Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy)
发布:tianrun | 发布时间: 2008年5月19日作者: Laurence Thomas (Editor)
出版社: Wiley-Blackwell (August 31, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1405109106
ISBN-13: 978-1405109109
Book Description
Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy offers engaging and original analyses of some of society’s most significant and current concerns, with an international cast of scholars presenting sharply opposing viewpoints across ten debates.
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The text begins with an introductory essay that provides an overview of the topics and a discussion of their relevance to social philosophy today. It then moves on to consider a broad range of social and political issues, including the nature of freedom, the limits of religious tolerance, group rights and ethnic identity, affirmative action, conceptions of parenting, the death penalty, privacy laws, world hunger, homosexuality, and abortion.
Ideal for university courses, this text offers a balanced range of opinion and perspective, probes the basic questions concerning the nature of a free and just society, and invites the reader to participate in the critical exchange of arguments.
Review
"Thomas has put renowned scholars in debate with each other and the result is a collection of stimulating debates of the highest order. In these well-written and argued articles, one is treated to the best of scholarly argumentation. One may not agree with all that is said. Nevertheless, one will find that after reading this volume one will have a better understanding of the importance of what Thomas calls 'virtuous disagreement'." -- Bill E. Lawson, University of Memphis
"Volume combines practical ethics and political philosophy in a somewhat unusual way; it has quite a lot of reasonable material on race and affirmative action." -- Metapsychology
About the Author
Laurence Thomas is Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, where he is also a member of the Center for European Studies. He is the author of over fifty articles and four books, Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character (1989), Vessels of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocaust (1993), Sexual Orientation and Human Rights (with Michael Levin, 1999) and The Family and the Political Self (2006). His articles on moral theory and social philosophy have been widely anthologized.
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