the world as the only form of government with moral legitimacy. The problems of establishing and preserving truly democratic institutions, however, vary dramatically from culture to culture. Justice and Democracy explores these problems from a wide range of perspectives, theoretical and practical. It addresses problems related to the distortion of democratic decision-making by the gross disparities in wealth that arise in capitalist economies, and, in particular, focuses on the problems relating to the reconciliation of democratic values with...
Today democracy is increasingly recognized around the world as the only form of government with moral legitimacy. The problems of establishing and pre...
The Nature of Dignity argues that, given what evolutionary biology tells us about human nature, we need a new understanding of what is involved in the exhibition of personal dignity, since Kant and other Enlightenment figures whose ideas of dignity have shaped our own were wrong in several of their key assumptions. The required new conception of dignity is then developed on the basis of insights gleaned from history, political-economics, literature, film, hermeneutical ethics, and evolutionary biology.
The Nature of Dignity argues that, given what evolutionary biology tells us about human nature, we need a new understanding of what is involved in the...
