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Philosophy
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Mind, Self, and Society
A posthumous book, subtitled From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist, edited by Charles W. Morris from students' notes of Mead's course in social psychology at the University…
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Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
Noddings's founding statement of care ethics, which grounds morality in the caring relation rather than in principles. She analyses the relation between the "one-caring" and the "cared-for". The…
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Intention
A short, dense monograph in fifty-two numbered sections, often said to have founded modern philosophy of action. Anscombe asks what distinguishes intentional actions from other things we do…
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Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
A short book based on Wolf's Tanner Lectures at Princeton, published with comments by John Koethe, Robert M. Adams, Nomy Arpaly and Jonathan Haidt and a reply by…
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The Sovereignty of Good
A short book of three essays: "The Idea of Perfection", "On 'God' and 'Good'" and "The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts". Murdoch attacks the picture of the…
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The Examined Life
A book of short reflective essays, subtitled Philosophical Meditations, in which Nozick turns from technical argument to the questions people ask about their own lives. The title echoes…
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Natural Goodness
Foot's late, compact statement of an ethical naturalism she calls "natural normativity". She argues against the view, shared by emotivists and their successors, that moral judgements express attitudes…
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Beast and Man
Midgley's first book, subtitled The Roots of Human Nature, argues that human beings are animals and that this fact helps rather than threatens our understanding of ourselves. She…
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
A sustained critique of systematic moral theory. Williams starts from Socrates' question, "how should one live?", and asks whether philosophy can answer it. He examines attempts to ground…
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Sources of the Self
A long history of the modern Western sense of self, subtitled The Making of the Modern Identity. Part I argues that selfhood and morality are inseparable: to know…
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