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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • The Case against Death

    by Ingemar Patrick Linden ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension.Ingemar Patrick Linden’s central claim is that death is evil. In this first comprehensive refutation of the most common arguments in favor of human mortality, he writes passionately in favor of antiaging science and radical life extension. We may ... Read more

    R687,92

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  • The Best Things in Life

    A Guide to What Really Matters

    by Thomas Hurka ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities ... Read more

    R178,58

  • The Stone Reader

    Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments

    Edited by Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley ...
    A timeless volume to be read and treasured, The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy.Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted ... Read more

    R363,16

  • The Good-Enough Life

    by Avram Alpert ...
    How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious societyWe live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all.Avram ... Read more

    R596,38

  • Limits

    Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

    by Giorgos Kallis ...
    Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to environmentalism—clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ... Read more

    R292,43

  • Question Everything

    A Stone Reader

    Edited by Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley ...
    An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers.When The Stone Reader—a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times’ award-winning philosophy column—first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a ... Read more

    R581,08

  • The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr

    by Ivan Illich, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.More than any other thinker of the twentieth century, Ivan Illich has challenged institutional bureaucracies and provided a strong voice for small communities. In this lecture, he reflects on Kohr's efforts to lay a foundation for an alternate to ... Read more

    R18,92

  • A Philosophy of Fear

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred shop windows. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. In A Philosophy of Fear, Lars Svendsen explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion, as he investigates how and why fear has ... Read more

    R435,15

  • Against Fairness

    by Stephen T. Asma ...
    "Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism." — The Wall Street JournalIn our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philosopher Stephen T. Asma drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through ... Read more

    R253,79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morality by Design

    Technology's Challenge to Human Values

    by Wade Rowland ...
    The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism. Wade Rowland first introduces readers to the basic ideas of leading moral thinkers from Plato to Leibniz to Putnam, and then explores the subject through today’s political, economic and environmental conundrums. The collection presents a strong ... Read more

    R292,43

  • A Good Life

    Philosophy from Cradle to Grave

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning with the life he has led and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for ... Read more

    R208,48

  • Why "Happy Meat" Is Always Wrong

    by Magnus Vinding ...
    The "happy meat" position does not challenge our large-scale mistreatment of non-human beings, but rather serves to support it. That is among the core claims of this essay, which argues that the rejection of the "happy meat" position is critical if we are to end the extreme horrors that humanity inflicts upon other animals."Magnus Vinding argues powerfully against eating 'happy meat'." — Peter ... Read more

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