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Symposium, the Apology, and the Allegory of the Cave by Plato Publisher Comments This collection brings together three of Plato's most enduring classics: the Symposium, the Apology, and the famous "Allegory of the Cave" from the Republic.The Symposium, a dialogue on the nature and purpose of love centered around the ideals of beauty... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Compact Disc 
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel Publisher Comments Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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Select Essays by Michel De Montaigne Publisher Comments Michel de Montaigne, one of the foremost writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay, wrote on subjects ranging from friendship to imagination, from language to conscience. This collection includes twenty-two of... (read more) Your price: $66.99 New - Compact Disc
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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Synopsis Continuing where Thus Spoke Zarathustra left off, Nietzsches controversial work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the nineteenth century and one of the most controversial works of ideology ever written. Attacking... (read more) Your price: $34.98 New - Compact Disc
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Plato's Republic (Books That Changed the World) by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city-and the perfect mind-laid the foundations for... (read more) Your price: $49.99 New - Compact Disc
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Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by H. H. Dalai Lama With Alexander Norman Publisher Comments Ten years ago, in his best selling Ethics for a New Millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama first proposed an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles. Now, in Beyond Religion, the Dalai Lama, at his most compassionate and... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments In this book, which the author calls a ''culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas,'' Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature.... (read more) Your price: $69.00 New - Compact Disc
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Synopsis The prince has long been both praised and reviled for its message of moral relativism, and political expediency. Although a large part is devoted to the mechanics of gaining and staying in power, Machiavelli's end purpose is to maintain a just and... (read more) Your price: $58.00 New - Compact Disc
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments Description In earlier centuries, philosophy was dangerous for philosophers; with Friedrich Nietzsche it became dangerous for everyone. Nietzsche ended up going mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that was to have horrific consequences in... (read more) Your price: $14.50 New - Compact Disc
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton Publisher Comments We spend most of our waking lives at work ? in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield Synopsis A celebrated author and psychologist shows listeners how specific Buddhist insights and practices can go beyond self-improvement efforts--and lead them to unconditional freedom and joy as discovered by the Buddha. Unabridged. 6 CDs.... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal Publisher Comments While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to-and obtain absolution... (read more) Your price: $71.99 New - Compact Disc
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Ethics by Benedictus De Spinoza Publisher Comments Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics, first published in 1677, constitutes a major systematic critique of the traditional and religious foundations of philosophical thought. In it, Spinoza follows a logical step-by-step format consisting of definitions, axioms... (read more) Your price: $78.99 New - Compact Disc
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'donohue Publisher Comments "When we awaken to the call of beauty, we become aware of new ways of being in the world," teaches John O'Donohue. The beautiful unites your feelings, your thoughts, and your dreams it brings together all the different dimensions of your life. On Beauty:... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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Enlightenment to Go: The Classic Buddhist Path of Compassion and Transformation by David Michie Publisher Comments For the past thirty years the Dalai Lama has consistently recommended Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life as essential reading for those interested in applying Buddhist philosophy to daily life. In Enlightenment to Go, David Michie... (read more) Your price: $49.97 New - Compact Disc
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The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments The Virtue of Selfishness is one of Ayn Rand's most significant books of nonfiction and develops her theory of ethics.... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Compact Disc
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and its fundamental question was, ?What is the meaning of existence??... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Compact Disc
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Pebbles and Pearls by Jon Kabat-zinn Publisher Comments Across America, people in search of inner peace and better health know Jon Kabat-Zinn as the clinical researcher and teacher who dared to bring mindfulness practice out of the meditation hall and into the most respected pain management center in the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Compact Disc
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford Publisher Comments Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society ? the experience of making and fixing things with our hands. Those of us who sit in an office often feel a lack of connection to the... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Compact Disc
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Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Publisher Comments Rights of Man presents an impassioned defense of the Enlightenment principles of freedom and equality that Thomas Paine believed would soon sweep the world. He boldly claimed, "From a small spark, kindled in America, a flame has arisen, not to be... (read more) Your price: $32.99 New - Compact Disc
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