Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (Legacy Editions) by Viviana A. Rotman ZelizerRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.4 MBOverview: Life insurance―the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person’s death in exchange for a regular premium―is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What […]
Street Life and Morals by Lesley ChamberlainRequirements: .PDF reader, 15 MBOverview: With resonance for today, this book explores a significant crisis of German philosophy and national identity in the decades around World War II. German philosophy, famed for its high-minded Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban and industrial society in the […]
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert PikeRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.75 MBOverview: Morals and Dogma has been described as “a collection of thirty-two essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees (membership levels) of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The lectures provided a backdrop for […]
Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius by May SimRequirements: .PDF reader, 1.5 mbOverview: In some ways, Aristotle and Confucius seem like promising subjects for comparative philosophy. Both emphasize the cultivation of virtue and flexible responsiveness to concrete situations over abstract moral rules. However, Aristotle and Confucius have importantly different conceptions of what it is to […]
Shift of Morals by K. Webster (Kingdom of Wolves, #5) Requirements: epub/azw3/mobi reader, 484 KBOverview: I found him when he was a boy.Bloody. Mangled. Near death.If I’d been a merciful Alpha, I would’ve snapped his neck and ended him right then.Except, I didn’t.Something in his big brown eyes tugged at my heart strings.I kept him. […]