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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Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the MahabharataAs a venture in the emerging field of comparative feminist philosophy, this work goes against the current trend of considering caring and knowing as independent of each other. It argues for what can be called a care-based epistemology modelled on the now-familiar care ethics....
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Givenness and RevelationGivenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marions thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution of the concept of revelation arises from an initial reappraisal of the tension between natural theology and the revealed...
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Karl Marx: Selected WritingsThis second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's political, philosophical, and economic thought. Each section of the book deals with a different period of Marx's life, allowing readers to trace the development...
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Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 2Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy without any gaps series of podcasts is one of the most ambitious educational works on the web. It aims to do nothing less than take listeners through the entire history of philosophy 'without any gaps'. It assumes no prior...
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Aristotle and the VirtuesAristotle is the father of virtue ethics--a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly attention. Yet Aristotle's accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most contemporary commentators of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have focused upon other matters. In contrast, Howard J. Curzer takes Aristotle's detailed...
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A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the MindCan God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen...
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: By Diogenes LaertiusEveryone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of...
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Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled MindsDoes life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions:...
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Kant: From the Great Philosophers, Volume 1A masterful exploration of Kant's intellectual development, theory of knowledge, politics, and ethics. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.Author: Karl Jaspers, JaspersPublisher: Houghton MifflinPublished: 03/23/1966Pages: 180Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 7.96h x 5.29w x 0.42dISBN: 9780156466851
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to PornographyIn his "best achievement to date" (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a "deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written" (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to...
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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in BetweenQ. Why are there almost as many jokes about death as there are about sex? A. Because they both scare the pants off us. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato...
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Dialogues and LettersIncluded in this volume are the dialogues On the Shortness of Life and On Tranquility of Mind, which are eloquent classic statements of Stoic ideals of fortitude and self-reliance. This selection also features extracts from Natural Questions, Seneca's exploration of such phenomena as the...
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Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and SurveyPhilosopher Roger Scruton offers a wide-ranging perspective on philosophy, from logic to aesthetics, written in a lively and engaging way that is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than producing a survey of an academic discipline, Scruton reclaims philosophy for worldly concerns.Author: Roger ScrutonPublisher: Penguin...
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Schaum's Easy Outline of LogicIf you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, turn to Schaum's Easy Outlines Schaum's Easy Outline of Logic is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused review of the topic. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, it features a streamlined and updated format...
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Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of OthersA witty and entertaining guide to the use of Latin expressions for one's own advantage in the modern world.Author: Eugene EhrlichPublisher: Collins ReferencePublished: 09/03/1993Pages: 328Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.34w x 0.87dISBN: 9780062720177About the AuthorEhrlich, Eugene: - Eugene Ehrlich wrote and edited numerous...
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Meeting Life: Writings and Talks on Finding Your Path Without Retreating from SocietyIn this fascinating collection culled from teachings never before brought together in book form, Krishnamurti offers wise reflections and fresh perceptions on love, politics, society, death, self-censorship, relationships, solitude, meditation, spiritual growth, and much more.Through provocative meditations and in-depth answers, Krishnamurti answers such timeless...
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Power Healing: Four Keys to Energizing Your Body, Mind and SpiritBy combining both an Eastern and Western approach to healing and medicine, renowned medical expert Dr Zhi Gang Sha has created a remarkable and accessible guide for unlocking the body′s potential to heal itself. Power Healing draws on fascinating case histories to show how...
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A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century"A fierce and lively book. . . .This is one of those rare books that could make people think about their intimate lives in a new way." -- New York Times Book Review "A rousing defense of imprudent ardor and romantic excess. . ....
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Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic: Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their RelationshipThis book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally.The author divides work in evolutionary...
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The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in EthnomusicologyThe Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and imperatives of conducting research on people making music. It focuses on fundamental and compelling ethical questions that have challenged and shaped both the history of this...
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