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Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Michael Weston
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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In this provocative new examination of the philosophical, moral and religious significance of literature, Michael Weston explores the role of literature in both
On Moral Personhood
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Richard Eldridge
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-12-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this remarkable blend of sophisticated philosophical analysis and close reading of literary texts, Richard Eldridge presents a convincing argument that liter
Love's Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: OUP USA

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This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of
Better than Human
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Allen Buchanan
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human? Should we view our biology as fixed or should we try t
Philosophy and the Passions
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Michel Meyer
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of exces