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Evil: An Investigation
by Lance Morrow Publisher Comments From award-winning essayist Lance Morrow, a provocative meditation on the nature of evil, and a daring analysis of its role in the modern world. Long couched only in theological terms, and popularly personified by the despots of history, the nature...
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Connections to the World
by Arthur C Danto Publisher Comments Arthur C. Danto's lucid introduction to the central topics of Western philosophical thought remains an unparalleled guide to problems in metaphysics and epistemology that have engaged philosophers for several millennia. Examining the work of Plato...
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Friedrich Nietzsche Synopsis An autobiography completed days before Nietzsche's mental collapse and in every way his last testament. It is a summary of a coming to terms with the work and conflicts of his life, a final statement of his position as philosopher, psychologist and anti...
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Practical Companion To Ethics 2ND Edition
by Anthony Weston Publisher Comments A Practical Companion to Ethics, 2/e, is a concise and accessible introduction to the basic attitudes and skills that make ethics work, like thinking for oneself, creative and integrative problem-solving, and keeping an open mind. This unique volume...
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Lyotard and the Inhuman (Postmodern Encounters)
by Stuart Sim Publisher Comments For Jean-Francois Lyotard, the cyborg is a symbol of fear, Mankind already inhabits a world which views machine implantation in humans as normal and necessary. It implies a future, Lyotard warns, which may dangerously negate the value of humanity itself....
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Beyond Good and Evil (05 Edition)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Publisher Comments "Beyond Good and Evil" is Nietzsche at his best. In the book the philosopher attempts to systematically sum up his philosophy through a collection of 296 aphorisms grouped into nine different chapters based on their common theme. For the reader who has...
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Regarding Equality Rethinking Contempora
by Ellen M Freeberg Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-141) and index....
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Pensees (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by Blaise Pascal Publisher Comments Intended to prove that religion is not contrary to reason, Pensées ranks among the liveliest and most eloquent defenses of Christianity. Pascal had intended to write an ambitious apologia for Christianity but his untimely death prevented the work's...
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Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy
by Donald X Burt Publisher Comments What can I know? What can I hope for? What should I do? These are three perennial questions of life, and few thinkers have offered such penetrating answers as Augustine. Friendship and Society is a fascinating volume meant for those interested in what...
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Tao of No Stress: Three Simple Paths
by Stuart Alve Olson Publisher Comments Teaches the three paths that Taoist masters have used for centuries to create tranquillity in one's life. •Adapts ancient Taoist wisdom to address the problems of a frenetic lifestyle. •Offers clear instructions for releasing, massaging, and...
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Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill Synopsis Utilitarianism, by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, is one of his most influential works and is a philosophical defense of utilitarian ethical theory. This publication remained a relevant publication since its original publication in the mid 19th...
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes)
by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments Aquinas's life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion--another title in our highly successful 90 Minutes series. Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a...
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Social and Political Philosophy
by Ronald Santoni Publisher Comments An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and others....
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The Art of War (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
by Sun Tzu Publisher Comments "Thomas Cleary's translation of Sun Tzu's 2,000 years old The Art of War makes immediately relevant one of the greatest Chinese classical texts. Th ere's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it. 'To win without fighting is best, ' Sun Tzu said. For...
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The Mystery of Things
by A C Grayling Publisher Comments In is new book, A. C. Grayling shows how much understanding people can gain about themselves and their world by reflecting on the lessons offered by science, the arts, and history. In the book's essays, Grayling illustrates what each area offers to...
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Language, Truth and Logic
by Alfred Jules Ayer Publisher Comments Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical...
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Introducing Ethics, New Edition
by Dave Robinson Publisher Comments What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience? This book confronts these dilemmas, tracing arguments of moral thinkers, including Socrates...
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The Concept of Mind
by Gilbert Ryle Publisher Comments This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical...
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Manual of Epictetus Virtue & Happiness
by Claude Mediavilla Publisher Comments Claude Mediavilla brings to the Greek text his training as both a painter and calligrapher, marrying modern variants of both medium and style with classical forms in a way that brings Epictetus’ words to life with beauty and startling immediacy...
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius & Jesus #1: Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume I
by Karl Jaspers Publisher Comments A part of Jaspers s planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim....
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