Adobe Reader Ebooks: $5.00 Electronic add to wish list |
The Making of the Humane Philosopher: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Twentieth-Century Intellectual History
by Warren Boutcher Publisher Comments An Essay on Paul Oskar Kristeller and Twentieth-Century Intellectual History, excerpted from the book, Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and...
|
|||||||
Palm Reader Ebooks: $2.77 Electronic add to wish list |
Wisdom of the Rishis: The Three Upanishads
by Mumtaz Ali Publisher Comments The Upanishads represent the high watermark not only of Hindu philosophy but of spiritual literature anywhere in the world. These marvellous discourses and dialogues between self-realised seers, known as Rishis, and one or more disciples, contain...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $29.84 Electronic List Price $31.00 add to wish list |
Wittgenstein and William James
by Russell B. Goodman Publisher Comments This book explores Wittgenstein's long engagement with the work of the pragmatist William James. In contrast to previous discussions Russell Goodman argues that James exerted a distinctive and pervasive positive influence on Wittgenstein's thought. For...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $5.33 Electronic add to wish list |
The Third Fence Post
by William F. Hobbie Publisher Comments 'When building fences, the first two posts can be relatively easy. It is the third that can get tough.' That's an example of an aphorism. Aphorisms are first cousins to proverbs and maxims, but a little more informal, contemporary and open to humor...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $5.33 Electronic add to wish list |
Bag of Disease
by Christopher Ferris Publisher Comments Bag of Disease-Book II, completes the writings originally introduced in the collection Bag of Disease (published in early 2007). Some may view Book II as a diary or journal, however it is simply one man's unapologetic views of himself and society, and...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $3.84 Electronic add to wish list |
La morale universelle - 1
by M. Mirabaud Publisher Comments Quoique depuis un grand nombre de siecles l'esprit humain se soit occupé de la morale, cette science, la plus digne d'intéresser les hommes, ne semble pas avoir fait tous les progrès que l'on avoit lieu d'attendre ; ses principes sont encore sujets à...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $5.33 Electronic add to wish list |
Holy Grail and Modern Science as Duality
by Olimpia Nera Publisher Comments Holy Grail and Modern Science as Duality reveals essential aspects about fundamental knowledge. Human mind at some time or another becomes inquisitive about its own nature. In the long, tedious search humanity went thru, some, did have the chance to...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic add to wish list |
Sophist
by Plato Publisher Comments SOCRATES: Is he not rather a god, Theodorus, who comes to us in the disguise of a stranger? For Homer says that all the gods, and especially the god of strangers, are companions of the meek and just, and visit the good and evil among men. And may not...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $25.94 Electronic List Price $26.95 add to wish list |
Food for Thought
by Elizabeth Telfer Publisher Comments Food for thought is intended to make those who are involved in working with food think about some of the principals underpinning this field. For those studying philosophy, the book shows how traditional philosophy and some of its classic texts can...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $4.99 Electronic add to wish list |
Soul And Man
by Kit Cain Publisher Comments Insofar as I am able to discover-and I have purposefully not looked very hard-no one has yet come up with an adequate description or definition of the human soul. After attempting to tackle the task for three years, I can easily understand why. Being a...
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic add to wish list |
The Psychology of Beauty
by Ethel D. Puffer Publisher Comments The human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest with that experience unquestioned. The day comes when he yearns to pierce the secret of his emotion, to discover what it is, and why, that has so stung him...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic add to wish list |
The Ruins Or Meditation On The Revolutions Of Empires
by C. F. Volney Publisher Comments Here, said I, once flourished an opulent city; here was the seat of a powerful empire. Yes! these places now so wild and desolate, were once animated by a living multitude; a busy crowd thronged in these streets, now so solitary. Within these walls...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $33.69 Electronic List Price $35.00 add to wish list |
Kant on Representation and Objectivity
by A. B. Dickerson Publisher Comments A study of one of the most important and obscure sections of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason....
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $3.54 Electronic add to wish list |
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Publisher Comments Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. This is the first book Marcus the roman emperor wrote concerning...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $19.25 Electronic add to wish list |
Gilles Deleuze
by Todd May Publisher Comments This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question...
|
|||||||
Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $9.72 Electronic List Price $10.95 add to wish list |
Moral Courage
by Rushworth, M. Kidder Publisher Comments Why did a group of teenagers watch a friend die instead of putting their own reputations at risk? Why did a top White House official decide to come clean and accept a prison sentence during Watergate? Why did a finance executive turn down millions out of...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic add to wish list |
Bushido The Soul Of Japan
by Inazo Nitob Publisher Comments Lying or equivocation were deemed equally cowardly. The bushi held that his high social position demanded a loftier standard of veracity than that of the tradesman and peasant. Bushi no ichi-gon--the word of a samurai or in exact German equivalent ein...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $14.39 Electronic add to wish list |
101 Philosophy Problems
by Martin Cohen Synopsis In this second edition of a humorous exploration of philosophy, Cohen challenges the reader to think philosophically about every-day dilemmas. It includes: new problems, each with separate discussion; classic and contemporary problems (from the media...
|
|||||||
Palm Reader Ebooks: $19.52 Electronic List Price $22.00 add to wish list |
The Kolbrin Bible: 21st Century Master Edition
by Janice Manning Publisher Comments The Kolbrin Bible dates back 3,600 years and offers unique and enlightened insights from the past to both challenge and affirm our present day beliefs. This 2-part, 11-book secular anthology is nearly as large as the King James Bible. The first six books...
|
|||||||
Adobe Reader Ebooks: $1.99 Electronic add to wish list |
Gorgias
by Plato Publisher Comments SOCRATES: Very good, Callicles; but will he answer our questions? for I want to hear from him what is the nature of his art, and what it is which he professes and teaches; he may, as you (Chaerephon) suggest, defer the exhibition to some other time....
|
|||||||








