Topics in philosophy

A gripping book from the bestselling author of hugely popular self-help book, The Road Less Travelled.

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments.

The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance and discrimination.

Queen Belacane is dying.

The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union - where the goals and values of Marxism-Leninism and the particular institutions, the form of economy and polity, were first adopted and developed.

This book addresses the fundamentals of machine ethics.

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by institutional, cultural, political, philosophical, and non-philosophical factors.

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Originally published in 1980, Social Welfare: Why and How?

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world?

Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity.

This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification.

A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values.

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline empowers students to take control of their own learning by asking questions, challenging assumptions, drawing upon reliable information, and exploring alternative opinions.

Hegel has had a remarkable, yet largely unremarked, role in Canada's intellectual development.

Hegels Philosophie der Kunst in ihrer umfänglich ausgearbeiteten Form ist allein durch Nachschriften zu Vorlesungen überliefert, die Hegel in Berlin insgesamt viermal gehalten hat.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book examines the challenges confronting the practice of democracy and governance in Nigeria.

Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the connection between death and love.

"e;A New Civil Rights Leader"e; explores what we mean when we speak of democracy and if democracy can truly ever exist (LA Times).

A clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, in a new, expanded edition.

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The "e;transcendental imagination"e; is a philosophical conception used in this essay to illuminate the ontological significance of the continuing proclamation of the Word of God.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

The multi-national region of Europe situated between the German-speaking lands and those of the former Soviet Union has witnessed many varied manifestations of nationalism over the last two centuries.

First published in 1987.

This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices.

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.

This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock 'moral concepts' to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the very nature of nursing.

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it.

Populism, Eco-populism, and the Future of Environmentalism analyzes the history and language of populism in order to fully comprehend the threat of eco-fascism - paradoxically revealing that it is possible for there to be both progressive eco-Populist and right-wing sham eco-Populist discourses.

Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad.

Der Klimawandel ist eine der größten – wenn nicht sogar die größte – Herausforderung unserer Zeit.

Title first published in 2003.

The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights.

Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century.

By the end of the nineteenth century, William Gladstone was arguably the most popular statesman in America since Lincoln.

This book explores the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Western Europe, North America and beyond from 2001 and onwards.

This book is a novel study on the way revolutions in science, technology and communication impact philosophy/world outlook including Marxism, society's future, mode of production, capitalism/socialism dichotomy, world economy, and trends like postmodernism and post-industrialism.

Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) is a construct which has been part of the British medico-legal landscape for nearly half a century.

In diesem packenden historischen Werk entführt Diego de Colon die Leser in die faszinierende Welt der Freimaurerei und des Papsttums.

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M.

The Routledge Companion to Ethics is an outstanding survey of the whole field of ethics by a distinguished international team of contributors.