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Are Markets Moral?
Despite the remarkable achievements of free markets--their rapid spread around the world and success at generating economic growth--they tend to elicit anxiety. Creative destruction and destabilizing change provoke feelings of powerlessness in the face of circumstances that portend inevitable catastrophe. Thus, from the beginning,...- $54.95
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Multiculturalism and American Democracy
Multiculturalism: is it the face of twenty-first century America or merely a passing intellectual fad? With its celebration of ethnic diversity and strong advocacy of tolerance, this contemporary movement provides philosophical justification for many who seek to correct social inequities. But while its proponents...- $24.99
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Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
Philosophical esotericism--the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines"--was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclop馘ie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty different articles, but admits to employing it itself....- $38.00
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The Natural Goodness of Man: On the System of Rousseau's Thought
The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the "natural goodness of man." It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigorous philosophical system...- $28.00
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The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics
The editors bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history.Author: Arthur...- $60.00
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