Search Results: Philosophy from Great Northern Books

First edition: Graywolf Press, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. Good/good. "All of It Singing collects the ongoing work of Gregg's career in one book, including poetry from her six previous volumes and thirty remarkable new poems." [from publisher] Slight rubbing to dustjacket, tape shadows on book cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Engberg-Pederson demonstrates "the centrality in Aristotles's account of moral virtual of the notions of action (praxis) and moreal insight (phronesis)." [from review ] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Hardcover. Ex-Library. "This book offers a model for understanding autonomy in the context of the practical uses of this concept for applied ethics and political philosophy." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references. Ex-library with usual markings, none affecting text.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. "Fishkin confronts the basic question of subjective morality across a variety of disciplines--moral psychology, moral philosophy, and liberal political theory." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, none affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. First Trade Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Ex-Library. "Conscience and the Common Good reframes the debate about conscience by bringing its relational dimension into focus." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, none affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Edited by Amnon Goldworth. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Ex-library with ususal markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012. Trade Paperback. New. Ships from USA.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. "This book explores the breakdown of our common moral assumptions when they are applied to large numbers and suggests we must drastically rethink the ethics of individual choice." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, none affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Papers delivered at the conference, The Moral Foundations of Public Policy: The Limits of Utilitarianism, at Virginia Polytechnic Inst., May, 1978. Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist, best known as a pioneer of Postmodernism." [from publisher] Includes index and bibliographical references. Ex-library with usual markings, none affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Part of the "Wisdom" series edited by Alan Watts. Ex-library with minimal markings lacking a dustjacket. Still a presentable copy.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good +. This book consists of two lectures Adler gave before the Society of Ethical Culture in New York City. Adler was a social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement and was an early member of the Civil Liberties Bureau, a forerunner of the American Civil LIberties Union. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy, no dustjacket, as published?

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. Hardcover. Ex-Library. "Perry addresses the central question of philosophy: can moral judgments be justified by rational arguments?" [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A collection of essays assessing American philosophy since WWII. Includes bibliographical references. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

London: Atlantic Books, 2004. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. "An important and timely book in which a distinguished historian attacks - vigorously, brilliantly and elegantly - Britain's loss of tradition." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1920. Fourth impression. Ex-Library. Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. He was also a eugenicist and wrote considerably on the subject. "Outspoken Essays" contains the essay "The Future of the English Race," on the topic. Ex-library will minimal markings.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library/fair. Translated by Jen Tai with an introduction by Roscoe Pound. Ex-library with usual markings, dustjacket is worn along edges, still a good reading copy.

Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Edited by John and Shirley Lachs. Contents: 1. Two early works -- 2. Causation and flux -- 3. Fact and essence -- 4. The relations of spirit to time -- 5. The relativity of morals -- 6. A naturalist looks at society -- 7. Free spirit in the moving world -- 8. Philosophers. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Ex-Library. This book addresses the question, "What basis should officials and citizens employ in reaching political decisions and justifying their positions?" [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.