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The antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who's ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan's 101 head-turning aphorisms-backed up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science research-set the record straight. Readers everywhere agreed, turning a Dartmouth Class Day speech that had gone viral into a best-selling book. Whether praising the time "wasted" in fraternity basements; mentioning that, frankly, the worst days of your life still lie ahead; or simply asking that graduates avoid wreaking the kind of havoc that others before them have, Wheelan softens his candid conclusions with good-natured charm and tales of unconventional success. With cartoons sprinkled throughout to keep things light, this volume makes a perfect gift for graduates of all ages.
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• Acknowledgments.Introduction
• .1. Fortunate Misfortune
• .2. The Paradox of Beneficial Retirement
• .3. Two Paradoxes About Justice and the Severity of Punishment
• .4. Blackmail: The Solution
• .5. The Paradox of Nonpunishment
• .6. On Not Being Sorry About the Morally Bad
• .7. Choice-Egalitarianism and the Paradox of the Baseline
• .8. Morality and Moral Worth
• .9. The Paradox of Moral Complaint
• .10. Preferring Not To Have Been Born
• .11. A Meta-Paradox: Are Paradoxes Bad?
• .12. Reflections On Moral Paradox.Postscript: The Future and Moral Paradox.References.Index.
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Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality. This book: explores what these paradoxes can teach us about morality and the human condition; considers a broad range of subjects, from familiar topics to rarely posed questions, among them 'Fortunate Misfortune', 'Beneficial Retirement' and 'Preferring Not To Have Been Born'; and, asks whether the existence of moral paradox is a good or a bad thing. This book presents analytic moral philosophy in a provocative, engaging and entertaining way; posing new questions, proposing possible solutions, and challenging the reader to wrestle with the paradoxes themselves.
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• Volumes I: A philosophy guide for daily growth
• Volume II: A Stoic philosophy guide for daily growth
• Volume III: A Chinese philosophy guide for daily growth.

100 Conversations You Need to Have is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of life's big questions and corresponding answers from some of history's greatest philosophers. Readers are provided with the opportunity to answer each question, turn the page and receive a short piece of advice from thinkers on topics that include happiness, friendship, discipline, patience, the meaning of life and death, and other essential topics. The list of philosophers that are featured in each notebook is very multicultural. It includes both men and women and spans across time, including, among others, Aristotle, Seneca, Simone de Beauvoir, Lao Tzu, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Alfarabi, Jean-Paul Sartre and Pema Chodron. These notebooks duplicate the Socratic dialogue method and embody the idea of philosophy being a pathway to a more fulfilling life by creating 100 meaningful dialogues between the reader and a diverse array of interlocutors who will guide them on their journey to crafting a good life. The notebooks within this slipcase include: 100 Conversations You Need to Have: A Philosophy Guide, 100 Conversations You Need to Have: A Stoic Philosophy Guide, and 100 Conversations You Need to Have: A Chinese Philosophy Guide.
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• The Rules Of Formality
• The Personality Of A House
• The Most Important Table Appointment is Silver
• A Test of Quality is Linen of Quality
• China
• The Strict Meaning Of Formal Dinner
• How To Give A Dinner
• The Setting Of A Formal Lunch Table
• Three Types Of Table Service
• Buffet Dinner, Lunches and Suppers
• Adapting The Formal Pattern To Your Needs
• The Great American Rudeness Is That Of The Hostess Who Serves Herself First
• The Perfect Hostess
• On The Subject Of Smoking, Say No to Alcohol
• To Those Who Worry About Party Giving
• What to Wear and When
• Rules of Escape For Host or Hostess
• Art is Really Heart in Hospitality
• What Value Etiquette?

• Contents
• Forward! How to use this book
• The Dilemmas: Four dodgy dilemmas to get started with ... And three personal Dilemmas which maybe a business ethics course could help with... Three Tricky Trolley Dilemmas (that need to be solved together)
• The descent begins... Some Pretty Ancient Dilemmas
• Anti-social Dilemmas
• A Large Dose of Medical Ethics
• The censor's dilemma
• Business week: Dilemmas from business ethics (with the emphasis on business)
• and another dilemmas for business ethics (with the emphasis on ethics)
• A pentad of Stories: Searching for divine justice
• Some Monkey Business
• Searching for the Good Life
• Watching Brief
• The Vegetarian's Dilemma
• Ethically Suspect Fairy Tales
• Stories of Relativia
• War Ethics
• Environmental Ethics
• Money matters
• Legal Dilemmas: Rough Justice
• Environmental Ethics
• Some really rather implausible Ethical Dilemmas that could only happen in the movies, and what do they tell us about ethical decision making anyway? Nearly at the ends if not the means
• Discussions
• Glossary
• Notes and cuttings
• Further reading
• Index.
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Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to design a baby? What would you do? Would you always do the right thing? IS there a right thing? In this second edition of his thought-provoking and highly engaging introduction to ethics, Martin Cohen brings us eleven brand new ethical dilemmas including: the Dodgy Donor Clinic; the Famous Footbridge Dilemma; and, the Human Canonball. From overcrowded lifeboats to the censor's pen, Martin Cohen's stimulating and amusing dilemmas reveal the subtleties, complexities and contradictions that make up the rich tapestry of ethics. From DIY babies and breeding experiments to 'Twinkies courtroom drama' and Newgate Prison, there is a dilemma for everyone. Dilemmas from the worlds of medical, business, legal and war ethics; dilemmas in the shape of beautiful and ugly sisters, frogs, kings, ancient volcanic islands and suspiciously exotic villages. This book may not help you become a good person, but at least you will have had a good think about it.
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• Introduction
• How to use this book
• The Dilemmas: Four dodgy dilemmas to get started with ... And three personal
• Dilemmas which maybe a business ethics course could help with ...
• The descent begins ...
• Some pretty ancient dilemmas ...
• Anti-social dilemmas ...
• Medical ethics ...
• The censor's dilemma ...
• Business week: Half a dozen dilemmas from business ethics (with the emphasis on business)
• And another dilemmas for business ethics (with the emphasis on ethics)
• A puntad of stories: Searching for divine justice
• Some monkey business
• Two little dilemmas
• Searching for the good life
• Watching brief
• Role playing academic ethics games designed to make the college virtuous
• Animals too: The vegetarian's dilemma
• Ethically suspect fairy tales
• Stories of relatavia
• War ethics
• Environmental ethics
• Money matters
• Legal dilemmas: Rough justice
• Environmental ethics
• Some really rather implausible ethical dilemmas that could only happen in the movies, and what do they tell us about ethical decision making anyway?
• Nearly at the ends if not the means
• Discussions
• Glossary
• Notes and reading guide
• Acknowledgements.
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Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to 'design' a baby? From overcrowded lifeboats to the censor's pen, Martin Cohen's stimulating and amusing dilemmas will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud in equal measure. Whatever your background, there is a dilemma for you. There are the DIY babies and the breeding experiements from medicine; an ethically dubious chemical factory Business ethics; the 'School of Terror' from world affairs and the 'Twinkies courtroom drama' from law. In this book, you'll find dilemmas in the shape of beautiful and ugly sisters, frog kings, ancient volcanic islands and exotic villages. This book won't help you become a good person, but at least you will have thought about it...
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• Stand up straight with your shoulders back
• Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
• Make friends with people who want the best for you
• Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
• Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
• Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
• Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
• Tell the truth
• or, at least, don't lie
• Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't
• Be precise in your speech
• Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
• Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers."

• Economic ethics in European integration / Borna Bebek
• The European ethical community / David L. Edwards
• Subsidiarity and political authority in theological perspective / Joan Lockwood OD̀onovan
• Nationhood in a changing Europe / Jakub S. Trojan.

• Preface
• WELCOME TO THE ETHICAL TOOLBOX
• I. GETTING STARTED
• 1. Ethics as a Learning Experience
• A. The Need for Open Minds
• B. Three Easy Routes to a Closed Mind (And How to Avoid Them)
• C. Reading: C.P. Ellis interviewed by Studs Terkel
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 2. Ethics and Religion
• A. Religion's Contributions to Ethics
• B. Religion's Limits in Ethics
• C. Thinking for Yourself
• D. Exercises and Notes
• II. VALUES
• 3. Paying Attention to Values
• A. Definitions: Values and Moral Values
• B. Guidelines
• C. Reading: Edward Abbey, "The Great American Desert"
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 4. Families of Moral Values
• A. Three Families of Moral Values
• B. Mapping Moral Debates
• C. Exercises and Notes
• 5. Traditional Ethical Theories
• A. Utilitarianism
• B. Theories of Right Action
• C. Theories of Virtue
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 6. When Values Clash: Theoretical Approaches
• A. Utilitarian Strategies: Finding a Single Measure
• B. Non-Utilitarian Strategies: Prioritizing Values
• C. Limits of Theoretical Strategies
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 7. When Values Clash: Integrative Approaches
• A. Another View of Moral Conflicts
• B. Integrative Methods
• C. When to Hold Firm
• D. Reading, Roger Rosenblatt, "How to End the Abortion War
• E. Exercises and Notes
• III. TOOLS FOR CRITICAL THINKING IN ETHICS
• 8. Finding the Facts
• A. When Facts are at Issue
• B. Inferences
• C. Exercises and Notes
• 9. Watching Words
• A. Loaded Language
• B. When Terms are Unclear
• C. When Terms are Contested
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 10. Judging Like Cases Alike
• A. Consistency is not Easy
• B. How to Restore Consistency
• C. Reinvented Cases
• D. Reading: Colin McGinn, "Speciesism"
• E. Exercises and Notes
• IV. TOOLS FOR CREATIVITY IN ETHICS
• 11. Multiplyign Options
• A. The Need for Inventiveness in Ethics
• B. How to "Get Out of the Box"
• C. More Provovations: "What if...?" Thinking
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 12. Problem-Shifting
• A. Reframing Problems
• B. Making the Problem and Opportunity
• C. Exercises and Notes
• V. PUTTING ETHICS INTO ACTION
• 13. Picking the Right Tools
• A. How Goals Vary
• B. Matching Tools to Goals
• C. Exercises and Notes
• 14. Dialogue: Learning by Talking
• A. How to Have a Fruitless Debate
• B. How to Have a Useful Discussion
• C. Reading: The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice, "Common Ground Rules"
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 15. Service: Learning by Helping
• A. Calls to Service
• B. Vists to a Homeless Shelter
• C. Reading: Ram Dass and Paul Gorman, "Compassion: The Witness Within"
• D. Exercises and Notes
• VI. CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
• 16. Sexuality
• A. Who Cares About Sex?
• B. Can We Build on Sexual Common Ground?
• C. "Perversion"
• D. Reading: Jason Schultz, "Bachelor Party
• E. Exercises and Notes
• 17. Abortion
• A. Background
• B. Key Values
• C. Can We Get the Abortion Debate Unstuck?
• D. Reading: Rayna Rapp, "XYLO"
• E. Exercises and Notes
• 18. Business and Professional Ethics
• A. Ethics and the Professions
• B. Ethics and Business
• C. Reading: Lisa Newton and David Schmidt, "Obviously a Major Malfunction"
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 19. Poverty and Welfare
• A. Background
• B. Shared Values
• C. Understanding Poverty
• D. Reading: Rosemary Bray, "So How Did I Get Here?"
• E. Exercises and Notes
• VII. THE EXPANDING CIRCLE
• 20. Animals
• A. Why Should We Care About Animals?
• B. What Can We Do?
• C. Reading: Lori Bauston, "Animal Resuce"
• D. Exercises and Notes
• 21. Environmental Ethics
• A. Wake-Up Calls
• B. Beyond Anthropcentrism?
• C. Integrating Environmental Values
• D. Reading: Violet Woodsorrel Oxalis, "It's a Little Wild Out There"
• E. Exercises and Notes.
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The aim of A Twenty-First Century Ethical Toolbox is to enable its users to make a constructive difference, in both word and deed, in problematic moral situations and real-life moral controversies. It's an ethics textbook with a difference. Ethics in this book is not a purely academic or historical or theoretical subject - though some of those themes are here as well - but primarily a practical subject that requires a wide range of practical skills: from paying attention to values to judging like cases alike; from learning how to "break out of the box" to learning how to move beyond rhetoric to real dialogue. Similarly, in approaching the moral issues of the day, this book offers you the tools to work out constrcutive, creative, and mutually-agreeable next steps - to actually make progressr on the issue - not just a tour of the controversy as it stands. Primarily authored by Anthony Weston, the Toolbox also includes gripping and provocative short selections from essayists, activists, and even a few philosophers.
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• ""22 Tips for Planning for Your Future""; ""The Broad Categories of Life""; ""The Nitty Gritty of Establishing Priorities""; ""Establishing Goals""; ""Ground Rules for Reaching Your Goals""; ""Know Whatâ€?s Important""; ""Pareto's Principle""; ""The Few Key Factors""; ""Pareto in Small Firms""; ""Planning for Results""; ""Scheduling Tools Fit for the Pros""; ""Milestone Charts""; ""Milestone Chart with Subtasks:""; ""Flow Charts""; ""The Calendar Method""; ""Automating Your Schedule""; ""Reflections""; ""Action Plan""

• 2009 : "Ma patrie c'est la langue française"
• Albert Camus
• Discours de vertu
• 2000 : "ily a aussi de la chevalerie dans la vie quotidienne"
• 2001 : Les moines de Tibhirine
• 2006 : Discrimination et relecture de l'histoire
• 2007 : Bonté et Beauté
• 2009 : Les degrés de la vertu
• 2012 : Le virtuel et la vertu
• 2013 : Le Mal et la vertu
• 2014 : Le pouvoir et la vertu
• 2016 : La politique et la vertu
• 2017 : Le souci humanitaire et la vertu
• 2018 : Tartufferies et vertu
• 2019 : Exclusion culturelle, nouvel ordre moral
• Autres écrits, discours, bloc-notes...
• 2015 : 2084, la fin du monde, de Boualem Sansal
• 2015 : Homosexuel
• 2015 : Ressentiment
• 2016 : Éloge de l'alphabet
• 2017 : La peur de lire
• 2019 : Scènes de genre
• 2020 : Mon luxe
• 2020 : Différence et différences
• 2021 : Laïc, Laïcité
• L'immortel combat
• 1994 : La Langue et la Liberté
• 2008 : Enseignement et éducation
• 2021 : L'écriture inclusive.

"Dans le petit tableau peint par Fujita, né au Japon, et présenté en première de couverture, l'académicien apparait comme un bambin nu portant une petite épée. Il n'est pour autant pas naïf : il est l'image de l'enfance immortelle de notre langue qu'il doit surveiller et défendre. L'Académie française n'est pas un bambin ni une vieille institution inactive. Elle ne se contente pas de constater le recul de la culture française par l'appauvrissement de notre langue : elle est la gardienne de notre identité et de notre mémoire collective, deux nobles valeurs. En combattant sans cesse pour le maintien de la dignité et de la vitalité de notre langue, cette grande Dame permet à chacun, sur le sol de la francophonie, de pouvoir affirmer comme Albert Camus, né en Algérie."--Page 4 of cover.