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Autor:
Amy Garnai
A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and re
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Lambert Zuidervaart
Questions first raised by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s take on new urgency in the post-truth era, as political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain: Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth sti
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Stefan Riedener
How ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)—the view that under axiological uncertainty, an option is better than another if and only if i
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Daniel Krchňák
Title in English: Two hemispheres – two worlds: On the relationship between brain asymmetry and trends in contemporary Western society Contemporary Western society is going through myriad dramatic changes and many people view current societal devel
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Bart Schultz
A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other foundersIn The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilita
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Benedikt Kahmen, Markus Stepanians
Due to its scope and depth, Moore's Causation and Responsibility is probably the most important publication in the philosophy of law since the publication of Hart's and Honoré's Causation in the Law in 1959. This volume offers, for the first time, a
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Eric Roark
Removing the Commons examines the moral condition in which people can remove--through either use or appropriation--natural resources from the commons. This task begins with a robust defense of the view that natural resources initially belong to all p
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Christoph Hanisch
This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, emp
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Peter Stemmer
Dieser Band versammelt die wichtigsten Arbeiten, in denen Peter Stemmer die kontraktualistische Moralkonzeption, wie er sie in Handeln zugunsten anderer (de Gruyter 2000) vorgeschlagen hat, weiterentwickelt, vertieft und modifiziert. Im Zentrum steht
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Martin Peterson
Consequentialism, one of the major theories of normative ethics, maintains that the moral rightness of an act is determined solely by the act's consequences. The traditional form of consequentialism is one-dimensional, in that the rightness of an act