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Author: T. M. Scanlon Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 067400423X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 433
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How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.
Author: T. M. Scanlon Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 067400423X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 433
Book Description
How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.
Author: James Patterson Publisher: jimmy patterson ISBN: 0316574139 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 3278
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Over 2 million copies sold of the bestselling series! Discover the Kidd family's action-packed, funny, danger-filled adventures—together for the first time in this incredible nine-book gift set! Follow the Kidd siblings—Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy—from their first solo treasure hunt to the stunning finale, as the stakes get higher and the treasures more epic. Their travels will take you down the Nile and around the Egyptian pyramids, beyond the Great Wall of China into the underbelly of Berlin, to the frosty Arctic and across the Australian Outback. Each book is packed with action, humor, fascinating facts, and fun illustrations. Kids will race through the pages as the Treasure Hunters adventures unfold, then reach for the next book in this unmissable series.
Author: Russell Zimmerman Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 437
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INNOVATION, EXCELLENCE, INCLUSIVITY…INSANITY?! The Evo Corporation emerged from the troubled 2060s as a new company with a new mindset: having the most diverse and creative workforce in the Sixth World! Evo has embraced the three-way ideals of innovative augmentation, consistent excellence in their products, and being a metahuman-friendly corporation that makes metahuman-friendly products. Innovation, Excellence, and Inclusivity are Evo’s three pillars, and are celebrated in everything it does. Kenjiro Ishihara was fully brought up in that Evo mindset. Born into, raised, and educated by the most accepting megacorporation on Earth, he wants nothing more than to pay Evo back for the amazing life it has given him. But now Kenji finds himself ensnared in the bloodiest of megacorporate politics. With a manipulative, ruthless boss making a violent power play in the Seattle shadows, with coworkers out to take his head and curry favor, and with a rival branch escalating the warfare, Ishihara can only hold on by the skin of his teeth… …until he learns he not only can’t trust his department, but perhaps not even his own mind!
Author: Lauren Gallagher Publisher: GallagherWitt ISBN: 1943426872 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1009
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Two's company, but sometimes three is just right. A First Lady who's willing to do anything to keep her husband sane—including bringing his ex-lover into the bedroom. An interfaith couple desperate to start a family—and their friend who just might have the solution. A couple helping a friend celebrate her long overdue divorce—and finding themselves with a baby on the way. They may not have planned it, but these three loving relationships may just have room for one more after all. Contains Who's Your Daddy?, Kneel, Mr. President, and The Best Laid Plans. These full-length novels were previously published and are available individually.
Author: Mike Ryan Publisher: Ryan Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 880
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This Box Set contains books 5-8 in The Silencer Series, including: Point Blank After six months away in Detroit, Recker and Jones return their operation to Philadelphia. They're almost immediately thrown into trying to prevent a cop killing. They also come back to find things aren't quite the way they left them. One of the city's crime leaders tries to force Recker's hand, by using Mia as bait, in helping them take control of the city. Despite getting the cold shoulder from Mia initially upon his return, Recker works hard at freeing her from danger, taking her to the only place he knows she'll be safe. It leads to a violent conclusion, one that finds Recker working with the police by his side. Double Tap Recker and Jones go hunting to add a third member to the team. After an exhaustive search, Jones has finally found the perfect candidate. Former CIA Operative Chris Haley has been out of the game for a couple of years, but jumps at the chance to jump back into things as the new Silencer. As Recker and Haley start settling in with their new work dynamic, things don't go as smoothly as they have in the past. They get into a rough situation that leads to Recker getting put in handcuffs and taken away in a police car. Can Jones engineer Recker's release? Or will they once again become a two man team with only Jones and Haley? Hollow Point Somebody is shooting police officers. After several killings, and no progress on finding the shooter by the police department, Recker is asked to lend a hand. One of Vincent's men inside the department, a homicide detective, reaches out to The Silencer, setting up a meeting through Vincent. As Recker, Haley, and Jones investigate the killings, they start to find more questions than answers, and realize that everything is not as cut and dried as it seems. Once the supposed killer is finally found, Recker thinks he may have been played. He's not so sure that it wasn't a plant and the man was framed. All of which leads him to question, if it's someone else behind the shootings, who has the power and motivation to pull it off? And why? High Velocity There's a new criminal element in town and they state their arrival by knocking off a few of Vincent's men. Recker and the team get drawn into the middle of it and start investigating to learn the identity of the mystery player. Recker and Haley get a tip about a high-level meeting of the new crew in an abandoned building, but all is not what it seems. Instead of a meeting, they run into Malloy, who's also there to investigate, and an otherwise empty building. It turns out to be an ambush, and only two of the three will escape uninjured. Will they find out who's responsible for the attack and bring them to their brand of justice? Or will the perpetrators slip out from under their fingers to cause more chaos and destruction?
Author: Alexia D. Miller Publisher: amiller1009 ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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"When the door opened, I saw it pull you in--" A story of destiny and worlds outside the one we know; PHELIA, a 7 year old with a knowledge base no one in Snowville has ever seen; ZANE, Phelia's older brother and protector; VICTOR, Zane's nonchalant best friend; GRACE, an orphan with hair as red as her heart; and TRUE, the outcast: a girl new to Snowville that never shows her face. An abandoned building beckons them and the Darkness is after them, ready to destroy the very fabric of reality. Five people, five crystals that lead to another world--their fates intertwined in a way none of them could have imagined... *A portion of every book sold goes to charity. Find more info at the end of the book.*
Author: David Skibbins Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429908785 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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A strange thing was happening to Warren Ritter. He certainly didn't believe in the tarot. He was a businessman, setting up a folding table on a San Francisco street where a stream of passersby could bring him as much as a hundred dollars a day when the weather was right. But he was beginning to notice more and more that what he had learned to predict from his tarot cards seemed to be coming to pass with an unsettling regularity. It made him do odd things. Like stop teenage Heather Wellington's tarot at nine cards instead of ten. The first eight had been ominous, the ninth more upbeat, so Warren simply stopped the reading there. It was only after Heather had left that he looked at number ten-it was the Death card. The Death card does not automatically doom the person whose tarot it turns up in. But it doesn't mean there are good things ahead, either. So Warren, the scoffer, couldn't help feeling horror later that day, to see Heather's face on a pizza parlor TV screen with the word Kidnapped! slashed across the top. Guilt, that was what gripped him, as though he could have done something, warned her-but didn't. "Warren Ritter" is not the name he was christened with. He is a fugitive of sorts. Everyone, including his family and the New York police, believes he died in a mysterious incident thirty years ago, and he has no intention of changing that. Now, on top of the guilt he lives with, is the feeling that somehow he is responsible for young Heather Wellington's capture-that it is his call to find her, and to get at the people who took her. Eight of Swords is an astonishing debut novel, and a very different novel from the old notion that a traditional mystery is along the lines of "a dead vicar in the library." Warren's exciting and often dangerous quest through the streets-some of them quite mean-of San Francisco to find the girl and rescue her is more than just a suspenseful tale, it is also a moving portrait of a man returning to the world he had turned his back on three decades earlier.
Author: G.B. Hook Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1982235667 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 189
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In a world where some people are born with abilities and some are made, Quiet Sanctuary houses what ordinary people believe are criminals, the insane, and those with extreme addictions. The truth is much more sinister. Olivia only ever wanted the truth behind the unimaginable power she was born with. What she found at Quiet Sanctuary, was much more than she ever bargained for. Damien, a Sanctuary guard, lives his life in a self-inflicted exile, having abandoned everything and everyone he loved to protect them from the monster he was becoming. When a ghost from his past reappears in a startling way, he'll begin to question everything he thought he knew. When helping a friend brings strangers with unbelievable powers into her home, Alaina's once peaceful existence is suddenly plunged into chaos. In her desperation to return to a normal life, she'll charge headfirst down a path with devastating consequences. After making a dangerous escape with Olivia's help, Kasimir is more determined than ever to protect those he cares for. However, when the Sanctuary hunts them down and disaster strikes, everyone must face the inconceivable truth that not everyone should be saved.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Administrative law Languages : en Pages : 1032
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Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
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