LIBROS DEL AUTOR: andrew fiala

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  • Tyranny from Plato to Trump
    Andrew Fiala
    Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the entire nation suffers.As ancient Greek philosophers w...
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    30,37 €

  • Can War Be Justified?
    Andrew Fiala / Jennifer Kling
    Can war be justified? Pacifists answer that it cannot; they oppose war and advocate for nonviolent alternatives to war. But defenders of just war theory argue that in some circumstances, when the effectiveness of nonviolence is limited, wars can be justified. ...
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    54,30 €

  • Seeking Common Ground
    Andrew Fiala / Peter Admirand
    Seeking Common Ground is a dialogue between an atheist philosopher and a Catholic theologian. It is about religion and nonreligion, as well as about dialogue itself. The book provides a framework for dialogue grounded in seven key values: Harmony, Courage, Humility, Curiosity, Honesty, Compassion, and Honor. Unlike typical ''debates'' about religion and atheism, Fiala and Admir...
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    31,27 €

  • Transformative Pacifism
    Andrew Fiala
    Defending pacifism against the charge that it is naïvely utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and political action.Pacifism is a transformative philosophy with wide ranging implications. It aims to transform political, social, and psychological structures. Its focus is deep and wid...
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    57,44 €

  • Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism
    Andrew Fiala
    This book explores the idea of religious pluralism, including the emergence of nonreligion, and defends the norms of secular cosmopolitanism that allow pluralism to thrive. Fiala argues that the presence of religious diversity, including nonbelief, pushes us toward secularism and vice versa. ...
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    82,84 €

  • Public War, Private Conscience
    Andrew G. Fiala
    Public War, Private Conscience offers a philosophical reflection on the moral demands made upon us by war, providing a clear and accessible overview of the different ways of thinking about war. Engaging both with contemporary examples and historical ideas about war, the book offers unique analysis of issues relating to terrorism, conscience objection, just war theory and pacifi...
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    51,33 €

  • Just War Myth
    Andrew Fiala
    As war continues to be a primary topic in public debate, Andrew Fiala in The Just War Myth critically examines the concept of just war, arguing that actual wars never live up to the ideals of just war theory. The book provides a historical overview of the just war idea and also turns a critical eye on current events, including the idea of preemptive war, the use of torture, and...
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    40,62 €

  • Tolerance and the Ethical Life
    Andrew Fiala
    In a fresh and exciting way, this new book shows how tolerance connects with the practice of philosophy. Andrew Fiala examines the virtue of tolerance as it appears in several historical contexts: Socratic philosophy, Stoic philosophy, Pragmatism, and Existentialism. The lesson derived is that tolerance is a virtue for what Fiala calls ’tragic communities’. Such communities are...
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    129,74 €