The best books onMoral Philosophy, recommended by Jonathan Glover Read The questions of moral philosophy are not always best answered by philosophy books, says leading moral philosopher,Jonathan Glover. He explores questions of how we should live and by what values in books spanning across multiple...
In Why Veganism Matters Gary Francione, a professor of law and philosophy at Rutgers University, argues that veganism is a moral imperative. He is a self-declared abolitionist when it comes to animal rights, and critical of the idea that we should focus on animal welfare, minimising their su...
Zeidler wrote in his book on the philosophy of bookbinding that ‘The French do not care to glue anything on the spine. Some glue only paper strips on, putting everything slovenly over and believing they have come just as far [as putting parchment or linen cloth on neatly ...
faith, runs the argument, we cannot anchor our moral truths or truly know right from wrong. Without belief in God we will be lost in a miasma of moral nihilism. ‘To remove God’, as the theologian Alister McGrath has put it, ‘is to eliminate the final restraint on human brutality....
In office Machiavelli wrote a number of short political discourses and poems (theDecennali) on Florentine history. It was while he was out of office and in exile, however, that the “Florentine Secretary,” as Machiavelli came to be called, wrote the works of political philosophy for which ...
Hall’s Virgidemiarum: Six Books (1597–1602; “A Harvest of Blows”) was the first English satire successfully modeled on Latin satire, and its couplets anticipated the satiric heroic couplets of John Dryden in the late 17th century. Hall was also the first writer in English to emulate The...
Richard Eldridge,On Moral Person hood: Philosophy,Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding, University of Chicago Press,1990; 理查德里奇:《道德人格:哲学、文学、批评与自我理解》,芝加哥大学出版社,1990年 Ethan Fishman,Likely Stories: Essayson Political Philosophy and Contemporary AmericanLiterature, Un...
September 13, 2020 at 06:28 in#books,#highlighted,#moralphilosophy|Permalink|Comments (5) Sokrates vs. Machiavelli on the Educational Process | Lecture On books: Machiavelli: "I… step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them... I am unashamed to conve...
Throughout her experience, she learns the history of philosophy and Gaarder is able to make the lessons of historical philosophers relevant to a more recent era. Sophie discovers the mostcritical philosophical conceptson her journey, beginning with the lessons from the first Ancient Greek philosophers...