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Drawing morals essays in ethical theory / by Hurka, Thomas, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Normative ethics : back to the future -- Value and population size -- The well-rounded life -- Monism, pluralism, and rational regret -- How great a good is virtue? -- Two kinds of organic unity -- Asymmetries in value -- Why value autonomy? …”
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Drawing morals essays in ethical theory / by Hurka, Thomas, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Normative ethics : back to the future -- Value and population size -- The well-rounded life -- Monism, pluralism, and rational regret -- How great a good is virtue? -- Two kinds of organic unity -- Asymmetries in value -- Why value autonomy? …”
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The great tradeoff : confronting moral conflicts in the age of globalization / by Weisman, Steven R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Liberty and justice -- Contemporary debates about liberty and equality -- The morality of moral hazard, part I -- The morality of moral hazard, part II -- Cosmopolitans vs. communitarians -- Loyalty: obligations to community, national and global welfare -- Conclusion: sorting out liberty, justice, virtue and loyalty.…”
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The great tradeoff : confronting moral conflicts in the age of globalization / by Weisman, Steven R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Liberty and justice -- Contemporary debates about liberty and equality -- The morality of moral hazard, part I -- The morality of moral hazard, part II -- Cosmopolitans vs. communitarians -- Loyalty: obligations to community, national and global welfare -- Conclusion: sorting out liberty, justice, virtue and loyalty.…”
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The reactionary mind conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin / by Robin, Corey, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Profiles in reaction -- Conservatism and counterrevolution -- The first counterrevolutionary -- Garbage and gravitas -- Out of place -- The ex-cons -- Not your daddy's (or even your granddaddy's) conservative -- Virtues of violence -- A color-coded genocide -- Remembrance of empires past -- Protocols of machismo -- Title tk 204 -- Easy to be hard.…”
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Detecting the Nation : Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture / by Reitz, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : imperial detection -- Bad cop/good cop : Godwin, Mill, and the imperial origins of the English detective -- Thuggee and the "discovery" of the English detective -- Making an English virtue of necessity : Dickens and Collins bring it home -- Separated at birth : Doyle, Kipling, and the partition of English detective fiction -- Conclusion.…”
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The reactionary mind conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin / by Robin, Corey, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Profiles in reaction -- Conservatism and counterrevolution -- The first counterrevolutionary -- Garbage and gravitas -- Out of place -- The ex-cons -- Not your daddy's (or even your granddaddy's) conservative -- Virtues of violence -- A color-coded genocide -- Remembrance of empires past -- Protocols of machismo -- Title tk 204 -- Easy to be hard.…”
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Detecting the Nation : Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture / by Reitz, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : imperial detection -- Bad cop/good cop : Godwin, Mill, and the imperial origins of the English detective -- Thuggee and the "discovery" of the English detective -- Making an English virtue of necessity : Dickens and Collins bring it home -- Separated at birth : Doyle, Kipling, and the partition of English detective fiction -- Conclusion.…”
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Sons of anarchy and philosophy brains before bullets /

Table of Contents: “…"An Equal Mix of Might and Right": Ethics at 92 MPH. Virtue and Vice in the SAMCROpolis: Aristotle Views Sons of Anarchy / Jason T. …”
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Sons of anarchy and philosophy brains before bullets /

Table of Contents: “…"An Equal Mix of Might and Right": Ethics at 92 MPH. Virtue and Vice in the SAMCROpolis: Aristotle Views Sons of Anarchy / Jason T. …”
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A Theory of Regret / by Price, Brian, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…What is regret? -- The habit of virtue -- Non-voluntary and involuntary relations -- Stupidity and akrasia -- When to speak? …”
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A Theory of Regret / by Price, Brian, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…What is regret? -- The habit of virtue -- Non-voluntary and involuntary relations -- Stupidity and akrasia -- When to speak? …”
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Dignity in the 21st Century Middle East and West / by Schroeder, Doris, Bani-Sadr, Abol‐Hassan

Table of Contents: “…The quest for dignity -- Dignity in the west -- Dignity’s omnipresence -- A very short history of dignity -- Immanuel kant’s concept of dignity -- Dignity in legal instruments -- Dignity in bioethics -- Disambiguating the main concepts of dignity -- What kind of concept is dignity? -- Is dignity a virtue? -- Is dignity an individual characteristic not covered by virtues? …”
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Dignity in the 21st Century Middle East and West / by Schroeder, Doris, Bani-Sadr, Abol‐Hassan

Table of Contents: “…The quest for dignity -- Dignity in the west -- Dignity’s omnipresence -- A very short history of dignity -- Immanuel kant’s concept of dignity -- Dignity in legal instruments -- Dignity in bioethics -- Disambiguating the main concepts of dignity -- What kind of concept is dignity? -- Is dignity a virtue? -- Is dignity an individual characteristic not covered by virtues? …”
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As If: Essays in As You Like It / by West, William N.

Table of Contents: “…-- What is love? -- What is the virtue in "if"? -- What happens in the epilogue? -- The end?…”
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As If: Essays in As You Like It / by West, William N.

Table of Contents: “…-- What is love? -- What is the virtue in "if"? -- What happens in the epilogue? -- The end?…”
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Gateway to the northern plains railroads and the birth of Fargo and Moorhead / by Engelhardt, Carroll L.

Table of Contents: “…At the crossing : the incorporation of Fargo and Moorhead -- Booster dreams : Henry Bruns and Moorhead's collapse -- Boomtown on the prairie : Fargo becomes a gateway city -- Old and new Americans : the people of Fargo and Moorhead -- Domestic virtues : middle-class moral order -- Vagabonds, workers, and purveyors of vice -- Building a better community : the politics of good government.…”
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Impersonality seven essays / by Cameron, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction by way of William Empson's Buddha faces -- What counts as love : Jonathan Edwards's "True virtue" -- Representing grief : Emerson's "Experience" -- The way of life by abandonment : Emerson's Impersonal -- The practice of attention : Simone Weil's Performance of impersonality -- "The sea's throat" : T. …”
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Aquinas's notion of pure nature and the Christian integralism of Henri de Lubac not everything is grace / by Mulcahy, Bernard, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Pure nature and the challenge of integralism -- Nature and secularity in pre-Thomistic theology -- Thomas Aquinas on mortality, infused virtues, and limbo -- Thomas Aquinas on kingship, natural law, and the sciences -- Pure nature, integralism, and Jansenism -- Henri de Lubac and pure nature in the 20th century -- De Lubac's heirs: radical orthodoxy -- Toward a resolution.…”
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Impersonality seven essays / by Cameron, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction by way of William Empson's Buddha faces -- What counts as love : Jonathan Edwards's "True virtue" -- Representing grief : Emerson's "Experience" -- The way of life by abandonment : Emerson's Impersonal -- The practice of attention : Simone Weil's Performance of impersonality -- "The sea's throat" : T. …”
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