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Philosophy
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The Morality of Freedom
A treatise developing a perfectionist liberalism grounded in personal autonomy. Raz first sets out his service conception of authority: an authority is legitimate when people would better conform…
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An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme
A study by a Ghanaian philosopher of the ideas of the Akan people of Ghana, treated with the methods of analytic philosophy. Gyekye first defends the claim that…
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
A long book, subtitled 'An Eternal Golden Braid', that uses the logician Kurt Gödel, the artist M. C. Escher and the composer J. S. Bach to ask how…
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Animal Liberation
An argument for taking animal suffering seriously, written for a general audience. The first chapter argues that the principle of equal consideration of interests, which condemns racism and…
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Spheres of Justice
Walzer's account of distributive justice, subtitled A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, written against theories that seek one principle for distributing all goods. Its central claim is that…
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Democracy and Education
Dewey's main work on the philosophy of education, subtitled An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. It begins from the claim that every society must renew itself by…
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The Imperative of Responsibility
Jonas's main work in ethics, subtitled In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age in the English version of 1984. He argues that modern technology has changed…
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The Idea of Justice
A long work of political philosophy, dedicated to the memory of John Rawls and written as a friendly but sustained challenge to his approach. Sen argues that most…
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Experience and Nature
Dewey's most systematic work of philosophy, developed from his Paul Carus Lectures and revised in 1929 with a new first chapter. It sets out what he called empirical…
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A Sand County Almanac
A collection of nature essays published shortly after Leopold's death, in full A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There. The first part follows the months of…
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