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  • Morality as Legislation

    Rules and Consequences

    par Alex Tuckness ...
    'What would happen if everyone acted that way?' This question is often used in everyday moral assessments, but it has a paradoxical quality: it draws not only on Kantian ideas of a universal moral law but also on consequentialist claims that what is right depends on the outcome. In this book, Alex Tuckness examines how the question came to be seen as paradoxical, tracing its history from the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Decline of Mercy in Public Life

    par Alex Tuckness, John M. Parrish ...
    The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian and non-Christian ancient traditions, along with Kantian and utilitarian strains of thought, they ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • This Is Political Philosophy

    An Introduction

    par Alex Tuckness, Clark Wolf ...
    Collections Livre 16 - This is Philosophy
    This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. This text connects issues at the core of political philosophy with current, live debates in policy, politics, and law and addresses different ideals of political organization, such as democracy, liberty, ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Locke and the Legislative Point of View

    Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law

    par Alex Tuckness ...
    Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness argues that John Locke's potential contribution to this debate--what Tuckness terms the "legislative ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

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    A Moral Compass for a Complex World

    par Philip Pettit ...
    An esteemed philosopher offers a vision for the central role of one of our most cherished—and controversial—ideas.In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Proportionality and the Rule of Law

    Rights, Justification, Reasoning

    Modifié par Grant Huscroft, Bradley W. Miller, Grégoire Webber ...
    To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems such as the European Convention on Human Rights. Proportionality ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Political Liberalism

    par John Rawls ...
    Collections series Columbia Classics in Philosophy
    This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Rights Revolution

    par Michael Ignatieff ...
    Collections series The CBC Massey Lectures
    With an updated preface by the author.Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card in every argument. Long-standing fights for aboriginal rights, the issue of preserving the linguistic heritage of minorities, and same-sex marriage have steered our ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Open Democracy

    Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century

    par Hélène Landemore ...
    "Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."—Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societiesTo the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD

  • On Human Rights

    par James Griffin ...
    What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Dream Deferred

    The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

    par Shelby Steele ...
    Award-winning author Shelby Steele's essay collection A Dream Deferred reveals the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today.A New York Times Notable BookThrough thought-provoking insights, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States—the first one being segregation—emerged from the civil rights ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Constitution of Many Minds

    Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before

    par Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD