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  • How Should We Live?

    A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality

    par John Kekes ...
    A "lucid, careful, tenacious, and always accessible" inquiry into practical morality for everyday life by the author of The Roots of Evil ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews).For centuries, moral philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal that should guide everyone, always, everywhere. And after centuries of debate we're no closer to arriving at one. In How Should We Live?, philosopher ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Human Predicaments

    And What to Do about Them

    par John Kekes ...
    The philosopher and author of How Should We Live? presents "a clear and provocative discussion of issues such as boredom, hypocrisy, evil, and innocence" (Stephen Mulhall, University of Oxford).In this book, John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature to offer practical insights into the common predicaments we all face in our daily lives. Each chapter offers new ways of thinking ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Roots of Evil

    par John Kekes ...
    "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Facing Evil

    par John Kekes ...
    Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper. ... En savoir plus

    $72.59 CAD

  • The Nature of Philosophical Problems

    Their Causes and Implications

    par John Kekes ...
    We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values and reasons that follow from them conflict. Philosophical problems are forced on us when we try to cope with such conflicts. There are reasons for and against all proposed ways of coping with the ... En savoir plus

    $68.79 CAD

  • Wisdom

    A Humanistic Conception

    par John Kekes ...
    In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude--one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflicting possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live. Wisdom includes basic assumptions about the concrete and constantly changing conditions of life; reflective understanding of how we ... En savoir plus

    $73.59 CAD

  • Moderate Conservatism

    Reclaiming the Center

    par John Kekes ...
    Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes is a response to attacks on the United States' 300-year-old constitutional democracy by extremists on the left and the right. It makes a reasoned case for moderation and the defense of a political system that has endured because it has balanced the often-conflicting claims of justice, liberty, equality, prosperity, and security. That ... En savoir plus

    $32.39 CAD

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    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • The Human Condition

    par John Kekes ...
    The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, the basis of morality, the contingencies of human lives, the prevalence of evil, the nature and extent of human responsibility, and the sources of values we prize. He offers a realistic view of the ... En savoir plus

    $41.59 CAD

  • Hard Questions

    Facing the Problems of Life

    par John Kekes ...
    In this book, John Kekes discusses the hard questions we all must face in the course of our lives. Is there an absolute value that overrides all other considerations? Must we conform to prevailing conventions? Do we owe what our country asks of us? Must justice be done at all costs? How should we respond to evil? Should we forgive wrong actions? Does shame make life better or worse? Is it always ... En savoir plus

    $33.59 CAD

  • Moral Tradition and Individuality

    par John Kekes ...
    In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and the permissible ways of trying to achieve them. But to do so, the author argues, we must grow in self-knowledge and self-control to make our characters suitable for realizing our aspirations. In ... En savoir plus

    $72.59 CAD

  • The Morality of Pluralism

    par John Kekes ...
    Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is ... En savoir plus

    $72.59 CAD

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    Moderate Conservatism

    Reclaiming the Center

    par John Kekes ...
    Lu par Ian M. Hawkins ...

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    8 heure 53 min

    Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes is a response to attacks on the United States' 300-year-old constitutional democracy by extremists on the left and the right. It makes a reasoned case for moderation and the defense of a political system that has endured because it has balanced the often-conflicting claims of justice, liberty, equality, prosperity, and security. That ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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