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Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by John Locke Publisher Comments This is a new revised version of Dr. Laslett's standard edition of Two Treatises. First published in 1960, and based on an analysis of the whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers. The Introduction and text have been revised to... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry Publisher Comments From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferrys instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophyincluding its profound... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies by Rene Descartes Publisher Comments New edition of the Meditations with introductions by John Cottingham and Bernard Williams.... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason by Sam Harris Publisher Comments This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Introduction: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On Beauty and Being Just (99 Edition) by Elaine Scarry Publisher Comments "With exemplary clarity, Elaine Scarry argues that admiring the beautiful is nothing to be ashamed of; that on the contrary beauty fosters the spirit of justice. A brave and timely book."--J.M.Coetzee "Here is a writer almost magically summoning up the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (07 Edition) by Christopher Hitchens Synopsis Hitchens takes on his biggest subject yet--the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. With insight and wit, he describes the ways in which religion is man-made, immoral, and repressive and argues for a new enlightenment through science and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker by Kathleen Freeman Publisher Comments This book is a complete translation of the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers given in the fifth edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Utopia (Yale Nota Bene) by Thomas More Publisher Comments Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation of "Utopia", one of the most important works of European humanism. Professor Miller includes a helpful Introduction that outlines some of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Good and Evil (66 Edition) by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is designed to give the reader a comprehensive idea of Nietzche's thought and style. With an inclusive index of subjects and persons.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato Publisher Comments The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Meditations on First Philosophy 3RD Edition by Rene Descartes Publisher Comments 3rd edition.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder Publisher Comments One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Pensees (66 Edition) by Blaise Pascal Publisher Comments 'If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’ Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Consciousness (Introducing...) by David Papineau Publisher Comments Provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nicomachean Ethics ((Rev)09 Edition) by Aristotle Publisher Comments A student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide-ranging interests, he wrote important works in physics, biology, poetry, politics, morality, metaphysics... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Montaigne: Essays by Michel De Montaigne Publisher Comments Reissue.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes Publisher Comments With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Edited, with introduction, by Edwin Curley.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Hannah Arendt Publisher Comments Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.... (read more) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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