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    Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

    James Bernard Murphy

    The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates…

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    The Third Sword

    James Bernard Murphy

    Prophets have decisively shaped our politics, but we lack a good explanation of how they do so. This book offers a new theory of prophetic politics illustrated by the dramatic…

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    The Third Sword

    James Bernard Murphy

    Prophets have decisively shaped our politics, but we lack a good explanation of how they do so. This book offers a new theory of prophetic politics illustrated by the dramatic…

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    Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood

    James Bernard Murphy

    James Bernard Murphy challenges widely shared assumptions about personhood and its development through discrete stages, arguing they undermine our ability to see our lives as a whole. Drawing on classic…

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    A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: Rene Girard in Dialogue

    James Bernard Murphy

    Girard argued that religious practices function to sublimate, regulate, and discharge human violence in controlled rituals. What are we to make of Girards provocative claims about human desire, violence, scapegoat…

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    The Moral Economy of Labor: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory

    James Bernard Murphy

    This concerns the dignity and the degradation of labour. Work has great power to undermine or to foster happiness. Bernard feels the moral dimension of labour has been neglected in…

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    The Philosophy of Positive Law: Foundations of Jurisprudence

    James Bernard Murphy

    In this first book-length study of positive law, James Bernard Murphy rewrites central chapters in the history of jurisprudence by uncovering a fundamental continuity among four great legal philosophers -…

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    Heart Mountain Chronicles

    Bernard Murphy, James Murphy

    This is the story of a city. The Heart Mountain Relocation Center, located in northwest Wyoming, was one of ten Japanese-American internment camps built by government in the summer of…

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    The Philosophy of Customary Law

    James Bernard Murphy (Professor of Government, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College)

    In The Philosophy of Customary Law, James Bernard Murphy brings greater theoretical clarity to the often murky topic of custom by showing that custom must be analyzed into two more…

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    Haunted by Paradise: A Philosopher’s Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions

    James Bernard Murphy

    The Bible today is weaponized by both liberals and conservatives, each side cherry-picking their favorite verses. Have you ever wondered why the Bible lends itself to supporting contradictory positions in…

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    Haunted by Paradise: A Philosopher’s Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions

    James Bernard Murphy

    The Bible today is weaponized by both liberals and conservatives, each side cherry-picking their favorite verses. Have you ever wondered why the Bible lends itself to supporting contradictory positions in…

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    Augustine and Modern Law

    St Augustine and Roman law are the two bridges from Athens and Jerusalem to the world of modern law. This title describes the life and world of Augustine and the…

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    Augustine and Modern Law

    St Augustine and Roman law are the two bridges from Athens and Jerusalem to the world of modern law. This title describes the life and world of Augustine and the…

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    Aquinas and Modern Law

    JamesBernard Murphy

    This volume collects some of the best recent writings on St. Thomas’s philosophy of law. It includes a critical examination of Aquinas’s theory of the relation between law and morality…

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    How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World

    Professor James Bernard Murphy,Dr Graeme Garrard

    A one-stop guide to the Essential Thinkers in political philosophy, from Confucius to Marx; this book shines the light of political reason into the darkest corners of our troubled modern…

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