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by Julian Baggini  Publisher Comments 'What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one profound and... (read more)  List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $12.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Tarnas Publisher Comments " (This) magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Edmonds and John Eidinow 
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-327) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Pascal's Wager, Buridan's Ass, Wittgenstein's Beetle in the Box--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling. Now, eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn offers the most authoritative and up-to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ludwig Wittgenstein Publisher Comments Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcus Aurelius And Hays Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Powells.com Staff Pick Douglas Hofstadter's follow-up to his beloved classic Gödel, Escher, Bach is a fascinating exploration of a central philosophical concern: What exactly is the self? Brilliant, funny, and surprising, I Am a Strange Loop is a unique look at what makes... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Voltaire Publisher Comments "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in " the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Christine De Pizan Publisher Comments The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author's views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or... (read more) Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato Publisher Comments 2nd edition. Translated by G.M.A. Grube. Edited by C.D.C. Reeve.... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In "Life Is a Miracle", the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William James Publisher Comments 'The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential one written on religion in the twentieth century.'- Walter Houston Clark in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T Z Lavine Publisher Comments "From Socrates To Satre" presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society Plato's Athens to today when the commanding power of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Lee Publisher Comments 'Ostensibly a discussion of the nature of justice, The Republic presents Plato\'s vision of the ideal state, covering a wide range of topics: social, educational, psychological, moral, and philosophical. It also includes some of Plato\'s most important... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Soren Kierkegaard Publisher Comments AbrahamÆs unreserved submission to GodÆs will provides the focus for this religious and ethical polemic. Originally written under the pseudonym of Johannes de Silentio, this is a key work in the psychology of religious belief.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Jacqu Rousseau Publisher Comments In his posthumously published Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) describes the first fifty-three years of his life. With a frankness at times almost disconcerting, but always refreshing, he set out to reveal the whole truth about himself to the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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