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  • The Godfather and Sicily
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience. The book explores both the novel and the film sequence in terms...
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    47,42 €

  • Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style is an interdisciplinary study that examines the lives and work of four historical figures: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, or Garibaldi, as well as Italian culture and the moral psychology of pride, arrogance, justification, excuse, repentance, and the concept of honor. ...
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    57,72 €

  • Dante’s Inferno
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    This book provides a recipe for healthy moral and personal transformation. Belliotti takes seriously Dante’s deepest yearnings: to guide human well-being; to elevate social and political communities; to remedy the poisons spewed by the seven capital vices; and to celebrate the connections between human self-interest, virtuous living, and spiritual salvation. By closely examinin...
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    133,81 €

  • Machiavelli’s Secret
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Uncovers clues regarding the inner life of Machiavelli’s political leaders.The political statesman, Machiavelli tells us, must love his country more than his own soul. Political leaders must often transgress clear moral principles, using means that are typically wrong, even horrifying. What sort of inner life does a leader who 'uses evil well' experience and endure? The convent...
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    47,38 €

  • Jesus the Radical
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Jesus the Radical connects the lessons of six parables of the New Testament with moral issues examined by leading contemporary philosophers. The book demonstrates how deeply opposed is Jesus’ radical moral message to the dominant moral understandings of our time. ...
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    64,07 €

  • Posthumous Harm
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    After introducing the early work of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Machiavelli, and Kant on the matter, this book critically examines the literature over the past four decades on the topic of posthumous harm. ...
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    74,96 €

  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    This book places Machiavelli in historical context but argues that his understanding of moral conflicts is well ahead of his time. Instead of arguing for the autonomy of politics, as is commonly supposed, Machiavelli grapples with the special problems of role-differentiated morality, where the duties of public office often conflict with the demands of conventional morality. ...
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    69,67 €

  • Roman Philosophy and the Good Life
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti’s Roman Philosophy and the Good Life provides an accessible picture of these major philosophical influences in Rome and details the crucial role they played during times of major social upheaval. Belliotti demonstrates the contemporary relevance of some of the philosophical issues faced by the Romans, and offers ways in which today’s society can learn f...
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    74,69 €

  • Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    There are uncanny connections between nine baseball greats and the great thinkers of the West. This book offers a very practical application of Western philosophy by examining these icons of American sport and culture. The intensity and single-mindedness of Ted Williams breathes life into Camus’ Sisyphus; Billy Martin’s maniacal competitiveness recalls Niccolo Machiavelli’...
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    35,77 €

  • The Philosophy of Baseball
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Western philosophy began with two monumental aspirations: to unravel the mysteries of the universe and to construct the best recipe for living the good life. Today, sports play a major role in the lives of many people. A striking correlation exists between the noblest virtues of baseball and discussions of living the good life by the greatest thinkers in the history of philosop...
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    82,90 €

  • Happiness Is Overrated
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Happiness Is Overrated highlights the greatest thinking on the concept of happiness from classical philosophers such as Plato, to contemporary sociologists and psychologists. It includes practical advice on how to attain happiness, but argues that happiness is not the greatest personal good. Ultimately, the greatest personal good is realized in leading a robustly meaningful, va...
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    36,95 €