Philosophy

Are we free, whether we know it or not? Or is our sense of freedom merely an illusion? Rudolf Steiner tackles this age-old problem in a new way. He shows that by taking account of our own activity of thinking, we can know the reasons for our actions. And...

The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands...

Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and...

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most significant texts of the early modern period, important to history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies. It had a major influence on Enlightenment thinkers and the development of the modern world. In...

With the help of in-depth essays from some of the world's leading philosophers, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology explores the nature and existence of God through human reason and evidence from the natural world. Provides in-depth and...

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as...

`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to...

Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471736271Author Deepak ChopraFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."-Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal"Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness."-George SorosThe age of human...

John MacArthur's exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word.Over 4 million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God's Word...

Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century...

'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.'Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...

Written by Gregory A. Barker and Richard Gray, this innovative Revision Guide provides students with an effective way to recall and revise the comprehensive content of their Religious Studies A Level Year 1 and AS course. / It reinforces the knowledge...

In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the...

An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so...

This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple and direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309858Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended consequence. These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example,...

We live in a visual culture. Today, people increasingly rely upon visuals to help them understand new and difficult concepts. The rise and stunning popularity of the Internet infographic has given us a new way in which to convey data, concepts, and ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309360Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth...

The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061632655Author Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936756028Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420953824Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906289256Author Hilary StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Archive PublishingPublisher Archive Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380634Author Gregory ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385528740Author Geshe Michael RoachFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of...

Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can answer any question we choose to put to it - even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour and our cultures. But for Mary Midgley it can never be the whole story, as it cannot truly...

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In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars have largely neglected one of the intellectual currents underlying his work: Western esotericism, specifically the...

A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic...

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932073737Author Dan MillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint H J KramerPublisher H J Kramer

'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraThe spiritual is not to be separated from the material, nor the wonderful from the ordinary This remarkable collection of essays from pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts offer a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839274Author Niccol MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Controversy about the morality of euthanasia and assisted suicide and their legalisation has been running for over a generation, and it shows no sign of flagging. The main arguments for and against are widely familiar, yet the horizon yields no sign of...