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by Robert Goodwi Olson Publisher Comments Stressing the work of Heidegger and Sartre, Olson offers a careful and objective examination of the existentialist position and values -- freedom of choice, individual dignity, personal love, creative effort.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Cottingham Publisher Comments This volume collects some of the best articles on Descartes published in the last 50 years. Edited by renowned Descartes specialist John Cottingham, the volume covers the full range of Descartes's thought, including Cartesian metaphysics, the... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John R Burr Review An important first attempt to provide an account of world philosophy since 1945...Extensive bibliography and a world directory of philosophical associations, congresses, and meetings....Useful for public libraries and all institutions of higher education.... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ray Monk Publisher Comments A short book combining extracts from the work of one of the greatest thinkers with commentary from one of Britain's most distinguished writers on philosophy.... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alexander Duttmann Publisher Comments Whenever an individual asks to be recognized, he asks for confirmation of what he believes himself to be. But he also asks for an establishing act which brings about what he will be once he has been recognized. Recognition is thus marked by a tension... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Samuel Scheffler Publisher Comments In contemporary philosophy, substantive moral theories are typically classified as either consequentialist or deontological. Standard consequentialist theories insist, roughly, that agents must always act so as to produce the best available outcomes... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Candace Vogler Publisher Comments theological context, this theory leaves us with no systematic, uncontroversial way of arguing that wrongdoing is necessarily contrary to reason.... (read more) Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Voltaire Publisher Comments With the publication of his 'Lettres Philosophiques' in 1734, Voltaire offered the French public a panoramic view of English culture, and one which exerted a decisive influence upon the development of attitudes to England in eighteenth-century France.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Eugene Garver Publisher Comments In this major contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his great treatise, the Rhetoric. He raises and answers a central question: can there be a civic art of rhetoric, an art that forms... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Boris Vysheslavtsev Publisher Comments Much of Russian philosophy has been unavailable to or unexplored by Western thinkers, which is unfortunate because the uniqueness of the Russian vision has much to contribute to Western dialogue. The Eternal in Russian Philosophy helps fill this... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Theodor Adorno Synopsis A reflection on everyday existence in the "sphere of consumption of late Capitalism," this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Cooke Publisher Comments In the tradition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, and Joseph McCabe's Rationalist Encyclopedia, this accessible dictionary addresses the contemporary need for a reference book that succinctly summarizes the key... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $49.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lawrence E Cahoone Publisher Comments This revised and expanded second edition of Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism.... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price $43.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Os Guinness Synopsis A prolific author and senior fellow of the Trinity Forum examines today's crisis of truth and puts out the call to live in truth with integrity and freedom in a world of lies, hype, and spin.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Blaise Pascal Publisher Comments A relaunch of Pascal's uncompromising defence of Christian belief, with a revised introduction.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gianni Vattimo Publisher Comments A daring marriage of philosophy and practical politics, Gianni Vattimo takes on some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is it still possible to talk of moral imperatives, individual rights, or political freedom? Are these values still relevant... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Kittredge Publisher Comments A travel book of sorts -- from New York and Venice to the Andalusian hills of Garcia Lorca, from the cow towns of Montana to the caves at Lacaux -- "The Nature of Generosity" is driven by the quest to reconcile childhood simplicities with the complex... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sandra B Rosenthal Publisher Comments A new intellectual biography of one of Americas most distinguished... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by P F Strawson Publisher Comments This influential study of Kant in which Strawson seeks to detach the true analytical and critical achievement of Kant's work from the unacceptable metaphysics with which it is entangled. <BR>This title available in eBook format. Click here for more... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $26.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Martin Publisher Comments Presents most of the important arguments for the improbability of God that have been published since the mid-1900... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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