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  • Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism
    Michael A. Slote
    Originally published in 1985 and now re-issued with a new preface, this study assesses the two major moral theories of ethical consequentialism and common-sense morality by means of mutual comparison and an attempt to elicit the implications and tendencies of each theory individually. ...
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    66,84 €

  • Between Psychology and Philosophy
    Michael Slote
    This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a heart-mind is superior to the Western concept of mind, but then, more even-handedly, the relative strengths and we...
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    63,15 €

  • Between Psychology and Philosophy
    Michael Slote
    This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a heart-mind is superior to the Western concept of mind, but then, more even-handedly, the relative strengths and we...
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    35,86 €

  • Between Psychology and Philosophy
    Michael Slote
    This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a heart-mind is superior to the Western concept of mind, but then, more even-handedly, the relative strengths and we...
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    48,30 €

  • From Enlightenment to Receptivity
    Michael Slote
    This new book by Michael Slote argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of recept...
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    48,61 €

  • Human Development and Human Life
    Michael Slote
    This book begins with a discussion of the human life cycle and then uses that discussion and other ideas to paint a general picture of what human lives are like. While the first part looks at human development and change, the second part of the book explores what all human lives are like.   Philosophical ideas and methods are central to this book, although it is difficult to su...
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    78,73 €

  • Human Development and Human Life
    Michael Slote
    This book begins with a discussion of the human life cycle and then uses that discussion and other ideas to paint a general picture of what human lives are like. While the first part looks at human development and change, the second part of the book explores what all human lives are like.   Philosophical ideas and methods are central to this book, although it is difficult to su...
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    47,99 €

  • Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics
    S. Slote
    The first book-length treatment of James Joyce’s work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This intersection raises questions of epistemology, aesthetics, and the construction of the ’Modern’ and will appeal to literary and philosophy scholars. ...
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    48,18 €

  • Tony and Me
    Alfred Slote
    Bill Taylor is a good ballplayer on Miller’s Laundry, a bad team. More than anything he wants his father to move the family back to California where he’d played on a good team. But then Tony Spain joins Miller’s Laundry and turns it around. Tony is a natural athlete, a nice kid, and a pitcher who can bring heat, throw curves and has an unhittable fork ball. Bill idolizes him an...
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    14,01 €

  • Education and Human Values
    Michael Slote
    In Education and Human Values: Reconciling Talent with an Ethics of Care, Michael Slote looks to care ethics to provide an answer to previously neglected questions, arguing that if we can teach people to be more caring and open-minded, we can take some of the edge off of the disappointment and resentment that occur when people are led to believe they are less talented or less i...
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    86,10 €

  • Reason and Scepticism
    Michael A Slote
    First published in 2002. The present work is chiefly concerned with the task of overcoming certain forms of scepticism that have plagued and perplexed philosophers throughout the ages. Slote overcomes some of the major traditional forms of epistemological scepticism by showing the reasonableness of belief in an external world. ...
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    43,62 €

  • The Impossibility of Perfection
    Michael Slote
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    39,81 €

  • Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics
    S. Slote
    The first book-length treatment of James Joyce’s work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This intersection raises questions of epistemology, aesthetics, and the construction of the ’Modern’ and will appeal to literary and philosophy scholars. ...
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    66,78 €

  • Hang Tough, Paul Mather
    Alfred Slote
    HANG TOUGH, PAUL MATHER, originally published by Lippincott/Harper Collins, tells the story of a young pitcher who, thrown a curve by life, fires back. But living is more than a game for Paul, who has been diagnosed with leukemia, a cancer of the blood. With the help of a young doctor, a ballplayer himself, and his own grit and courage, Paul Mather fights back. Paul Mather han...
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    13,92 €

  • Jake
    Alfred Slote
    Jake, a tough, independent eleven-year-old ballplayer lives with his Uncle Lenny, a musician, and pretty much takes care of himself. His baseball team, the Print-Alls, is in first place, but they need a coach in order to stay in the League. No one’s father wants to do it, so Jake and his team come up with a plan that might be crazy enough to work. ...
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    13,85 €

  • Moral Sentimentalism
    Michael Slote
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    61,90 €

  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy
    Michael Slote
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the u...
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    77,79 €

  • Morals from Motives
    Michael Slote
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    84,00 €

  • From Morality to Virtue
    Michael Slote
    In this book, Michael Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the topic. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and...
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    122,97 €