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Essays.

By: A Barrister [Stephen, James Fitzhugh]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder and Co.: 1862

Seller ID: 2305047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Corners rubbed, minor transfer on front board, ink name and small bookplate on front endpapers. 1862 Hard Cover. iv, 335, 16 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf's uncle, a graduate of Eton College, King's College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. These originally appeared in The Saturday Review. The author writes quite a bit about morality and virtue, and also reviews a work by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and assesses the philosophies of several other writers. Includes: Casuistry; Mr. Hallam; Conventional Morality; Philanthropy; The Wealth of Nature; John Bull; Physical Strength; Doing...
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The Path of Peace: or; A Practical Guide to Duty and Happiness.

By: Abbott, John S.C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Crocker & Brewster: 1836

Seller ID: 2262521

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards a bit soiled, pages foxed throughout. 1836 Small Hard Cover. viii, 192 pp. 12mo. Green cloth with elaborate blind-stamped design. Includes hand-colored engraved frontispiece of a man, his two daughters, and his wife before a fireplace. An analysis of moral culture and how it relates to the family, the church, and one's neighbors. Abbott made sure to disabuse us all of a misapprehension of happiness by entitling the first chapter Merriment is Not Happiness.
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Physiology des Passions, ou Nouvelle Doctrine des Sentimens Moraux.

By: Alibert, J.-L. [Jean-Louis]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Bechet Jeune, Libraire: 1827

Seller ID: 2305440

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Second edition, revised and enlarged (corrigee et augmentee). Spines repaired, boards lightly rubbed, faintly foxed throughout. 1827 Half-Leather. Complete in two volumes. xc, 384; [4], 552 pp. 8vo. Leather spines over marbled boards, marbled edges. 16 engraved plates. A work on the psychology of morals by a prominent physician best known for pioneering researches in dermatology (see several titles in Garrison-Morton).
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A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology

By: Baase, Sara

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Pearson: 2012

Seller ID: 2283511

ISBN: 027376859X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Fourth edition. Still in shrink wrap. 2012 Soft Cover. This book covers subjects ranging from hacking to telecommuting to proper testing techniques and everything in between.
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A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War (One-Volume Edition)

By: Bok, Sissela

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 1989

Seller ID: 2290961

ISBN: 0394556704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Owner blind stamp on front endpaper. 1989 Hard Cover. xvi, 202 pp. 8vo. Books one and two together in one volume. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sissela Bok, born 2 December 1934, is a Swedish-born philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1970. Formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis Univ...
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Moral Sense (Library of Philosophy)

By: Bonar, James; Muirhead, J.H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd: 1930

Seller ID: 2304479

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Page ridges lightly foxed. A few small tears to jacket edges, front jacket flap price clipped, jacket lightly soiled. 1930 Hard Cover. 304 pp. Maroon cloth, gilt titles and rules. ...The subject is the rise, progress and decline, of a theory of moral philosophy which prevailed in this country for the greater part of the eighteenth century. Founded by Shaftesbury, and built up by Hutcheson, it derived our moral perceptions from a special Moral Sense, interpreted on the analogy of the five bodily senses. The book attempts an account of those two leaders, and of their principal fol...
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Image for Every Man's Monitor; or, The Universal Counsellor, in Prose and Verse. Being a Collection of Select Sentences, Choice Maxims, and Divine Precepts; Suited both for Youth and Age of Every Sect and Denomination, as Long as Time Endures. To Which Are Added, Fruits of a Father's Love; A Plain and Serious Address to the Master of a Family, and Instructions for Educating a Family.

Every Man's Monitor; or, The Universal Counsellor, in Prose and Verse. Being a Collection of Select Sentences, Choice Maxims, and Divine Precepts; Suited both for Youth and Age of Every Sect and Denomination, as Long as Time Endures. To Which Are Added, Fruits of a Father's Love; A Plain and Serious Address to the Master of a Family, and Instructions for Educating a Family.

By: Coltman, John

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, John Fordyce / Dickinson, Printer.: 1813

Seller ID: 1865242

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed, pages foxed throughout, bookplate from Social Library at Salisbury Ferry and ink name on front endpapers, pencil notes on front & rear endpapers. 1813 Full-Leather. vi, 398 pp. Original full leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles & double rules. A collection of maxims designed to encourage the successful raising of a family using moral principles.
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The Ethics of Confucius: The Sayings of the Master and His Disciples upon the Conduct of 'The Superior Man' Arranged According to the Plan of Confucius with Running Commentary

By: Confucius; Dawson, Miles Menander; Fang, Wu Ting

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1915

Seller ID: 2303922

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, minimal loss of gilt from spine and front board titles. 1915 Hard Cover. xxi, 323 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Confucius. One of the early American missionaries to China tells us that when he had finally convinced a Chinese scholar that there were schools in America the immediate assumption was: 'Then the people of your honorable nation are also acquainted with the books of Confucius.' It was a false assumption, and yet it is a great pity that more Americans are not familiar with the teachings which have moulded the lives of cou...
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And the Poor Get Welfare: The Ethics of Poverty in the United States (The Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy)

By: Copeland, Warren R.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Nashville, Abingdon Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2200201

ISBN: 0687013860

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Laminate bumped, page corners lightly dog-eared. 1994 Trade Paperback. 210 pp. Cries for the elimination of welfare rise at the very time that the amount of poverty in the United States grows.And the Poor Get Welfareis an ethical and theological analysis of both of these realities. It sets the context for this analysis by surveying the current situation and the histories of poverty and welfare as public policy issues in the United States. The heart of Copeland's ethical analysis is the critical reading of the very different approaches to poverty and welfare of four recent influential writers o...
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Essay on Instinct, and Its Physical and Moral Relations.

By: Hancock, Thomas

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, William Phillips: 1824

Seller ID: 2305442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Minor wear to spine and corners. 1824 Hard Cover. xi, 551 pp. Leather spine and corners over marbled boards, gilt titles and decorations, brilliant green endpapers. An interpretation of John Locke's writings on perception and education, from a Quaker perspective (Hancock admired Locke, and even owned one of his pieces in manuscript) - Dictionary of National Biography, Norman Moore
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A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from the Close of the Renaissance to Our Own Day

By: Hoffding, Harald [Harold]; Meyer, B.E.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1920

Seller ID: 2305095

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

4th printing of original English translation. Spine and edges rubbed, ink name on front endpapers, front hinge of first volume repaired with masking tape, pocket remnants on rear endpaper of each volume (possibly for a personal lending library?). 1920 Hard Cover. xvii, [1], 532; ix, [1], 600, [4] pp. 8vo. A survey of modern philosophy featuring accounts of numerous thinkers including: Michel de Montaigne; Copernicus; Johannes Kepler; Galileo Galilei; Francis Bacon; Rene Descartes; Thomas Hobbes; Benedict Spinoza; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; John Locke; Isaac Newton; George Berkeley; David Hume;...
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The Value of a Study of Ethics. An Inaugural Lecture

By: Hume, James Gibson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Toronto, The J.E. Bryant Company (Limited): 1891

Seller ID: 2304816

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Edges a bit rubbed, wrappers lightly soiled. 1891 Stapled Binding. 24 pp. Staple-bound printed wrappers. The author was head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto for over thirty years, and was also a member of the American Psychological Association (founded a year after the publication of this lecture). This lecture was the first of his career, and includes mentions of John Locke and Immanuel Kant.
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A System of Moral Philosophy, in Three Books, Published from the Original Manuscript by His Son Francis Hutcheson, M.D., to which is prefixed Some Account of Their Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

By: Hutcheson, Francis; Leechman, William; Hutcheson, Francis

Price: $4,000.00

Publisher: London, A. Millar over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand / T. Longman in Pater-noster Row: 1755

Seller ID: 2304796

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (ESTC T99472). Rebound in beige cloth with leather spine labels, gilt titles, new end sheets. 1755 Hard Cover. [xii], xlviii, 358; [iv], 380 pp. 4to. Among the Scottish literati and illuminati who subscribed to these volumes were Adam Ferguson, William Hamilton, Henry Home Lord Kanes, and, of course, Adam Smith. Gladys Bryson in Man and Society (1945) was probably the first modern scholar to contend that Francis Hutcheson was the 'father' of the Scottish Enlightenment, a view confirmed two decades ago by Charles Camic in Experience and Enlightenment (1983): His celebrated proclam...
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Bolshevik Ideology and the Ethics of Soviet Labor, 1917-1920: The Formative Years

By: Kaplan, Frederick I.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1968

Seller ID: 2304161

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Small chip to jacket spine head. 1968 Hard Cover. ix, 521 pp. A theoretical framework of Bolshevism showing its philosophical and psychological underpinnings, and placing it in a context with Russian labor.
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Strength to Love

By: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1963

Seller ID: 2281574

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition (stated, with $3.50 price on jacket). Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper, reverse of jacket foxed, jacket a bit rubbed. 1963 Hard Cover. x, [2], 146, [2] pp. 8vo. King's second book, a collection of sermons preaching the value of love and nonviolence, and urging the sort of mutual understanding and respect King spoke about during his speeches as a civil right activist. If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love. So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: I believe it is because ...
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For People and the Planet: Holism and Humanism in Environmental Ethics

By: Marietta, Don E.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Temple: 1994

Seller ID: 2196200

ISBN: 1566392470

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Ink underlining & marginalia. 1994 Trade Paperback. The view of nature has begun to move away from a traditionally Western humans-apart-from-nature attitude toward one that sees humans as a part of nature. This book describes these changes and what the author perceives as a philosophical shift toward a different holistic models of environmental ethics.
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Ramblings: A Compilation of Commentaries on Various Christian and Moral Subjects

By: Pellingra, S.J.

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Victoria, Friesen Press: 2012

Seller ID: 2263597

ISBN: 1770971467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First paperback printing. Brand new. 2012 Trade Paperback. vii, 90 pp. A compilation of S.J. Pellingra Sr.'s commentaries on a wide variety of topics regarding Christian and Biblical living. This is his interpretation of Scripture as he has faithfully applied to his own daily living throughout his life. Christians may attend Biblical studies and read commentaries in order to satisfy an inner longing to know God's Word on a deeper and more personal level. It is the Christian's desire to discern what God truly wants to reveal through His Word. To this end, S.J. Pellingra Sr. offers this work wit...
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The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule

By: Pfaff, Donald W.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Dana Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2271565

ISBN: 1932594272

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2007 Hard Cover. We remember the admonition of our mothers: Treat others as you want them to treat you. But what if being nice was something we were inclined by nature to do anyway? Renowned neuroscientist Donald Pfaff upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Golden Rule is hardwired into the human brain.
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The Philosophy of Morals; An Investigation, by a New and Extended Analysis, of the Faculties and the Standards Employed in the Determination of Right and Wrong: Illustrative of the Principles of Theology, Jurisprudence, and General Politics. in Two Volumes.

By: Smith, Alexander

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, A.K. Newman & Co.: 1841

Seller ID: 2305443

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Second edition. Personal copy of Harvard professor Arthur Stone Dewing, with his bookplate on each front endpaper, and extensive handwritten notes laid in, with minor pencil marginalia. Spines faded, endpapers foxed. 1841 Hard Cover. xx, vii, 304; vii, 335 pp. Green cloth with morocco spine labels, gilt titles and rules. A discussion of the theory of morals, moral faculties, the principal of virtue, the idea of utility, religious morality, etc.
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, Delivered at The Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806.

By: Smith, Sydney

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans / Spottiswoodes and Shaw: 1850

Seller ID: 2306900

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

First trade edition (a limited edition of 100 copies was printed for private distribution in 1849). Gibraltar Garrison Library bookplate and two ink codes on front endpaper, ghost from label on spine, but no other library marks. Boards rubbed, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1850 Half-Leather. xi, 424 pp. Smith was a student of Dugald Stewart, and possibly inspiration for Jane Austen's character Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey. These writings were taken from lectures given at The Royal Institution, and include: Introductory Lecture; History of Moral Philosophy; History of Philosophy, Part...
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Political Institutions: Being Part V. of The Principles of Sociology. (The Concluding Portion of Vol. II.)

By: Spencer, Herbert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Williams and Norgate: 1882

Seller ID: 2304815

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine faded, top edge foxed, tape remnant and ink name on front endpaper. 1882 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ii, [229]-770, x, 16 pp. 8vo. Part of Spencer's larger body of work entitled Synthetic Philosophy. Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a po...
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

By: Stephen, James Fitzjames

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder, & Co.: 1874

Seller ID: 2306899

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Boards lightly rubbed, owner bookplate on front endpaper, ink name and date on verso of front free endpaper, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1874 Hard Cover. xlix, 370 pp. An argument against John Stuart Mill's neo-Utilitarianism in general, and specifically the thesis of Mill's On Liberty. This second edition references Mill's recent death in a lengthy new preface, and addresses criticisms to the original edition made by Frederic Harrison and John Morley, and in doing so doubles down on his critique of Mill's line of reasoning. Stephen's profession as a lawyer and judge pr...
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Ethics Since 1900 (Oxford Paperbacks University Series: OPUS 1)

By: Warnock, Mary

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1966

Seller ID: 2305101

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. Pages lightly toned. 1966 Trade Paperback. 152 pp. ...a brief account of the main ethical problems which have been discussed in the present century in England, the United States, and France.
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Lectures on Systematic Morality, Delivered in Lent Term, 1846.

By: Whewell, William

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, John W. Parker: 1846

Seller ID: 2304790

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

First edition. Presentation copy with 'From the Author.' on front endpaper. 'Sir J.F.M. Herschel' in another hand on front endpaper, with notes in text in the same hand, including the following gem from the rear flyleaf: This book is a piece of very good writing to prove a very plain thing. It is unmistakable and irrefragable. What a pity that it was not to prove something more disreputable. Spine perished, but binding holding firmly. This can be easily rebacked. Owner stamp on title page, later collector's leather bookplate on front paste-down endpaper (Dr. Sydney Ross). 1846 Hard Cover. 205,...
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Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life: The Facts of the Moral Life; Ethical Systems

By: Wundt, Wilhelm; Gulliver, Julia; Titchener, Edward Bradford; Washburn, Margaret Floy

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim / William Brendon and Son, Printers: 1897

Seller ID: 2304802

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink name and date on title pages, pages lightly toned (endpapers more so). 1897 Hard Cover. xii, 339; viii, 196, [2] pp. 8vo. Wundt is considered the founder of modern psychology (a survey in American Psychologist ranked William James and Sigmund Freud a distant second and third). He also founded Philosophische Studien, the first academic journal for psychological research.
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Image for Instruction Facile sur les Conventions, ou Notions Simples Sur les divers engagements qu'on peut prendre dans la Societe, & sur leurs suites. Ouvrage utile aux Gens d'affaires, Bourgeois, Negocians, a tous Chefs de Famille, & aux jeunes Gens qui se destinent au Palais. Quatrieme Edition revue, corrigee & augmentee des Reflexions sur les Principes de la Justice du meme Auteur.

Instruction Facile sur les Conventions, ou Notions Simples Sur les divers engagements qu'on peut prendre dans la Societe, & sur leurs suites. Ouvrage utile aux Gens d'affaires, Bourgeois, Negocians, a tous Chefs de Famille, & aux jeunes Gens qui se destinent au Palais. Quatrieme Edition revue, corrigee & augmentee des Reflexions sur les Principes de la Justice du meme Auteur.

By: [de Montluel, Jussieu]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Leclerc: 1779

Seller ID: 2305908

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

'Quatrieme Edition revue, corrigee & augmentee des Reflexions sur les Principes de la Justice du meme Auteur.' Corners rubbed, lightly foxed throughout. 1779 Full-Leather. [iv], 490, [2], 120 pp. 12mo. French text. Original full sheep, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and decorations. Instruction Facile sur les Conventions [with] Reflexions sur les Principes de la Justice. A collection of thoughts on social customs, morality, and the principles of justice.
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