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Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Winner: 2012 The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religious Studies, PROSE Award.

In this thought-provoking new work, the world renowned theologian Gary Dorrien reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the foundation and development of modern...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (Bloomsbury Companions)

Bloomsbury Reference, 2013

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, available to us through the early dialogues of Plato and the writings of his contemporaries, has had a remarkably enduring influence on virtually every area of philosophical enterprise .

This...

God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Imagining the Americas)

Oxford University Press, 2011

When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United...

Clinical Bioethics: A Search for the Foundations (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Springer, 2005

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality")

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics...

Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center

Soft Skull Press, 2008

Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the Âburbs? That’s the question posed by William Upski Wimsatt in his seminal foray into the world of hip-hop, rap, and street art, and the culture and politics that surround it. But to say that the book deals only with taggers and hip-hop is...

Gene Therapy: Treating Disease by Repairing Genes (New Biology)

Facts on File, 2004

Discusses how gene therapy works, what diseases may be treated by it, what the moral and ethical issues are, and provides case studies of Ashi DeSilva and Jesse Gelsinger.

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Dilemmas Of International Trade: Second Edition (Dilemmas in World Politics)

Westview Press, 2000

In the post-Cold War world, trade is the new arena for competition-between nations, between groups, between ethical and theoretical ideas. In this revised and updated second edition of Dilemmas of International Trade political economist Bruce Moon puts contemporary trade events--NAFTA, United States-Japan controversies, the Uruguay...

Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms and Viruses

Addison Wesley, 1990

This book is broken down into 6 parts. The first describes the emergence of a worldwide network of computers, here called Worldnet, and the practices that people have engaged in as a result. The second part describes the problem of electronic breakins. The third part deals with the phenomenon of worms. The fourth part deals with viruses. The...

Mathematica by Example

Academic Press, 1992

Mathematica bv Example is intended to bridge the gap which has existed between the very elementary handbooks available on Mathematica and those reference books written for the more advanced Mathematica users. This book is an extension of a manuscript which was developed to quickly introduce enough Mathematica commands to a group of...

Trust in Epistemology (Routledge Studies in Trust Research)

Routledge, 2019

Trust is fundamental to epistemology. It features as theoretical bedrock in a broad cross-section of areas including social epistemology, the epistemology of self-trust, feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of science. Yet epistemology has seen little systematic conversation with the rich literature on trust itself. This volume...

Between Deontology and Justice: Chinese and Western Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy)

Routledge, 2019

In China, political philosophy is still a comparatively new academic discipline. While there is no such phrase as “political philosophy” in ancient Chinese texts, there are elements within them that could be considered part of that field. Central questions of Chinese ancient political philosophy include the legitimacy of...

The Dark Side of Leadership: An Institutional Perspective

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Contrary to the notion that leaders contribute to positive behaviour within organisations, this book reflects growing interest in the ‘dark side’ of leadership: the unethical and immoral personalities that can reside in positions of power. Drawing on empirical and theoretical analysis, the author examines immorality...

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