The Birth of Ethics

Philip Pettit

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to co... Lees meer

Death and the Afterlife

Samuel Scheffler

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days a... Lees meer

The Weight of All Flesh

Eric Santner

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secula... Lees meer

The Will to Punish

Didier Fassin

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Over the last few decades, most societies have become more repressive, their laws more relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of... Lees meer

The Practice of Value

Joseph Raz

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• The Practice of Value explores the nature of value and its relation to the social and historical conditions under which human agents live. At the core... Lees meer

Rules for Wrongdoers

Arthur Ripstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Arthur Ripstein's lectures focus on the two bodies of rules governing war: the jus ad bellum , which regulates resort to armed force, and the jus in b... Lees meer

Reification

Axel Honneth

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Ge... Lees meer

Democratic Law

Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Hannah Ginsborg

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• In this book, based on her 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers an original, deontological account of democracy, law, and th... Lees meer

Dignity, Rank, and Rights

Jeremy Waldron

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and th... Lees meer

Death and the Afterlife

Samuel Scheffler

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days a... Lees meer

Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief contains fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists on challenges to moral ... Lees meer

The Trolley Problem Mysteries

F M Kamm

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most inf... Lees meer

Reconciling Our Aims

Allan Gibbard

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics. In the ... Lees meer

Dignity, Rank, and Rights

Jeremy Waldron

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and th... Lees meer

On What Matters

Derek Parfit

• Paperback | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons , one of the lan... Lees meer

Reification

Axel Honneth

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Ge... Lees meer

The Trolley Problem Mysteries

F M Kamm

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most inf... Lees meer