Thomas Blair Carson

Lincoln's Ethics

Unlike many important leaders and historical figures, Abraham Lincoln is generally regarded as a singularly good and morally virtuous human being. Lincoln's Ethics assesses Lincoln's moral character and his many morally fraught decisions regarding slavery and the rights of African-Americans, as well...

Motion, Emotion, and Love: The Nature of Artistic Performance

Motion, Emotion, and Loveis a book that will transform the experience of performers and audiences alike, by infusing performance art with a new vocabulary. For performers, the book is a practical guide to building intentional and inspirational practice time, bringing true artistry to every element o...

Moral Relativism: A Reader

Are all moral truths relative or do certain moral truths hold for all cultures and people? In Moral Relativism: A Reader, this and related questions are addressed by twenty-one contemporary moral philosophers and thinkers. This engaging and nontechnical anthology, the only up-to-date collection devo...

Barbarossa in Italy

"Barbarossa in Italy" presents a verse translation of the "Carmen de gestis Frederici I imperatoris in Lombardia." This Latin poem describes the conflict leading up to Apriil of 1162 when Frederick I Hohenstaufen, the German emperor, destroyed Milan in an attempt to impose his rule on the emerging u...

What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body

Techniques on how to gain greater fluidity of movement while playing to improve the quality of the experience are offered in this manual for serious piano players. This book encourages musicians to develop a broader understanding of the involvement of the entire body in playing-and the strains playi...

Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson

D. A. Carson's father was a pioneering church-planter and pastor in Quebec. But still, an ordinary pastor-except that he ministered during the decades that brought French Canada from the brutal challenges of persecution and imprisonment for Baptist ministers to spectacular growth and revival in the ...

Value and the Good Life

This work considers a number of established viewpoints concerning the good life. It defends the divine-preference theory of value as opposed to a divine-command theory of right and wrong.

Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice

Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception. Part I addresses conceptual questions and offers definitions of lying, deception, and related concepts such as withholding information, "keeping someone in the dark,"...

Morality and the Good Life

Morality and the Good Life

Moral Relativism : A Reader

Moral Relativism: A Reader

Value and the Good Life

Value and the Good Life

The Status of Morality. Philosophical Studies Series: Band 31

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History