Sissela Bok

Sissela Bok (nata Sissela Myrdal in Suecia die 2 Decembris 1934) est philosophus et ethicista Americana, filia duorum acceptorum Praemii Nobeliani: Gunnar Myrdal, qui praemium in oeconomia (cum Friderico Hayek) anno 1974, et Alva Myrdal, quae praemium pacis anno 1982 accepit. Praecipue mota est ab operibus Ioannia Pauli Sartre, Ioannae Hersch, et Michaelis Montani.

Libri

• Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (Pantheon Books, 1978; Vintage paperback editions, 1979, 1989, 1999).
• Secrets: on the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (Pantheon Books, 1982; Vintage paperback editions, 1984, 1989).
• A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War (Pantheon Books, 1989; Vintage paperback edition, 1990).
• Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir (Addison-Wesley, 1991; paperback edition 1992).
• Common Values (University of Missouri Press, 1995; paperback edition 2002).
• Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment (Perseus, 1998; paperback edition 1999).
• Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, cum Gerald Dworkin et Ray Frey (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
• Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (Yale University Press, 2010).

Nexus interni

• Ethica
• Euthanasia
• Felicitas
• Pax
• Philosophia Americana
• Philosophia continentalis
• Utilitarismus
• Violentia

Bibliographia

• Bok, Sissela. 1991. Reassessing Sartre. Harvard Review of Philosophy 1(1):48–58.
• Bok, Sissela. Jeanne Hersch: L'étonnement philosophique. Apud alumni.ecolint.net.
• Bok, Sissela. 2012. Rereading Montaigne’s last essays. The Chautauquan Daily, 27 Iunii.
• Nagel, Thomas. 2010. Who Is Happy and When? The New York Review of Books, 22 Decembris.

Nexus externi

• Colloquium interrogativa cum Bill Moyers. Apud PBS