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Proper Guardians offers an introduction to the life and thought of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and a commentary and guide to his text of 1859, On Liberty. For a period steeped in waves of political correctness, with varied assaults on the liberty of expression, On Liberty (1859) remains a signal work, championing the vital worth of personal and political liberty. Mill promotes the liberty of thought and expression, affirming 'the inward domai...

Proper Guardians offers an introduction to the life and thought of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and a commentary and guide to his text of 1859, On Liberty. For a period steeped in waves of political correctness, with varied assaults on the liberty of expression, On Liberty (1859) remains a signal work, championing the vital worth of personal and political liberty. Mill promotes the liberty of thought and expression, affirming 'the inward domai...

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is best known for major studies on Hegel, for Sources of the Self (1989), a study of the development of modern identity, and A Secular Age (2007), based on the 1999 Gifford Lectures. The Ethics of Authenticity was originally given as a series of lectures on Canadian Radio, and entitled 'The Malaise of Modernity', and Taylor's concerns are to make a critique of modernity, highlighting worrying trends in t...

Written for those coming to the study of Nietzsche for the first time, Nietzsche and the Old Flame provides an introduction and guide to Nietzsche's thought as well as a commentary and review of his book of 1887 -On the Genealogy of Morals.Nietzsche is often seen as a critic of modernity as well as the advocate of individualistic values that run up against such notions as compassion, equality and the values that are intrinsic to liberal democr...

Written for those coming to the study of Nietzsche for the first time, Nietzsche and the Old Flame provides an introduction and guide to Nietzsche's thought as well as a commentary and review of his book of 1887 -On the Genealogy of Morals.Nietzsche is often seen as a critic of modernity as well as the advocate of individualistic values that run up against such notions as compassion, equality and the values that are intrinsic to liberal democr...

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This book offers an introduction to the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Wittgenstein's life in its earlier and later periods is considered in chapters that interleave the reviews of the philosophy of language set out in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1953). Later chapters discuss Wittgenstein's approach to philosophy and to thinking about religion and ethics. Along the way key ideas on philo...

How can we speak about God, who is wholly "other"? This complex question lies at the heart of a new and insightful analysis of the meaning of analogy, symbol, myth and verifiability as Stephen Loxton sets the empiricists against the insights of modern theologians in the quest for a comprehensible language for God.

Classroom Sets consisting of 10 copies. This guide compares and contrasts two of the world's greatest thinkers on the nature of goodness, purpose and the metaphysical views of reality. This guide will open up the essential differences in the Platonic and Aristotelean worldviews in this core element of Philosophy.

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Stephen Loxton compares and contrasts two of the world's greatest thinkers on the nature of goodness, purpose and the metaphysical views of reality. This guide, pitched just right for the ambitious A level student, will open up the essential differences in the Platonic and Aristotelean worldviews in this core element of Philosophy.

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