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Neutrality and impartiality: the university and political commitment
Andrew W. M. Graham, Alan Montefiore

First published in 1975, this is a book of general intellectual interest about the role of the university in contemporary society and that of university teachers in relation to their subjects, their students, and their wider political commitments. Alan Montefiore offers preliminary analyses of the family of concepts most often invoked in discussions of these problems, taking the central dispute to be between those who hold a 'liberal' view of the university and those who regard this notion as illusory, dishonest or undesirable. Six academics, representing, discuss issues of substantive conflict in light of Montefiore's initial distinctions. The volume is of particular interest to students of political and social philosophy, and political and educational theory. It is also intended for a wider readership among those who care about the political status of the universities and recognize the importance and difficulty of the problems involved in this.

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Citizenship - A Book for Classes

in Government and Law
Julius Hawley Seelye
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Moral Value and Human Diversity
Robert Audi

Can the moral fragmentation so prominent in the contemporary world be overcome? Are there ethical standards that deserve everyone's allegiance? Can judgments of value transcend taste and cultural preference? Moral Value and Human Diversity offers a brief but highly comprehensive introduction to ethics and value theory that argues for positive answers in a pluralistic framework.

The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Albie Sachs

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and the sight of an eye. His experiences provoked an outpouring of creative thought on the role of law as a protector of human dignity in the modern world, and a lifelong commitment to seeing a new era of justice established in South Africa.
After playing an important part in drafting South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution, he was appointed by Nelson Mandela to be a member of the country's first Constitutional Court. Over the course of his fifteen year term on the Court he has grappled with the major issues confronting modern South Africa, and the challenges posed to the fledgling democracy as it sought to overcome the injustices of the apartheid regime.
As his term on the Court approaches its end, Sachs here conveys in intimate fashion what it has been like to be a judge in these unique circumstances, how his extraordinary life has influenced his approach to the cases before him, and his views on the nature of justice and its achievement through law.
The book provides unique access to an insider's perspective on modern South Africa, and a rare glimpse into the working of a judicial mind. By juxtaposing life experiences and extracts from judgments, Sachs enables the reader to see the complex and surprising ways in which legal culture transforms subjective experience into objectively reasoned decisions. With rare candour he tells of the difficulties he has when preparing a judgment, of how every judgment is a lie. Rejecting purely formal notions of the judicial role he shows how both reason and passion (concern for protecting human dignity) are required for law to work in the service of justice.

Republicanism in the modern world
John W. Maynor

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In response to the dominance of liberalism, some theorists have recently embraced the republican model as an attractive alternative. The overriding appeal of these moves seems to be the robust emphasis that forms of republicanism place on citizenship and civic virtue in light of what many commentators see as a decline in the social nature of modern politics. However, many of these discussions about republicanism are inconsistent and fail to capture the essence of a classical republican theory for today's complex modern world. The result is that the ideals and values of classical republicanism have become diluted and misappropriated as they are utilized by both philosophers and politicians without a clear and consistent sense of their historical pedigree and their relevance to the contemporary world.
Republicanism in the Modern World develops and extends the theoretical implications of a distinctive republican conception of liberty as non-domination. Building on the recent work of Quentin Skinner and Philip Pettit, Maynor explores the complex interdependent relationship between liberty as non-domination and conflict, citizenship, and civic virtue to develop a modern theory of republicanism. Maynor argues that modern republicanism, inspired and informed by classical versions, can be the basis for a renewed effort to rejuvenate the political ideals and institutions of the modern democratic nation-state.

Citizenship: feminist perspectives
Ruth Lister

The second edition of this classic text substantially revises and extends the original, takes account of theoretical and policy developments, and enhances its international scope. Drawing on a range of disciplines and literatures, the book provides an unusually broad account of citizenship. It recasts traditional thinking about the concept and pinpoints important theoretical issues and their political and policy implications for women. Themes of inclusion and exclusion (at national and international levels), rights and participation, inequality and difference, are thus all brought to the fore in the development of a woman-friendly, gender-inclusive, theory and praxis of citizenship. Wide-ranging, stimulating and accessible, this is a ground-breaking book that provides new insights for both theory and policy.

Citizenship in a global age: society, culture, politics
Gerard Delanty

This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization. It argues that citizenship is no longer defined by nationality and the nation state, but has become de-territorialized and fragmented into the separate discourses of rights, participation, responsibility and identity

Freedom and Reason
R. M. Hare

"This book is a major addition to the growing list of works which prove (by the doing) that analytical philosophy can be both rigorous and helpfully relevant to the 'big' issues of human existence. Mr. Hare, who has written this volume 'for all who are seriously troubled by moral questions,' constantly touches on such eminently concrete problems as Nazism, homosexuality, drug-addiction, contractual obligations, neighborly consideration, criminal law, truth-telling, toleration, war, and the like; and he devotes his final chapter to a currently topical examination of the moral issues of racial discrimination. What he has to say about these topics is seldom startling, at least to those of liberal views, but his remarks are unfailingly illuminating. Such new light as is cast on these problems, furthermore, is largely generated by the philosophical position that is worked out with considerable care in these pages.
The position thus thoughtfully developed and practically applied represents a natural outgrowth from the analysis of moral terms presented in Hare's earlier book, The Language of Morals (1952), where the concepts 'good' and 'ought' were shown to combine a prescriptive (roughly, an 'imperative') force with a descriptive content. Now, in Freedom and Reason, the same author moves on to an examination of the logic of moral judgments which employ concepts functioning with such meaning. Once again Hare offers us a bi-polar analysis: because of the prescriptive element in this domain of discourse we cannot simply deduce moral judgments from facts alone, which means that we are responsibly free to form our own moral opinions logically uncoerced (the 'Freedom' of the title); but because of the descriptive element always present in this language our moral judgments are always universalizable, which means that moral disputes are not at all merely private or unarguable (the 'Reason' of the title). In this way Hare hopes to thread his way between, on the one side, the fallacy of the 'descriptivist' who threatens our sense of personal accountability for the morality we adopt by his neglect of the element of commitment in all value judgments, and, on the other side, the arbitrary irrationalism of the 'emotivist' who makes our moral judgments trivial by his reduction of them to idiosyncratic expressions of individual taste. For his intermediary position Hare aptly chooses the label of 'universal prescriptivism'....
...Ethical theory can never hope single-handedly to make men good. But if men are ready to inquire into what they ought to do, the moral philosopher can offer increasingly powerful logical tools to aid and to shape that inquiry. These are precisely what this acute and concerned author has provided in his highly civilized book."

Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection
Michael Taylor

A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective creatures who think about what they are and what they should be, with ideals that can shape and structure the way they see their choices. The author's views are brought to bear on the economic way of thinking about the natural environment and on how and when the norm of fair reciprocity motivates us to do our part in cooperative endeavors. Throughout, the argument is adorned by thought-provoking examples that keep what is at stake clearly before the reader's mind.

The common good and Christian ethics
David Hollenbach

The Common Good and Christian Ethics rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good in a way that addresses contemporary social divisions, both urban and global. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in both urban life and global society. He argues that the division between the middle class and the poor in major cities and the challenges of globalisation require a new commitment to the common good and that both believers and secular people must move towards new forms of solidarity if they are to live good lives together. Hollenbach proposes a positive vision of how a reconstructed understanding of the common good can lead to better lives for all today, both in cities and globally. This interdisciplinary study makes both practical and theoretical contributions to the developing shape of social, cultural, and religious life today.

Human rights obligations of non-state actors
Andrew Clapham

Human rights activists increasingly address the activity of multinational corporations, the policies of international organizations such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization, and international crimes committed by entities such as armed opposition groups and terrorists. This book presents an approach to human rights which goes beyond the traditional focus on states and outlines the human rights obligations of non-state actors. It finishes with examples of how non-state actors can be held legally accountable for their actions in various jurisdictions and suggests a framework for understanding the limits of human rights in this context.

The anatomy of antiliberalism
Stephen Holmes

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Liberal: spoken in a certain tone, heard more and more often lately, it summons up permissiveness, materialism, rootlessness, skepticism, relativism run rampant. How has liberalism, the grand democratic ideal, come to be a dirty word? This hook shows us what antiliberalism means in the modern world--where it comes from, whom it serves, and why it speaks with such a forceful, if everchanging, voice.
In the past, in a battle pitting one offspring of eighteenth-century rationalism against another, Marxism has been liberalism's best known and most vociferous opponent. But with the fall of communism, the voices of ethnic particularism, communitarianism, and religious fundamentalism--a tradition Holmes traces to Joseph de Maistre--have become louder in rejection of the Enlightenment, failing to distinguish between the descendants of Karl Marx and Adam Smith. Stephen Holmes uses the tools of the political theorist and the intellectual historian to expose the philosophical underpinnings of antiliberalism in its nonmarxist guise. Examining the works of some of liberalism's severest critics--including Maistre, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and Alasdair Maclntyre--Holmes provides, in effect, a reader's guide to antiliberal culture, in all its colorful and often seductive, however nefarious, variety. As much a mindset as a theory, as much a sensibility as an argument, antiliberalism appears here in its diverse efforts to pit "spiritual truths" and "communal bonds" against a perceived cultural decay and moral disintegration. This corrosion of the social fabric--rather than the separation of powers, competitive elections, a free press, religious tolerance, public budgets, and judicial controls on the police--is what the antiliberal forces see as the core of liberal politics. Against this picture, Holmes outlines the classical liberal arguments most often misrepresented by the enemies of liberalism and most essential to the future of democracy.
Constructive as well as critical, this book helps us see what liberalism is and must be, and why it must and always will engender deep misgivings along with passionate commitment.

Theory of legal principles
Humberto Bergmann Ávila

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This book intends to help understand and apply principles and rules better. Its target is to keep the distinction between principles and rules whereas structuring it on different foundations than those jurisprudence ordinarily employs. The first object of investigation is the phenomenon of interpretation in Law in order to understand that the classification of certain normative species as either principles or rules depends in the first place on axiological connections that are not ready prior to the interpretation process that unveils them. Then, a definition of principles is proposed, aiming to understand what their unique characteristics are when compared to other norms of the legal order. Thirdly, the conditions for the application of principles and rules are examined, which are the normative applicative postulates. It will be shown, on one hand, that principles not only explicit values, but also set forth precise species of behaviors, though indirectly; on the other hand, the creation of conducts by rules is also to be weighed, even though the behavior set forth in advance may be overcome, depending on the accomplishment of a few requirements. That will surpass both the mere praise of values, which does not create behaviors, and the automatic application of rules. A model is proposed to explain the normative species, which includes structured weighing on the application process while encompassing substantive criteria of justice in its argument, through the analytical reconstruction of the concrete use of normative postulates, especially those of reasonableness and proportionality. All of that is done with a focus on the ability of intersubjective control of the argumentation, which often degenerates into capricious decisionism.

Darker legacies of law in Europe: the shadow of National Socialism and ...
Christian Joerges,Navraj Singh Ghaleigh

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The legal scholarship of the National Socialist and Fascist period of the 20th century and its subsequent reverberation throughout European law and legal tradition has recently become the focus of intense scholarly discussion. This volume presents theoretical, historical and legal inquiries into the legacy of National Socialism and Fascism written by a group of the leading scholars in this field. Their essays are wide-ranging, covering the reception of National Socialist and Fascist ideologies into legal scholarship; contemporary perceptions of Nazi Law in the Anglo-American world; parallels and differences among authoritarian regimes in the Third Reich, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Vichy-France; how formerly authoritarian countries have dealt with their legal antecedents; continuities and discontinuities in legal thought in private law, public law, labour law, international and European law; and the legal profession's endogenous obedience and the pains of Vergangenheitsbewältigung. The majority of the contributions were first presented at a conference at the EUI in the autumn of 2000, the others in subsequent series of seminars.

Toleration on trial
Ingrid Creppell, Russell Hardin, Stephen Macedo

Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, in the context of deep and difficult conflicts over ideological, cultural, and identity issues in today's mobilized political environment. The importance of individual attitudes and institutional/cultural arrangements is explored as a central axis in the meaning of toleration as a principle and practically in relation to demands for toleration of religious expression, gay rights, and the Islamic sources of toleration.

Democracy at Risk
How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation,
and What We Can Do About It
Stephen Macedo

Voter turnout was unusually high in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. At first glance, that level of participation—largely spurred by war in Iraq and a burgeoning culture war at home—might look like vindication of democracy. If the recent past is any indication, however, too many Americans will soon return to apathy and inactivity. Clearly, all is not well in our civic life. Citizens are participating in public affairs too infrequently, too unequally, and in too few venues to develop and sustain a robust democracy. This important new book explores the problem of America's decreasing involvement in its own affairs.
Democracy at Risk reveals the dangers of civic disengagement for the future of representative democracy. The authors, all eminent scholars, undertake three main tasks: documenting recent trends in civic engagement, exploring the influence that the design of political institutions and public policies have had on those trends, and recommending steps that will increase the amount and quality of civic engagement in America. The authors focus their attention on three key areas: the electoral process, including elections and the way people get involved; the impact of location, including demographic shifts and changing development patterns; and the critical role of nonprofit organizations and voluntary associations, including the philanthropy that help keep them going.
This important project, initially sponsored by the American Political Science Association, tests the proposition that social science has useful insights on the state of our democratic life. Most importantly, it charts a course for reinvigorating civic participation in the world's oldest democracy.

Republicanism and political theory
Cécile Laborde, John W. Maynor

"Republicanism and Political Theory" is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of republican political theory. Critically assessing the historical credentials, conceptual coherence and normative proposals of republicanism, it brings together original contributions from leading international scholars. The volume focuses on four main areas: liberty in the republican tradition; freedom as non-domination and its critics; the borders of republicanism; and new republican debates, reflecting upon the contribution that republicans have made to our understanding of political life. Individual chapters are closely related to one another, providing readers with valuable insight into the main debates taking place between republicans and their critics. An essential text for students in political theory and political science, this volume also serves as an invaluable resource for research scholars in political philosophy, intellectual history, law, international relations, European studies, and gender studies.

Comparer les droits, résolument
Pierre Legrand


Une vingtaine de comparatistes venus de différents champs du savoir, de divers horizons géographiques aussi, se sont associés pour donner ici aux juristes francophones d'abord, mais à l'ensemble des universitaires cosmopolites également, des réflexions approfondies autour des enjeux primordiaux que recèle une comparaison des droits vouée à la signifiante, en tout cas s'il doit être question de " justice ".

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The idea of human rights
Charles R. Beitz

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The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the author takes a practical approach, looking at the history and political practice of human rights for guidance in understanding the central idea. The author presents a model of human rights as matters of international concern whose violation by governments can justify international protective and restorative action ranging from intervention to assistance. He proposes a schema for justifying human rights and applies it to several controversial cases--rights against poverty, rights to democracy, and the human rights of women. Throughout, the book attends to some main reasons why people are skeptical about human rights, including the fear that human rights will be used by strong powers to advance their national interests. The book concludes by observing that contemporary human rights practice is vulnerable to several pathologies and argues the need for international collaboration to avoid them.
Charles R. Beitz is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the Editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs. He has written books and articles in global political theory (Political Theory and International Relations) and democratic theory (Political Equality) and is co-editor, with Robert Goodin, of Global Basic Rights (OUP 2009). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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A secular age
Charles Taylor

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What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we--in the West, at least--largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean--of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.

Taylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created. As we see here, today's secular world is characterized not by an absence of religion--although in some societies religious belief and practice have markedly declined--but rather by the continuing multiplication of new options, religious, spiritual, and anti-religious, which individuals and groups seize on in order to make sense of their lives and give shape to their spiritual aspirations.

What this means for the world--including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence--is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless.

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Methods of legal reasoning
Jerzy Stelmach, Bartosz Brożek

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The book attempts to describe and criticize four methods used in legal practice, legal dogmatics and legal theory: logic, analysis, argumentation and hermeneutics. Apart from a presentation of basic ideas connected with the above mentioned methods, the essays contained in this book seek to answer questions concerning the assumptions standing behind these methods, the limits of using them and their usefulness in the practice and theory of law. A specific feature of the book is that in one study four different, sometimes competing concepts of legal method are discussed. The panorama, sketched like this, allows one to reflect deeply on the questions concerning the methodological conditioning of legal science and the existence of a unique, specific legal method. The authors argue that there exists no such method. They claim that the methodologies presented in the book may serve as a basis for constructing a coherent and useful conception of legal thinking. Any such conception, however, must recognize its own assumptions and limitations, resulting from adopting a specific philosophical stance.

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The bourgeois virtues: ethics for an age of commerce
Deirdre N. McCloskey

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For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned
the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us.

McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.

High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.

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The Hart-Fuller debate in the twenty-first century
Peter Cane

This book presents the papers and comments on those papers delivered at a colloquium held at the Australian National University in December 2008 to celebrate 50 years since the publication in the Harvard Law Review of the famous and wide-ranging debate between HLA Hart and Lon L Fuller. These essays do not to re-run that debate and they are not confined to discussion of the jurisprudential issues canvassed by Hart and Fuller. Rather they pick up on strands in the debate and re-think them in the light of social, political and intellectual developments in the past 50 years and changed ways of understanding law and other normative systems. This collection looks forward rather than backward using the debate as a point of departure and inspiration.

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The Effects of EU Citizenship:
Economic, Social and Political Rights in a Time of Constitutional Change
Flora Goudappel

The notion of citizenship has undergone significant changes over the last few years because of European Union developments. Citizens have obtained additional economic, social and political rights but have also seen privacy and other rights limited because of the European fight against terrorism. Recent developments, such as the European Constitution and the Treaty of Lisbon, have aimed to change citizenship rights for European citizens and third-country nationals in the European Union. This book explores the influence of the EU on citizenship rights, especially in view of the fight against terrorism and the constitutional changes negotiated in the last decade.

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Working virtue: virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems
Rebecca L. Walker, P. J. Ivanhoe

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Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions.

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Reasonableness and law
Giovanni Sartor, Giorgio Bongiovanni, Chiara Valentini

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Reasonableness is at the centre of legal debate, both in academic circles and in practice. This unique reference work examines the issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, merging jurisprudence, legal theory, political philosophy and the different branches of law. All aspects relating to reasonableness and law are addressed by the most prominent scholars in the field. In the first volume, the focus is on the legal theory behind the concept of reasonableness and its moral and political implications. This includes important contributions by Robert Alexy, Neil MacCormick and Philip Pettit. In the second volume, reasonableness is examined in the different fields of law like Public, Private and International Law. Here in more detail the practical consequences of reasonableness is assessed, making this work of interest to practioners as well as legal theorists.

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The case against perfection: ethics in the age of genetic engineering
Michael J. Sandel

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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature--to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature?
The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda.
In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America's preeminent moral and political thinkers.

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If you're so smart: the narrative of economic expertise
Deirdre N. McCloskey

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In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, Deirdre McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economists claim to certainty is the ancient art of storytelling. If You're So Smart will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who stand ready to engineer our lives. "Writing with delicious wit and great seriousness."--Publishers Weekly. " "McCloskey is more interesting on an uninspired day than most of her peers can manage at their very best."--Peter Passell, New York Times

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Human rights from below: achieving rights through community development
Jim Ife

In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied. The book offers a long overdue assessment of how human rights and community development are invariably interconnected. It highlights how critical it is to understand the two as a basis for thinking about and taking action to address the serious challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century. Written both for students and for community development and human rights workers, Human Rights from Below brings together the important fields of human rights and community development, to enrich our thinking of both.

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The trouble with terror:
liberty, security, and the response to terrorism
Tamar Meisels

What is terrorism and can it ever be defended? Beginning with its definition, proceeding to its possible justifications, and culminating in proposals for contending with and combating it, this book offers a full theoretical analysis of the issue of terrorism. Tamar Meisels argues that, regardless of its professed cause, terrorism is diametrically opposed to the requirements of liberal morality and can only be defended at the expense of relinquishing the most basic of liberal commitments. Meisels opposes those who express sympathy and justification for Islamist (particularly Palestinian) terrorism and terrorism allegedly carried out on behalf of developing nations, but, at the same time, also opposes those who would tolerate any reduction in civil liberties in exchange for greater security. Calling wholeheartedly for a unanimous liberal front against terrorism, this is a strong and provocative attempt to address the tension between liberty and security in a time of terror.

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PAGINAS SOBRE JUSTICIA CIVIL
de TARUFFO, MICHELE

La mayoría de los estudios que se publican en la presente obra, Páginas sobre justicia civil, han aparecido en distintos idiomas y en memorias de congresos, revistas o volúmenes de circulación limitada, es decir, en lugares difícilmente accesibles al público en general. Con esta recopilación en lengua española se pretende otorgar una mejor difusión a esta parte menos conocida de la obra del profesor Michele Taruffo. Los estudios que se presentan son diversos en apariencia, pero comunes en cuanto al método seguido para elaborarlos. Algunos de ellos son análisis históricos, o al menos tienen en cuenta la historia de los problemas tratados. En otros se utiliza el método propio del Derecho comparado. Esta manera de proceder no sólo se deriva de la evidente erudición del autor, sino por encima de todo de su convicción de que los problemas de la justicia civil y del Derecho en general# no se pueden comprender simplemente a la luz del Derecho positivo vigente, en un momento histórico determinado y en un sistema jurídico concreto. La reconstrucción histórica y el análisis comparado son los instrumentos más esenciales con los que el jurista moderno debe saber trabajar. Los ensayos que componen el volumen están subdivididos en tres líneas generales, cada una de las cuales corresponde a una gran área temática de la justicia civil: jurisdicción, proceso civil y decisión. Pero al tratarse de una selección de estudios elaborados en diferentes ocasiones y con diversas finalidades, no puede esperarse de esta obra una clásica exposición sistemática de dichas líneas. Por consiguiente, este volumen es necesariamente incompleto, ya que muchos temas importantes han quedado lógicamente al margen. Pero con todo, la enorme riqueza de los aspectos tratados en estas Páginas suscitará en el lector, a buen seguro, importantes reflexiones sobre los problemas más relevantes de la justicia civil.

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L'idea di giustizia
Amartya K. Sen


Titolo: L'idea di giustizia
Autore: Amartya K. Sen
tradotto: da L. Vanni
Editore: Mondadori, 2010
ISBN 8804600179, 9788804600176
Lunghezza 457 pagine

Confini e identità.
La costruzione sociale dei diritti umani
Willem Doise


Titolo: Confini e identità. La costruzione sociale dei diritti umani
Autore: Willem Doise
tradotto: da R. Ferrara
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815137556, 9788815137555
Lunghezza 180 pagine

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Ethics and the limits of philosophy
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy" is widely acknowledged to be Bernard Williams' most important book and a contemporary classic of moral philosophy. Delivering a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onward, Williams reorients ethical theory towards "truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life." He explores and reflects on the thorniest problems in contemporary philosophy and offers new ideas about central issues such as relativism, objectivity and the possibility of ethical knowledge.
This edition includes a new commentary on the text by A.W.Moore, St.Hugh's College, Oxford.
By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. He taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford. He is the author of M"orality; Utilitarianism: For and" "Against; Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry and Truth and Truthfulness.

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Essays on Aristotle's ethics
Amélie Rorty

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Aristotle'sNicomachean Ethicsdeals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropriate ends. The articles in this unique collection, many new or not readily available, form a continuos commentary on theEthics. Philosophers and classicists alike will welcome them.

Umanizzare l'umanitarismo?
Limiti e potenzialità della comunità internazionale
M. Calloni


Titolo: Umanizzare l'umanitarismo? Limiti e potenzialità della comunità internazionale. Con CD-ROM
Curatore: M. Calloni
Editore: UTET Università, 2009
ISBN 8860082099, 9788860082091
Lunghezza 317 pagine

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Testamento biologico.
Idee ed esperienze per una morte giusta
Giorgio Cosmacini


Titolo: Testamento biologico. Idee ed esperienze per una morte giusta
Autore: Giorgio Cosmacini
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815134050, 9788815134059
Lunghezza 123 pagine

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Giustizia
Carla De Pascale


Titolo: Giustizia
Volume: 16 di Lessico della politica
Autore: Carla De Pascale
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815134034, 9788815134035
Lunghezza 246 pagine

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I comandamenti. Non rubare
Paolo Prodi, Guido Rossi

Titolo: I comandamenti. Non rubare
Autori: Paolo Prodi, Guido Rossi
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815137785, 9788815137784
Lunghezza 169 pagine

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America religiosa, Europa laica?
Perché il secolarismo europeo è un'eccezione
Peter L. Berger, Grace Davie, Effie Fokas



Titolo: America religiosa, Europa laica? Perché il secolarismo europeo è un'eccezione
Autori: Peter L. Berger, Grace Davie, Effie Fokas
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815137548, 9788815137548
Lunghezza 215

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Sentenze imperfette.
Gli errori cognitivi nei giudizi civili
Carlo Bona



Titolo: Sentenze imperfette. Gli errori cognitivi nei giudizi civili
Autore: Carlo Bona
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815137130, 9788815137135
Lunghezza 278 pagine

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Alle radici della globalizzazione.
Le cause politiche del commercio internazionale
Eugenia Baroncelli



Titolo: Alle radici della globalizzazione. Le cause politiche del commercio internazionale
Autore: Eugenia Baroncelli
Editore: Il Mulino, 2009
ISBN 8815131698, 9788815131690
Lunghezza 364 pagine

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Globalismo e antiglobalismo
David Held, Anthony McGrew



Titolo: Globalismo e antiglobalismo
Autori: David Held, Anthony McGrew
tradotto: da R. De Gramatica
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815126112, 9788815126115
Lunghezza 314 pagine

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I diritti presi sul serio
Ronald Dworkin





Titolo: I diritti presi sul serio
Collezione di testi e di studi
Autore: Ronald Dworkin
Curatore: N. Muffatto
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815105301, 9788815105301
Lunghezza 505 pagine

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La governance tra politica e diritto
Maria Rosaria Ferrarese



Titolo: La governance tra politica e diritto
Autore: M. Rosaria Ferrarese
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815133925, 9788815133922
Lunghezza 218 pagine

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Il nemico in politica.
La delegittimazione dell'avversario nell'Europa contemporanea
a cura di Fulvio Cammarano e Stefano Cavazza



Titolo: Il nemico in politica. La delegittimazione dell'avversario nell'Europacontemporanea
Curatori: F. Cammarano, S. Cavazza
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815134646, 9788815134646
Lunghezza 240 pagine

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I confini dei diritti.
Antropologia, politiche locali e rifugiati
A cura di GUSTAVO GOZZI e BARBARA SORGONI




Titolo: I confini dei diritti.
Antropologia, politiche locali e rifugiati
Curatori: G. Gozzi, B. Sorgoni
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815137440, 9788815137449
Lunghezza 151 pagine

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Diritti umani e cooperazione internazionale allo sviluppo.
Ideologie, illusioni e resistenze
a cura di GUSTAVO GOZZI e ANNALIS FURIA




Titolo: Diritti umani e cooperazione internazionale allo sviluppo.
Ideologie, illusioni e resistenze
Curatori: G. Gozzi, A. Furia
Editore: Il Mulino, 2010
ISBN 8815134395, 9788815134394
Lunghezza 116 pagine

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The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Nicholas Wade

A New York Timesscience reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given to the question of whether this universal human behavior might have been implanted in human nature. In this original and thought-provoking work, Nicholas Wade traces how religion grew to be so essential to early societies in their struggle for survival, how an instinct for faith became hardwired into human nature, and how it provided an impetus for law and government. The Faith Instinctoffers an objective and nonpolemical exploration of humanity's quest for spiritual transcendence.

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The European Court of Human Rights and the rights of marginalised ...
Di Dia Anagnostou,Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

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This volume examines the effects of Strasbourg Court jurisprudence for protecting the rights of marginalised individuals and minorities. It argues that its consequences vary depending upon the diverse social, legal and institutional context that shapes litigation and judicial approaches in each country.