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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Hopeful PessimismWhy "hopeful pessimism" is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitment The climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the...
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God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him.Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, The Joyous Science Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which...
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Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living WellWhy is it so hard to live well amidst the chaos and noise? While you might think this is a problem of the modern world, it's a timeless issue.2000 years ago, the ancient Stoics talked about the exact same challenges we're facing today, like:...
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Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral TheoryEthics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. It includes sixty-six extracts covering the central domains of ethics: why be moral? the...
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts WomenAn urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl"Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is indispensable."--Rebecca Traister NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the VirtuesTo flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependence. In this book, a leading moral philosopher presents a comparison of humans to other animals and explores the impact of these virtues.Author: Alasdair MacIntyrePublisher: Open CourtPublished: 05/18/2001Pages: 180Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Classical Ethics: East and WestClassical Ethics is a thorough and well-balanced compendium of Western and non-Western ethical systems in a multicultural historical framework. Zeuschner focuses on the key concepts and presumptions of 13 major philosophers from around the world. He utilizes a systematic approach in his writing that...
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Between Existentialism and MarxismThis book presents a full decade of Sartre's work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in...
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Beauty: A Very Short IntroductionBeauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept...
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A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are"Byron Katie is one of the truly great and inspiring teachers of our time. I encourage everyone to immerse themselves in this phenomenal book." -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer In her first two books, Loving What Is and I Need Your Love-Is That True? Byron...
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A Theory of Justice: Original EditionJohn Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social...
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An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God's Perspective in a Pluralistic WorldEveryone has a worldview. A worldview is the lens through which we interpret the cosmos and our lives in it. A worldview answers the big questions of life: What is our nature? What is our world? What is our problem? What is our end?As...
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Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic RenewedTHE UPDATED CLASSIC OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI "The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work." --J.M. Coetzee, author of The Lives...
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All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and LifeA world-renowned philosopher's genre-defying exploration of the mystery of consciousness "[A] masterpiece. . . . The most thorough and rigorous account of the nature of reality to be published in a century."--James Matthew Wilson, World Magazine In a blossoming garden located far outside all...
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A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for TeachersA Course in Miracles is the acclaimed spiritual guide that teaches the way to universal love and peace is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The "miracles" of the title refers to shifts in perception from fear to love, which fosters the healing and...
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line...
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Zen and the Beat Way: (Zen Teachings of Alan Watts)"Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever." --Alan Watts When Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen Buddhism echoed the sentiments of the Beat Generation,...
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Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended ConsequencesEssays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuity How did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as...
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Verlasse die Höhle: Das Ende der ReinkarnationsfalleDie meisten Menschen werden sagen, dass sich etwas furchtbar falsch anfühlt... mit dieser Realität, der Welt und dem Leben. Warum ist das so? Weil etwas falsch ist. Diese ganze Erfahrung welche, "das Leben auf der Erde" genannt wird, ist eine einzige Lüge.Die Standardspiritualität, die...
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Unshrinking: How to Face FatphobiaNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it--from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled "An elegant, fierce, and profound...
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