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  • Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing
    Parens
    The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? But gene editing technologies also raise ...
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  • Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy
    Joshua Parens
    Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy. Strauss recovered that great tradition of thought largely lost to the West by beginning his study of classical thought with its teaching on politics rather than its metaphysics. What brought Strauss to this way of reading the classics, however, was a discovery he made as a young political scientist stud...
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  • Shaping Our Selves
    Erik Parens
    When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness. ...
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    56,66 €

  • War Is Not Inevitable
    Henri Parens
    In this book, author Henri Parens discusses and documents the core psychodynamics that lead groups to war. Detailing some of the psychodynamics that led from World War I to World War II and their respective aftermath, Parens addresses how major factors that gave rise to these wars must, can, and have been counteracted. ...
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    80,86 €

  • Taming Aggression in Your Child
    Henri Parens
    Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing aggressive behaviors. Dr. Henri Parens explains what causes aggression to develop in children and how to achieve compliance in children through effective limit-setting, discipline, and punishment. A must read for all parents, whether yo...
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    62,70 €

  • Lying, Cheating, and Carrying On
    Henri Parens / Salman Akhtar
    This book aims to help therapists enhance their empathy with patients who are compelled to lie and to provide them with better therapeutic strategies to deal with the clinical dilemmas that arise in working with such children and adults. ...
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    56,01 €

  • Enhancing Human Traits
    Erik Parens
    In this volume, scholars from philosophy, sociology, history, theology, women’s studies, and law explore the looming ethical and social implications of new biotechnologies that are rapidly making it possible to enhance an individual’s mental and physical attributes in ways previously only imagined.To clarify the issues, the contributors grapple with the central concept of 'enha...
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    40,37 €