Noel Preston & Charles Sampford 
Ethics and Political Practice [PDF ebook] 
Perspectives on Legislative Ethics

Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet is one of the first books to bring philosophical insight to the debate on how far the internet can and cannot take us …

The first book-length treatment of the political representation of women in countries with parliamentary systems based on the Westminster model. Written by a major international team of authors, this …

This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how th …

First published in 2003. This is volume VII in the IX-volume set titled Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion. The series is meant to provide an opportunity for philosophical discussions o …

Max Scheler (1874-1928) decisively influenced German philosophy in the period after the First World War, a time of upheaval and new beginnings. Without him, the problems of German philosophy today, a …

French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued for the primary role perception plays in understanding the world as well as engaging with it. As a contributor to phenomenology, Merle …

Cicero and Modern Law contains the best modern writings on Cicero”s major law related works, such as the Republic, On Law, On Oratory, along with a comprehensive bibliography of writings on Cicero” …

Arguably Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche are the two most significant moral philosophers of the nineteenth century, their works showing a remarkably trenchant and penetrating awareness of …

Deleuze”s concept of ”becoming” provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temp …

When Galileo dropped cannon-balls from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he did more than overturn centuries of scientific orthodoxy. At a stroke, he established a new conception of the scientifi …