Most people think about philosophical problems without realizing it: What really exists? Can we know anything? Is anything really right or wrong? Does life have any meaning? Is death the end of everything? These problems have been written about for thousands of years, but the philosophical raw material comes directly from the world and our ...
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value. This ...
Much philosophical debate has attempted to reconcile the human capacity to view the world both objectively and subjectively. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life. He deals with ...
The philosophical interest of John Rawls' recently rediscovered senior thesis, completed just before he shipped out for the Pacific in 1942, cannot be separated from our knowledge of Rawls' later work - but his defining intellectual quality and moral motivation are already visible in his defense of a conception of faith as membership with all ...
If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal - it must work the same way for everyone. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view. To reason is to think systematically in ways that anyone looking on ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what ...
The conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual is one of the most fundamental problems in moral and political theory. Nagel here attempts to clarify the nature of the conflict and to show that its reconciliation is the essential task of any legitimate political system. Within each individual, Nagel believes, there is a ...
Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy, as well as on fellow philosophers like Freud, ...
These essays, with one exception originally published in "Philosophy & Public Affairs," consider the moral problems associated with improving the social and economic position of disadvantaged groups. If the situation of women and minorities improves so that their opportunities are equal to those of more favored groups, will they then be in a ...
This is the first book to discuss tax policy in depth from the standpoint of contemporary moral and political philosophy. In a capitalist economy, taxes are not just a method of payment for government and public services; they are also the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic or ...
Five philosophical essays debate the difference between infanticide and abortion, the mother's right to choose abortion, and the existence of the fetus as a person. Bibliogs.
Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the leading American philosophers working today. In this diverse and controversial volume, he collects a number of his most recently published articles and reviews. Concealment and Exposure reflects the unusually catholic range of his many philosophical preoccupations. The first section, Public and ...
For senior/MBA-level course in Pricing Strategy or Managerial Economics. Practical in focus and lively in style, this text provides a comprehensive, managerially-focused guide to formulating pricing strategy.
A study of Islam. Using the Koran and other primary sources, Tilman Nagel delves deeply into Islamic history as he traces the development of Islamic doctrine. He explores the centrality of the Koran in Islamic theology and examines its canonization process and the central themes of its message. The work goes on to explore the relationships between ...
-Es correcto preguntarse cunto est dispuesto a pagar el cliente para determinar el valor de un producto? -Sabe calcular hasta qu costo incurrir para igualmente obtener un beneficio? -Encuentre en este libro las respuestas y los ejemplos que garantizarn un desarrollo rentable. "Para alcanzar una rentabilidad superior y sostenible, la fijacin de ...
This is the first volume in a series dedicated to exploring the relationship between global development and government/public policy. This volume concentrates on the issues surrounding poverty policy, posing the question "Is the gap widening or closing?"
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