John Wilson 
Thinking with Concepts [EPUB ebook] 

What is political modernity? And how much of its concepts and structures has changed or remained the same with the advent of the so-called globalization? What does it mean, from a political perspecti …

This book helps understand Plato’s writings by describing the circumstances in which they were produced. The author begins with an account of Plato’s life and development and a brief analysis of some …

First published in 1970, Bernard E. Jones’s selection of Gifford lectures includes excerpts from the writings of over ninety scholars who occupied a Gifford Chair between 1888 and 1968. Lord Gifford …

First published in 2002. Written in 1959, this volume looks at the philosophical problems of perception, that arise mainly because our traditional common-sense notions clash with the factual evidence …

This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock ”moral concepts” to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the very nature of nursing. It takes as its point of …

An excellent and entertaining essayist, Laski’s volume deals with the issues of politics and law in Europe and American during the 1920s and 30s. It is unified by the concpetion of democracy as a soc …

A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the impo …

Regional Perspectives in Bioethics’ illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widel …

First published in 1987. By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world”s most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years, Scepticism and Naturalis …