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John Gower, moral philosopher and friend of Chaucer / by Fisher, John H.

The Development of Morality : Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Reflections on Ethics / by Brown, Robin (Robin Gordon)

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The perspective of morality : philosophical foundations of Thomistic virtue ethics / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

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The perspective of morality : philosophical foundations of Thomistic virtue ethics / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

Professors & public ethics ; studies of Northern moral philosophers before the Civil War. by Smith, Wilson

Aristotle's "Rhetoric" : Philosophical Essays

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Clinical ethics consultation : theories and methods, implementation, evaluation

Table of Contents: “…What does the ethical expertise of a moral philosopher involve in clinical ethics consultancy? …”
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Moral writings by Prichard, H. A. (Harold Arthur), 1871-1947

“…British moral philosophers.…”
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Essays on ethics and method by Sidgwick, Henry, 1838-1900

“…British moral philosophers.…”
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Hobbes and the law of nature by Zagorin, Perez

Table of Contents: “…The theory of sovereignty; The liberty of subjects; Hobbes's very moral sovereign -- Hobbes, the moral philosopher. Self and others; obligation; Is and ought; Religion and toleration.…”
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Capitalist revolutionary : John Maynard Keynes by Backhouse, Roger, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- The rise and fall of Keynesian economics -- Keynes the moral philosopher: confronting the challenges to capitalism -- Keynes the physician: developing a theory of a capitalist economy -- Keynes's ambiguous revolution -- Perpetual revolution.…”
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The Will to Believe : And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. by James, William

Table of Contents: “…; The Sentiment of Rationality; Reflex Action and Theism; The Dilemma of Determinism; The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life; Great Men and Their Environment; The Importance of Individuals; On Some Hegelisms; What Psychical Research Has Accomplished; Endnotes.…”
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Ordinary Unhappiness The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace. by Baskin, Jon

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Kant's defense of common moral experience : a phenomenological account by Grenberg, Jeanine

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Getting Kant's joke: a phenomenological defenseof common moral experience; The common moral philosopher: admonishing the experts; The development of the practical problem; Reassertion of the common point of view; Chapter summary; Part I The interpretive framework; 1 Kant's common, phenomenological grounding of morality; Introduction; First-personal phenomenological experience; Common experience; Felt experience; Attention to felt experience; The attentive moral philosopher; 2 Response to immediate objections: experience; Introduction.…”
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Dante : Contemporary Perspectives. by Iannucci, Amilcare

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William James on Ethics and Faith. by Slater, Michael R.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a practical faith; Part I Practical faith and the will to believe; Chapter 1 The will and the right to believe; Chapter 2 James's Wager and the right to believe; Part II Two moral arguments for religious faith; Chapter 3 James's religious ethics in "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life"; Chapter 4 Overcoming pessimism in "Is Life Worth Living?"…”
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The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking by Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck

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Christian and moral action / Christian & moral action by Flannery, Kevin L.

Thought thinking : the philosophy of Giovanni Gentile

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Body matter; Introduction; Gentile as Historian of Philosophy: The Method of Immanence in Practice; The Integral Philosophical Experience of Actualism; Giovanni Gentile as Moral Philosopher; Gentile, Education and Mind; Gentile and Modernity; The Actuality of Gentile's Philosophy of History; Collingwood, Gentile and Italian Neo-Idealism in Britain; The Method of Immanence; Pure Experience and Historical Reality; The Moral Problem; Basic Concepts of Actualism; Back matter; Notes on Contributors; Also available.…”
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Promises, Oaths, and Vows : On the Psychology of Promising. by Schlesinger, Herbert J.

Table of Contents: “…Promise Keeping as One of the Defining Acts of Morality: Philosophical, Historical, and Legal Background; Chapter 3. …”
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The moral imagination : from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling by Himmelfarb, Gertrude

Table of Contents: “…Adam Smith : political economist cum moral philosopher -- Edmund Burke : apologist for Judaism? …”
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Rediscovery of Jewish Christianity : From Toland to Baur. by Jones, F. Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Stanley Jones -- Jewish Christianity" and "Christian Deism" in Thomas Morgan's The Moral Philosopher by Matt Jackson-McCabe -- From Toland to Baur by F. …”
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In the beginning was the deed : realism and moralism in political argument / Realism and moralism in political argument by Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003

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Reflections on how we live by Baier, Annette

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In the beginning was the deed : realism and moralism in political argument / Realism and moralism in political argument by Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003

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The ingenious gentleman and poet Federico García Lorca ascends to hell by Rojas, Carlos, 1928-2020

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The Life of Adam Smith. by Ross, Ian Simpson

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Culture, suicide, and the human condition

Table of Contents: “…Free Philosophers and Tragic Women; Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages; Part III. …”
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Henry Sidgwick, eye of the universe : an intellectual biography by Schultz, Bart

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Shakespeare and moral agency

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : is Shakespeare a moral philosopher? / Michael Bristol -- Moral agency and its problems in Julius Caesar : political power, choice, and history / Hugh Grady -- A Shakespearean phenomenology of moral conviction / James A. …”
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Beyond philosophy : ethics, history, Marxism, and liberation theology by Dussel, Enrique D.

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Encyclopedia of ethics / Credo Reference

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Ethical Issues in Youth Work. by Banks, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction to the second edition; Part 1: The ethical context of youth work; 1 Ethics and the youth worker; 2 Working in welfare: Youth policy's contradictions and dilemmas; 3 Ethics, collaboration and the organisational context of youth work; 4 Resourcing youth work: Dirty hands and tainted money; Part 2: Ethical issues in practice; 5 Youth workers as professionals: Managing dual relationships and maintaining boundaries; 6 Youth workers as moral philosophers: Developing right thinking and mindfulness.…”
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Francis Bacon's "inquiry touching human nature" : virtue, philosophy, and the relief of man's estate by Minkov, Svetozar, 1975-

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In quest of Tolstoy by McLean, Hugh, 1925-2017

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Close encounters : essays on Russian literature by Jackson, Robert Louis

Table of Contents: “…Introductory note / Horst-Jürgen Gerigk -- A glance at the essays -- Moral-philosophical subtext in Pushkin's The stone guest -- Turgenev's Knock . knock . knock! …”
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Adam Smith : systematic philosopher and public thinker by Schliesser, Eric, 1971-

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Wonder Woman and Philosophy. by Irwin, William

Table of Contents: “…"; Notes; 9: "What I Had to Do": The Ethics of Wonder Woman's Execution of Maxwell Lord; Maxwell Lord, Check and Mate; Killing Now to Prevent Killing Later; Would a Moral Philosopher Have Saved Max Lord?; No Regret, No Remorse; Avoiding the Tragic Dilemma.…”
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A companion to the philosophy of literature

Table of Contents: “…Nussbaum -- Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond -- Literature and the idea of morality / Eileen John -- Styles of self-absorption / Daniel Brudney -- Narrative and the question of literary truth -- Narrative, imitation, and point of view / Gregory Currie -- How and what we can learn from fiction / Mitchell Green -- Literature and truth / Peter Lamarque --Truth in poetry : particulars and universals / Richard Eldridge -- Intention and biography in criticism -- Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism / Paisley Livingston -- Art as techne, or, the intentional fallacy and the unfinished project of formalism / Henry Staten -- Biography in literary criticism / Stein Haugom Olsen -- Getting inside Heisenberg's head / Ray Monk -- On literary language -- Wittgenstein and literary language / Jon Cook and Rupert Read -- Exemplification and expression / Charles Altieri -- At play in the fields of metaphor / Ted Cohen -- Macbeth appalled / Stanley Cavell.…”
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Community of Inquiry : Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature. by Dooley, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…"Matters of Conscience" and "Blunders of Virtue": Crane on the Varieties of Heroism, or Why Moral Philosophers Need Literature.…”
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