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The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy by Fite, Warner, 1867-1955

Table of Contents: “…The wisdom of the serpent : Intelligence and the serpent ; The moral fault and the intellectual ; The clever rogue and the simple honest man ; The critical life and the question of intelligence ; Intelligence vs. intellect, mathematical and logical ; Intelligence personal and critical. X. The beauty of virtue : Aesthetic taste and moral law ; The experience of beauty and virtue ; The beauty of utility ; The moral ground of aesthetic criticism. -- XI. …”
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The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy by Fite, Warner, 1867-1955

Table of Contents: “…The wisdom of the serpent : Intelligence and the serpent ; The moral fault and the intellectual ; The clever rogue and the simple honest man ; The critical life and the question of intelligence ; Intelligence vs. intellect, mathematical and logical ; Intelligence personal and critical. X. The beauty of virtue : Aesthetic taste and moral law ; The experience of beauty and virtue ; The beauty of utility ; The moral ground of aesthetic criticism. -- XI. …”
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Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen /

Table of Contents: “…Mill / James Moore -- Bentham on 'Hume's virtues' / Jose L. Tasset -- Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on pleasure and virtue / Roger Crisp -- 'The first article to look to is power' : Bentham, happiness and the capability approach / Michael Quinn -- Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt's four freedoms / Manuel Escamilla-Castillo -- James Mill on happiness / Antis Loizides -- Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and higher pleasures / Jonathan Riley -- Individualist and totalizing ethical thinking in Mill's utilitarianism / John Charvet -- Mill and democracy : taking William Buckley seriously / Alan Ryan -- John Stuart Mill and the Jewish question : broadening the utilitarian maximand / Samuel Hollander -- The failure of planned happiness : the rise and fall of British home colonies / Barbara Arneil -- Making better sense of ideal utilitarianism / David Weinstein.…”
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Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen /

Table of Contents: “…Mill / James Moore -- Bentham on 'Hume's virtues' / Jose L. Tasset -- Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on pleasure and virtue / Roger Crisp -- 'The first article to look to is power' : Bentham, happiness and the capability approach / Michael Quinn -- Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt's four freedoms / Manuel Escamilla-Castillo -- James Mill on happiness / Antis Loizides -- Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and higher pleasures / Jonathan Riley -- Individualist and totalizing ethical thinking in Mill's utilitarianism / John Charvet -- Mill and democracy : taking William Buckley seriously / Alan Ryan -- John Stuart Mill and the Jewish question : broadening the utilitarian maximand / Samuel Hollander -- The failure of planned happiness : the rise and fall of British home colonies / Barbara Arneil -- Making better sense of ideal utilitarianism / David Weinstein.…”
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Particulars in Greek philosophy the seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Moral vision and legislating for the good in Aristotle / Robert Wardy -- Particular virtues in the Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle / Carlo Natali -- What's a particular, and what makes it so? …”
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Money and modernity Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / by Marsh, Alec, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Particulars in Greek philosophy the seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Moral vision and legislating for the good in Aristotle / Robert Wardy -- Particular virtues in the Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle / Carlo Natali -- What's a particular, and what makes it so? …”
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Money and modernity Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / by Marsh, Alec, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / by Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Burgess and parole prediction -- The proliferation of actuarial methods in punishing and policing -- The critique of actuarial methods -- The mathematics of actuarial prediction : the illusion of efficiency -- The ratchet effect : an overlooked social cost -- The pull of prediction : distorting our conceptions of just punishment -- Toward a more general theory of punishing and policing -- A case study on racial profiling -- Shades of gray -- The virtues of randomization.…”
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Against prediction profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age / by Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Burgess and parole prediction -- The proliferation of actuarial methods in punishing and policing -- The critique of actuarial methods -- The mathematics of actuarial prediction : the illusion of efficiency -- The ratchet effect : an overlooked social cost -- The pull of prediction : distorting our conceptions of just punishment -- Toward a more general theory of punishing and policing -- A case study on racial profiling -- Shades of gray -- The virtues of randomization.…”
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Acculturated

Table of Contents: “…Controlling Our Bodies, Controlling Ourselves / Daniel Akst -- Public Broadcasting: The Allure of Overexposure / Rob Long -- Lessons for Life: The Virtues of Continuing Education -- / patrick allitt -- Death be not Chic / Judy Bachrach -- The American Dream, Twenty-Two Minutes at a Time / Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh -- Utopian Virtues / -- Caitrin nicol -- Never Having to Say You're Sorry: the Challenges of Forgiveness in an Age of Relativism / Chuck Colson.…”
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Acculturated

Table of Contents: “…Controlling Our Bodies, Controlling Ourselves / Daniel Akst -- Public Broadcasting: The Allure of Overexposure / Rob Long -- Lessons for Life: The Virtues of Continuing Education -- / patrick allitt -- Death be not Chic / Judy Bachrach -- The American Dream, Twenty-Two Minutes at a Time / Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh -- Utopian Virtues / -- Caitrin nicol -- Never Having to Say You're Sorry: the Challenges of Forgiveness in an Age of Relativism / Chuck Colson.…”
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Oh joy! oh rapture! the enduring phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan / by Bradley, Ian C.

Table of Contents: “…Something lingering : the enduring influence of Gilbert and Sullivan through the twentieth century -- A thing of shreds and patches : the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1961-1982 -- Unfriended, unprotected, and alone : the new D'Oyly Carte, 1988-2003 -- Virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances : professional productions, 1961-2004 -- Masculine insects with the morals of a Methodist : Gilbert and Sullivan fans -- Amateur tenors sing choruses in public : the world of amateur performance -- In this college, useful knowledge : G & S in schools and universities -- Things are seldom what they seem : parodies, spoofs, and spin-offs -- Maintaining with no little heat their various opinions : G & S scholarship, partisanship and appreciation -- Peep with security into futurity : Buxton it is!…”
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Dispositions and causal powers

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? …”
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Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong / by Wilkens, Steve, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Bumper stickers and ethical systems -- When in Rome, do as the Romans do: cultural relativism -- Look out for number one: ethical egoism -- I couldn't help myself: behaviorism -- Survival of the (ethical) fittest: evolutionary ethics -- The greatest happiness: utilitarianism -- It's your duty: Kantian ethics -- Be good: virtue ethics -- The moral of the story is ... : narrative ethics -- All you need is love: situation ethics -- Doing what comes naturally: natural law ethics -- God said it, I believe it, that settles it: divine command theory -- Unraveling the options.…”
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American anarchism / by Shone, Steve J.

Table of Contents: “…/ Luigi Galleani -- Hanging out with one's own / Max Stirner -- Cultural relativism and the savage / William Graham Sumner -- Innate knowledge of virtue reconsidered / The Heart of Anarchism -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong / by Wilkens, Steve, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Bumper stickers and ethical systems -- When in Rome, do as the Romans do: cultural relativism -- Look out for number one: ethical egoism -- I couldn't help myself: behaviorism -- Survival of the (ethical) fittest: evolutionary ethics -- The greatest happiness: utilitarianism -- It's your duty: Kantian ethics -- Be good: virtue ethics -- The moral of the story is ... : narrative ethics -- All you need is love: situation ethics -- Doing what comes naturally: natural law ethics -- God said it, I believe it, that settles it: divine command theory -- Unraveling the options.…”
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American anarchism / by Shone, Steve J.

Table of Contents: “…/ Luigi Galleani -- Hanging out with one's own / Max Stirner -- Cultural relativism and the savage / William Graham Sumner -- Innate knowledge of virtue reconsidered / The Heart of Anarchism -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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American Protestantism in the age of psychology by Muravchik, Stephanie, 1970-

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The American Deists : Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic / by Walters, Kerry S.

Table of Contents: “…/ Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney -- My own mind is my own church / Thomas Paine -- Reason, the glory of our nature / Elihu Palmer -- The reasoning power, celestial guest, the stamp upon the soul impress'd / Philip Freneau -- The temple of reason : indefense of pure religion -- Prospect, or, View of the moral world : virtue, the highest dignity of man --The theophilanthropist : the love of God and man -- Sources and permissions -- Bibliographic essay.…”
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