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  • UTILITARIANISM
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    UTILITARIANISM
    GEOFFREY SCARRE
    Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world, through the Enlightenment and Victorian utilitarianism up to the lively debate of the ...

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  • MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE HOLOCAUST
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    MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE HOLOCAUST
    EVE GARRARD / GEOFFREY SCARRE
    How far can we ever hope to understand the Holocaust? What can we reasonably say about right and wrong, moral responsibility, praise and blame, in a world where ordinary reasons seem to be excluded? In the century of Nazism, ethical writing in English had much more to say about the meaning of the word `good` than about the material reality of evil. This book seeks to redress...

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  • AFTER EVIL
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    AFTER EVIL
    GEOFFREY SCARRE
    Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life. This book is about responding to them and in particular about responding to moral evils, that is, those produced by the deliberate acts of human beings. Prominent in our repertoire of responses to moral evil are forgiveness and punishment, and these, with the numerous conceptual and moral problems they raise, ar...

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  • DEATH
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    DEATH
    GEOFFREY SCARRE
    What is death and why does it matter to us? How should the knowledge of our finitude affect the living of our lives and what are the virtues suitable to mortal beings? Does death destroy the meaningfulness of lives, or would lives that never ended be eternally and absurdly tedious? Should we reconcile ourselves to the fact of our forthcoming death, or refuse to "go gently into ...

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  • ON COURAGE
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    ON COURAGE
    GEOFFREY SCARRE
    What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take? In this insightful and crisply written book, Geoffrey Scarre examines these questions and many more. He begins by defining courage, asking how it differs from fearlessness, recklessness and fortitude, and why peop...

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  • UTILITARIANISM
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    UTILITARIANISM
    GEOFFREY SCARRE
    Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world, through the Enlightenment and Victorian utilitarianism up to the lively debate of the ...

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  • DEATH, LOSS, MEMORY AND MOURNING IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1780–1914
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    DEATH, LOSS, MEMORY AND MOURNING IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1780–1914
    GEOFFREY SCARRE
    This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Primary sources explore death and mourning from literary, spiritual, historical, and intellectual perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emotions. ...

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