The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Deepening understanding without abandoning hope, Zack shows why it is more important to consider black rights than white privilege as we move forward through today's culture of inequality.
The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Deepening understanding without abandoning hope, Zack shows why it is more important to consider black rights than white privilege as we move forward through today's culture of inequality.
A Comparative Study of Machiavelli, the Daodejing, and the Han Feizi
This book focuses on the philosophies of Niccolo Machiavelli, the Daodejing, the Han Feizi, and the concepts of Fortune, the Dao, Virtu, Wu-wei, history, leadership, self-cultivation and discipline, and humanity's relationship to nature.
A highly original rereading of Kierkegaard through the concept of birthing, highlighting a speculative hypothesis about the nature of Being in Kierkegaard's work.
This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London.
This book comprehensively examines the aesthetic views of Thomas Aquinas, treating both the objective nature and the subjective human experience of beauty. It locates Aquinas's views in their historical context and illustrates their relations to other popular aesthetic views.
Qi ("vital energy") is one of the most important concepts in Chinese philosophy and culture, and neo-Confucian Zhang Zai plays a pivotal role in developing the notion. This book provides a thorough and proper understanding of his thoughts.
This book questions the often implicit assumption of many contemporary political philosophers that a society needs its citizens to adopt some shared basic qualities, views, or capabilities. Christoph Luetge provides an alternative view, which relies on mutual advantages as the fundamental basis of society.
This seventh edition of The Study of Philosophy presents a comprehensive treatment of the major fields and figures of philosophy alongside primary readings by seminal thinkers to fuel debate and further study. New features of this edition include *a substantive account of philosophical theology *a reorganized treatment of early modern ......
