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Debating Ethical Dilemmas in the Classroom
2023 || Hardcover || Floris Velema e.a. || ISVW Uitgevers
This book is a valuable resource for educators looking to foster critical thinking and ethical reasoning in their students. It presents a variety of thought-provoking ethical dilemmas and offers structured debate frameworks to help students develop the skills to articulate and defend their viewpoints. While debating values, principles, harms and benefits, students will not only learn how to analyze and evaluate ethical issues, but also how to respect and consider the perspectives of others.
The Sovereignty of Good
2023 || Paperback || Iris Murdoch || Taylor & Francis
Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found in the Sovereignty of Good.
A New Modern Philosophy / 2nd edition
The Inclusive Anthology of Primary Sources
2023 || Paperback || Gwendolyn Marshall e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Weaving together multiple voices and all of the era's vibrant areas of debate, this volume sets a new agenda for studying modern philosophy. It includes a wide range of readings from 36 thinkers, integrating essential works from all of the canonical writers along with the previously neglected philosophers.
Beyond Good and Evil
Translated by Helen Zimmern
2023 || Paperback || Friedrich Nietzsche || The Philosophers
"Beyond Good and Evil" is a philosophical work by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The book comprises 296 aphorisms in which Nietzsche explores various topics, including morality, religion, culture, power, and truth.
Nietzsche criticizes traditional Western morality and its emphasis on self-denial and asceticism, arguing that it suppresses the individual's natural impulses and creativity. He instead proposes a morality of life affirmation, where individuals embrace their instincts and ...
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The wings of love - 2
2023 || Paperback || Joseph Kwabena Osei || Joseph K. Osei
The Wings of Love volume 2
The world will be safer and a paradise, if mankind learns to live with its innocence. Unconditional love is the cover cloth of the innocence.
Instead of mankind to swim in the romantic lake of unconditional love for the discovery of the hidden paradise bewitching marriage and relationships; lack of awareness, mankind is swimming in the dirty gutters of false love, creating its own worst nightmares.
Engaging in marriages, love and sex relationships with the ego’s m...
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Ethics from the heart
On Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for life
2023 || Paperback || Lucas Hartong || Brave New Books
This is a book about Albert Schweitzer's idea of Reverence for life (Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben). By way of ethics Schweitzer tried to bridge the gap between theology and philosophy (especially the Stoics). The author concludes that his work is still quite relevant for us today, as the gap still exists.
Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a very remarkable person. He held four degrees: in philosophy, theology, musicology and medicine. After a succesful career in Strasbourg he went to Lambarene, Gabon,...