Oxford University Press

Merging survey analyses with over 250 interviews, Forbidden Fruit tells the definitive story of how religion shapes the sexual values and practices of American teenagers. It reveals that religion affects sexual attitudes more than it motivates sexual behavior, and that adolescent sex remains largely "e;traditional,"e; with hints of emerging...

Volume I: Ancient and MedievalHistory of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. The first volume traces the development of political theory "e;from the beginning"e; in ancient Greece through to the Reformation....

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and other philosophical essaysSimon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to        2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of a wide range of topics,        including moral philosophy, the theory of meaning, pragmatism, and the theory of        reason and reasoning....

Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and DangerLife can sometimes thrust us into troubling circumstances that threaten to undo our thin mastery over those things that matter most. In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the...

The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life worth living. This is the first time it has been published in its entirety in any modern language. Anthony Kenny's fine translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and explanatory notes....