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by John Lachs Publisher Comments The essays collected in this volume and written between 1959-1980 clearly belong to professional philosophy in both tone and context. Yet their ultimate aim is to explore larger problems and to set the groundwork for dealing with them. For the focus of... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Richardson Publisher Comments The latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, this work brings together some of the best and most influential recent philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. Opening with a substantial introduction by John Richardson, it covers: Nietzsche'... (read more) List Price $38.45 Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Publisher Comments Abbot and founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, the Venerable Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995) was one of the most influential modern Zen masters. Devoted to establishing Zen Buddhism as a vital spiritual practice in the West, he inspired... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Ignatieff Publisher Comments "Michael Ignatieff has written a sober yet chilling account of the issues facing liberal democracies in the face of modern international terrorism. In a surgical analysis he describes the challenges facing their leaders and citizens. His warning of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.50 (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 $33.45 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Kivy Publisher Comments Now reissued with substantial new material, The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, and its huge influence on British aesthetics. Peter Kivy's book is a seminal work... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $65.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Kingdon Publisher Comments Kingdon explores how the American polity is different from that of other countries - particularly other Western democracies - examining just how this uniqueness came about. It invites both introductory and advanced students to appreciate the roots and... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mark Timmons Publisher Comments Ideal for courses in contemporary moral problems, introduction to ethics, and applied ethics, Disputed Moral Issues: A Reader is a comprehensive anthology that brings together sixty-seven engaging articles on a wide range of contemporary moral issues... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price $60.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lawrence M. Hinman Publisher Comments For undergraduate courses in Ethics, Social Ethics, and Contemporary Moral Problems.This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of readings on contemporary social issues revolving around three general themes: Matters of Life and Death, Matters of... (read more) List Price $66.75 Your price $54.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Immanuel Kant Publisher Comments Translated by Werner S. Pluhar.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Howard P Kainz Publisher Comments Kainz clarifies and elaborates on material from Hegel's own lectures on the history of modern philosophy.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Boylan Synopsis A core text for undergraduate courses in Ethical Theory or a supplement for Applied Ethics courses. This text examines major moral theories from the worldview perspective, teaching students the major tenets of the principal moral theories, and the... (read more) List Price $42.40 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Paul (ed.) Wolff Publisher Comments "A deep and provocative discussion of some of the most fundamental issues in political philosophy, written crisply, with candor, in a style that I find very winning. It is a most useful book, and a very good one."--Carl Cohen, author of "Communism... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Susan L. (ed.) Feagin Publisher Comments Can we ever claim to understand a work of art or be objective about it? Why have cultures thought it important to separate out a group of objects and call them art? What does aesthetics contribute to our understanding of the natural landscape? Are the... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Tomassi Publisher Comments "Logic" brings elementary logic out of the academic darkness into the light of day. Paul Tomassi makes logic fully accessible for anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. This book is written in a patient and user-... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price $30.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Wolff Synopsis Wolff and Resnick provide a unique, balanced explication of the differing assumptions, logical structures, and arguments of neoclassical and Marxian economics. They address broader aspects of evaluating or choosing between alternative theories, but their... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Walter Brand Publisher Comments Although Hume insists that sympathy, or fellow feeling, is fundamental to moral judgment, he recognizes that sympathetically acquired feelings vary in strength according to a number of circumstances that are irrelevant to an impartial spectator. How can... (read more) List Price $165.00 Your price $142.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stephen E. Hanson Publisher Comments Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hilary Putnam Publisher Comments Hilary Putnam has been at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book he turns to... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $28.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Donald Tannenbaum Publisher Comments A concise yet comprehensive introduction to the Western political thought from the Ancient Greeks to the 21st century, INVENTORS OF IDEAS connects major thinkers' political and societal views to a larger understanding of current politics. Covering the... (read more) List Price $80.35 Your price $65.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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