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Simone Weil (Penguin Lives Biographies)
by Francine Du Pl Gray Publisher Comments This stirring portrait of Simone Weil (1909-1943), one of the most brilliant and profoundly passionate women of our time, follows the life of this enigmatic French philosopher from her early days as a non-conformist, left-wing student to her anarchist...
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Plato's Phaedo
by Plato And Hackforth Publisher Comments The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal...
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Truth and Existence
by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments Truth and Existence, written in response to Martin Heidegger's Essence of Truth, is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging text not...
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Dialogos de la Vejez/de la Amistad (Clasicos de la Literatura)
by Marco Tulio Ciceron Publisher Comments For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer...
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Where's Wilber At?
by Brad Reynolds Publisher Comments "The most profound and satisfying book to date about the cutting edge of Ken Wilbers integral vision. Reynolds leads us with clarity step by step through the most complex and subtle aspects of Wilbers thinking about post modernity, post-metaphysical...
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Young Nietzsche
by Carl Pletsch Publisher Comments Provocative and ...persuasive...{Pletsch} has illuminated the process by which a gifted but awkward philology student became one of the modern world's most original thinkers... Deserves to be read...by anyone interested in the dynamics of creative...
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Introducing Derrida 2ND Edition
by Jeff Collins Publisher Comments Offers a starting point for an intellectual adventure that threatens to disturb some of the most comfortable habits of contemporary thought....
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Derrida in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes)
by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments In Derrida in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Derrida's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Derrida's writings; a...
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Acres of Diamonds
by Russell Conwell Synopsis American Baptist minister and lawyer, Russell Conwell was the founder and first President of Temple University who is best remembered for his speech, Acres of Diamonds, in which he puts forth the idea that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, but...
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Pocket Aristotle
by Justin D Kaplan Publisher Comments In this volume of selections from Aristotle, the editor has included the most widely read, studied and quoted works of the great philosopher....
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Symbiosism
by Charles Thomas Taylor Publisher Comments The philosophy of symbiosism designates the rational, and therefore universal, principles of human behavior for living together in peace, security, and happiness. The name has been coined by the author from the combination of three common terms: a prefix,...
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The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge &3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Un
by Richard Taylor Publisher Comments This volume includes the major works of the British Empiricists, philosophers who sought to derive all knowledge from experience. All essays are complete except that of Locke, which Professor Richard Taylor of Brown University has skillfully abridged....
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Yoga for the Modern Man
by M. P. Pandit Publisher Comments Yoga for the Modern Man begins by introducing the major traditional lines of Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, the Triple Path and Tantra Yoga. Having appreciated the high points of these approaches, we are brought to the essence of all Yogic effort -change of...
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On the Nature of Things (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by Tit Lucretius Carus Publisher Comments The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, "De Rerum Natura" -- "On the Nature of Things" -- theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the...
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The Prince (Enriched Classics)
by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments Only in Pocket Books Enriched Classics will readers find: - A concise introduction that gives readers important background information- A chronology of the author's life and career- A timeline of significant events that provide the book's historical...
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Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments Writing with wit and elegance, Simon Blackburn tackles the basic questions of ethics in this lively book, highlighting the complications and troubling issues that spring from the very simple question of how we ought to live. Blackburn dissects the many...
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu Publisher Comments Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and cilivzation have adapted these...
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War, Religion and the Pursuit of Sex
by Al Chamberlin Publisher Comments Albeit unorthodox in its handling of subjects like religion, sex and kowtowing to the military, top brass, the book is a must-read if you?...
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Very Short Introductions #79: Plato: A Very Short Introduction
by Julia Annas Publisher Comments This lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. It discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue...
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone....
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