Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, "Machiavelli's Virtue" is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and...(展开全部)

Uniting 30 years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, "Machiavelli's Virtue" is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey C. Mansfield begins by analyzing Machiavelli's radical concept of virtue. Rejecting customary morality, Machiavelli teaches that the prince must set his own terms for politics and morality in the state. Mansfi...(展开全部)

Uniting 30 years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, "Machiavelli's Virtue" is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey C. Mansfield begins by analyzing Machiavelli's radical concept of virtue. Rejecting customary morality, Machiavelli teaches that the prince must set his own terms for politics and morality in the state. Mansfi...(展开全部)

JONATHAN J. SANFORD is professor of philosophy and associate vice president for academic affairs at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

JONATHAN J. SANFORD is professor of philosophy and associate vice president for academic affairs at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

What does it mean to be a morally good person? It can be tempting to think that it is simply a matter of performing certain actions and avoiding others. And yet, there is much more to moral character than our outward actions. We expect a good person to not only behave in certain ways, but also to experience the world in certain ways within. Pleasure, emotion, and attention are ...(展开全部)

Answering the call of the Second Vatican Council for moral theology to draw more fully on the teaching of Holy Scripture, the authors examine the virtues that both flow from the Scripture and provide a lens by which to interpret the Scripture. By remaining true to both the New Testament's emphasis on the human response to God's gracious activity in Jesus Christ and to the ethic...(展开全部)

1. 安靖如（Stephen C. Angle），美国卫斯理大学（Wesleyan University）哲学系教授，著有Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy（Oxford, 2009），Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy: Toward Progressive Confucianism（Polity, 2012）。 2. 罗伯特·奥迪（Robert Audi），美国圣母大学John A. O' Brien哲学教授和管理学教授，著有Business Ethics and Ethical Business（Oxford, 2008），Democratic Authority and the Separat...(展开全部)

人性究竟是利己或利他？瑞德里引用遺傳學、心理學、人類學等領域的新發現，為我們解答「自私」與「互助」現象的矛盾，並點出人類追求更美善社會的發展方向。 就「物競天擇」的觀點而言，物種為求生存，必須自私。 但為什麼人類卻是生存在複雜的社會中，而且表現出充分的合作精神？本書作者麥特．瑞德里是動物學家，也是前《經濟學人》雜誌的編輯。他從不同領域中的近期研究，對存在於「自私」與「互助」間的矛盾，提出可能的解釋。他在本書中旁徵博 引遺傳學、心理學、人類學上的新發現，重新檢視我們在面對他人時，先入為主的的應對觀，無論為人父母、子女或生意夥伴。同時對照螞蟻、狒狒和鼴鼠的社會本能，從我們對政治的了解，提出解釋。 瑞德里除了追溯社會的演化，也指出程式設計、微生物學及經濟學上的突破，對今日人際互動關係的影響。