1765 results for '"Alan Stephens'

This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to current controversies in moral philosophy. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading philosophers and commentators, reflect...

Images of ancient Sparta have had a major impact on Western thought. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution she was invoked by radical thinkers as a model for the creation of a republican...

"Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the...

This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so it has important implications for...

In this book, Buckle provides a historical perspective on the political philosophies of Locke and Hume, arguing that there are continuities in the development of seventeenth and eighteenth-century...

Assesses the controversy of artistic freedom versus pornography, and looks at the questions it raises about the uneasy relations between government and the arts it supports.