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by Douglas Allen Publisher Comments Traditional scholars of philosophy and religion, both East and West, often place a major emphasis on analyzing the nature of “the self.” In recent decades, there has been a renewed interest in analyzing self, but most scholars have not... (read more) List Price $69.00 Your price $35.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Edmund G. Seebauer Publisher Comments Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers represents a new approach to introductory ethics that is both practical and accessible. Classical virtue theory is employed to provide a time-tested, simple, and easily remembered basis for ethical... (read more) List Price $44.25 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sharon Kaye Publisher Comments This brief text assists students in understanding Ockham's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will... (read more) Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Shlomo Giora Shoham Synopsis This is not a work on physics, nor is it a tract on personality, but rather an effort to link them together in order to examine the cognitive relationship of humans with their surroundings. We explore the interaction between the human mind and energy... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Philip Hallie Publisher Comments In Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, Philip Hallie Chronicled the story of the French village of Chambon, whose inhabitants saved 5,000 Jews from certain death during World War II. Showing that good can exist even in the most horrible situations, it touched... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steven Best Publisher Comments This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts, science, politics, and theory. From the authors of POSTMODERN THEORY, the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes, THE... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pierre Bourdieu Publisher Comments A devastating critique of free-market politics from distinguished sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pearl M. Oliner Publisher Comments Promoting care, a sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of others, is one of society's primary moral challenges. A caring society is one in which care penetrates all major social institutions including the family, schools, places of work, and... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $24.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Curt John Ducasse Publisher Comments 1929. Contents: Art and the Creation of Beauty; Art the Language of Feeling. Veron and Tolstoi; Criticism of Croce's Aesthetic; Art and the Freudian Wish; Art as Imitation and as Means of Attraction; The Instrumentalist Theory of Art; The Play Theory of... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $38.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Intelecom Publisher Comments This essential resource helps students synthesize and evaluate information and gauge their progress through The Examined Life Telecourse. The guide offers stimulating and thought-provoking support activities as well as self-test questions and a glossary... (read more) List Price $39.40 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments In the past thirty years, the United States has undergone a profound transformation in its social structure: Crime has increased, trust has declined, families have broken down, and individualism has triumphed over community. Has the Great Disruption of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Earl Conee Publisher Comments The riddles of metaphysics are the deepest and most puzzling questions we can ponder. Riddles of Existence is the first book ever to make metaphysics genuinely accessible and fun. Its lively, informal style brings these questions to life and shows how... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Plato Publisher Comments One of Plato's most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosophy--and to everyone for its vividness, clarity, and... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gloria K. Fiero Publisher Comments "The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced... (read more) List Price $95.35 Your price $76.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Susan Wolf Publisher Comments Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Andrew Heywood Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-352) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry L Ruf Publisher Comments This is an excellent, exciting work that performs the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mark Tanzer Publisher Comments ON EXISTENTIALISM introduces the fundamental tenets of existentialism, focusing on the existentialist denial of the claim that the world is rationally structured. With reference to the seminal thinking of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments President Jimmy Carter offers a passionate defense of separation of church and state. He warns that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion. As a believing Christian, Carter takes on issues that are under fierce... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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