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The Business of Life and Death, Volume One:
Values and Economies
by Giorgio Baruchello
Paperback, $29.95 USD. Purchase from
Amazon.
As Descartes did for epistemology and Lévinas did for ethics, Baruchello places social and
political philosophy as the new ‘first philosophy’. His research in the intersecting fields
of economics, power politics, knowledge, and reality, presented here and in The Business of
Life and Death Volume 2: Politics, Law, and Society, continues the work of John McMurtry,
and fills in the unacknowledged missing pieces in the work of Paul Krugman, Naomi Klein,
and Noam Chomsky, among others. He lays bare the frightening reality of how capital has
controlled our understanding of knowledge, ethics, and meaning, to the detriment of the
life-flourishing of peoples and environments. Yet his argument remains optimistic: he
shows how the power of capital can be escaped, and how the life-ground of human goodness
can replace it.
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The Business of Life and Death, Volume Two:
Politics, Law, and Society
by Giorgio Baruchello
Paperback, $29.95 USD. Purchase from Amazon
With patient logic, comprehensive research, a courageous sense of purpose, and indeed a gentle sense of humour, this volume of Baruchello’s essays continues the work of John McMurtry, and fills in the unacknowledged missing pieces in the work of Martha Nussbaum, Hans Jonas, and Arthur Fridolin Utz, among others.
Baruchello lays bare the frightening reality of how capital has controlled our understanding of knowledge, ethics, and meaning, to the detriment of the life-flourishing of peoples and environments. Yet his argument remains optimistic: he shows how the power of capital can be escaped, and how the life-ground of human goodness can replace it.
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Clear and Present Thinking: A Handbook in Logic and Rationality
by Brendan Myers
This is a college-level textbook in logic and critical thinking. With funding from over 700 people on Kickstarter,
the electronic edition is free, and the paperback edition is available for the lowest possible price.
A second edition is currently in progress, and due for publication in the spring of 2018.
Click here for details about the first edition.
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Philosophy of Cruelty: Collected Philosophical Essays
By Giorgio Baruchello
Paperback, $19.95 USD. Purchase from Amazon
Baruchello’s Philosophy of Cruelty, the second collection of his essays, turns a difficult
and emotionally charged topic into a surprisingly informative and enlightening read.
Covering the history of Western philosophy’s treatment of cruelty as a topic, yet relating
every point to present-day occasions of violence and injustice, this book is a touchstone
for any discussion of cruelty as a philosophical theme. It pulls no punches, yet it leaves
you standing taller.
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Mortals, Money, and Masters of Thought
Collected Philosophical Essays
By Giorgio Baruchello
Paperback, $19.95 USD. Purchase from Amazon
Mortals, Money, and Masters of Thought is a thoroughly enjoyable medley of philosophical meditations. Covering a very wide variety of topics, from metaphysical matters like the nature of history and art, to practical and ethically serious matters like global economic injustice, this collection nevertheless offers a remarkably coherent reading experience, where all topics are joined together by the common theme of death. This is the work of an enquiring mind, investigating the most serious matters with logical clarity and also with imaginative playfulness.
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Time and the Land:
Four Approaches to Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and Future Generations
By Brendan Myers
Paperback, $25.00 Purchase from Amazon
What is the ethical significance of the environment? How shall we dwell on, and with, the earth? And what, if anything, do we owe to future generations? “Time and the Land” pursues these questions through each of the four most prominent theories of ethics in the western philosophical tradition: Utilitarianism, Distributive Justice, Kantian Deontology, and Virtue Ethics.
Myers concludes that no single theory by itself can accomplish this task. A synthesis of ethics is required: but Virtue must lead the way.
Myers concludes that the aim for a worthwhile human life must include the aim to create and sustain the environmental conditions in which the worthwhile human life is possible and supported.
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