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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The Art of Worldly WisdomAuthor: Baltasar GraciánPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 04/12/2005Pages: 114Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.52w x 0.28dISBN: 9780486440347This title is not returnable
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The Book of Wisdom: Volume 1 and 2Do you find yourself craving deeper meaning in today's fast-paced world? Are you overwhelmed by information but starved for true insight? Do you long to reconnect with the timeless wisdom that's guided thinkers for millennia? If you answered yes to any of these, you...
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The Classic Friedrich Nietzsche Collection: 5-Book Paperback Boxed SetThis handsome five-volume box set brings together the classic works of Friedrich Nietzsche, presented with striking contemporary cover designs. One of the most prominent thinkers of the 19th century, Nietzsche was a cultural critic and philosopher whose theories on truth, morality, nihilism and the...
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Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of DivisionTwo leading public intellectuals and dear friends--one progressive, one conservative--explore What is Truth? and Why Does Truth Matter? In Truth Matters, Cornel West and Robert P. George address a range of social issues on which Americans today are bitterly divided. Their book models robust...
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The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels' landmark text that continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class, now in a stunning clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the...
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The Art of WarCompiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it as been...
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The RepublicThe Republic by Plato is a philosophical work that explores the ideal state and the nature of justice. Through dialogues and debates, Plato presents his vision of a just society, discussing topics such as the nature of truth, the role of education, and the...
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Meditations: The Annotated EditionA handsome hardcover edition of Robin Waterfield's definitive translation, with rich annotations providing everything readers need to understand this timeless masterpiece of practical philosophy. "A treat (and an eye-opening experience) ... If you haven't read Marcus Aurelius or if you have...you should read this...
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of ConsciousnessPhilosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of...
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MeditationsNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Timeless insights into what it takes to lead a meaningful life--still profoundly relevant nearly two thousand years later. Now featuring a brand-new foreword from Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way! "Meditations offers a...
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Buddhist birth stories or, Jataka tales, Volume 1Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1It is well known that amongst the Buddhist Scriptures there is one book in which a large number of old stories, fables, and fairy tales, lie enshrined in an edifying commentary; and have thus been preserved for...
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The Buddhist CatechismThe Buddhist Catechism In token of respect and affection I dedicate to my counsellor and friend of many years, Hikkaduwe Sumangala, Pradhna Nyaka Sthavra and High Priest of Adam's Peak (Sripada) and the Western Province, THE BUDDHIST CATECHISM, in its revised form. I hereby...
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Zen and the Birds of Appetite"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle...
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What World Is This?: A Pandemic PhenomenologyThe pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other...
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The Two Hands of God: The Myths of PolarityThe forgotten book on world mythology by Alan Watts Alan Watts is today remembered as a trailblazing interpreter of Eastern philosophy, but The Two Hands of God reveals a different side of his multifaceted genius. In this ambitious work, Watts takes readers on a...
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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world....
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The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of the Teachings of Jesus and How They Have Been CorruptedWho was Jesus? And how was this first-century political revolutionary, whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom, turned into a meek and mild servant of the status quo? How is it possible to profess a belief in Jesus, yet ignore the...
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The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the EastDeep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and...
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The Great ReturnNominal Christianity is not enough. We can't sustain the ethics and norms we take for granted in societies that have been formed through a Christian worldview, for the long term, without Christianity itself - this book calls for a full-blooded, believing 'return' to Christianity...
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The Essential KierkegaardA comprehensive anthology of Kierkegaard's writings that offers an unmatched introduction to one of the most original and influential modern philosophers This is the most comprehensive anthology of S ren Kierkegaard's works ever published in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's...
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