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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Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and PoliticsThis book treats the question of what a human person is and the ethical and political controversies of abortion, hedonism and drug-taking, euthanasia, and sex ethics. It defends the position that human beings are both body and soul, with a fundamental and morally important...
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Bhagavad GitaIn this insightful rendition of the Bhagavad Gita, Swami Nikhilananda provides a profound interpretation of the sacred text. Exploring the timeless wisdom and teachings of Lord Krishna, he illuminates the path to self-realization and offers practical guidance for navigating life's challenges. Gain profound wisdom...
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Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged ArtIn Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social,...
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Beyond the IndividualDo you believe you think independently? Do you alone control your actions? Stoic philosophy asserts that your mind, thoughts, and actions are traces of a world which shapes you, and everyone else, together. Our personal nature is part of a system, not independent. This...
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Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of DepressionFrom the author of the international bestseller Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture comes an ambitious and counterintuitive guide to the good life.After spending over a decade researching the psychology and philosophy of well-being, and even writing his first book on the topic,...
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A Yearn To Discern: Finding Purpose And Fulfillment Through DiscernmentWhat is Discernment? More importantly, do we need to Discern in our everyday life?The Answer is Yes Discernment is about successfully navigating your way through the daily chaos of life. How does Discerning accomplish this task? It's simple: Discernment is the ultimate navigation system...
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A Western Approach to Reincarnation and Karma: Selected Lectures & WritingsThe soul's immortality and its repeated earthly births are not new ideas in Western thought. They are implicit in the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions, as well as in some branches of esoteric Judaism and Cabbala. But it was not until the early years of...
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Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without WorkAutomating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. But this can be a good thing--if we play our cards right. Human obsolescence is imminent. The factories of the future will be dark, staffed by armies of tireless robots. The hospitals of the future...
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Autobiography of a YogiAutobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda1946 Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (January 5, 1893-March 7, 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali Hindu family.Autobiography of a Yogi introduces...
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A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent UniverseWhat makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers...
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Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist ImaginaryIn Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how capitalism integrates and redirects preexisting social, cultural,...
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An Integral View of Tibetan Buddhism: Preserving Lineage Wisdom in the 21st CenturyAVAILABLE IN COLOR or BLACK & WHITE VERSION: An Integral View of Tibetan Buddhism is about preserving the vast and profound lineage wisdom of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism into the 21st century and beyond, without attempting to change it simply to fit into modern or...
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An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of MoralsSympathy, we shall allow, is much fainter than our concern for ourselves, and sympathy with persons remote from us much fainter than that with persons near and contiguous; but for this very reason it is necessary for us, in our calm judgments and discourse...
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A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative PoliticsJürgen Habermas's book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought. Blending philosophy and social history, it offered an account of the public sphere as a...
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Air ConditioningObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From...
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Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the LandThis refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today's most pressing social and ecological concerns.For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in reference to, the land. Growing and...
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Agenda del Diario Para Estoicos - Green Edition- (Daily Stoic Journal Spanish Edition)Ryan Holiday y Hanselman vuelven con The Daily Stoic Journal, una guía interactiva para integrar esta antigua filosofía en nuestras vidas del siglo XXI. Los lectores encontrarán explicaciones y citas semanales para inspirar una reflexión más profunda sobre las prácticas estoicas, así como indicaciones...
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Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of ThingsConnecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect--how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at...
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Accidental Motivation"Accidental Motivation: Embracing Fate & Finding Happiness" by John Holsinger is a gripping and transformative memoir that redefines the pursuit of happiness in a deterministic universe. Following a near-fatal cycling accident, Holsinger embarks on a profound journey of self-discovery, challenging traditional notions of free...
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Wrongdoing and the Moral EmotionsWrongdoing and the Moral Emotions provides an account of how we might effectively address wrongdoing given challenges to the legitimacy of anger and retribution that arise from ethical considerations and from concerns about free will. The issue is introduced in Chapter 1. Chapter 2...
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