Philosophy
Explore our collection of philosophy books at our online bookstore, featuring the best books on philosophy, philosophical novels, and famous works on stoicism and political philosophy. Discover must-read and best-selling titles that offer deep insights into the world of philosophy.
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Principles of PhilosophyPrinciples of Philosophy was written in Latin by Ren Descartes. Published in 1644, it was intended to replace Aristotle's philosophy and traditional Scholastic Philosophy. This volume contains a letter of the author to the French translator of the Principles of Philosophy serving for a...
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Principles of Light and ColorThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Phronesis: Retrieving Practical Wisdom in Psychology, Philosophy, and EducationPhronesis, or practical wisdom, has interested philosophers (and more recently psychologists) for millennia. In the last decade or so, a bandwagon of diverse academics has been working with and celebrating the notion of phronesis as a metacognitive capacity, guiding morally aspirational cognition and action....
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Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule SeriouslyThis book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule. Humor is presented as a conceptual tool for holding together contradictions and managing the...
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Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions - Volume IAn eventful century has passed since the writings, activities, and networks of René Guénon (1886-1951), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Julius Evola (1898-1974), and Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) initiated what has come to be known as Traditionalism. Within recent decades, unprecedented attention has been drawn to Traditionalism...
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Oxford Handbook of Digital EthicsThe Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics offers a lively, authoritative, up-to-date exploration of pressing ethical issues in our digital world. An international team of philosophers, some pioneers of digital ethics, others experts in related areas of philosophy, give critical appraisals of research in the...
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Other Minds_ The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness"Different Personalities: The Octopus, the Ocean, and the Profound Starting points of Cognizance" by Peter Godfrey-Smith is a spellbinding investigation into the strange universe of cephalopods and their fascinating personalities. The book takes perusers on an entrancing excursion underneath the waves, diving into the...
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On the Commonwealth2016 Reprint of the 1929 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "On the Commonwealth" is a dialogue on Roman politics by Cicero, written in six books between 54 and 51 BC. It is written in the format...
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On Cosmogonic ErosLudwig Klages' 1922 book, On Cosmogonic Eros (Vom kosmogonischen Eros), delves into the realms of mythology, the esotericism of ancient mystery cults, and the science of consciousness to construct a profound metaphysics of life. At its core, Klages presents Eros as an "Eros of...
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Martha Nussbaum and PoliticsProviding an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted in the traditions of classical philosophy, illuminates a number of current, controversial issues. The book takes...
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Kemetic Karest mas Celebration & Education: Step by Step GuideYou, your family and community are invited to participate in a Kemetic Karest mas Celebration, where true meaning is revealed and commercial practices are put aside. Like Kwanzaa demonstrates an African celebration, this book s research demonstrates the practice of a Kemetic Karest mas...
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Invitation to Christian Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary IssuesA comprehensive introduction to Christian ethics addressing today's most challenging moral issues Invitation to Christian Ethicsis an indispensable guide for helping readers navigate today's difficult moral questions. Students will benefit from Ken Magnuson's survey of ethics from a biblical perspective as well as contemporary...
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Imperialism and the National QuestionLenin's texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movement Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis...
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How to Be Confident: The New Book from the International Number 1 Bestselling AuthorThe Number one Sunday Times Bestseller The third number one bestselling instalment in James' no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your decision-making and change your life.Now, more than ever, we are so often lost within a cycle of negativity - from comparing...
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo EmersonAn engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a...
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Ethics of Political Commemoration: Towards a New ParadigmThis book proposes a new Ethics of Political Commemoration adapted from the Just War tradition, reflecting that remembrance is often conducted with political - and even coercive - intent. With its Ius ad Memoriam (what to commemorate) and Ius in Memoria (how to commemorate)...
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Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 3, 1926-30 Volume 3Written between the age of eighteen and twenty-one, the entries in the third volume of Diary of a Philosophy Student take readers into Simone de Beauvoir's thoughts while illuminating the people and ideas swirling around her. The pages offer rare insights into Beauvoir's intellectual...
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Dialogues With AmmaWhat is the foundation of spirituality? Amma: My dear children, the foundation of spirituality is not blind faith, as some may believe. It is a deep inquiry, an intense exploration within one's own self. Spirituality is about seeking the truth, and the truth can...
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Destiny and control in human systems: studies in the interactive connectedness of time (chronotopology)Reprint of the Boston 1985. 218pp. Charles A. Muses (1919-2000), a figure who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms (including Musès, Musaios, Kyril Demys, Arthur Fontaine, Kenneth Demarest and Carl von Balmadis), was the founder of the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. He...
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Democracy and Conflict: Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and John Dewey's PragmatismThe economist Kenneth Arrow proved in 1951 that a society of diverse individual preferences could only by ordered by dictatorship. His impossibility theorem is still an axiom of contemporary welfare economics and has never been seriously challenged. The American philosopher John Dewey, who died...
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