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Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood. It also shows how the foundations of his political thought support a liberal democratic state.

To lessen the impact of this dramatic changeover, which will be initially experienced as upheaval and global anxiety, Erickson argues that we must do all we can to come into this new era, which he has called The Age of Thresholding, with a better understanding of our past and present.

Moral and cultural unity was sought though philosophical reflection on human nature and the basic goods of a properly nurtured and virtuous life-that is, through appeal to what has come to be called the natural law.The natural law addresses permissible moral choice through objective understandings of human nature and human goods.

This is a work of historical critical exegesis. Hegel on the Grundrisse of Karl Marx. It is the first work in the history of Marx Studies to demonstrate that the Hegelian logic guided Marx's doctrinal development, and that the ordering of the logical categories in the SL is reflected in the ordering of economic categories in the Grundrisse.

Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk will appeal to philosophers and social scientists interested in issues of rights and social justice, and to graduate students and journalists seeking a critical survey of the field.

Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. While contemporary views of temperance occasionally note its general relevance to the experience of emotion, I elaborate upon the work of temperance as an essential part of the effort to include emotion in the moral life.

The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. This volume offers a critical examination of the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis, focused on its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding.

The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives

This centrality is demonstrated by systematically examining its presence and development in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, language, psychology, social science, ethics, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

An interpretation of themes in Leibniz's philosophy is offered in this text. It demonstrates the persistence of pre-modern ideas in modern philosophy, questioning in what sense Leibniz is a "modern" philosopher, and how the "modern" should be understood in modern philosophy and postmodernism.

This book describes an emotional territory, which forms the individual's own sphere of action and experience. This develops in the course of evolution in pace with the individual's conditions of life, brought about by challenges in the natural and social environment.

Explores and assesses contemporary culture wars in terms of: the possibility of natural law moral philosophy and theology to provide a content-full, canonical morality; the character and nature of moral pluralism; and more. This work is of interest to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists, ethicists and political scientists.