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The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Plato
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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled "Euthyphro, Apology, Crito" and "Phaedo," Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.... ( read more)
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.... ( read more)
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Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism
by Richard Th Eldridge
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Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Philosophical Thinking beyond Dogmatism and Nihilism2. Intentionality and Idealism: Hegel, Kant, and Freedom3. Toward a Critique of Critique: Fichte, Schiller, Schlegel, and Poesis4. Wittgenstein's Writerliness and Its... ( read more)
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The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything
by Ken Wilbur
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Using all the known systems and models of human growth--from the ancient shamans and sages to the latest breakthroughs in cognitive science--this book distills the major components into five simple factors that readers can verify in their own... ( read more)
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Of God Who Comes to Mind (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Emmanuel Levinas
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Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most original philosophers in the twentieth century. In this book, continuing his thought on obligation, he investigates the possibility that the word God can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth century, in a... ( read more)
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The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
by Matthew Stewart
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Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive, controversial philosopher Baruch de Spinoza. Yet the wildly ambitious genius Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who denounced Spinoza in public,... ( read more)
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Truth: A Guide for the Baffled
by Simon Blackburn
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The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to... ( read more)
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Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge
by Richard Moran
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Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of first-person authority--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his... ( read more)
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Ecce Homo: How One Become What You Are (Oxford World's Classics)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self... ( read more)
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Zollikon Seminars: Protocols-Conversations-Letters (Northwestern University SPEP Studies in Historical Philosophy)
by Martin Heidegger
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Long awaited and eagerly anticipated, this remarkable volume allows English-speaking readers to experience a profound dialogue between the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the Swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss. A product of their long friendship... ( read more)
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Happiness: A History
by Darrin Mcmahon
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Today, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divine favor. For Christians, happiness was... ( read more)
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The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation (Vintage Classics)
by Plato And Jowett
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the... ( read more)
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Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the first new translation of both volumes of Nietzsche's Human, All-Too Human to appear since the beginning of the century. The first volume appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned his academic life. In 1886 it was republished... ( read more)
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The Conquest of Happiness
by Bertrand Russell
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This book is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about. No profound philosophy or deep erudition will be found in the following pages. I have aimed only at putting together some remarks... ( read more)
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The Information Bomb
by Paul Virilio
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The Information Bomb continues Virilio's exploration of the relationship between technology, speed, war and the new information sciences. Citing sources as diverse as Pascal, Pope John Paul, Bill Clinton and Kafka, the author weaves together a worldview... ( read more)
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The Importance of What We Care About
by Harry G Frankfurt
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This volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. The essays deal with such central topics as freedom of the will, moral responsibility, the concept of a person, the structure of the will, the nature... ( read more)
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On Aristotle's "Metaphysics 5"
by Alexander Of Aphrodi
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The first English translation of Alexander's commentary on a key book
of Aristotle's Metaphysics. He acknowledges the problems of reading
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Foucault: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Readers)
by David Couzens Hoy
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This collection gives a complete picture of Foucault's importance as a thinker and social critic who transcended academic boundaries to challenge entrenched, institutionalized models of theoretical rationality and practical normalcy.... ( read more)
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Introducing Kant
by Christopher Want
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Immanuel Kant, pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment laid the foundation of modern Western thought.... ( read more)
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Passion of the Western Mind
by Richard Tarnas
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" (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)
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