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by Emmanuel Levinas  Publisher Comments Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought, and... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Edd Doerr Publisher Comments In 1787, the new United States of America formulated a Constitution, which for more than two hundred years has remained the greatest single advance in the long evolution of democracy and freedom. The authors of the Constitution, fearing the religious... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $2.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Devitt Publisher Comments Professor Devitt takes up one of the most important difficulties that must be faced by philosophical semantics: namely, the threat posed by holism.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sue Campbell Publisher Comments Sue Campbell reinstates the personal as an important dimension in analytic philosophy of mind. She argues that the category of feelings has a unique role in psychological explanation: the expression of feelings is the attempt to communicate personal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments "The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from... (read more) Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Palmer Publisher Comments Does the Center Hold? is an entertaining, topically-organized introductory text with more than 500 original illustrations. The ideas and issues typically covered in introductory courses are presented here in a remarkably accessible and enjoyable manner... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexandre Koyre Publisher Comments During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of 'fixed stars' gave way... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Mautner Publisher Comments With contributions from over a hundred leading philosophers, full cross-references, and unique usage notes, this is an ideal reference for any student or teacher of philosophy, or anyone with a general interest. Special features include: -- Clear and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Kurtz Publisher Comments Does life have meaning if one rejects belief in God? This book responds affirmatively to that question. Paul Kurtz, America's leading secular humanist, provides a powerful defense of the humanist alternative, rejecting both religious spirituality and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger T Ames Publisher Comments It was the editorial eye of Eliot Deutsch that made the journal Philosophy East and West the voice of comparative philosophy within the Western academy, challenging the entrenched provincialism of Anglo-American philosophy. In these essays, Deutsch's... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael O Hardimon Publisher Comments This book provides an authoritative account of Hegel's social philosophy at a level that presupposes no specialized knowledge of the subject. Hegel's social theory is designed to reconcile the individual with the modern social world. Michael Hardimon... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Weissbou Grant Publisher Comments Is it more dangerous to call something evil or not to? This fundamental question deeply divides those who fear that the term oversimplifies grave problems and those who worry that, to effectively address such issues as terrorism and genocide, we... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry R West Publisher Comments John Stuart Mill was the leading British philosopher of the nineteenth century and his famous essay Utilitarianism is the most influential statement of this philosophical approach. Henry West's introduction to utilitarianism serves as both a commentary... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price $8.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John C Hampsey Publisher Comments A hybrid in both content and style, Paranoia and Contentment is a bold and original investigation into Western intellectual history. John Hampsey approaches paranoia not as a clinical term for an irrational sense of persecution but from a uniquely... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jamie Mayerfeld Publisher Comments In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by D Z Phillips Publisher Comments Written specifically for beginning undergraduates who have little or no previous knowledge of the subject, this is a distinctive and thoughtful introduction to the main problems of philosophy, structured around a philosophical argument which is clearly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ken Bazyn Publisher Comments The seven "deadly sins" are not to be found in scripture as such, but they have been a staple of Christian preaching since the early church. Ken Bazyn's book is more indebted to literature than to personal experience, ethics, or contemporary psychology... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Hoffer Publisher Comments A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises examining mass movements--from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of modern times. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Arn Kaufmann Publisher Comments This book develops a bold poetics based on the author's critical reexamination of the views of Plato.... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Grondin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-472) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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