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Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

By: Charles L. Griswold

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Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

By: Charles L. Griswold

Charles Griswold has written a comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the Enlightenment and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his carefully balanced defence of a liberal and humane moral and political outlook, are also explored. This 1999 book is a major philosophical and historical reassessment of a key figure in the Enlightenment that will be of particular interest to philosophers and political and legal theorists, as well as historians of ideas, rhetoric, and political economy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521628911

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Forgiveness

A Philosophical Exploration

By: Charles Griswold

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Forgiveness

A Philosophical Exploration

By: Charles Griswold

The first comprehensive philosophical book on forgiveness in both its interpersonal and political contexts.

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269

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Cambridge University Press

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0521703514

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For Good and Evil

The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

By: Charles Adams

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For Good and Evil

The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

By: Charles Adams

Records the impact of taxation on events in world history, from ancient Egypt to the present, and concludes that taxation has been a force that has shaped world history and has had a direct bearing on the civilization process.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0819186317

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9780819186317

Blackness Visible

Essays on Philosophy and Race

By: Charles W. Mills

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Blackness Visible

Essays on Philosophy and Race

By: Charles W. Mills

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination. European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention.Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and unreal: ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape. His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours of a racist moral consciousness, and analyze the presuppositions of Frederick Douglass's famous July 4 prognosis for black political inclusion. Collectively they demonstrate what exciting new philosophical terrain can be opened up once the color line in western philosophy is made visible and addressed.

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Cornell University Press

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1501702955

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9781501702952

Patriotic Elaborations

Essays in Practical Philosophy

By: Charles Blattberg

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Patriotic Elaborations

Essays in Practical Philosophy

By: Charles Blattberg

How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg suggests a "new patriotism," one that reconciles conflict through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation over negotiation and the common good over victory. This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right. Blattberg's is a genuinely original philosophical voice. The essays collected here discuss how to re-conceive the political spectrum, where "deliberative deomocrats" go wrong, why human rights language is tragically counterproductive, how nationalism is not really secular, how many nations should share a single state, a new approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and why Canada might have something to teach about the "war on terror." We also learn about the right way to deny a role to principles in ethics, how to distinguish between the good and the beautiful, the way humor works, the rabbinic nature of modernism, the difference between good, bad, great, and evil, why Plato's dialogues are not really dialogues, and why most philosophers are actually artists.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773576630

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9780773576636

Plato's Apology of Socrates

A Commentary

By: Paul Allen Miller,Charles Platter

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Plato's Apology of Socrates

A Commentary

By: Paul Allen Miller,Charles Platter

The significance of Plato’s Apology of Socrates is impossible to overestimate. An account of the famous trial of Socrates in 399 b.c., it appeals to historians, philosophers, political scientists, classicists, and literary critics. It is also essential reading for students of ancient Greek. This new commentary on Plato’s canonical work is designed to accommodate the needs of students in intermediate-level Greek classes, where they typically encounter the Apology for the first time. Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter, two highly respected classicists and veteran instructors, present the Apology in its traditional thirty-three-chapter structure. They amplify the text with running commentary and glosses of unfamiliar words at the bottom of each page; brief chapter introductions to relevant philosophical, historical, and rhetorical issues; and a separate series of thought-provoking essays, one on each chapter. The essays can serve as bases for class discussions or as starting points for paper topics or general reflection. By integrating background material into the text at regular intervals rather than front-loading it in a lengthy initial overview or burying it in back-of-the-book endnotes, the authors offer students a rich encounter with the text. Their commentary incorporates the latest research on both the trial of Socrates and Plato’s version of it, and it engages major philosophical issues from a contemporary perspective. This book is not only a much-needed aid for students of Greek. It is also the basis of a complete course on the Apology.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186054

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The Bees of the World

By: Charles D. Michener

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The Bees of the World

By: Charles D. Michener

In this extensive update of his definitive reference, Charles D. Michener reveals a diverse fauna that numbers more than 17,000 species and ranges from the common honeybee to rare bees that feed on the pollen of a single type of plant. With many new facts, reclassifications, and revisions, the second edition of The Bees of the World provides the most comprehensive treatment of the 1,200 genera and subgenera of the Apiformes. Included are hundreds of updated citations to work published since the appearance of the first edition and a new set of plates of fossil bees. The book begins with extensive introductory sections that include bee evolution, classification of the various bee families, the coevolution of bees and flowering plants, nesting behavior, differences between solitary and social bees, and the anatomy of these amazing insects. Drawing on modern studies and evidence from the fossil record, Michener reveals what the ancestral bee—the protobee—might have looked like. He also cites the major literature on bee biology and describes the need for further research on the systematics and natural history of bees, including their importance as pollinators of crops and natural vegetation. The greater part of the work consists of an unprecedented treatment of bee systematics, with keys for identification to the subgenus level. For each genus and subgenus, Michener includes a brief natural history describing geographical range, number of species, and noteworthy information pertaining to nesting or floral biology. The book is beautifully illustrated with more than 500 drawings and photographs that depict behavior, detailed morphology, and ecology. Accented with color plates of select bees, The Bees of the World will continue to be the world's best reference on these diverse insects.

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JHU Press

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0801892201

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9780801892202

James McDowell of Virginia

The Perils of an Antebellum Southern Reformer

By: Charles A. Bodie

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James McDowell of Virginia

The Perils of an Antebellum Southern Reformer

By: Charles A. Bodie

This biography examines the antebellum career of James McDowell, a Democratic officeholder from western Virginia who often opposed the status quo. The author examines how, through skillful oratory and rational discourse, he sought and achieved progressive change.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666927368

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

A Philosophical Encounter

By: Charles L Griswold

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

A Philosophical Encounter

By: Charles L Griswold

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like? In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyzes, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Both thinkers discuss what we are by nature (in particular, whether we are sociable or not), who we have become, whether we can know ourselves or each other, how best to articulate the human condition, what it would mean to be free, and whether there is anything that can be done to remedy our deeply imperfect condition. In the course of examining their rich and contrasting views, Griswold puts Rousseau and Smith in dialogue by imagining what they might say in reply to one another. Griswold’s wide-ranging exploration includes discussion of issues such as narcissism, self-falsification, sympathy, the scope of philosophy, and the relation between liberty, religion and civic order. A superb exploration of two major philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter is essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, and the history of ideas. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political theory, economics, and religion.

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1315436558

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Book's by Charles L. Griswold Jr.

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

For Good and Evil

For Good and Evil

Blackness Visible

Blackness Visible

Patriotic Elaborations

Patriotic Elaborations

Plato's Apology of Socrates

Plato's Apology of Socrates

The Bees of the World

The Bees of the World

James McDowell of Virginia

James McDowell of Virginia

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

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